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UNLOCKED - MICRO GOAL #4: A new color illustration will be created by M. Wayne Miller for Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror and a new color illustration will be created by Daniele Serra for The Children of Gla'aki: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell's Great Old One based on campaign backer votes!

New Micro Goal #1 Illustration by M. Wayne Miller based on "The Call of the Deep" by William Meikle from Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror Edited by Brian M. Sammons!

New Micro Goal #3 Illustration by Vincent Chong for Signature Sheet of Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror Deluxe Hardcover Edition!

Support the Creation of Three New Books From Award-Winning Independent Specialty Publisher Dark Regions Press!

Books of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror, weird fiction and more from some of the best in the fields featuring original illustrations offered in ebook, trade paperback and deluxe signed limited editions.

Preorder three exciting new titles and reserve campaign-exclusive bonuses! Supporters will be the first in the world besides contributors and reviewers to read the new books and could be directly responsible for color illustrations being added to two of the new titles. Funds raised during this preorder campaign go directly to the authors, artists, editors, proofreaders, designers, printers and binders that are joining us in bringing these exciting new titles to the reading public.

Your title selection(s) in the reward levels that begin with YOUR CHOICE will be confirmed in the BackerKit post-campaign survey that will be sent before fulfillment begins. 

Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror Edited by Brian M. Sammons

Featuring all new stories of cosmic and Lovecraftian horror based pre, during and post the apocalypse by authors Jeffrey Thomas, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Curran, Pete Rawlik, Sam Gafford, Christine Morgan, Cody Goodfellow and many more. Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror continues the Dark Regions Weird Fiction line with 19 original stories from some of the best authors in Lovecraftian horror and weird fiction today.

Stretch goals are available to get this book fully color illustrated by M. Wayne Miller, illustrator of World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories.

You, Human: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction Edited by Michael Bailey

Bram Stoker Award winning editor Michael Bailey brings sci-fi back to Dark Regions Press with heart in this genre-bending anthology of dark science fiction and poetry: You, Human. With fiction illustrated beautifully throughout by world-renowned artist L.A. Spooner, with poetry and spot illustrations supplied by the always-impressive Orion Zangara, and with an incredible introduction on humanism by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson, You, Human is a triumphant return to science fiction for Dark Regions Press, initiating the new Dark Regions Sci-Fi imprint as book #1.

The Children of Gla'aki: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell's Great Old One Edited by Brian M. Sammons & Glynn Owen Barrass

There is a lake in the Seven Valley, near a town called Brichester. It is an eerie, haunted place, both by day and by night. Night especially though, is a time when no one in their right mind would go anywhere near it, or those oddly deserted houses that stand, albeit barely, on the edge of the shore. But why? What is it that moves about in that lake, a thing that makes its presence known with three sinister glowing eyes that protrude from beneath the water?

Ramsey Campbell, Nick Mamatas, Tim Curran, John Goodrich, Robert M. Price, Pete Rawlik, W.H. Pugmire, Edward Morris, Scott R. Jones, Thana Niveau, William Meikle, Orrin Grey, Tom Lynch, Konstantine Paradias, Josh Reynolds, Lee Clarke Zumpe, and Tim Waggoner, these are, The Children of Gla’aki.

Stretch goals are available to get this book fully color illustrated by Daniele Serra, illustrator of Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror.

All three new titles are anthologies consisting of almost exclusively original fiction, poetry and artwork. Stories of horror, weird fiction and science fiction written by some of the best authors in their respective fields today. Each book is offered in ebook, trade paperback and deluxe signed slipcased/traycased limited hardcover editions. Full table of contents for each title can be found near the bottom of this campaign page.

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More Add-Ons Are Coming Soon, Check Trade Paperback 2 Level or Choose Your Deluxe Edition level for other new titles from DRP!

The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman Deluxe Signed Limited Edition- $175 (Preorder ETA: Oct 2016)

The Fireman by Joe Hill Deluxe Signed Special Limited Edition - $120 (Preorder ETA: Oct 2016)

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Deluxe Signed Special Limited Edition - $90 (In Stock!)

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Bones are Made to be Broken by Paul Michael Anderson

This collection features 14 works of fiction by Paul Michael Anderson, including “All That You Leave Behind,” “To Touch the Dead,” “Love Song for the Rejected,” and a title novella written specifically for this book. Every story within is illustrated by artist/author extraordinaire Pat R. Steiner, who created the artwork for Qualia Nous Illustrated. The stories in BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN are a speculative blend of horror, science fiction, and unfiltered emotion. As Marge Simon puts it, “Anderson’s style is tensely exciting. This collection is a treasure for any horror or dark SF fan’s library.” Gene O’Neill sums up this collection with “Paul Michael Anderson writes like no other writer in dark fiction. Simply, he writes a Paul Michael Anderson story—the highest compliment any serious writer can hope to achieve.”

How to Order Bones are Made to be Broken by Paul Michael Anderson: Choose Trade Paperback 2 or Choose Your Deluxe Edition Perk levels in this campaign and follow the instructions therein.

UNLOCKED - MICRO GOAL #3: If the campaign reaches 50% of its goal by Wednesday, August 31st a new illustration will be created by Vincent Chong, artist behind the cover of Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror. This new illustration will be used as the signature sheet design for the deluxe edition of Return of the Old Ones!

UNLOCKED - MICRO GOAL #2: If the campaign reaches 33% of its goal by Thursday, August 25th a new color illustration will be created by Daniele Serra for The Children of Gla'aki: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell's Great Old One based on campaign backer votes!

UNLOCKED - MICRO GOAL #1: If the campaign reaches 20% of its goal today, August 23rd a new color illustration will be created by M. Wayne Miller for Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror based on campaign backer votes!

STRETCH GOAL #1: Revealed when we reach our funding goal and will result in new color illustrations being added to one of the new titles!

Working with BackerKit and fulfillment centers, we aim to have this be the smoothest fulfillment experience for our customers yet. Fulfillment will be handled in two or more phases due to the need for signature sheets to be signed by all contributors for deluxe editions. Roughly 30 days before phase 1 fulfillment begins the BackerKit post-campaign survey will be sent to all campaign backers to confirm shipping information and collect shipping funds. No retail editions will be released until all supporters have their ebook and/or trade paperbacks. The books are completely edited and proofread and will be ready to enter production (assuming no additional illustrations) by October 2016. Ebooks and trade paperbacks are expected to ship by  Q1 2017. Deluxe hardcovers of You, Human, The Eighth, Bones are Made to be Broken and Other Music are expected in stock by Q1 2017 while Return of the Old Ones/Children of Gla'aki deluxes are expected in stock by Q2 2017.

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Remaining locations will have shipping rates calculated during the surveys. These estimates are subject to change based on final book specifications and pledge information.

Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror Edited by Brian M. Sammons Table of Contents

In the Before Times

Around the Corner – Jeffrey Thomas
Tick Tock – Don Webb
Causality Revelation – Glynn Owen Barrass
The Hidden – Scott T. Goudsward
The Gentleman Caller – Lucy A. Snyder
Scratching from the Outer Darkness – Tim Curran
Messages from a Dark Deity – Stephen Mark Rainey

Where Were You When the World Ended?

Time Flies – Pete Rawlik
Sorrow Road – Tim Waggoner
The Call of the Deep – William Meikle
Howling Synchronicities – Konstantine Paradias
Chimera – Sam Gafford
The Last Night on Earth – Edward Morris
The Incessant Drone – Neil Baker

Life in the Shadow of Living Gods

Breaking Point – Sam Stone
The Allclear – Edward M. Erdelac
The Keeper of Memory – Christine Morgan
Shout / Kill / Revel / Repeat – by Scott R Jones
Strangers Die Every Day – Cody Goodfellow

You, Human: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction Edited by Michael Bailey Table of Contents

Introduction by F. Paul Wilson

Fiction

I Am The Doorway – Stephen King
Robot - Mort Castle
101 Things to Do Before You're Downloaded - Scott Edelman
The Cosmic Fair - Darren Speegle
The Star-Filled Sea is Smooth Tonight - Thomas F. Monteleone
Executive Functions - Lucy A. Snyder
Hopium Den - John Skipp
Dog at the Look - B.E. Scully
Ditch Treasures - Richard Chizmar
The Pretty Puppets - Marc Levinthal
Pink Crane Girls - Autumn Christian
The Cause - Laura Lee Bahr
Keepsakes - Hal Bodner
The Goldilocks Zone - John R. Little
The Jupiter Drop - Josh Malerman
Key to the City - Cody Goodfellow
The Universe is Dying - Paul Michael Anderson
Fallen Faces by the Wayside - Gary A. Braunbeck
It Can Walk and Talk, and You'll Never Have to Worry About Housework Again - Dyer Wilk
What Goes Up Must Come Down - Janet Harriett
The Immigrants - Erik T. Johnson
Gumi-Bear - Erinn L. Kemper
Unity of Affect - Jason V Brock
The Fourth Law - Marge Simon

Poetry by Marge Simon

In Accordance with the Laws
Less than Human
Future Imperfect: Broken Laws

The Children of Gla'aki: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell's Great Old One Edited by Brian M. Sammons & Glynn Owen Barrass Table of Contents

Introduction by Brian M. Sammons & Glynn Owen Barrass

Fiction

The Inhabitant of the Lake - Ramsey Campbell
Country Mouse, City Mouse - Nick Mamatas
Tribute Band - John Goodrich
In Search of Lake Monsters - Robert M. Price
The Collection of Gibson Flynn - Pete Rawlik
The Secret Painting of Thomas Cartwright - W. H. Pugmire
I Want to Break Free - Edward Morris
The Spike - Scott R. Jones
The Dawning of His Dreams - Thana Niveau
The Lakeside Cottages - William Meikle
Invaders of Gla'aki - Orrin Grey
Scion of Chaahk - Tom Lynch
Cult of Panacea - Konstantine Paradias
Squatters Rights - Josh Reynolds
Beneath Cayuga's Churning Waves - Lee Clark Zumpe
Nature of Water - Tim Waggoner
Night of the Hopfrog - Tim Curran
Mirror Fishing - John Langan

Afterword by Ramsey Campbell
 

i. Editors

Michael Bailey

Michael Bailey is the multi-award-winning author of PALINDROME HANNAH, PHOENIX ROSE and PSYCHOTROPIC DRAGON (novels), SCALES AND PETALS and INKBLOTS AND BLOOD SPOTS (short story / poetry collections), and editor of PELLUCID LUNACY and the CHIRAL MAD anthologies. His books have been recognized by the International Book Awards, National Best Book Awards, Independent Publisher Book Awards, the USA News “Best Book” Awards, the London Book Festival, ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year, This is Horror Anthology of the Year, the Indie Book Awards, and the Eric Hoffer Award. His short fiction and poetry can be found in anthologies and magazines around the world, including the US, UK, Australia, Sweden and South Africa.

Brian M. Sammons

Brian M. Sammons is the weird fiction line editor for Dark Regions Press and the Chief Editor for Golden Goblin Press. He has been a film and literature critic for over twenty years for a number of publications and has penned stories that have appeared in such anthologies as Arkham Tales, Horrors Beyond, Monstrous, Dead but Dreaming 2, Mountains of Madness, Deepest, Darkest Eden, In the Court of the Yellow King and others. He has edited the books; Cthulhu Unbound 3, Undead & Unbound, Eldritch Chrome, Edge of Sundown, Steampunk Cthulhu, Dark Rites of Cthulhu, Atomic Age Cthulhu, World War Cthulhu, Flesh Like Smoke, Return of the Old Ones, Children of Gla’aki, Dread Shadows in Paradise, and more. He is currently far too busy for any sane man. For more about this guy that neighbors describe as “such a nice, quiet man” you can follow him on Twitter @BrianMSammons

Glynn Owen Barrass

Glynn Owen Barrass lives in the North East of England and has been writing since late 2006. He has written over a hundred short stories, most of which have been published in the UK, USA, France, and Japan. He also co-edits anthologies for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu fiction line, Eldritch Chrome (co-edited with Brian M. Sammons) being the first release this year, to be followed by Steampunk Cthulhu, Atomic Age Cthulhu, and more. He also writes material for their flagship roleplaying game: Call of Cthulhu.

Details and news of his latest fiction appearances can be found on his website ‘Stranger Aeons: The Domain of Writer Glynn Barrass.’ 

ii. Artists

Vincent Chong

Vincent Chong is an award-winning freelance illustrator and designer. Since 2004 he has brought his creative vision and distinctive visual style to a wide range of projects from book and magazine covers to CD packaging and websites. He works for clients all around the world, and illustrates the works of renowned authors such as Stephen King. Vincent is the recipient of a World Fantasy Award, as well as receiving the British Fantasy Award for 'Best Artist’ on multiple occasions. He has also been shortlisted for Hugo and BSFA awards. In 2010 he released his first art book, Altered Visions: The Art of Vincent Chong. 

Daniele Serra

Daniele Serra was born and lives in Italy. He works as illustrator and comic artist, his work has been published in Europe, Australia, United States and Japan. He has worked for Dark Regions Press, DC Comics, Image Comics, Cemetery Dance, Weird Tales magazine, PS Publishing and other publications. He is a winner of the British Fantasy Award.

L.A. Spooner

Luke Spooner currently lives and works in the South of England. Having graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a first class degree he is now a full time illustrator working under two aliases; ‘Carrion House’ for his darker work and ‘Hoodwink House’ for his work aimed at a younger audience. He believes that the job of putting someone else’s words into a visual form, to accompany and support their text, is a massive responsibility as well as being something he truly treasures.

Orion Zangara

Orion Zangara is an illustrator and comic-book artist who lives in Sterling, Virginia. He is a graduate of The Kubert School, an art trade school with a concentration in sequential art, founded by his grandfather, Joe Kubert. Currently he is illustrating a trilogy graphic novel called The Stone Man Mysteries written by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple for the Lerner Publishing Group. And he finds it very strange describing himself in the third person! You may reach him at orionzangara@gmail.com.

iii. Authors

Stephen King

Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Doctor Sleep and Under the Dome, now a major TV miniseries on CBS. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

F. Paul Wilson (Introduction)

F. Paul Wilson is an author, born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He writes novels and short stories primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer (1976). Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog and continued to write science fiction throughout the seventies. In 1981 he ventured into the horror genre with the international bestseller, The Keep, and helped define the field throughout the rest of the decade. In the 1990s he became a true genre hopper, moving from science fiction to horror to medical thrillers and branching into interactive scripting for Disney Interactive and other multimedia companies. He, along with Matthew J. Costello, created and scripted FTL Newsfeed which ran daily on the Sci-Fi Channel from 1992-1996.

Paul Michael Anderson

Paul Michael Anderson is the writer of the short-story collection BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN, out in the fall of 2016 by Written Backwards/Dark Regions Press. An editor, teacher, and sometime-journalist, he lives with his wife and daughter in Northern Virginia, which is much quieter than he expected (or, sometimes, wanted). His most recent piece is "How I Became a Cryptid Straight Out of a 1980s Horror Movie" in Space & Time magazine.

Josh Malerman

Josh Malerman is the author of the novels Bird Box (ECCO/HarperCollins, 2014) and Black Mad Wheel (ECCO/HarperCollins, 2017) as well as the novella Ghastle and Yule and a score of short stories such as "The Bigger Bedroom" (Chiral Mad 3), "Danny" (Scary Out There), and "I Can Taste the Blood" (I Can Taste the Blood.) He's also the guitarist/songwriter for the rock band The High Strung whose song "The Luck You Got" is the theme song for Showtime's hit series Shameless.

Laura Lee Bahr

Laura Lee Bahr is a multi-award winning writer, performer and director. She is the author of two novels, HAUNT, and LONG-FORM RELIGIOUS PORN (Fungasm Press). HAUNT is available on audiobook and recently was translated into Spanish under the title FANTASMA by Orciny Press. Her debut feature as writer/director, Boned, is distributed through Gravitas Ventures (available everywhere). A collection of her short stories, ANGEL MEAT, will be published in 2017 by Fungasm Press.

Scott Edelman

Scott Edelman has published more than 85 short stories in such magazines and anthologies as The Twilight Zone, Dark Discoveries, MetaHorror, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF MONSTERS, and many others. His collection of zombie fiction, WHAT WILL COME AFTER, released in 2010, was a finalist for both the Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Memorial Award. His science fiction short fiction has been collected in WHAT WE STILL TALK ABOUT.  He has been a Bram Stoker Award finalist six times. Additionally, Edelman worked for the Syfy Channel for more than thirteen years as editor of Science Fiction Weekly, SCI FI Wire, and Blastr. He was the founding editor of Science Fiction Age, which he edited during its entire eight-year run. He has been a four-time Hugo Award finalist for Best Editor.

Thomas F. Monteleone

Tom Monteleone has published more than 100 short stories and 40+ books. He is a 4-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award in four different categories—novel, collection, anthology, and non-fiction—and he’s pretty sure no one else has ever done that. Many of his novels have been optioned for films; he’s written scripts for stage, screen, and TV. He is also wrote the bestselling THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO WRITING A NOVEL (now in a 2nd edition). SUBMERGED is his latest novel. With his wife, Elizabeth, he lives in Maryland. Despite losing much of his hair, he still believes he is dashingly handsome—humor him.
 

Hal Bodner

Hal Bodner is a Bram Stoker Award nominated author whose freshman vampire novel, BITE CLUB, made him one of the top-selling GLBT authors in the country. The royalties continue to  keep him in “cigarettes and nylons” – even though he quit smoking and never did drag. He also wrote several paranormal romances, most notably IN FLESH AND STONE. His upcoming thrillers paint classic “noir” with a lavender glaze. Hal is married to a wonderful man, half his age, who never knew that Liza Minnelli was Judy Garland’s daughter.

Cody Goodfellow

Cody Goodfellow’s previous collections Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars and All-Monster Action both received the Wonderland Book Award. His latest, Rapture of the Deep & Other Lovecraftian Tales, is out now from Hippocampus Press. He wrote, co-produced and scored the short Lovecraftian hygiene film Stay At Home Dad, which can be viewed on YouTube. As a bishop of the Esoteric Order of Dagon (San Pedro Chapter), he presides over several Cthulhu Prayer Breakfasts each year, from Comic-Con to the Queen Mary. He is also a director of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Los Angeles and cofounder of Perilous Press, a micropublisher of modern cosmic horror.

B.E. Scully

B.E. Scully lives in a crooked red house that lacks a foundation in the misty woods of Oregon with a variety of human and animal companions. Scully is the author of numerous novels, short stories, poems, and articles. Published work, interviews, and odd scribblings can be found at bescully.com

Gary A. Braunbeck

Gary A. Braunbeck is a 7-time Bram Stoker award-winning writer who has published over 200 short stories, and whose novels include IN SILENT GRAVES, KEEPERS, MR. HANDS, and the forthcoming A CRACKED AND BROKEN PATH. His Stoker-winning nonfiction book, TO EACH THEIR DARKNESS, is now being used in several creative writing programs. Two of his stories have been adapted into short films, the most recent being “He Didn’t Even Leave A Note.”  You can follow him at https://www.facebook.com/groups/4988614289/

Janet Harriett

Janet Harriett is a writer and freelance editor. Her short stories have been published in NOT OUR KIND: TALES OF (NOT) BELONGING and WEIRDBOOK, and she made a nonfiction guest appearance in FOR EXPOSURE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A SMALL PRESS PUBLISHER discussing her experiences as Apex Publications’ senior editor. 

John Skipp

John Skipp is a Rondo Award-winning filmmaker (TALES OF HALLOWEEN), Stoker Award-winning anthologist (DEMONS, MONDO ZOMBIE), and New York Times bestselling author (THE LIGHT AT THE END, THE SCREAM) whose books have sold millions of copies in a dozen languages worldwide. His first anthology, BOOK OF THE DEAD, laid the foundation in 1989 for modern zombie literature. He's also editor-in-chief of Fungasm Press, championing genre-melting authors like Laura Lee Bahr, Violet LeVoit, Autumn Christian, Danger Slater, Cody Goodfellow, and Devora Gray. From splatterpunk founding father to bizarro elder statesman, Skipp has influenced a generation of horror and counter-culture artists around the world. His latest book is THE ART OF HORRIBLE PEOPLE.

Jason V Brock

Jason V Brock is an award-winning writer, editor, filmmaker, and artist whose work has been widely published in a variety of media (Weird Fiction Review print edition, S. T. Joshi's Black Wings series, Fangoria, and others). He describes his work as Dark Magical Realism. He is also the founder of a website and digest called [NameL3ss]; his books include A DARKE PHANTASTIQUE, DISORDERS OF MAGNITUDE, and SIMULACRUM AND OTHER POSSIBLE REALITIES. His filmic efforts are Charles Beaumont: The Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man, The AckerMonster Chronicles!, and Image, Reflection, Shadow: Artists of the Fantastic. Popular as a speaker and panelist, he has been a special guest at numerous film fests, conventions, and educational events, and was the 2015 Editor Guest of Honor for Orycon 37. A health nut/gadget freak, he lives in the Vancouver, WA area, and loves his wife Sunni, their family of herptiles, running their technology consulting business, and practicing vegan/vegetarianism.

Erik T. Johnson

Erik T. Johnson is the first Written Backwards DARWA Voice Award-winner whose fiction pops up in cool places, such as Space & Time Magazine, TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED, QUALIA NOUS, and all three volumes of the award-winning CHIRAL MAD series. He has published three novellas, most recently in I CAN TASTE THE BLOOD (along with Josh Malerman, Joe Schwartz, J. Daniel Stone, and John F.D. Taff). He's definitely going to have a book of short stories published in the near future and he’s working on a novel and in a coal mine, going down down down. Kick Out the Jams, do other stuff when it suits you, yeah alright.

Marge Simon

Marge Simon lives in Ocala, Florida and is married to Bruce Boston. Her stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, The Pedestal Magazine, Morpheus Tales, more. She won the Strange Horizons Readers Choice Award, 2010 the Bram Stoker Award ® for Poetry, the Rhysling Award and the Grand Master Award from the SF Poetry Association, 2015. She has work in CHIRAL MAD 3 and SCARY OUT THERE anthologies, 2016. 

Mort Castle

Mort Castle has won three Bram Stoker Awards, two Black Quills, a Golden Bot, and has been nominated for an Audie, the International Horror Guild Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He's edited or authored 17 books, more than 500 shorter works, and many comic books. Recent titles: ANNOTATED CLASSICS: DRACULA; SHADOW SHOW (the graphic novel); and the Leapfrog Fiction contest winner KNOWING WHEN TO DIE, a short story collection. He's been married for 45 years (to Jane) and a publishing writer for almost 50.

Erinn L. Kemper

Erinn Kemper lives in a small town in Costa Rica on the Caribbean Sea where she operates a vacation rental, runs with her dog on the beach, watches the howler monkeys at happy hour, and plans to write her second novel from her hammock. Erinn has sold stories to Cemetery Dance Magazine, Black Static, Dark Discoveries and [Nameless] Digest and appears in various anthologies including, THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD, A DARKE PHANTASIQUE, and SHADOWS OVER MAIN STREET 2. Visit her website at erinnkemper.com for updates and sloth sightings.

Lucy A. Snyder

Lucy A. Snyder is a four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author who wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess. She also authored the nonfiction book Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide and the story collections While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, In the Court of the Yellow King, The Library of the Dead, Seize the Night, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5. She lives in Columbus, Ohio and is faculty in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. She also writes a column for Horror World. 

Richard Chizmar

Richard Chizmar is the founder/publisher of Cemetery Dance magazine and the Cemetery Dance Publications book imprint. He has edited more than 30 anthologies and his fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE and THE YEAR'S 25 FINEST CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES. He has won two World Fantasy awards, four International Horror Guild awards, and the HWA's Board of Trustee's award. Chizmar (in collaboration with Johnathon Schaech) has also written screenplays and teleplays for United Artists, Sony Screen Gems, Lions Gate, Showtime, NBC, and many other companies.
 

John R. Little

John R. Little is the author of 16 books. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award four times and has won once, for the novella, "Miranda.". One of his books ("Ursa Major") is currently in pre-production to become a major motion picture. He has been published dark fiction for more than 30 years and has enjoyed his fans' reception to each one. John's story in this anthology is one of his own personal favorites. 

Darren Speegle

Darren Speegle is the author of five short story collections, the latest of which, A HAUNTING IN GERMANY and Other Stories, was released in February by PS Publishing. His short fiction has appeared in various venues, including Subterranean, Postscripts, Clarkesworld, Crimewave, The Third Alternative, Dark Discoveries, Cemetery Dance, and Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy. His horror novel, THE THIRD TWIN, will be a 2017 Crystal Lake Publishing title. Also look for Darren's human evolution themed anthology, ADAM'S LADDER, in 2017 from PS.
 
 

Autumn Christian

Autumn Christian is the author of two novels (THE CROOKED GOD MACHINE, WE ARE WORMWOOD) and a short story collection (ECSTATIC INFERNO). She's currently working on a sci-fi novel about an Edgar Allan Poe video game. She is waiting for the day when she hits her head on the cabinet searching for the popcorn bowl and all consensus reality dissolves.

Marc Levinthal

Marc Levinthal is a writer and musician who has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for thirty years. He is the author (with John Skipp) of the novel "The Emerald Burrito of Oz" as well as several short stories and novellas, including “Trainslapper,” “Lou’s Seventh Cylinder,” and "Bloodskeleton, Scourge of the Christies.”

Dyer Wilk

Dyer Wilk is an author, illustrator, and poet living in Northern California. His short fiction has been anthologized in LOST SIGNALS, TROUBLE IN THE HEARTLAND: Crime Fiction Based on the Songs of Bruce Springsteen, and the forthcoming SEMI-COLONIC IRRIGATION. He is currently at work on a novel.

Pete Rawlik

Pete Rawlik, a long time collector of Lovecraftian fiction and in 1985 stole a car to go see the film Reanimator.  He successfully defended himself by explaining that his father had regularly read him The Rats in the Wall as a bedtime story.  His first professional sale was in 1997, but didn’t begin to write seriously until 2010.  Since then he has authored more than fifty short stories and the Cthulhu Mythos novels Reanimators, and The Weird Company.  He is a frequent contributor to the Lovecraft ezine and the New York Review of Science Fiction.  In 2014 his short story Revenge of the Reanimator was nominated for a New Pulp Award.  In 2015 he co-edited The Legacy of the Reanimator for Chaosium.  Somewhere along the line he became known as the Reanimator guy, but he fervently denies being obsessed with the character.  His new novel, Reanimatrix is a weird-noir-romance set in H. P. Lovecraft’s Arkham, and will be released in 2016. He lives in southern Florida where he works on Everglades issues and does a lot of fishing.
 

Tim Waggoner

Tim Waggoner is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist who has published over thirty novels and three short story collections of dark fiction. He teaches creative writing at Sinclair Community College and in Seton Hill University’s MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program. 
 

William Meikle

William Meikle is a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with twenty novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. He has books available from a variety of publishers including Dark Regions Press, DarkFuse and Dark Renaissance, and his work has appeared in a number of professional anthologies and magazines with recent sales to NATURE Futures, Penumbra and Buzzy Mag among others. He lives in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company. When he's not writing he drinks beer, plays guitar, and dreams of fortune and glory.
 

Konstantine Paradias

Konstantine Paradias is a writer by choice. His short stories have been published in the AE Canadian Science Fiction Review, Atelier Press' Trident Magazine and the BATTLE ROYALE  Slambook by Haikasoru. His short story, "How You Ruined Everything" has been included in Tangent Online's 2013 recommended SF reading list and his short story "The Grim" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
 

Sam Gafford

Sam Gafford has been published in a wide variety of anthologies and publications. His fiction has appeared in such collections as Black Wings Volumes I, III and V, as well as Flesh Like Smoke FLESH LIKE SMOKE, The Lemon Herberts, Wicked Tales and in magazines like Weird Fiction Review, Dark Corridor, Nameless and others. A lifelong Lovecraftian, he has written critical articles that have appeared in Lovecraft Studies, Crypt of Cthulhu and more. An expert on the life and work of pioneering science fiction writer William Hope Hodgson, Gafford is currently working on a book length critical biography of Hodgson. Recently, he wrote Some Notes on a Non-Entity: The Life of H. P. Lovecraft which is a 120 page graphic novel biography of HPL with PS Publishing set to release it in 2017. Gafford has a collection of short horror fiction, The Dreamer in Fire and Other Tales coming from Hippocampus Press in 2016. He recently finished writing his first novel and hopes to have it published by 2017. A pop culture junkie, Gafford has probably watched far more TV than recommended. He lives in Rhode Island with his long-suffering wife and three ambivalent cats.
 

Edward Morris

Edward Morris is a 2011 nominee for the Pushcart Prize in Literature, also nominated for the 2009 Rhysling Award and the 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award. His short stories have appeared in The Starry Wisdom Library (PS Publishing;) The Children of Gla’aki (Dark Regions Press), and Eternal Frankenstein (Word Horde Books.) He is currently writing a superhero novel called I am Lesion for the National M.S. Society, and finishing a science-fiction horror meganovel called There was a Crooked Man that Barry N. Malzberg pronounced “fit to stand on the same shelf as Earth Abides and The Day After."
 

Neil Baker

Neil Baker is the owner of April Moon Books, a small press based in Ontario, Canada. He has published several well-received books including The Dark Rites of Cthulhu, Flesh Like Smoke and the 'Short, Sharp, Shocks' series. His own stories can be found in a clutch of great anthologies including  World War Cthulhu and Atomic Age Cthulhu, and he has several more stories due for release in the coming year. Neil lives with his wife and two kids in a perpetual state of confusion.
 

Sam Stone

Sam Stone began her professional writing career in 2007 when her first novel won the Silver Award for Best Novel with ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards. Since then she has gone on to write several novels, three novellas and many short stories. She was the first woman in 31 years to win the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel. She also won the Award for Best Short Fiction in the same year (2011). Stone loves all types of fiction and enjoys mixing horror (her first passion) with a variety of different genres including science fiction, fantasy, crime and Steampunk. She currently resides in Lincolnshire with her husband David and their two cats Shadow and Freya. Her works can be found in paperback, audio and e-book.
 

Edward M. Erdelac

Edward M. Erdelac is the author of nine novels including the acclaimed occult Civil War thriller Andersonville from Random House, the Judeocentric Lovecraftian weird western Merkabah Rider series, and the dark Arthurian fantasy The Knight with Two Swords (Ragnarok Publications). His fiction has appeared in Dread Shadows in Paradise, World War Cthulhu, Star Wars Insider Magazine, and dozens of other places. Born in Indiana, educated in Chicago, he now lives in the Los Angeles area with his family and a pair of felines.
 

Christine Morgan

Christine Morgan recently relocated from the Seattle area to the Portland area, beginning a new, more-social phase of her life among the local horror/bizarro weirdo creative community. They like how she brings baked goods to readings and events. In addition to her several books and dozens of short stories in print, she's a regular contributor to The Horror Fiction Review, the editor and publisher of the Fossil Lake Anthologies, and dabbles in many various other writing-related projects. Her other interests include history, mythology, cooking shows, crafts, superheroes, gaming, and spoiling her four cats as she trains toward eventual crazy-cat-lady status. 
 

Scott R. Jones

Scott R. Jones’ fiction and poetry has appeared in Broken City Mag, Cthulhu Haiku 2, Cthulhu Fhtagn! (Word Horde), and Australia's Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, among others. His story, Turbulence, was awarded an Honourable Mention in Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. He is also the author of a non-fiction work, When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R'lyehian Spirituality (Martian Migraine Press), and has edited three anthologies for that press, Conqueror Womb: Lusty Tales of Shub-Niggurath, Resonator: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond, and Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia with his wife and two frighteningly intelligent spawn.
 

Jeffrey Thomas

Jeffrey Thomas is an American author of fantastical fiction, the creator of the acclaimed milieu Punktown. Books in the Punktown universe include the short story collections Punktown, Voices From Punktown, Punktown: Shades of Grey (with his brother, Scott Thomas), and Ghosts of Punktown. Novels in that setting include Deadstock, Blue War, Monstrocity, Health Agent, Everybody Scream!, and Red Cells. Thomas's other short story collections include Worship The Night, Thirteen Specimens, Nocturnal Emissions, Unholy Dimensions, Doomsdays, Terror Incognita, Aaaiiieee!!!, Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood, and Encounters With Enoch Coffin (with W. H. Pugmire). His other novels include Letters From Hades, The Fall of Hades, Beautiful Hell, Boneland, Subject 11, Beyond the Door, Thought Forms, Blood Society, Lost In Darkness, The Sea of Flesh and Ash (with Scott Thomas), and A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers. His short stories have been reprinted in DAW’s The Year’s Best Horror Stories, St. Martin Press’ The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and Undertow Publications’ Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and he has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker and John W. Campbell awards. Thomas lives in Massachusetts.

Don Webb

Don Webb teaches high school, has shot fireworks professionally, and is an expert on the Greek Magical papyrus.  He has had one rock-n-roll song recorded, designed games, and has two cats than are smarter than he is.

Scott T. Goudsward 

Scott T. Goudsward is a New England based writer, tethered to a cubicle during the day.  At night he listens to the voices in his head and writes them down.  Scott has been writing seriously since 1992 and in that time, written two novels (Trailer Trash and Fountain of the Dead.) Several non-fiction books with his brother David, including Horror Guide to Massachusetts and Horror Guide to Florida.  He has also edited or co-edited the anthologies, Traps, Once Upon an Apocalypse and Wicked Tales.  Scott's short fiction has appeared in Wicked Seasons, Atomic Age Cthulhu and Snowbound with Zombies.  Scott is one of the coordinators of the New England Horror Writers and belongs to two writers groups.  He working on a new novel, new non-fic book and new anthologies.

Tim Curran 

Tim Curran is the author of the novels Skin Medicine, Hive, Dead Sea, Resurrection, Hag Night, Skull Moon, The Devil Next Door, Doll Face, Afterburn, House of Skin, and Biohazard. His short stories have been collected in Bone Marrow Stew and Zombie Pulp. His novellas include The Underdwelling, The Corpse King, Puppet Graveyard, Worm, and Blackout. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as City Slab, Flesh&Blood, Book of Dark Wisdom, and Inhuman, as well as anthologies such as Shadows Over Main Street, Eulogies III, and October Dreams II. His fiction has been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian. 

Stephen Mark Rainey

Stephen Mark Rainey is author of the novels Balak, The Lebo Coven, Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark (with Elizabeth Massie), The Nightmare Frontier, Blue Devil Island, and The Monarchs; over 100 published works of short fiction; five short-fiction collections; and several audio dramas for Big Finish Productions based on the ABC-TV series Dark Shadows, featuring members of the original TV series cast. For ten years, he edited the award-winning Deathrealm magazine and has edited anthologies for Chaosium, Arkham House, and Delirium Books. Mark is an avid geocacher, which oftentimes leads him to discover creepy places — and people — that wind up in his horror stories. He lives in Greensboro, NC with two precocious house cats, one of which owns a home decorating business. 

Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell is described by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. Among his novels are The Face That Must Die, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, The Count of Eleven, Silent Children, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Overnight, Secret Story, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear, Creatures of the Pool, The Seven Days of Cain, Ghosts Know, The Kind Folk, Think Yourself Lucky and Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach. He is presently working on a trilogy, The Three Births of Daoloth. Needing Ghosts, The Last Revelation of Gla’aki, The Pretence and The Booking are novellas. His collections include Waking Nightmares, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead, Just Behind You and Holes for Faces, and his non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably. His regular columns appear in Dead Reckonings and Video Watchdog. Ramsey Campbell lives on Merseyside with his wife Jenny. His pleasures include classical music, good food and wine, and whatever’s in that pipe. 
 

Nick Mamatas

Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including The Last Weekend and Lovecraftian murder mystery I Am Providence. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, on Tor.com, in the anthologies Future Lovecraft and Lovecraft Unbound, and in many other venues. During the day, he edits books for VIZ Media, including the Haikasoru imprint of Japanese science fiction in translation. His most recent anthology is Hanzai Japan, co-edited with Masumi Washington.
 

John Goodrich

John Goodrich has put a lot of effort into his dilettantism. He has dabbled in archery, fencing, and falconry, lived in such diverse locations as New Mexico, the San Francisco Bay Area, and New England, and had more jobs than anyone really should. His work may be found in Steampunk Cthulhu, Cthulhu’s Dark Cults, Undead & Unbound, Dark Rites of Cthulhu, and MONSTER! Magazine. Two of his novels, I Do Terrible Things and Hag have appeared as limited editions from Thunderstorm Press. Visit his blog of kaiju and swamp men fandom at flawediamonds.blogspot.com.
 

Robert M. Price

Robert M. Price, a fan of H.P. Lovecraft since the Lancer paperback collections of 1967 appeared, began writing articles on HPL and the Cthulhu Mythos in 1980. His celebrated semi-pro zine Crypt of Cthulhu began as a quarterly fanzine for the Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association in 1981 and made it to 109 issues. Contributors included rising stars of Lovecraft scholarship S.T. Joshi, Donald R. Burleson, Peter H. Cannon, and Will Murray, as well as renowned Cthulhu Mythos writers such as Brian Lumley, Lin Carter, Ramsey Campbell, Colin Wilson, Gary Myers, and John Glasby. In 1990 Price began editing Mythos fiction anthologies for Fedogan & Bremer, including Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos, The New Lovecraft Circle, Acolytes of Cthulhu, and Worlds of Cthulhu. He has compiled a great number of Mythos anthologies for Chaosium, Inc., including The Hastur Cycle and The Azathoth Cycle, Anthologies for other publishers include the Arkham House Robert Bloch collection Flowers from the Moon. His own fiction has been collected in Blasphemies and Revelations from Mythos Books. His monograph Lin Carter: A Look behind his Imaginary Worlds is now quite rare. Price has continued the adventures of Carter’s Sword-&-Sorcery hero Thongor of Lemuria, as well as those of Carter’s occult detective Anton Zarnack.
 

W. H. Pugmire

Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire has been writing Lovecraftian weird fiction since the early 1970s, first for the small press and then for commercial anthologies. Wilum's latest books include Monstrous Aftermath (Hippocampus Press) and (in collaboration with David Barker) In the Gulfs of Dreams. With David he has written a short novel entirely set in Lovecraft's dreamland, which has just found a publisher. Wilum dreams in Seattle.
 

Thana Niveau

Thana Niveau is a horror and science fiction writer. Originally from the States, she now lives in the UK, in a Victorian seaside town between Bristol and Wales. She is a Halloween bride and she shares her life with fellow writer John Llewellyn Probert, in a gothic library filled with arcane books and curiosities. She has twice been nominated for the British Fantasy award – for her debut collection From Hell to Eternity and her story “Death Walks En Pointe.” Her work has been reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (volumes 22 - 25) and Best British Horror. Other stories appear in Whispers in the Dark; Interzone; Black Static; Marked to Die: a tribute to Mark Samuels; PostScripts; Zombie Apocalypse: Endgame; Steampunk Cthulhu; Terror Tales of Cornwall; Terror Tales of Wales; Horror Uncut; Exotic Gothic 5; The Black Book of Horror (volumes 7 - 11); The Burning Circus; Love, Lust & Zombies; Sword & Mythos; Sorcery and Sanctity: A Homage to Arthur Machen; Demons and Devilry; and Magic: an Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane.
 

Orrin Grey

Orrin Grey is a writer, editor, amateur film scholar, and monster expert who was born on the night before Halloween. His stories of ghosts, monsters, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters have appeared in dozens of anthologies, including The Best Horror of the Year, and been collected in Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings and Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts. He played way too many video games when he was younger, and it has probably had an irreversible affect on him. 
 

Tom Lynch

Tom Lynch is thrilled to join the rest of this dark brotherhood in tribute to Ramsey Campbell, the living legend. Tom is a longtime devotee of the art of the fine frightening tale, and is descended from family that enjoys a good nightmare: is it any wonder he focuses on the weird and dark? Tom has published fiction in Horror for the Holidays, issues 21, 30, and 35 of The Lovecraft eZine, Tales of the Talisman volume 8/issue 4, Undead and Unbound, Eldritch Chrome, Atomic Age Cthulhu: Terrifying Tales of the Mythos Menace, A Mythos Grimmly, Dark Rites of Cthulhu and more. He will be appearing in several more upcoming anthologies, but the ink is not yet dry enough to share details. By day, Tom is a middle school teacher, working to expand young minds. He spends what little "spare" time he has hunched over his keyboard...WRITING.
 

Josh Reynolds

Josh Reynolds is a writer, occasional editor and semi-professional monster movie enthusiast. He has been a professional author since 2007, and has had over twenty novels published in that time, as well as a wealth of shorter fiction pieces, including short stories, novellas and the occasional audio script. 
 

Lee Clark Zumpe

Lee Clark Zumpe, a Florida native, lives in the Tampa Bay area and spends most of his time writing. By day, he is an award-winning entertainment columnist and reviewer with Tampa Bay Newspapers. At night, he writes Lovecraftian horror, dark fantasy and science fiction. He has penned dozens of short stories and hundreds of poems. His work has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. His most recent appearances include short stories in Black Chaos: Tales of the Zombie (Big Pulp), Vignettes from the End of the World (Apokrupha), Steampunk Cthulhu (Chaosium) and World War Cthulhu (Dark Regions Press). Lee is also co-author, with David Lee Summers, of the book Blood Sampler, a collection of vampire flash fiction currently in its second printing from Alban Lake Publishing. Feed Me Wicked Things, a collection of Lee’s poetry, also can be purchase through Alban Lake. 

John Langan

John Langan is the author of two novels, The Fisherman (Word Horde 2016) and House of Windows (Night Shade 2009).  His collections include Sefira and Other Betrayals (Hippocampus 2016) and The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies (Hippocampus 2013).  With Paul