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David was introduced H P Lovecraft and the world of Arkham House at the age of twelve and has continued collecting the genre to this day. His training and background is in fine art, but recently he has moved into illustration. He has done the covers for seven editions published by Hippocampus Press, and his work will soon appear as interior illustrations in editions by Centipede Press. Read more

Aaron Vanek was one of the first three filmmakers to screen a Lovecraft movie at the HPLFF in 1995. Since then, he has attended every festival but two, and made four other Lovecraftian adaptations, including Return to Innsmouth and Chambers' The Yellow Sign, both of which are distributed by Lurker Films. He is a proud recipient of a "Howie" award for his contributions to Lovecraft cinema, and hopes to keep the horror cosmic—this year, Vanek ran the first H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Los Angeles featuring six of the earliest and best films from the past decade and a half of the Portland fest. Read more

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

Thomas Ligotti comments on Joe Pulver's Blood Will Have Its Season -- "Some writers one admirers and others make one want to do as they do, or try. For me, Joe Pulver is of the latter type. His imagination is so vile so much of the time that it makes me giggle with amazement. And the prose so deadly visionary. I'm grateful that the pieces in this collection are those of a fellow horror writer who has raised the ante on what it means to be such a creature." - Thomas Ligotti

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

David Prior has long believed that it's a director's duty to know first hand every job on a film set, which is how he justifies his rather bizarre list of credits.

While he has produced and directed several feature length documentaries for DVD, AM1200 is his first major fiction work. 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.

Ed is a 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award nominee, also nominated for the 2009 Rhysling. His first Cthulhu Mythos tale 'Jihad Over Innsmouth' ran on Pseudopod 106. He has published 6 ebooks and over 70 short stories, most recently in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year 2, Tales of World War Z and Imbrium Arts' zombierotica anthology RIGOR AMORTIS. Read more

Mars is a multi-instrumentalist who began performing professionally at the age of 13. He has played with symphony orchestras as well as jazz, goth, and metal bands on tours through Europe, Canada, and the US. Having grown weary of the road, Mars turned his attention to composing film scores, founding Dead House Music -- dedicated to providing high quality original scores to genre films. Read more