D. Alexander Ward is an author and anthologist of horror and dark fiction. In addition to his latest novel POUND OF FLESH, he is the author of numerous short stories and the novels BLOOD SAVAGES and BENEATH ASH & BONE.

As an anthologist, he edited the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies LOST HIGHWAYS: Dark Fictions From the Road and GUTTED: Beautiful Horror Stories (co-edited) from Crystal Lake publishing as well as the anthologies THE SEVEN DEADLIEST and SHADOWS OVER MAIN STREET, Volumes 1 and 2 (co-edited).

He is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association and very involved in the small press publishing world of horror and dark fiction, where he runs Bleeding Edge Books.

His online footprints can be found everywhere and he can regularly be spotted on various and sundry social media outlets.

Along with his beloved wife and daughter and the haints in the woods, he lives near the farm where he grew up in what used to be rural Virginia, where his love for the people, passions, and folklore of the South was nurtured. There, he spends his nights penning, collecting, and publishing tales of the dark, strange, and fantastic.

Author of the exciting Death Crawlers series: Death Crawlers (Book 1), Deep In The Jungle (Book 2), The Next World (Book 3), and Battleground Earth (Book 4).

Gerry has been published by Severed Press, Mighty Quill Books, Outskirts Press, April Moon Books, Dark Hall Press, Grinning Skull Press, WolfSinger Publications, Dark Moon Books, along with numerous issues of the e-magazine Dark Eclipse and the quarterly paperback Dark Moon Digest.

He has earned honorable mentions from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Writer's Digest. Five of the short stories in his collection, "Creatures," were recognized in the 77th and 78th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competitions. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association.

He enjoys writing horror, adventure thrillers, and speculative fiction.

Gerry lives in San Jose, California with his family and their five rescue dogs.

Brent Abell lives in Southern Indiana with his wife, sons, Drake the puggle, and the spirit of his pug Cody. He works during the day and then tries to write himself out of the normal day job in the evenings. He enjoys most anything horror related. If he loves more than horror is rum, more rum, and beer with a cigar or two thrown in. Brent has stories featured in over 30 publications from multiple presses. His novels include Death Inc., In Memoriam, The Calling, the Southern Devils series, Dying Days: Death Sentence, and his story collection Wicked Tales for Wicked People. Brent is also co-author of the Hellmouth trilogy. He is currently in the editing phase for his next novel and two novellas. You can hang out with him at his blog "Our Darkest Fears" at http://brentabell.com.

Jay Wilburn is an author of horror and speculative fiction that lives in coastal South Carolina near Myrtle Beach. He is doing very well following a life-saving kidney transplant. He taught public school for sixteen years before becoming a full-time writer. His signature series is the Dead Song Legend Dodecology and for younger readers, The Lake Scatter Wood Tales. Follow his many musings @AmongTheZombies on Twitter, the Jay Wilburn author page on Facebook, and at JayWilburn.com. Jay Wilburn has a lot of original content on his Patreon page including a serial vampire novel and more. Patreon.com/JayWilburn Or catch him streaming live on Twitch. Twitch.tv/JayWilburn

Jonah Buck divides his time between studying law at the University of Oregon, performing amateur stage magic, writing horror, and other disreputable pursuits. His interests include history, exotic poultry, paleontology, archery, and B-grade monster movies. He is easily distracted by shiny objects.

RANDY LINDSAY is a native of Arizona. From an early age, his mind traveled in new and unusual directions. His preoccupation with "what if" eventually led him to write speculative fiction. According to his wife, "everything is a story to Randy." And it is.

The stories in the Battlemental universe are filled with the kind of strange and interesting creatures Randy enjoyed as a youth. They include everything from bouncing baby warriors to cats with attitudes. You can find out more about his fantasy worlds at WWW.RanTheStoryMan.com.

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Eryk Pruitt is a screenwriter, author and filmmaker living in Durham, NC with his wife Lana and cat Busey. His short films FOODIE and LIYANA, ON COMMAND have won several awards at film festivals across the US. In 2015, he was a finalist for the Derringer Award for his short story "Knockout.". His third novel, WHAT WE RECKON, has been nominated for the prestigious Anthony Award and can be found on bookshelves across the country. His short fiction will be collected for the first time this October in the upcoming publication from Polis Books, TOWNIES AND OTHER STORIES OF SOUTHERN MISCHIEF. He produced and wrote the eight-part, true crime podcast THE LONG DANCE about the NC Valentine's Murders. A full list of credits can be found at erykpruitt.com.

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Christofer Nigro is a professional author and freelance editor who has had short stories published in anthologies and eZines by Black Coat Press, Pro Se Press, Sirens Call Publications, Pulp Empire, Grinning Skull Press, Horrified Press, and others. Christofer was a co-host of the popular Television Crossover Universe podcast for a year, and wrote the forward to Robert Wronski Jr.'s book TELEVISION CROSSOVER UNIVERSE: WORLDS AND MYTHOLOGY VOLUME 1. He specializes in the pulp fiction, horror, sci-fi, and crime noir genres, with frequent emphases on sub-genres such as kaiju (giant monster), super-heroes, and pulp heroes/villains with occasional forays into unrelated genres. He recently had his first novel, DARGOLLA: A KAIJU NIGHTMARE, published by Severed Press, has contracted to begin another novel for them, and is now putting together his own digital indie publishing label, Wild Hunt Press. He is a lifelong fan of comic books, monster movies, political thrillers, pulp adventure, video games, and absolutely loves "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." He is also the long-time curator of The Godzilla Saga and Warrenverse: The Fantastic World of the Warren Comics Characters websites, and has since been passed the torch for re-building and maintaining Chuck Loridans' classic MONSTAAH website, with all three sites soon up for a revamp.

Colin McMahon was technically born in the 1980s and grew up in Abington, Massachusetts. He attended University at Concordia in Montreal, Quebec, where he spent five trying to read all the books assigned to him but ended up just feeling very familiar with SparkNotes. Luckily, he still had ample time to develop his writing technique and study story construction…. that and have a pint at the pub.

Colin now lives in Massachusetts with his dog and his stories. He spends most of his time either writing or working and wishing he had more time to volunteer. If you’re lucky, you can spot him hiking in one of the state’s beautiful parks, such as Ames Nowell.

He also may know more about Godzilla than any healthy human being should.

Tracy DeVore has been writing for many years and is published in novel length and short fiction. She was the founding president of the RWA Chapter, Gothic Romance Writers, Inc. ("GothRom"), and a founding member of Indiana Horror Writers (IHW).

Besides a passion for historical fact or fiction, Tracy is also passionate about pets, is an accomplished cook, an avid pool and euchre player, and is devoted to vintage sci-fi and horror movies, Universal monsters, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, the original Planet of the Apes movies, The Martian Chronicles, Dark Shadows...the list goes on and on.

Tracy is the Senior Editor for Belfire Press former assistant to the district league director of the APA (American Poolplayers Association). In the past, she has also worked as a paralegal and office manager, and edited for several small publishing companies, along with freelance editing for numerous individual authors.

Tracy grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana ("the back forty of the Indy 500 was my back yard"). After 7-1/2 years in East-Central Illinois, she's back in Indy and thrilled to "home."

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