Editor

Raised in rural Louisiana, Philip Simon headed to the Pacific Northwest after college and has been with Dark Horse Comics since early 2000, editing horror and sci-fi manga titles such as Blood+, Eden, MPD-Psycho, Octopus Girl, and Who Fighter. Philip helped launch Dark Horse's manhwa line and is currently co-editing Dark Horse's Mangettes program, featuring CLAMP. His wide range of projects over the years has included art books, a superhero series, more manga titles (such as the multiple award-winning Blade of the Immortal), archival collections, and adaptations of The Evil Dead and Pigeons from Hell. He is also Dark Horse's Robert E. Howard line editor, currently steering Conan the Cimmerian, Kull, and Solomon Kane. He digs zombies. Read more

Author/illustrator Lynn Cesar is a native of New York City, having studied fine art and illustration there. Her first mature work was in holography, producing several of the field's first animated holograms (including one of a pterodactyl flying at the viewer through the film plane). Read more

Shawna Gore has been working at the Dark Horse Comics factory of joy and entertainment since 1997. After serving as Dark Horse's publicist for five years, she left the comics industry and briefly flirted with a career in music before regaining her sanity and accepting an offer to rejoin the Dark Horse staff as an editor. Quickly approaching her sixth year as an editor, Shawna is one of Dark Horse's more horror-focused editors, but she also likes comic books about talking bunnies. 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

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

Ron Hilger is a Northern California native who has organized such Clark Ashton Smith related events as "The CAS Centennial Conference" in 1993 and "The CAS Plaque Dedication" in 2002. Hilger has also edited, with Scott Connors, Red World of Polaris (Night Shade Press, 2003) and The Averoigne Chronicles (Donald M. Grant Publishers). Currently, Ron and Scott are completing the five-volume set, The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, also for Night Shade Press, and Lost Worlds, a journal of CAS studies published by Seele Brennt publications. Read more

Jovanka Vuckovic is the Editor-in-Chief of Rue Morgue Magazine, the world's leading horror in culture and entertainment publication. She has been featured as a genre expert on many documentaries and television shows and has contributed essays to several publications and books on the subject of genre cinema. Vuckovic bleeds horror and adores H.P. Lovecraft so much she even has a portrait of him tattooed on her flesh.

Scott Allie comes from New England puritan stock, and grew up in the swamplands of Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he first discovered Lovecraft through the comic book Skull. At Dark Horse Comics, he's the long-time editor of Hellboy, and his writing includes the graphic novel The Devil's Footprints, set in his home town, and two volumes of Solomon Kane stories. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his son. Read more