Dead & Bloated

Trap is an artist and extreme horror author of many novels and over 175 short stories. His works have won the 2010 Royal Palm Literary Award and racked up 5 Splatterpunk Award nominations.

He is the owner of The Evil Cookie Publishing. As a product of the '80s, he likes his movies bloody and his music heavy.

Trap can be found lurking around Tampa, FL.

GERARD HOUARNER is a retired but still licensed mental health counselor and certified rehabilitation counselor, after 38 years of street clinic and government institutional work, including a stint in a Forensic Psychiatric Center (a real world's "Arkham")

He's had over 300 short stories published since his first publication at 19 in Space and Time, some of which can be found in 10 collections including the latest, Painfreak: Ultimate Edition from The Evil Cookie Publishing. Anthologies include a couple of "Dead Cat" collaborations with the artist Gak and a host of horror's best writers and poets. Novels include the "Max" series and a couple of fantasies including In the Country of Dreaming Caravans.

He's had many valuable writing teachers of the years, but none ever spoke truer words than his first—Joseph Heller at CCNY for a couple of years in the 70's—who read his sf and fantasy stories and told him he could write well enough, but didn't know how he'd make a living writing the kinds of things he liked to write. So it goes...

Website: http://www.cith.org/gerard

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Gerard-Houarner/e/B001KCRFAA

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gerard.houarner

CHRISTINE MORGAN enjoys writing across a variety of genres, as well as bending them, blending them, mashing them up, challenging herself, giving the reader something different, and pushing the limits. Especially when it comes to the weird stuff.

Her recent books have included a return to some Edward Lee style Hell on Earth, with her novel Warlock Infernal (sequel to the Splatterpunk Award winning Lakehouse Infernal) and the novella Damned Lazy (from the case files of Mephistopolis-noir gumshoe Matt Brimstone, P.I.), as well as the collections HorrorSmut, Rip Your Heart Out, and Almost Normal Horror.

She's currently juggling several writing projects, plus trying to keep up on edit-gigs and reviews, all while going through some major family and life upheavals. Quite frankly, it's a miracle she's held onto what little sanity she has left.

At the moment, and for the foreseeable future, she's staying at her dad's remote and rustic hermitage in the high desert of Southern California, trying not to think too hard about how one of the nearest neighboring properties apparently is some sort of "religious destination," whether or not that means creepy cultists, and what to do if it does.

Lucas Milliron's fiction spans a broad spectrum of horror. His stories range from cosmic to kinky horror, varying from mildly spooky to extreme acts of human depravity.

A born and raised native Florida, oldest of three siblings to a loving mother and father. Married to his wife and still residing in South Florida.