John Picacio is an award-winning illustrator of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His works have illustrated the covers of books by Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Dan Simmons, Joe R. Lansdale, Jeffrey Ford, Frederik Pohl, James Tiptree, Jr., Mark Chadbourn, and many more. His accolades include two Hugo Awards, the World […]

Jennifer Heddle is senior editor of adult fiction at Lucasfilm/Disney Publishing Worldwide, handling Star Wars novels and comic books. Prior to that she spent 15 years in publishing in New York, primarily at Penguin and Simon & Schuster. She writes for the official Star Wars blog at starwars.com and has had pieces published in Star Wars […]

Karen Munro’s stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Hunger Mountain, Midnight Breakfast, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. She lives, writes, and works as a librarian in Portland, where she’s at work on a novel about strange happenings in the Pacific Northwest. Every day in October, she emails a freely-available scary story to a select group of scary-story-readers. (Some from Nightmare!) When […]

Michael Marshall Smith is a novelist and screenwriter. Under this name he has published eighty short stories, and three novels — Only Forward, Spares and One of Us — winning the Philip K. Dick, International Horror Guild, and August Derleth awards, along with the Prix Bob Morane in France: he has won the British Fantasy […]

Christa Faust is the author of several novels, including Choke Hold, Money Shot and Hoodtown. Money Shot was nominated for an Edgar award, Anthony award and Barry award, and won a Spinetingler award in the ‘Rising Star’ category. She worked in the Times Square peep booths, as a professional dominatrix, and in the adult film […]

Christopher Barzak is the author of the Crawford Fantasy Award winning novel, One for Sorrow, which has been made into the recently released Sundance feature film “Jamie Marks is Dead”. His second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing, was a finalist for the Nebula and Tiptree Awards. He is also the author of two collections: Birds and Birthdays, a […]

Galen Dara sits in a dark corner listening to the voices in her head. She has a love affair with the absurd and twisted, and an affinity for monsters, mystics, and dead things. She has illustrated for 47North, Edge Publishing, Lightspeed, Fireside Magazine, Apex Publications, Lackington’s, and Goblin Fruit. Recent book covers include War Stories, […]