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Jason V Brock’s writing and art have been published Dark Scribe Press’s Butcher Knives & Body Counts [anthology]; Animal Magnetism [anthology]; Calliope; Ethereal Tales; San Diego Comic-Con International’s Souvenir Book and several other venues. He is Art Director/Managing Editor for Dark Discoveries Magazine. Jason co-edited the acclaimed anthology The Bleeding Edge with living legend William F. Nolan (showcasing work from Shirley, Matheson, Bradbury, Lansdale, Braunbeck, and others). He assists Mr. Nolan on various projects, such as the Bluewater Productions comics Logan’s Run: Last Day and Dark Universe. Read more

Maryanne Snyder is a poet and author from Seattle, whose wide-ranging interests include the history of weird fiction. Among her favorite authors are Poe, Oscar Wilde, Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith. She is currently collaborating with Wilum Pugmire on a collection of strange stories, the first of which, "The House of Idiot Children", appeared in the January/February 2009 issue of Weird Tales.

Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire became an obsessed Lovecraft fanatic in 1973, after returning from his two-year Mormon mission. He published the Lovecraftian fanzine, MIDNIGHT FANTASIES, and the booklet, CARL JACOBI: AN APPRECIATION. In 1974 he created Sesqua Valley as a haunt in which to place his Mythos tales. An illustrated hardcover omnibus of his finest weird fiction, THE TANGLED MUSE, was published in September by Centipede Press, and this year his tale "Inhabitants of Wraithwood" was published in S. T. Joshi's BLACK WINGS anthology. He has a collection of tales of Nyarlathotep, THE STRANGE DARK ONE, forthcoming from Mythos Books, and is near completion of his next book for Hippocampus Press, UNCOMMON PLACES. Read more

S. T. Joshi (b. 1958) is a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, and other writers, mostly in the realms of supernatural and fantasy fiction. He has edited corrected editions of the works of Lovecraft, several annotated editions of Bierce and Mencken, and has written such critical studies as The Weird Tale (1990) and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). His award-winning biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), has already become a collector's item. Read more

Scott Connors has been twice nominated for the International Horror Guild Award for his scholarly and critical writings. Along with Ron Hilger, he is editing the definitive edition of Smith's fantastic tales for Night Shade Books, the fifth volume of which is now at the printers. His reviews and essays have appeared in WEIRD TALES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, LOVECRAFT STUDIES, STUD7IES IN WEIRD FICTION, NYCTALOPS, GHOSTS & SCHOLARS NEWSLETTER, ALL HALLOWS, WORMWOOD, and the EXPLICATOR, as well as such books as Don Herron's THE BARBARIC TRIUMPH, Darrell Schweitzer's THE ROBERT E. HOWARD READER, ICONS OF SUPERNATURAL HORROR, A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS, .SUPERNATURAL LITERATURE OF THE WORLD, and ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE VAMPIRE, the last four edited by S. T. Joshi. Read more

Adam Niswander is the author of The Shaman Cycle, a series of novels telling of a Great Gathering of Native American medicine-people, who are called on to put down ancient Lovecraftian evils brought forth from olden days by careless modern men. The Charm relates the story of a demon dust-devil freed from a centuries-long imprisonment by a careless Arizona archeologist. Read more

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., a life-long fan of pulp horror, fantasy, and science fiction, found himself exiled from a happy anonymity as of 1999 when Chaosium, Inc. published his highly acclaimed Cthulhu Mythos novel Nightmare’s Disciple. Though these days he writes mostly Surrealist poetry, his effectively chilling fiction and verse has appeared in collections including The Book of Eibon, Nameless Cults, Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak Supernatural Sleuth, Rehearsals for Oblivion, and many others. He has received several honorable mentions in Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. Joe also edited Ann K. Schwader’s verse collection The Worms Remember (2001). Hippocampus Press has just released Blood Will Have Its Season, Joe’s 1st collection of short work, edited by S.T. Joshi. Read more

Robert M. Price has been nursing an unwholesome obsession with the work of H.P. Lovecraft for some forty years now, having discovered the Old Gent's tales in their Lancer paperback incarnation. (By the way, the "Old Man" refers to HPL, not to Bob!) Running across the first issue of Lovecraft Studies in 1980 really uncorked the jug, prompting him to begin writing a series of scores of Lovecraft articles, many of which appeared in the pages of his own publication Crypt of Cthulhu, which ran for some 107 issues. Read more

Before an audience at last year’s festival, scholar S.T. Joshi declared W.H. Pugmire and Stanley C. Sargent are “two of the finest authors of Cthulhu Mythos fiction,” and later told a group of authors that Sargent’s “Black Brat of Dunwich” is among the top ten Mythos stories ever written. Read more