Into Painfreak

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

Edward Lee is the author of over 50 horror, fantasy, and sci-fi novels, and dozens of short stories.  He has also had comic scripts published by DC Comics, Verotik Inc., and Cemetery Dance. A great number of his novels have been reprinted in Germany, Poland, Japan, Italy, Romania, Greece, Russia, Spain and other countries. He is a Bram Stoker Award Nominee; his Lovecraftian novel INNSWICH HORROR won the 2010 Vincent Price Award for Best Foreign Book (Austria), his novel WHITE TRASH GOTHIC won the 2018 Splatterpunk Award for Best Extreme Horror Novel, and in 2020 Lee won the J.F. Gonzales Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2009, the movie version of his novella HEADER was released by Synapse Films; several of his novels are currently under option.

 Lee is a U.S. Army veteran and lives in Seminole, Florida.

WRATH JAMES WHITE is a former World Class Heavyweight Kickboxer, a professional Kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts trainer, distance runner, performance artist, and former street brawler, who is now known for creating some of the most disturbing works of fiction in print.

Wrath is the author of such extreme horror classics as THE RESURRECTIONIST (now a major motion picture titled "Come Back To Me") SUCCULENT PREY, and it's sequel PREY DRIVE, YACCUB'S CURSE, 400 DAYS OF OPPRESSION, SACRIFICE, VORACIOUS, TO THE DEATH, THE REAPER, SKINZZ, EVERYONE DIES FAMOUS IN A SMALL TOWN, THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND SINS, HIS PAIN, POPULATION ZERO, IF YOU DIED TOMORROW I WOULD EAT YOUR CORPSE, HARDCORE KELLI, and many others. He is the co-author of TERATOLOGIST co-written with the king of extreme horror, Edward Lee, SOMETHING TERRIBLE co-written with his son Sultan Z. White, ORGY OF SOULS co-written with Maurice Broaddus, HERO and THE KILLINGS both co-written with J.F. Gonzalez, POISONING EROS co-written with Monica J. O'Rourke, MASTER OF PAIN co-written with Kristopher Rufty, and BOY'S NIGHT co-written with Matt Shaw among others.

Wrath lives and works in Austin, TX.

John Everson is a staunch advocate for the culinary joys of the jalapeño and an unabashed fan of 1970s European horror cinema. He is also the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and its sequels Sacrifice and Redemption, as well as a dozen other novels, including the erotic horror tour de force and Bram Stoker Award finalist NightWhere, the haunting thriller Voodoo Heart and his latest giallo homage, The Bloodstained Doll. Other novels include Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds, The Pumpkin Man, Siren, The 13th and the spider-driven Violet Eyes.

Over the past 30 years, his short fiction has appeared in more than 75 magazines and anthologies and received a number of critical accolades, including frequent Honorable Mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthology series. His story "Letting Go" was a Bram Stoker Award finalist in 2007 and "The Pumpkin Man" was included in the anthology All American Horror: The Best of the First Decade of the 21st Century. He has written licensed tie-in stories for The Green Hornet and Kolchak The Night Stalker and novelettes for The Vampire Diaries and Jonathan Maberry's V-Wars universe (Books 1 and 3). V-Wars was turned into a 10-episode NetFlix series in 2019 that included two of Everson's characters, Danika and Mila Dubov.

His short story collections include Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions, Needles & Sins, Vigilantes of Love and Sacrificing Virgins. To catch up on his blog, join his newsletter or get information on his fiction, art and music, visit www.johneverson.com.

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.