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“Living Doll” in Attic Toys
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“David Bernstein is a real craftsman, and one of the most thrilling voices to come along in a decade. He’s who you should be reading now.” —Joe McKinney, author of Flesh Eaters and Apocalypse of the DeadTears of No Return
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“The Shed” in The Call of Lovecraft
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“Career Day” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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Gary Brandner, born in the Midwest and much traveled during his formative years, has 30-odd published novels, more than 100 short stories, and a handful of screenplays on his resume. After grabbing a degree in journalism from the University of Washington, he followed such diverse career paths as bartender, surveyor, loan company investigator, advertising copywriter, bounty hunter, and technical writer before turning to fiction. Since his breakthrough novel, The Howling, he has settled into a relatively respectable life with wife and cats in Reno, Nevada. Cameron’s Closet; “Words, Words, Words!” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror; “Dust Devil” in Evil Jester Digest, Volume One
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R. Michael Burns is an October child with a background in philosophy, theater and other occult arts, and holds two BAs from the University of Colorado. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group, and the Gainesville Fiction Writers. His fiction has appeared in various venues including Dreams of Decadence, City Slab, Dark Regions, Andromeda Spaceways, Dark Recesses, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Arkham Tales, and Shroud, as well as in such anthologies as Bell, Book & Beyond, Cthulhu Express, Extremes 5, Bound for Evil, Horror Library III, and Made You Flinch. His article “Creative Writing 301” was picked in a Predators and Editors poll as the second-best non-fiction article of 2006. A Colorado native, he lived for the better part of five years in Japan, where he taught English to Japanese students from 1 to 70. He currently resides in the deep dark swamps of Florida, with his feline familiar, Lilith. More of his work, both fiction and non, can be found at http://www.coloradospringsfictionwritersgroup.org/members/r-michael-burns/index.php
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“Cold Print” in The Call of Lovecraft
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“The Girl Who Drowned” in Evil Jester Digest, Volume One
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“The Interview” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror |
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“A Brightly-Colored Box Filled with Stars” in Attic Toys |
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“Magnus the Magnificent” in The Call of Lovecraft |
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“Endless Hunger” in The Call of Lovecraft |
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“The Pipes” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror |
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“Another Shift Change” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror; “Sharpe is Extraordinary” in Evil Jester Digest, Volume One |
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“The Tea-Serving Doll” in Attic Toys
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  Nancy Rosenberg England
“Discarded” in Attic Toys
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Acclaimed horror author Gabrielle Faust is best known for her internationally acclaimed vampire series ETERNAL VIGILANCE. Her previous work has also included three collections of poetry—BEFORE ICARUS, AFTER ACHILLES, CROSSROADS and THE BEGINNING OF NIGHTS, the novella REGRET and the celebrated new dark fantasy adventure novel REVENGE. Gabrielle Faust’s work, as both an author and illustrator, has appeared in Girls & Corpses Magazine, GUD Magazine, Doorways Magazine, The Open Vein, Darkened Horizons, Ladies of Horror and The Bloodied Quill, as well as the websites Fear Zone, SCI FI Wire, Blastr and Fatally Yours. She was the Guest of Honor at the Queen of the Damned Vampire Ball in New Orleans, presented by the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club, in 2008. In 2009 she was a Special Guest of the Endless Night vampire masquerade ball in New Orleans and was crowned “New Orleans Vampire Royalty” by the Vampire Lestat Fan Club at the Tru Blood & Gold vampire ball alongside Charlaine Harris. Faust is a loyal krewe member of the Sabertooth Clan and Endless Night. She was the primary graphic designer for the 2011 World Horror Convention and was the co-crewchief for the International Housing Program for the SXSW Music Festival from 1994 to 2011. In 2011 Faust was awarded the 2011 Texas Social Media Award by the Austin American Statesman. She is currently celebrating the release of her latest dark fantasy adventure novel REVENGE (Barking Rain Press, 2011) with co-author Solomon Schneider, working on the 2012-13 Vampyre Almanac with Father Sebastiaan, a new vampire novel entitled THE LINEAGE and was appointed the editor for vampire anthology HIGH STAKES, to be released by Evil Jester Press in October of 2012. |
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“Team Player” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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“Dreams of a Ragged Doll” in Attic Toys
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Peter Giglio is a Pushcart Prize nominated novelist, screenwriter, and anthologist. He is the author of three published novels—Anon, Beyond Anon, and The Dark (with Scott Bradley)—and two novellas—A Spark in the Darkness and Balance. His short fiction can be found in several books, including two anthologies edited by John Skipp, where he had the honor of sharing TOCs with Thomas Harris, George R.R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, Chuck Palahniuk, and many other literary icons. He is also the editor of the anthologies Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror and Evil Jester Digest, Volume One. Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror (editor); Evil Jester Digest, Volume One (editor); Balance (a zombie novella) |
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“That Place in The Call of Lovecraft
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“Accountable” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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Mark Allan Gunnells holds degrees in English and Psychology and is the author of the Sideshow Press titles A Laymon Kind of Night, Whisonant/Creatures of the Light, Tales from the Midnight Shift Vol. I, the Darkside Digital short “Dancing in the Dark,” and the novella Asylum from The Zombie Feed, an imprint of Apex Books.THE QUARRY; “There Must Be Something in the Water” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror |
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“Like Riding a Bicycle” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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Under his own name, Rick Hautala has written more than thirty novels, including the million-copy bestseller Nightstone, as well as Winter Wake, The Mountain King, and Little Brothers. He has published two short story collections: Bedbugs and Occasional Demons. A new collection, The Back of Beyond, is due soon. He has had over sixty short stories published in a variety of national and international anthologies and magazines. Writing as A. J. Matthews, his novels include the bestsellers The White Room, Looking Glass, Follow, and Unbroken. His forthcoming books include the “Little Brothers” novella Indian Summer, three novels: Star Road, Waiting, and Chills, and a collection of novellas titled Yesternight. Born and raised in Rockport, Massachusetts, Rick is a graduate of the University of Maine in Orono with a Master of Arts in English Literature. His three children are all grown up. He lives in southern Maine with author Holly Newstein. Moondeath; “GPS” in Evil Jester Digest, Volume One |
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David C. Hayes is a genre actor/writer/producer/director. Most recently he has starred in A Man Called Nereus, Machined, Reborn, Orville and Sportkill, Jackrabbit Sky, The Death Factory Bloodletting, and Dark Places. He produced and appears in the films Predatory Instinct, Blood Moon Rising, and The Frankenstein Syndrome. David has written multiple feature films, including Closets, Blood Guardian, Back Woods, Vampegeddon, Riverdead, and Shower of Blood. He has also written several comic books/ graphic novels, including Rottentail, and Tranquillity, and is the author of Muddled Mind: The Complete Works of Ed Wood Jr. His feature film screenplay, Executive Privilege, was a finalist in the 2010 Bridge International Screenplay Competition, and his stageplay, Swamp Ho, was a finalist in the International Cringefest. He teaches screenwriting, film production, acting and rhetoric.Carnival of the Damned (co-editor); “Agnes: A Love Story” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror |
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“The Tenure Track Lottery” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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“A Gentleman’s Folly” in Evil Jester Digest, Volume One; “A Little Terror” in Attic Toys |
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“A Hundred Bucks is a Hundred Bucks” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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“The Vessel” in The Call of Lovecraft
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“Grist” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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“Poor Me and Ted” in Attic Toys
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Jon Michael Kelley (AKA Jon-Michael Emory) began his writing career twenty years ago as a lyricist for a small music company in New York City. On a whim, his producer called him one day and asked if he wrote anything “literary”; that since she was on “Publishers Row” she could shop a sample around for him. He told her that he had, in fact, just recently finished his first short story, and he sent it along. That story eventually won him featured author in a small press magazine called Heart Attack, and he’s been writing ever since. His fiction has been nominated for such prizes as the Pushcart, and has appeared (or is scheduled to appear) in such magazines and anthologies as Night Terrors, Best of Millennium Sci Fi & Fantasy, New Genre II, Wired Hard III, Father Grim’s Storybook, Chiral Mad, and Tales of Terror and Mayhem From Deep Within the Box from Evil Jester Press. Jon lives in a gold mining town in the mountains of Colorado.
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“New Orleans’ Best Beignets” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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“Deadline” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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 Scott Lefebvre
“And in the Darkness I Waited” in The Call of Lovecraft
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“Monday Shutdown” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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Carol MacAllister
“Blood Pine” in The Call of Lovecraft
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“The Doll Tree” in Attic Toys
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Melanie Mascio
“Rubik’s Cube” in Attic Toys
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“A Little Crimson Stain” in Attic Toys; “The Little Church of Safe Crossing” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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“Give it a Name” in Attic Toys |
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“The Colour of the Deep” in The Call of Lovecraft
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“I Heard it Through the Grapevine” in Attic Toys
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“When Harry Killed Sally” in Attic Toys; “Face Out” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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Derek Neville
“The Clearing” in The Call of Lovecraft
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  James Newman
Tarheel . . . published writer of horror/suspense . . . married to Glenda with 2 sons, 2-year-old Jacob and 13-year-old Jamie . . . BLESSED. |
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Gregory L. Norris writes regularly for a number of national magazines and fiction anthologies. A former screenwriter on Paramount’s modern classic Star Trek: Voyager, he is the author of the handbook to all-things Sunnydale, The Q Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Alyson Books) and the forthcoming short and long story collection, The Fierce and Unforgiving Muse: Twenty-Six Tales From the Terrifying Mind of Gregory L. Norris (Evil Jester Press). Norris lives and writes in the outer limits of New Hampshire. Visit him on Facebook and at www.gregorylnorris.blogspot.com.The Fierce and Unforgiving Muse; “Carpool” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror; “Lone Wolf” in Evil Jester Digest, Volume One; “The Mercy of Madness” in The Call of Lovecraft; The Call of Lovecraft (editor) |
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Lisa Olick
The Corpse Also Rises |
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“Attic Dog” in Attic Toys
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James Ravan
“The Winds of Gobekli Tepe” in The Call of Lovecraft
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“I LOVE RT” in The Call of Lovecraft
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The Love of the Dead; “Playing Blackjack with Mr. Paws” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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“Legend” in The Call of Lovecraft
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Eric Shapiro’s acclaimed 2005 novella, It’s Only Temporary, was on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award in Long Fiction. He directed and produced the motion picture, Rule of Three (2010), which had its world premiere at the Fantasia Festival and its U.S. Premiere at Fantastic Fest before being released on DVD and Netflix Instant. In 2010, Permuted Press published an omnibus collection of Eric’s three short novels and a handful of selected short stories called Stories for the End of the World. His newest novel, The Devoted (2012), out from John Skipp’s Ravenous Shadows, depicts the last day in the life of a suicide cult. His debut fiction publication, Short of a Picnic (2002), originally released by the now-defunct Be-Mused Publications, was a collection of short stories about characters grappling with mental illness. It will return in 2012 from Evil Jester Press. Eric lives in Los Angeles with his wife and producing partner, Rhoda Jordan, and their son, Benjamin Shapiro.Short of a Picnic; “Look Behind You” in Evil Jester Digest, Volume One; “Expulsion” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror |
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Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation, and Attic Clowns. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin, and Shroud Magazine. Jeremy enjoys living in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse called Rose Cottage. He lives there with his wife, Lisa, a couple of pygmy tigers, and a legion of yard gnomes. The gnomes like him. The clowns living in his attic—not so much. His online home is jeremycshipp.com and his twitter handle is @JeremyCShipp.Attic Toys (editor);
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Emily C. Skaftun
“Down in the Woods Today” in Attic Toys
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My name is Hollie Snider and I write . . . stuff. Fantasy and horror bleed from my pen most times, but other genres tend to wriggle out of my twisted mind on occasion. To date I have one novel published, a few short stories and several writing related articles. As a freelance editor I have over fifteen years of experience helping others tighten their prose. During the past few years, I’ve been a guest lecturer at writing conferences in addition to doing what I can to encourage high school students in the writing world through teaching, organizing and judging contests. I am the Excutive Editor at Hidden Thoughts Press, and I’m a founder of the Colorado Springs Fiction Writer’s Group, established in 1996. I’m also a member of the Wicked Women Writers and the Horror Writer’s Association. With a strong background in mythology and lore, I tend to balance my time between writing, cultural anthropology, painting and quilting. With my fantasy writing, I try to bring rules to the lands of monsters, myth and magic. “I’ve grown tired of magic being a crutch. In creating a land where magic is used, I feel three rules should be followed; 1) Magic is not a cure-all. Why have weapons if one can simply ‘wish’ the problem away (or zap it into oblivion)? 2) There should always be a price for casting a spell, such as physical exertion or pain. 3) Death is the end. If a character dies it should create an emotional response in both characters and reader. There is no impact if anyone can simply be resurrected.’” As for horror, my works tend toward the psychological, revenge and twisted fairy tales. Blood and guts can be scary, if used to the story’s advantage. But I don’t think readers need anatomy lessons. Sometimes what isn’t exposed is more frightening. I live near Colorado Springs, Colorado with my husband, son and a multitude of neurotic animals.
In early 2012, my dark fantasy novel, “For the Rank of Master” was re-released into the print world.
“Widdershins” in Evil Jester Digest, Volume One
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Henry Snider is a founding member of the award-winning Colorado Springs Fiction Writer’s Group. During the last two decades he’s dedicated his time to helping others tighten their writing through critique groups, classes, lectures, prison prose programs and high school fiction contests. He retired from the CSFWG presidency in December 2008. After a much needed vacation he returned to writing, this time for publication in mid-2010. While still reserving enough time to pursue his own fiction aspirations, Henry continues to be active in the writing community through classes, editing services and advice. Henry lives with his wife, fellow author and editor Hollie Snider, son – poet Josh Snider and numerous neurotic animals, including, of course, Alexander, the token black cat. Feel free to the Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group’s “Change of the Guard“ for a little more about me.
Carnival of the Damned (co-editor); “The Vessel” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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“Inside the Boxes” in Attic Toys; “Work/Life Balance” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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“The End of Autumn” in Evil Jester Digest, Volume One; The End of Autumn (standalone eBook); “The White Knight” in Attic Toys
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“Dust at the Center of All Things” in Evil Jester Digest, Volume One; “The Tentacle” in The Call of Lovecraft
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“The Chapel of Unrest” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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“The Gardeners” in Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
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“Dollhouse” in Attic Toys
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“Izothaugnol Acending” in The Call of Lovecraft |
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David Bernstein 
