Our Contributors Alexis Child - Alexis Child hails from Toronto, Canada; horror in its purest form. She works at a Call Crisis Centre befriending demons of the mind that roam freely amongst her writings. She lives with a Calico-cat child sleuthing all that goes bump in the night. Her fiction has been featured in The House of Pain, Lost Souls, Screams of Terror, The Official Nephilim Site, Top International Horror 2004 published by Rainfall Books/BJM Press, U.K.'s Dark Of Night Magazine and is forthcoming in Sinfully Twisted Magazine. Her poetry will appear/has appeared online and in such print publications as Blood Cookies, Decompositions, DemonMinds, The Dream People, Gothic Fairy Tales, The Harrow, Horror Carousel, Lunatic Chameleon, Midnight Lullabies Anthology, Poe Little Thing, Purpleverse.com, Simulacrum, Sinfully Twisted Magazine, Space Junkies Magazine, Tales of the Talisman, The Official Nephilim Site, Whispers of Wickedness, and elsewhere. Author's site: http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/alexischild/ C.S. Watts - Karen Commings is an award-winning writer and author of eight books on pet care including The Cat Lover’s and Dog Lover’s Survival Guides (Barron’s, 2001) and Shelter Cats (IDG, 1996). Former columnist for Cat Fancy, Central Pennsylvania’s Apprise and Computers in Libraries magazines, she was a contributing editor for Pets.com and a regular contributor to Petplace.com. She writes regularly for CatWatch and DogWatch, the newsletters of the Cornell University School of Veterinary Science. She has published more than 400 articles and, to date, 13 short stories under her pen name, C.S. Watts in Outer Darkness, Black Petals, the Sun, Taj Mahal Review, Enigma, Flasher’s DozenLong Story Short, and Destiny3 Fiction. B & B was first published in issue 31 of Outer Darkness in Spring 2005. Author's site: http://www.paonline.com/commings Carol Hightshoe - Born in 1964, Carol Hightshoe grew up in San Antonio, Texas. Her interest in writing first showed itself in elementary school when she used her classmates as models for stories. During high school, she served as the Public Information Officer for the Army JROTC unit as well as editor of their monthly newsletter. She graduated from Highlands High School in 1982 and went on to major in Journalism at Texas A&M University. She has published several SF/F short stories and poems over the past few years. Author's site: http://www.carolhightshoe.com David McGillveray - David McGillveray was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but now lives and works in London where he maintains a normal job and an abnormal imagination. His fiction has previously appeared in Neo-Opsis, Futurismic, Insidious Reflections, Deep Magic and two dozen or so other venues. Further stories are scheduled to appear with Jupiter World Press, Fictitious Force and the forthcoming anthology "Read by Dawn" curated by Ramsey Campbell. Author's site: None J. E. Gurley - J. E. Gurley is a fifty-one year old retired Atlanta chef now living in the wilds of Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains with his beautiful wife, Kim and two cats, Elsie and Smokey. He writes full time and plays blues guitar in the band Gin House Rockers part-time. He couldn't be happier. Author's site: http://www.jamesgurley.com James S. Dorr - James Dorr's new book, DARKER LOVES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND REGRET, is due out from Dark Regions Press (www.darkregions.com) as a companion to his current collection, STRANGE MISTRESSES: TALES OF WONDER AND ROMANCE, while other work has appeared in such venues as ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, NEW MYSTERY, ABORIGINAL SF, FANTASTIC, TERMINAL FRIGHT, FUTURE ORBITS, SHADOWS OF SATURN, GOTHIC.NET, CHI-ZINE, MARSDUST, LENOX AVENUE, ENIGMATIC TALES (UK), FAERIES (France), REDSINE (Australia), and numerous anthologies. Dorr is an active member of SFWA and HWA, a semi-professional musician, an Anthony (mystery) and Darrell (fiction set in the US Mid-South) finalist, winner of Best of the Web 1998, a Pushcart Prize nominee, keeper of a gray and black cat named Wednesday (after Wednesday Addams of THE ADDAMS FAMILY and whose favorite toy is a plastic fake spider!), and has had work listed in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR eleven of the past fourteen years. Author's site: None Nickolaus A. Pacione - Nickolaus Pacione is the author of a number of short stories online and recently in print. He edits TABLOID PURPOSES and will be appearing in TALES OF THE TALISMAN with some of his nonfiction. The near 30 year old lives in Justice, Illinois, and still writes horror from time to time. "House of Spiders 3" will be coming out in September on NAKED SNAKE PRESS. Author's site: None Rob Hunter - With the onset of late middle age Rob Hunter is the sole support of a 1993 Geo Metro and the despair of his young wife. He does dishes, mows the lawn and keeps their coastal Maine cottage spotless by moving as little as possible. In a former life he was a newspaper copy boy, railroad telegraph operator, recording engineer and film editor. He spent the 60s and 70s as a Top-40 disc jockey. Rob's wife, Bonnie, is the secretary at a nearby rural elementary school. Author's site: http://www.onetinleg.com Simon Kewin - Simon Kewin writes fiction, poetry and computer software, although usually not at the same time. He lives deep in rural Herefordshire (in the UK) with Alison, their two young daughters Eleanor and Rose, as well as one and a half black cats. Author's site: http://www.simonkewin.co.uk Vera Searles - Vera Searles has sold over three hundred short stories. Her work was recently published in DEMON MINDS, NEOMETROPOLIS, DRED, ABERRANT DREAMS, and PANIC ANTHOLOGY. Author's site: None
Alexis Child - Alexis Child hails from Toronto, Canada; horror in its purest form. She works at a Call Crisis Centre befriending demons of the mind that roam freely amongst her writings. She lives with a Calico-cat child sleuthing all that goes bump in the night. Her fiction has been featured in The House of Pain, Lost Souls, Screams of Terror, The Official Nephilim Site, Top International Horror 2004 published by Rainfall Books/BJM Press, U.K.'s Dark Of Night Magazine and is forthcoming in Sinfully Twisted Magazine. Her poetry will appear/has appeared online and in such print publications as Blood Cookies, Decompositions, DemonMinds, The Dream People, Gothic Fairy Tales, The Harrow, Horror Carousel, Lunatic Chameleon, Midnight Lullabies Anthology, Poe Little Thing, Purpleverse.com, Simulacrum, Sinfully Twisted Magazine, Space Junkies Magazine, Tales of the Talisman, The Official Nephilim Site, Whispers of Wickedness, and elsewhere.
Author's site: http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/alexischild/
C.S. Watts - Karen Commings is an award-winning writer and author of eight books on pet care including The Cat Lover’s and Dog Lover’s Survival Guides (Barron’s, 2001) and Shelter Cats (IDG, 1996). Former columnist for Cat Fancy, Central Pennsylvania’s Apprise and Computers in Libraries magazines, she was a contributing editor for Pets.com and a regular contributor to Petplace.com. She writes regularly for CatWatch and DogWatch, the newsletters of the Cornell University School of Veterinary Science. She has published more than 400 articles and, to date, 13 short stories under her pen name, C.S. Watts in Outer Darkness, Black Petals, the Sun, Taj Mahal Review, Enigma, Flasher’s DozenLong Story Short, and Destiny3 Fiction. B & B was first published in issue 31 of Outer Darkness in Spring 2005.
Author's site: http://www.paonline.com/commings
Carol Hightshoe - Born in 1964, Carol Hightshoe grew up in San Antonio, Texas. Her interest in writing first showed itself in elementary school when she used her classmates as models for stories. During high school, she served as the Public Information Officer for the Army JROTC unit as well as editor of their monthly newsletter. She graduated from Highlands High School in 1982 and went on to major in Journalism at Texas A&M University. She has published several SF/F short stories and poems over the past few years.
Author's site: http://www.carolhightshoe.com
David McGillveray - David McGillveray was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but now lives and works in London where he maintains a normal job and an abnormal imagination. His fiction has previously appeared in Neo-Opsis, Futurismic, Insidious Reflections, Deep Magic and two dozen or so other venues. Further stories are scheduled to appear with Jupiter World Press, Fictitious Force and the forthcoming anthology "Read by Dawn" curated by Ramsey Campbell.
Author's site: None
J. E. Gurley - J. E. Gurley is a fifty-one year old retired Atlanta chef now living in the wilds of Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains with his beautiful wife, Kim and two cats, Elsie and Smokey. He writes full time and plays blues guitar in the band Gin House Rockers part-time. He couldn't be happier.
Author's site: http://www.jamesgurley.com
James S. Dorr - James Dorr's new book, DARKER LOVES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND REGRET, is due out from Dark Regions Press (www.darkregions.com) as a companion to his current collection, STRANGE MISTRESSES: TALES OF WONDER AND ROMANCE, while other work has appeared in such venues as ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, NEW MYSTERY, ABORIGINAL SF, FANTASTIC, TERMINAL FRIGHT, FUTURE ORBITS, SHADOWS OF SATURN, GOTHIC.NET, CHI-ZINE, MARSDUST, LENOX AVENUE, ENIGMATIC TALES (UK), FAERIES (France), REDSINE (Australia), and numerous anthologies. Dorr is an active member of SFWA and HWA, a semi-professional musician, an Anthony (mystery) and Darrell (fiction set in the US Mid-South) finalist, winner of Best of the Web 1998, a Pushcart Prize nominee, keeper of a gray and black cat named Wednesday (after Wednesday Addams of THE ADDAMS FAMILY and whose favorite toy is a plastic fake spider!), and has had work listed in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR eleven of the past fourteen years.
Nickolaus A. Pacione - Nickolaus Pacione is the author of a number of short stories online and recently in print. He edits TABLOID PURPOSES and will be appearing in TALES OF THE TALISMAN with some of his nonfiction. The near 30 year old lives in Justice, Illinois, and still writes horror from time to time. "House of Spiders 3" will be coming out in September on NAKED SNAKE PRESS.
Rob Hunter - With the onset of late middle age Rob Hunter is the sole support of a 1993 Geo Metro and the despair of his young wife. He does dishes, mows the lawn and keeps their coastal Maine cottage spotless by moving as little as possible. In a former life he was a newspaper copy boy, railroad telegraph operator, recording engineer and film editor. He spent the 60s and 70s as a Top-40 disc jockey. Rob's wife, Bonnie, is the secretary at a nearby rural elementary school.
Author's site: http://www.onetinleg.com
Simon Kewin - Simon Kewin writes fiction, poetry and computer software, although usually not at the same time. He lives deep in rural Herefordshire (in the UK) with Alison, their two young daughters Eleanor and Rose, as well as one and a half black cats.
Author's site: http://www.simonkewin.co.uk
Vera Searles - Vera Searles has sold over three hundred short stories. Her work was recently published in DEMON MINDS, NEOMETROPOLIS, DRED, ABERRANT DREAMS, and PANIC ANTHOLOGY.
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