About Mark Morris
Mark
Morris has written tie-in novels for Hellboy, Spartacus, Doctor Who, and Torchwood, as well as novelizations for Vampire Circus and the game Dead
Island. He has published a number of critically acclaimed novels, and in
2007 he won the British Fantasy Award for his anthology Cinema Macabre.
About Chelsea Cain
Chelsea Cain is the author of the New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers Heartsick, Sweetheart, Evil at Heart, The Night Season, Kill You Twice, and Let Me Go. Her Portland-based thrillers have been published in twenty-four languages, recommended on the TODAY show, appeared in episodes of HBO’s True Blood and ABC’s Castle, been named among Stephen King’s top ten favorite books of the year, and included in NPR’s list of the top 100 thrillers ever written. According to Booklist, “Popular entertainment just doesn’t get much better than this.” Born in Iowa and raised in Bellingham, Washington, she now lives in Portland, Oregon.
About Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card, a New York Times bestselling author, has won several Hugo and Nebula awards for his works of speculative fiction.
About S. G. Browne
S. G. Browne is the author of Breathers, Fated, and Lucky
Bastard, as well as the Breathers sequel, I Saw Zombies Eating
Santa Claus, and the eBook story collection Shooting Monkeys in a Barrel.
He worked in Hollywood for several years before moving to Santa Cruz, where he lived for fourteen years, writing novels and short stories while working as an office manager. He now lives in San Francisco.
About Stephen Susco
Stephen Susco is a film and television screenwriter who is most famous for writing the hit movies The Grudge and The Grudge 2. Susco is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and USC and appears as a character in Jonathan Maberry’s Ghost Road Blues trilogy.
About Amber Benson
Amber Benson cocreated, cowrote, and directed the animated supernatural web series Ghosts of Albion. She is the author of Witchery, Accursed, and the novella Astray. As an actress, she has appeared in dozens of roles in feature films, TV movies, and television series, including the role of Tara Maclay on three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Benson also wrote, produced, and directed the feature films Chance and Lovers, Liars, and Lunatics.
About Dan Chaon
Dan Chaon is the acclaimed author of Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and You Remind Me of Me, named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. Await Your Reply was a New York Times Notable Book and appeared on more than a dozen best-of-the-year lists;. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction and was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at Oberlin College, where he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing.
About Simon R. Green
Simon Green is a British author of more than seventy novels in twelve series of science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror, which have made the New York Times bestsellers list and have sold more than four million copies worldwide. He holds a degree in modern English and American literature from the University of Leicester.
About Caitlin Kittredge
Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the Nocturne City and Black London series, several short stories, and a number of young adult novels. Her first YA novel, The Iron Thorn, was a YALSA 2012 Best Book for Young Adults. She graduated from Evergreen State College in 2008 with a degree in English and lives in Massachusetts.
About Ken Bruen
Ken Bruen, the critically acclaimed author of the Jack Taylor series and The White Trilogy, is the recipient of two Barry Awards and two Shamus Awards and has twice been a finalist for the Edgar Award.
About John Skipp
John Skipp is a New York Times bestselling author and editor. His first anthology, Book of the Dead, laid the foundation for modern zombie literature; he later edited three more zombie anthologies, including Mondo Zombie, which won the Bram Stoker Award for best anthology, Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead, and Werewolves & Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within. Some of his works include The Light at the End, The Scream, Jake’s Wake, and The Long Last Call. He lives in Los Angeles.
