Charles S. Fallis is an award winning photographer and freelance illustrator who has illustrated well over 70 different magazines. When he is not occupied with his pen and ink artwork or his darkroom photography he grows bonsai trees and he restores and shoots antique and vintage cameras. In recent years he has withdrawn to a great extent from the illustration business and has devoted most of his energies to fine art photography. His talent is to look for and reveal the beauty which can be found anywhere - even in darkness. Charles was the first recipient of the James Award for outstanding art. |
Marge B. Simon teaches art in Ocala, Florida where she resides with her poetic husband Bruce Boston. She's received the Rhysling Award for her poetry and has illustrated for hundreds of magazines over the years. She designed the cover art for the "Sex and the Single Alien" anthology currently available at iUniverse, and many of her illustrations have appeared as covers for publications produced by Sam's Dot Publishing. She also writes a column for the Horror Writers Association's newsletter. |
Cathy Buburuz, a Canadian with a lot of attitude, has written horror stories for Black October Magazine, City Slab: Urban Tales of the Grotesque, Flesh and Blood Magazine, The Dark Krypt, Space and Time Magazine, and Aoife's Kiss Magazine. She edits the monthly market newsletter Expressions as well as Champagne Shivers, the classiest little horror magazine in cyberspace. Watch for her tall tale "Midnight in the Storytellers Saloon" scheduled for the In the Ouposts of Beyond anthology coming soon from Sam's Dot Publishing. Watch for her poems and art in the 2004 calendar now available from http://www.samsdotpublishing.com Hike up your speakers and visit Cathy's website if you dare: http://catherine_buburuz.tripod.com |
William R. Moreno’s major literary influences include the great Japanese novelist Kobo Abe, sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs, H.P. Lovecraft, and Franz Kafka. "Mr. Suicide" is his first published story. |
Forrest Aguirre’s fiction and poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in Indigenous Fiction, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, Yellow Bat Review, Neotrope, 3rd Bed, Exquisite Corpse, The Dream People, and Redsine, among others. The Butterfly Artist, a collection of his short fiction, is available from Flesh & Blood Press. His reviews have appeared in Tangent and Rain Taxi. Forrest is the Leviathan series editor for the Ministry of Whimsy |
'Fans
of William Burroughs should rejoice -- he's been reincarnated for
the new century in Hertzan Chimera.' - Bram Stoker Award winner Michael
A Arnzen. |
C. C. Parker lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter. He's been writing for long time. He also works at a video store where enjoys playing Eraserhead first thing in the morning (usually in the family section). As far as publishing, he's been in over a hundred zines (net and print) and one hardback anthology: Decadence 2. He is also a staff writer for the e-zine Cherry Bleeds. |
Terrie Leigh Relf is known to a few Denizens of the Dark as Tera la Fey. She dwells in, and otherwise haunts, the general downtown San Diego area. You can score a few points by stopping by her open mic at Santos in South Park on the fourth Sunday of every month from 5p.m.-7p.m. In addition to being the poetry editor and columnist for writersmonthly.us, she pens The Espresso's "Mistress of Rhetoric" column, is the ghazal editor for The Muse Apprentice Guild, and has recently joined the terribly twisted staff roster at NFG.ca. Her illustrated storybook, The Ice Queen was just released from Samsdotpublishing.com. |
andrew lundwall's poetry and prose have appeared in (or are forthcoming with) the following literary journals: ink magazine, spacebreather, eratio, xstream, xpressed, 3am magazine, sidereality, shampoo, retort, aught, shoestring, 5_trope, deep cleveland, get underground, muse apprentice guild, and others. lundwall has four poems forthcoming in the anthology "Three-Chord Poems: Poetry Inspired by Rock n' Roll" to be published through deep cleveland press. lundwall is the founding editor of the literary journal the Tin Lustre Mobile: http://www.poeticinhalation.com/tlm.html. |
Mike Bohatch
has but one desire. To contribute to the fantastical and realization
of dark imagery in the published genre's of horror and the surreal.
As a professional illustrator for many years, Mike's work can be found
in numerous publications and CD packages both nationally and internationally.
His online site contains an extensive gallery of works using mediums
of mixed media and digital compositing. Not only has his work been
featured in numerous publications worldwide, he has provided his style
of imagery to the fields of film, book covers, comics, CD packages, |
Brutal Dreamer [a.k.a. Peggy Jo Shumate] is married to David and has two children: Isaac Wade and Lizzy Marie and her loveable cat, Shackie Taques. Brutal Dreamer is a Movie Reviewer for DVD Empire, Reviewer/Promotions for Massacre Publications, Publicity Manager for RAW DOG SCREAMING. Brutal Dreamer is a Terror Tale Scribe (Scribette) and is a 2000 Graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature. (A guilty little pleasure of hers that is more horrifying than her horrific works of fiction! *shudder* She likes to write and read children’s stories!) She is the former Editor, Reviewer, and Promotion Manager of other magazines and publishing presses. Brutal Dreamer was Paul Kane's March 2002 Shadow-Writer and has over 100 published works in both electronic and print, including EOTU: Fiction, Art, and Poetry, The House of Pain, SDO Fantasy, Decompositions, THE DREAM PEOPLE, Rainfall Press, Southern Rose Productions, Terror Tales, Steel Caves, The Swamp, etc. Her work will be featured in over a dozen Anthologies between 2003-2004. You can visit Brutal Dreamer at her Official Website: http://brutaldreamer.tripod.com e-mail Brutal at: brutal@brutaldreamer.com |
Jeff Harrison’s poetry has appeared in Nerve Lantern, Tin Lustre Mobile, XStream, Moria, Poethia, VeRT, M.A.G., BlazeVox, Word for Word, Side Reality, canwehaveourballback, Generator, Znine and Great Works. His poetry is forthcoming from Sentence, 5_Trope, Aught,XPress(ed), Xerography, Blackboard Project, and A Chide's Alphabet. |
Corey Mesler has published prose and/or poetry in Canopic Jar, Pindeldyboz, Mars Hill Review, Pikeville Review, Arkansas Review, Center, Small Press Review, Jabberwock Review, Rattle, Orchid, Quick Fiction, and many others. A chapbook of his poetry, Piecework, is available from the Wing and a Wheel Press. He recently won the Moonfire Poetry Chapbook Competition and his chapbook, Chin-Chin in Eden, has just been published by Still Waters Press. One of his short stories was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel, and his novel-in-dialogue, Talk, was published by Livingston Press in 2002. He’s been a book reviewer (for The Commercial Appeal, BookPage, The Memphis Flyer, Brightleaf), fiction editor (for Ion Books/raccoon), university press sales rep, grant committee judge (for The Oregon Arts Council), father and son. With my wife I own Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores.
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Kristy Odelius
is completing a PhD in poetry at UIC; she has been teaching a combo
of composition, literature and poetry workshops there for the past
four years. She is a co-editor of Near South, a small
print journal of experimental writing. |
Barrie was born
in 1958 to a working class family, in an area where one does not create
unusual art. However, after severing time in the Royal Navy, Barrie
discovered the work of Dali and has been persuing art ever since. |
Michael is a self-taught artist, who at an early age showed a talent for art. From elementary through junior high school, he drew comic books and comic book characters. In senior high school, he was introduced to the art of Salvadore Dali, it was then that he decided to become a fine arts painter. His main interest as a painter is in surrealism. His interest in the arts does not stop at painting, he is also a self-taught musician who played in bands and wrote and performed his own songs. He has recently gone back to his comic book roots, by publishing my own comic book (which you can get a look at here: http://trianglecomics.tripod.com/) and he also has plans to publish a comic book on CD-rom that will include some 3D animation, which he plans to do himself. You can see more of Michael’s work at his website: http://mikesgallery.tripod.com/gallery.html |
Nora Weston’s publishing credits include Insolent Rudder, The Murder Hole, Dark Moon Rising, The Burning Word, Shadowkeepzine, Decompositions, and The Harrow. She was the featured poet for The Kudzu Monthly in May 2003, in which ten of her poems were displayed. Her book, "Seriously Dark And Disturbed," was released in March 2003 and Publish America will release her first novel due out next year. Most recently, her poem "Host" was accepted for publication in a book called "In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself." |
Lizzy M. Shumate
is a 14-year-old Anime Artist. "Anime Artist: What I show you,
is reality in my digital world!" Her work has been published Visit Lizzy at
her Author's Den: http://www.authorsden.com/lizzymarieshumate |