Hi there! I'm Nancy Kilpatrick and I write and edit, mainly in the dark fantasy and horror fields, but I've also written fantasy, mystery stories, erotica, and one science fiction story! I've published 21 novels, about 220 short stories, 6 collections of stories, a few issues of a comic book series, 1 non-fiction book and many non-fiction articles. I've also edited 15 anthologies, and written scripts for comics and my own graphic novel. I write under my name, Nancy Kilpatrick, and also two pen names, Amarantha Knight and Desiree Knight.

Three recent titles in the novel series Thrones of Blood:

REVENGE OF THE VAMPIR KING, 1st novel in the series.

SACRIFICE OF THE HYBRID PRINCESS, 2nd novel in the series.

ABDUCTION OF TWO RULERS, 3rd novel in the series (out soon).

Two recent anthologies:

VAMPYRIC VARIATIONS, a collection of 7 vampire stories and 3 novellas, with an introduction by the wonderful writer Tanith Lee. ***WINNER OF THE SILVER FOREWORD REVIEWS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD (horror catagory)***

NEVERMORE! TALES OF MURDER, MYSTERY AND THE MACABRE, an anthology that is an homage to Edgar Allan Poe, with stories by Margaret Atwood; David Morrell; Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; RC Matheson; Tanith Lee; Christopher Rice; Nancy Holder and many others--a complete list on the book's listing on Amazon. ***WINNER OF THE PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY***

Website: nancykilpatrick.com

Twitter: @nancykwriter

Blog: nancykilpatrickwriter.blogspot.ca/

Instagram: nancykilpatrickauthor

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Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Atrocities, Bedfellow, and Cursed. Their shorter tales have appeared in over 60 publications, including Cemetery Dance, Dark Moon Digest and Apex Magazine. Jeremy lives in Southern California in a moderately haunted Farmhouse. Their twitter handle is @JeremyCShipp.

Paul Kane is the award-winning, bestselling author and editor of over a hundred books – including the Arrowhead trilogy (gathered together in the sellout Hooded Man omnibus, revolving around a post-apocalyptic version of Robin Hood), The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, Hellbound Hearts, The Mammoth Book of Body Horror and Pain Cages (an Amazon #1 bestseller). His non-fiction books include The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy and Voices in the Dark, and his genre journalism has appeared in the likes of SFX, Rue Morgue and DeathRay. He has been a Guest at Alt.Fiction five times, was a Guest at the first SFX Weekender, at Thought Bubble in 2011, Derbyshire Literary Festival and Off the Shelf in 2012, Monster Mash and Event Horizon in 2013, Edge-Lit in 2014 and 2018, HorrorCon, HorrorFest and Grimm Up North in 2015, The Dublin Ghost Story Festival and Sledge-Lit in 2016, IMATS Olympia and Celluloid Screams in 2017, plus Black Library Live and the UK Ghost Story Festival in 2019, as well as being a panellist at FantasyCon and the World Fantasy Convention, and a fiction judge at the Sci-Fi London festival. A former British Fantasy Society Special Publications Editor, he is currently serving as co-chair for the UK chapter of The Horror Writers Association. His work has been optioned and adapted for the big and small screen, including for US network primetime television, and his novelette ‘Men of the Cloth’ has just been turned into a feature by Loose Canon/Hydra Films, starring Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, You’re Next). His audio work includes the full cast drama adaptation of The Hellbound Heart for Bafflegab, starring Tom Meeten (The Ghoul), Neve McIntosh (Doctor Who) and Alice Lowe (Prevenge), and the Robin of Sherwood adventure The Red Lord for Spiteful Puppet/ITV narrated by Ian Ogilvy (Return of the Saint). Paul’s latest novels are Lunar (set to be turned into a feature film), the Y.A. story The Rainbow Man (as P.B. Kane), the sequels to RED – Blood RED & Deep RED – the award-winning hit Sherlock Holmes & the Servants of Hell, Before (an Amazon Top 5 dark fantasy bestseller) and Arcana. He also writes thrillers for HQ Digital/HarperCollins as PL Kane, the first of which, Her Last Secret, came out in January 2020 (www.plkane.com). Paul lives in Derbyshire, UK, with his wife Marie O’Regan and his family. Find out more at his site www.shadow-writer.co.uk which has featured Guest Writers such as Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, Robert Kirkman, Dean Koontz and Guillermo del Toro.

Tonia Brown is a southern author with a penchant for Victorian dead things. She lives in the backwoods of North Carolina with her genius husband and an ever fluctuating number of cats. She likes fudgesicles and coffee, though not always together. When not writing she raises unicorns and fights crime with her husband under the code names Dr. Weird and his sexy sidekick Butternut.

You can learn more about her at: www.toniabrownauthor.com

Ray Bradbury once wrote, “Gregory Miller is a fresh new talent with a great future.” His first two collections of stories, “Scaring the Crows” and “On the Edge of Twilight,” received excellent critical recognition for small press publications, and two of the story-chapters in “The Uncanny Valley: Tales from a Lost Town,” the first book in ‘The Uncanny Chronicles,’ made Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year list in 2010 and 2011. Its sequel, “Darkness in the Valley,” Miller’s first major novel, was published in January 2016. All of the covers (and many of the interiors) of Miller's books are illustrated by artist John Randall York. Miller currently lives in western Pennsylvania.

JOHN L. FRENCH is a retired crime scene supervisor with forty years’ experience. He has seen more than his share of murders, shootings, and serious assaults. As a break from the realities of his job, he started writing science fiction, pulp, horror, fantasy, and, of course, crime fiction.

John’s first story “Past Sins” was published in Hardboiled Magazine and was cited as one of the best Hardboiled stories of 1993. More crime fiction followed, appearing in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, the Fading Shadows magazines and in collections by Barnes and Noble. Association with writers like James Chambers and the late, great C.J. Henderson led him to try horror fiction and to a still growing fascination with zombies and other undead things. His first horror story “The Right Solution” appeared in Marietta Publishing’s Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak. Other horror stories followed in anthologies such as THE DEAD WALK and DARK FURIES, both published by Die Monster Die books. It was in Dark Furies that his character Bianca Jones made her literary debut in “21 Doors,” a story based on an old Baltimore legend and a creepy game his daughter used to play with her friends.

John’s first book was THE DEVIL OF HARBOR CITY, a novel done in the old pulp style. PAST SINS and HERE THERE BE MONSTERS followed. John was also consulting editor for Chelsea House’s Criminal Investigation series. His other books include THE ASSASSINS’ BALL (written with Patrick Thomas), SOULS ON FIRE, THE NIGHTMARE STRIKES, MONSTERS AMONG US, THE LAST REDHEAD, THE MAGIC OF SIMON TOMBS, and THE SANTA HEIST (written with Patrick Thomas). John is the editor of TO HELL IN A FAST CAR, MERMAIDS 13, C. J. Henderson’s CHALLENGE OF THE UNKNOWN, CAMELOT 13 (with Patrick Thomas), AND (with Greg Schauer) WITH GREAT POWER …

JAMES ROY DALEY is a writer, editor, and musician. He studied film at the Toronto Film School, music at Humber College, and English at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Terror Town, Into Hell, 13 Drops of Blood, Zombie Kong, and The Dead Parade. In 2009 he founded Books of the Dead Press, where he enjoyed immediate success working with many of the biggest names in horror. He edited anthologies such as Zombie Kong - Anthology, Best New Vampire Tales, Classic Vampire Tales, and the Best New Zombie Tales series.

Joe McKinney has his feet in several different worlds. In his day job, he has worked as a patrol officer for the San Antonio Police Department, a DWI Enforcement officer, a disaster mitigation specialist, a homicide detective, the director of the City of San Antonio’s 911 Call Center, and a patrol supervisor. He played college baseball for Trinity University, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in American History, and went on to earn a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He was the manager of a Barnes & Noble for a while, where he indulged a lifelong obsession with books. He published his first novel, Dead City, in 2006, a book that has since been recognized as a seminal work in the zombie genre. Since then, he has gone on to win two Bram Stoker Awards and expanded his oeuvre to cover everything from true crime and writings on police procedure to science fiction to cooking to Texas history. The author of more than twenty books, he is a frequent guest at horror and mystery conventions. Joe and his wife Tina have two lovely daughters and make their home in a little town just outside of San Antonio, where he pursues his passion for cooking and makes what some consider to be the finest batch of chili in Texas. You can keep up with all of Joe’s latest releases by friending him on Facebook.

Nate Southard's books include Scavengers, This Little Light of Mine, Red Sky, Just Like Hell, Broken Skin, and He Stepped Through. His short fiction has appeared in such venues as Cemetery Dance, Black Static, Thuglit, and the anthology Supernatural Noir. His short stories "Going Home, Ugly Stick in Hand" and "The Blisters On My Heart" have received honorable mentions in The Year's Best Horror, and he earned a Bram Stoker Award nomination for his story "In the Middle of Poplar Street." A graduate of The University of Texas with a degree in Radio, Television, and Film, Nate lives in Austin, Texas with his cat. You can learn more at natesouthard.com.

Simon McCaffery's fiction has appeared in Black Static, Lightyear, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Space & Time and in numerous anthologies such as Night Terrors III, Other Worlds Than These, Psychos, Appalachian Undead, The Zombie Feed, Best New Werewolf Tales, Rocket Science, Book of the Dead 2: Still Dead, Mondo Zombie, The Haunted Hour, 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, and Best New Zombie Tales Volumes 1 an 3. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Erik T. Johnson has appeared in numerous periodicals and award-winning anthologies, including the #1 Amazon bestseller, I Can Taste the Blood (alongside Josh Malerman, best-selling author of Unbury Carol and Bird Box, and John F.D. Taff, Bram-Stoker-nominated, best-selling author of The Bell Witch and The End in All Beginnings); and in Written Backwards Press’s award-winning anthologies Chiral Mad 1, 2 and 3; Qualia Nous, and You Human.

Erik’s short fiction collection, YES TRESPASSING, was called “electric” by Malerman.

J. Daniel Stone, author of Blood Kiss and Lovebites and Razorlines said "Erik T Johnson is insanely gifted, and YES TRESPASSING is the proof. You can't get these stories out of your head.”

THIS IS HORROR UK wrote: "YES TRESPASSING is “a magnum opus of staggering proportions . . . One of the best, most beautifully written collections of this or any other year. Erik T Johnson is writing at a level that all authors, new and veteran alike, should aspire to. Because what Johnson has achieved with YES TRESPASSING is nothing less than absolute greatness.”

Erik has been asked to perform readings across genres, with such noted authors as Bram-Stoker Lifetime-Achievement-winning poet Linda Addison, and New York Times bestselling author Mary Gaitskill, whose book Secretary was made into the well-regarded, eponymous movie.

Reviewers have tried (and admittedly failed) to describe Erik’s striking originality by comparing his work with such authors as Arthur Conan Doyle, Chuck Palahniuk, Clive Barker, Borges, a sober William Burroughs, Shirley Jackson, Umberto Ecco, Barthelme, Philip K. Dick, and, Erik’s personal favorite: “Mark Twain as possessed by the future spirit of Harlan Ellison.”

Erik is currently working on his novella for the next installment of the series that began with I Can Taste the Blood, once more featuring Josh Malerman and John F.D. Taff; a collaborative dark fantasy series; two stand-alone novels; and commissioned short stories and essays to appear over the next year or two.

An extraordinary, in-depth interview with Erik can be read at:

http://kendallreviews.com/speculative-fiction-author-erik-t-johnson-discusses-everything-from-a-haunted-childhood-to-how-rock-n-roll-saved-his-life-in-a-stunning-in-depth-interview/

Visit www.eriktjohnson.net for more information about him, his work, when Erik will be reading or appearing at events, and for interview links. You can also follow Erik at @YES_TRESPASSING on Twitter; and struwwelpleter120 on Instagram.

John Claude Smith has had three collections (The Dark is Light Enough for Me, Autumn in the Abyss, and Occasional Beasts: Tales), three limited edition chapbooks (Dandelions, Vox Terrae, The Anti-Everything), and one regular chapbook (The Wrath of Concrete and Steel) published. His debut novel, Riding the Centipede, was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. His second novel, The Wilderness Within, was published by Trepidatio/JournalStone October 6, 2017. His latest collection, Occasional Beasts: Tales, was published by Omnium Gatherum in September of 2018.

He splits his time between the East Bay of northern California, across from San Francisco, and Rome, Italy, where his heart resides always.

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His blog, The Wilderness Within, deals with writing (of course), music, art--whatever strikes his fancy. http://thewildernesswithinbyjohnclaudesmith.blogspot.com/

David C. Pinnt lives on Colorado's Front Range with his lovely wife and myriad children and animals. Since 2009 his work has appeared in a variety of periodicals and anthologies. In his spare time (what there is of it) he tries to produce high-end literary fiction, but somehow a zombie or two always pops up in the narrative.