Award-winning author Nancy Kilpatrick has published eighteen novels, over two hundred short stories, six collections, one non-fiction book, and has edited thirteen anthologies.  Her most recent and award-winning titles are the anthology Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper, and her collection of short fiction Vampyric Variations. Current work appears in Searchers After Horror; The […]

F. Brett Cox’s fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. His most recently published short story, “The Amnesia Helmet,” is available at Eclipse Online. A new story, “Maria Works at Ocean City Nails,” is forthcoming in New Haven Review. With Andy Duncan, he co-edited the 2004 Tor anthology Crossroads: Tales of the […]

S.P. Miskowski’s stories have appeared in Supernatural Tales, Horror Bound Magazine, Identity Theory, Fine Madness, Other Voices, and the anthology Detritus. Her work has received two Swarthout fiction prizes and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Her supernatural thriller Knock Knock (Omnium Gatherum Media) was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award. The first in […]

Melanie Tem’s work has received the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards and a nomination for the Shirley Jackson Award.  She has published numerous short stories, eleven solo novels, two collaborative novels with Nancy Holder, and two with her husband Steve Rasnic Tem.  She is also a published poet, an […]

Alaya Dawn Johnson’s most recent novel is The Summer Prince, which has received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly. It is a Junior Library Guild selection for Spring 2013 and has been longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Her short stories have appeared in the anthologies Zombies vs. Unicorns, Welcome to […]

Britt Gettys currently attends Pratt Institute where she is pursuing a BFA in Creative Writing.  She is the editor of Pratt Success, a student run blog, sponsored by Pratt’s Center for Career and Professional Development, which reviews the work of current Pratt students and alumni.  Additionally, she illustrates graphic novels and her work has been featured in […]

Peter Straub is the author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. They include Ghost Story, Koko, Mr. X, In the Night Room, and two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. He has written two volumes of poetry and two collections of short fiction, and he edited […]

Robert Kirkman is a New York Times bestselling author known for being the cultural zeitgeist of the comic book industry. He maintains one prerogative in every undertaking: quality. It is Kirkman’s belief that good people who produce good writing and good ideas make comics people love. Kirkman was recently made partner at Image Comics, and […]