MARK McLAUGHLIN is a Bram Stoker Award-winning author whose earliest works were published in literary journals when he was a teenager. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in more than 1,000 magazines, newspapers, websites, and anthologies, including CEMETERY DANCE, MIDNIGHT PREMIERE, DARK ARTS, LIVING DEAD 2, WRITER'S DIGEST, DARK FUSIONS: WHERE MONSTERS LURK!, GALAXY, TOASTMASTER MAGAZINE, and two volumes of YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES (DAW Books). He is also an experienced public relations specialist. He is the author of the novels HUMAN DOLL, a tale of suspense, murder, and the entertainment industry ... THE HELL NEXT DOOR, an adventure set in the after-life ... and INJECTABLES, a work of Lovecraftan horror.

Wildside Press has released a mammoth collection of McLaughlin’s fiction: THE WEIRD WORLD OF MARK McLAUGHLIN MEGAPACK(R). McLaughlin is also the author of many other solo fiction collections, including:

- BEST LITTLE WITCH-HOUSE IN ARKHAM

- EMPRESS OF THE LIVING DEAD: 25 Tales Of Horror and the Bizarre

- HIDEOUS FACES, BEAUTIFUL SKULLS

- MIDNIGHT PET SHOW and Other Twisted Cat Tales

Mark is the coauthor, with Rain Graves and David Niall Wilson, of THE GOSSAMER EYE, which won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry.

McLaughlin is the author of many works in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft. Story collections in this vein co-written with his best friend, Michael Sheehan, Jr., include:

- HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS: 24 Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

- NIGHTMARES & TENTACLES: 13 Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

- THE HOUSE OF THE OCELOT & More Lovecraftian Nightmares

- THE PRISONER OF CARCOSA & More Tales of the Bizarre

- CITY OF LIVING SHADOWS & More Lovecraftian Tales

What critics and colleagues have said about Mark McLaughlin's work over the years:

"In the most devious manner, McLaughlin's stories achieve a high degree of demonism by perpetuating a sinister 'humor' at the gallows of the human comedy." – Thomas Ligotti

"Listen up. Noel Coward is back. Salvador Dali is back. Dylan Thomas is back. And they're all rolled into one in the shape of Mark McLaughlin who writes stories that are wonderfully witty, surrealistic and ineffably strange. Absolutely fabulous. .... If your palette is jaded, come to the feast that is Mark McLaughlin." – Simon Clark

"McLaughlin's tales are laugh-out-loud assaults on consensus reality." – Paul Di Filippo, ASIMOV'S

(About the novel HUMAN DOLL) “Indeed, this clever novel skewers the artificial, plastic surgery addiction in particular, set in the equally artificial world of ‘reality’ television.” – G. Stanton

"Reading Mark McLaughlin is a little like stepping out of the door of an airplane in mid flight. The view is pretty amazing, but the shock of impact may do you in ... gruesome, funny and touching. Top that: anybody...." – Matthew Nadelhaft, TANGENT