Nicholas Grabowsky’s novels of horror/fantasy and mainstream pulp fiction, both as himself, as Nicholas Randers, and as Marsena Shane, have generated worldwide acclaim for over three and a half decades and praised by many of today’s popular horror gurus in the literary world and horror industry at large. He began his career in traditional publishing houses with brisk sellers in mass market paperback horror and romance, and in the last two decades is seen by many as a mentor to many authors and the smaller presses, which has become to him a passion. His body of work includes the award-winning macabre aliens-among-us epic The Everborn, The Rag Man, Pray Serpent’s Prey, Halloween IV (and its special editions), Diverse Tales, Reads & Reviews, The Wicked Haze, Sweet Dreams Lady Moon, Red Wet Dirt, numerous anthologies, magazine articles, and self help books, with projects extending to screenplays, poetry, songs, film, and a wide variety of short fiction and nonfiction since the 1980s. He’s a veteran special guest at numerous genre conventions and makes appearances and signings across North America. He has been in the limelight a radical gospel preacher right out of high school and in the following years a rock vocalist, teacher, lecturer and activist, editor, publisher and founder of the Sacramento-based Black Bed Sheet Books, which publishes “exemplary literature, fiction & non” but specializes in horror/fantasy, and Blue Bed Sheet Books, which published children's books, and subdivisions in progress. Currently, Nicholas is at work with numerous anthologies, graphic novels and comic books, an Everborn sequel and the novels The Downwardens and The Sirens of Knowland. His independent film projects include the slasher creature feature Cutting Edges. Quotes about Grabowsky: "My Dear Nicholas: You seem to me—-in a way that's entirely admirable——a man out of time. You're writing horror epics when the audience has become increasingly numbed by cinematic hokum and stale ideas. I salute you: your ambition, your dedication, your achievements, your blissfully complex imagination...." ——Clive Barker (bestselling author & director, Hellraiser, etc.) "Grabowsky succeeds in making the whole world creepy...." ——Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television "Grabowsky's writing is at times touching and emotional, however, his real talent is his ability to infuse his writing with a sense of dread and loathing that I have not experienced since H.P. Lovecraft..." ——Tahoe Daily Tribune "Grabowsky has imagination to spare.....!" —-Sacramento Bee "Impressive storytelling....." ——Wes Craven (Dir., A Nightmare on Elm Street) “…..soon we’ll all be hearing about this Grabowsky guy….” —-Joe Dante (Dir, Gremlins, The Howling) “Keep ‘em coming, Nicholas….” ——Stephen King “All hail Grabowsky!” —-Horrorweb.com “Grabowsky melds horror and Sci-fi with such expertise that I am left speechless.” —-Gorezone Magazine

Jodi has been writing and editing professionally for a decade, dividing her time between her own WIPs and those of her public clients. She is the publisher/EiC of Belfire Press and The New Bedlam Project. Currently she and her daughters are working together to create a series of non-fiction chapbooks for new pagan families, based on the Wheel of the Year. Over the years her non-fiction has appeared in Shroud Magazine, Necrotic Tissue, Apex Digest, The Beltane Papers, The Blessed Bee, newWitch, Noneuclidian Cafe, and the Michelle Belanger-edited collection, Vampires – In Their Own Words. Her short horror has been included in the magazines Nocturnal Ooze, Night To Dawn, Necrotic Tissue, Monsters Next Door Road Trip Issue, and the anthologies Horrorology (Twisted Library Press), War of the Worlds Frontlines (Northern Frights Publishing), Fifty-Two Stitches (Strange Publications), The Black Garden (Corpulent Insanity), Tainted (Strange Publications), Parasitic Thoughts (The Parasitorium Group), and Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths (Graveside Tales) and as part of Rhada McKai in Courting Morpheus (Belfire Press).

"A veritable badass fairy princess." —Jim Butcher "The faerie princess of the worlds of weird." —Jonathan Maberry "Alethea Kontis IS fairy tales." —Jim C. Hines, author of Libriomancer "Alethea Kontis: Awesome, racks up award nominations, wears tiaras." —SF author Ferrett Steinmetz "I want to live in [Alethea's] head because I think that might be the most interesting place in the world!!!!" —Ellen Oh, author of Prophecy "Alethea Kontis, the woman who writes like Shakespeare would if he were alive today." —Aaron Pound "The beauty of a princess, the confidence of a queen, the brilliance of a writer, and the demeanor of a cheerful fairy comedian!" —Cheyenne Z. "This was the story before all of the other stories, and it was the other tales that were changed over time." —Nerdophiles, on ENCHANTED

The author of more than a dozen books—my fiction spans the genres from thriller and psychological horror, to an occasional bloodbath, and the even rarer happy ending. I was an editor and reviewer for over a decade, and have attended countless writing conventions, participated on dozens of panels, and spoken at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA regarding both my writing and the field in general. Born and raised in Wisconsin, she now lives in Destination, Pennsylvania. For more information, please visit my website at kelliowen.com For exclusive behind the scenes info, notes, etc. on my fiction, please consider becoming a patron at http://www.patreon.com/kelliowen

Justin Gustainis was born in Northeast Pennsylvania in 1951. He attended college at the University of Scranton, a Jesuit university that figures prominently in several of his writings. After earning both Bachelor's and Master's degrees, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the U. S. Army. Mr. Gustainis currently lives in Plattsburgh, New York. He is a Professor of Communication at Plattsburgh State University. Series: * Quincey Morris