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D. L. Russell is ...an African American writer from the state of Indiana. Some of his previously published works are "Raymond Doesn't Remember" and "Dreams Still On You," both of which appear in the Eternal Press Anthology Sexy Paranormal Bedtime Stories. He's also the Editor of Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine. To learn more about D. L. Russell, visit his blog here...

Henry P. Gravelle is... the creator of the ‘Buddy Sands Cases’, Ten Wide, The Sketcher and The Closet of Lucy Pang, where the adventures of medically retired Boston Police detective, Kevin “Buddy” Sands bring him into the world of criminals and creatures.

He has also written The Fort Providence Watch and The Banshee, both novellas receiving Certificates of Merit from Writers Digest Magazine, and two short story collections, Ollie-Ollie Oxen Free and Epitaph.

His stories have appeared in numerous Ezines and print magazines including Camp Horror, Hadrosaur Tales, Crossroads Magic, Distant Worlds, Whispering Spirits, Wild Child Publishing, Bewildering Stories, Lost Souls, Demon Minds and Strange, Weird and Wonderful.

Henry attended Northeastern University and resides in the Boston area. visit http://www.henrygravelle.com

R. Scott McCoy was ...born in the wilds of Alaska and raised in Minnesota, where he currently lives with his wife, two daughters and three dogs. His work has been accepted in Blazing Adventures Magazine, Anathema, Bewildering Stories, Shroud Magazine, Shroud Publications Abominations Anthology and in the Help Anthologyfor Preditors & Editors. Scott is the Publisher of Necrotic Tissue, a horror ezine and is an Affiliate Member of the HWA.

You can get in tough with Scott via his my space page www.myspace.com/rscottmccoy

Please check out Necrotic Tissue at www.necrotictissue.com and on my space @ www.myspace.com/necrotictissuemag

C. L. Rossman: As for a bio...hmmm--I've been a professional writer ever since graduating Wayne State University in Detroit MI, with a major in journalism. I've been reporter, columnist and editor for a number of Michigan dailies and weeklies, but just got started writing fiction in the 1990's. The books came out first, the short stories were written (all in one gasp) in the winter of 2004-05. They've slowed down a little since I've been putting them on the market. I find the near wilderness and seclusion of northern Michigan a great place to write. (Well, okay, it's basically farmland and not all that wild, but you get to see a lot of "critters" you'd never see in suburbia.) My other published stories have in "The Treestand " in Aiofe's Kiss, "Between the Rows" in Kid Visions, "The Old Hunter" which won a 3rd place prize in an online competition, and now, coming out this year, " Rough Company" in Golden Visions, and "Vision Quest" in SW and W, with another, "Milk-toothed," set for next April in SF Afterburn.

Anyone looking for my books can go to amazon.com or Barnes & Noble and look up C. L. Rossman, or "Renegade the Hunter," and "Renegade the Warrior," my sci-fi books.

Natalie L. Sin was...born and raised in the Northeast, though recent events have whisked her off to the mid-west. When not writing horror stories, she can be found playing pool (badly) on the Wii and swearing in Cantonese. For more info on Natalie, visit her myspace page at www.myspace.com/sinauthor

Joel Arnold... lives in Savage, MN with his wife, two kids and a dog. His writing has appeared in over five-dozen publications, including WEIRD TALES, GOTHIC.NET, CHIZINE and AMERICAN ROAD. He makes a mean coffee cake, and would love to hear from you at joelarnold@mchsi.com

Matthew Sideman ... is a former English Major living in Chicago, Illinois. Like all English Majors he has the job that he deserves, office temp. He has temped various jobs from working collections in a hospital to filing the kinky card file in a phone sex parlor. He has had journalism published in The Chicago Reader and Fiction in the journals Bust Down The Door And Eat All The Chickens and Dark Reveries.

Mark Lee Pearson...is a Brit living with his wife and two little monsters in Japan. He teaches English during the day and tells tall tales at night. His stories have appeared at Liars' League, Eternal Press, Beyond Centauri, Necrology and are forthcoming at AlienSkin, Monkeybicycle, Neverlands and Otherwheres Anthology from Susurrus Press, and Space and Time Magazine. Visit his blog at http://markleepearson.blogspot.com/

Steve Lilly: My Minds Eye is what I like to call what I do. It sums up how I approach my artwork the most because I only create things how I see them! By that I mean in the way I see them. Sometimes I tend to look at life very different from most.

In 2001 I decided after 4 years of web design already that I would seek the degree. So I signed up @ ITT Tech. It was the first year of their Multimedia program in which I completed the 2 year Associates degree. I’ve been a Multimedia artist for about 11 years now and dabble in 3D Creation, Photography, Video, and of course Photoshop!!! I’ve done freelance stuff from Tattoo shops to Sports teams. I’m a Navy Vet (1^st Gulf War) as an Aviation Electrician. I worked on various aircraft at Naval Air Station. Electronics seems to be what I was born to be involved with so Multimedia was a natural choice. I was born and raised in the Hoosier state and in all my travels I’d say is about as good as it gets. You can catch me @ www.mmeye.com or www.myspace.com/mmeye

Krista M. Gonsalves... was born and raised in Washington state. As a little girl I discovered that I had the talent of drawing. Growing up I took art classes both in school and outside of school. My talent grew into being able to paint. Even though I loved drawing and painting, I never pursued it as a career. My passion was developing a deeper relationship with God. Her MySpace page is myspace.com/angel_tears3

Drew Arrants is... a retired psychiatrist and military surgeon. During his 21 years as an Air Force officer, he was stationed in Europs, Asia, and the Middle East, and became fluent in two foreign languages. He is currently living on the outskirts of Phoenix, AZ, where he occasionally writes short stories. His fictional works have been published in genre magazines and anthology collections in the UK and US, including Dark Angel Rising, Futures, Drabblecast, Champagne Shivers, Forgotten Worlds, Ray Gun Revival, and Barren Worlds.

Stephanie Bedwell-Grime is... the author of nine published novels and over sixty short stories, novelettes and novellas. Stephanie's website is www.feralmartian.com

Savannah Schroll Guz... holds...holds a Master's Degree from the University of Pittsburgh. A decade ago, she was a Fulbright Scholar and worked as a correspondence translator for Bavaria's Prince von Hohenzollern. Her reviews and cultural criticism have appeared in Library Journal, Sculpture,The European Journal of Cultural Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Popmatters, Pittsburgh City Paper, and on author Brad Listi's blog site, www.thenervousbreakdown.com. An adjunct English instructor at West Virginia Northern in Wheeling, Savannah is author of the short story collection, The Famous & The Anonymous (Better Non Sequitur, 2004) and editor of the theme-based fiction anthology, Consumed: Women on Excess (So New Media, 2005). She has been nominated for a Pushcart and a Storysouth Million Writers Award. A new collection of fiction, American Soma, will be released by Oregon-based So New Publishing in 2009. She, her husband Michael, and their two dogs travel between West Virginia and Pittsburgh. Find her haunting a corner of the web at www.savannahschrollguz.com.

Todd Robinson... is the creator and Chief Editor of the multi-award winning crime fiction website THUGLIT.COM His short fiction has appeared in Plots With Guns, Beat To A Pulp, Out of the Gutter, Pulp Pusher, Demolition Magazine and Danger City. His writing has been nominated for a Derringer Award, short-listed for Best American Mystery Stories, and selected for Writers Digest's Year's Best Writing 2003. His non-fiction editorials have appeared in Crimespree Magazine. He is also the editor of the upcoming crime fiction anthologies Thuglit presents: Hardcore Hardboiled (2008 Kensington Books) and Thuglit presents: Sex, Thugs and Rock & Roll (2009 Kensington Books)

Kathy Ludanyi is... freelance writer and insurance company employee from southwestern Ontario. I love travelling and anything to do with the outdoors. Previous writing credits include numerous articles in Business Trends Magazine (Sarnia Ontario), a short story in the Sunshine Press (Litchfield IL), a travel article in the e-magazine "Transitions Abroad", and a self-published children's Christmas book, "Tara's Walk" (1,000 copies sold to date).

Michael Drummond... was born in San Diego, CA. In 30 years of life, has had exactly 30 different addresses, including the Southwest, the Northwest, the Northeast, the Southeast, and the Midwest. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 2004 in Chemistry, so naturally he has been working hard on short stories recently. Some of his other works have appeared in publications such as Spaceports and Spidersilk, Semaphore, and Sorcerous Signals -- apparently, the letter "S" is one of Mike's best friends. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife Christina and his cat Buckeye.

Sharon Black... was born in Hastings, Nebraska where she lived until four years old and moved with her parents to Smith Center, Kansas. While growing up, art and books were fascinating as well as theatre. These interests carried over into high school and into college. After graduating from Emporia State University in 1978, she moved to Wichita, Kansas and back to Smith Center.

She began writing and won fourth place in a local poetry contest. She began writing human interest stories for the Hastings Tribune while employed in the grocery business. Four summers were spent acting in community plays. She played the lead actress in George Washington Slept Here.

Eldritch Tales accepted her first short story, Deeply Rooted, but the magazine folded, and she sold it to Hadrosaur Tales. She depended on Writer’s Digest Magazine for markets. After the internet was installed in the public library, did she have access to writer’s markets such was Ralan.com. She wrote a novel, Quarry Baby, and it was accepted on a website for a short time. Several poems and four short stories later, Sharon wrote for the Smith County Pioneer for a short time. She wrote a screenplay about the story of the song, Home on the Range.

In 2008, a dream came true when she won second place in the state’s largest writing competition sponsored by Winfield Arts and Humanities for her story, The Little Tornado. She attended the reading supper for winners. She hopes to win first place in 2009.

In November of 2008, she partnered with D.L. Russell in the ezine Strange, Weird, and Wonderful.

Jennifer Alldredge... lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, a recent transplant from Franklin, TN. She is happily married to Greg and has two beautiful daughters Kristen (21) and Kt (18), both in college. Chief among her many interests are her pets, travel, camping, music, reading, church, and, of course, writing. Jennifer works for the Girl Scouts and is also stage manager for several local acting companies. She also acts, does storytelling, and volunteers for Destination ImagiNation, an international creative problem solving organization.

A member of KWG and the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, she has sold several short stories locally. She has written a non-fiction work Japan 1945--Images from the Trunk (published 1995) and is working on her first novel.

Sarah Hughes... lives with her partner in , home of the famous Yorkshire pudding and a group of sisters called Bronte. Her nappy-wearing dribbling years were mostly spent asleep, eating, and in a pram, in which, apparently, she hated to go shopping. Leaving school with few qualifications, Sarah did the self-respecting thing and joined a local rock band. Dabbling in the music biz through the late eighties and early nineties she went through various ridiculous reincarnations but she's hopeful all photographic evidence from this period has since been destroyed. Sarah used the skills she inherited from song writing to make the transition into story writing.

She's written three crime-based thrillers, a file of short stories and a time travelling novel. She's currently working on a comedy sci-fi novel entitled Hotel Carousel and is hoping to see it published some time this century. Her work has appeared in Best Magazine (UK), Twisted Tongue, Fiction, Aphelion, Gold Dust and Dark Reveries e-zine. She was also a winner in the Secret Attic October 07 and April 08 Short Story Competitions and recently short-listed for the Dark Tales Summer 08 Short Story Contest.

For further information, visit her website: www.shhughes.com

David Lee Summers is an author, editor and astronomer living somewhere between the western and final frontiers in Southern New Mexico. He edited the anthology Space Pirates for Flying Pen Press. He is the author of five novels: The Pirates of Sufiro, Children of the Old Stars, Heirs of the New Earth, Vampires of the Scarlet Order, and The Solar Sea. David is also co-author, with Lee Clark Zumpe, of the book, Blood Sampler, from Sam's Dot Publishing. His short fiction has appeared in such magazines as Realms of Fantasy, The Vampire's Crypt, Aoife's Kiss, The Fifth Di..., The Martian Wave, and Science Fiction Trails. He edits the science fiction and fantasy magazine, Tales of the Talisman and serves as a consultant for El Paso Community College's literary magazine, Chrysalis. In addition to his work in the written word, David is part of Kitt Peak National Observatory’s scientific support staff. Learn more about David at www.davidleesummers.com.

His book, The Solar Sea – ISBN 1-897370-83-0 – is scheduled for publication in 2009 by LBF Books. This science fiction novel tells the story of Thomas Quinn, a young man who builds a solar sail spacecraft to voyage to Saturn’s moon, Titan, where he has discovered mysterious particles that could prove to be a new energy source. The book will be available at LBFbooks.com, Amazon.com and wherever fine books are sold. For more information about the novel, visit TheSolarSea.com.

Amber Chaffee... lives in upstate NY. She's a lover of animals, especially strays. With the first publication of her work she supplied the haunting image for the short story, Mr. Masonic by Sean Farley, which appeared in the Winter '09 Issue of Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine. You can view all of her work at http://fisken-fetus.deviantart.com/ , read about her boring life on http://fisken-fetus.livejournal.com/ , and befriend her on http://www.myspace.com/deadhamsters .

T.J. Armstead... has been a jack of all trades. He not only illustrates and writes short stories but he has been a teacher for many years in elementary education, runs his graphic design business called KnghtGraphix and still gets a decent 8 hours of sleep. His favorite movies are Blade 2 and James Bond and his favorite TV shows are Doctor Who and the first season of the Twilight Zone. He sees 2009 to be a new year of hope and joy since Obama got elected but can't wait for the Wolverine movie to come out. See his art and other works on MySpace.com/KnghtGraphix

Mark Rigney... is the author of Deaf Side Story: Deaf Sharks, Hearing Jets and a Classic American Musical (Gallaudet University Press, 2003). His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears in venues such as The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, All Hallows, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and anthologies such as Traps and Shadow Regions. His full-length plays have won national contests and have been performed (as the song says) from sea to shining sea. Recent stage work includes Nightjars (world premiere at the 2009 Y.E.S. Festival) and “Gillian Amber Copes With Miracles” at the Audacity Theatre Lab (Austin, TX). Acts of God, centering on a deadly tornado strike, is published by Playscripts, Inc., and has multiple productions scheduled across the U.S. and Canada for the coming year. When not writing, Mark is proud to be an at-home father. His website, with links to many of his original stories, is www.markrigney.net.

Jennifer Sallee... is a teacher in high school mathematics. She has grown up in the Dallas metroplex in Texas, and ventured out as far as College Station and a few random trips out of state, only to come back home. Though she enjoys dealing with the kids during the day and teaching them lots of fun ways to work problems, she is an aspiring writer in her spare time along with being an avid reader and working with crafts. Dreams in a Field is her first work to be published, right here at Strange, Weird and Wonderful!

Jamey Stegmaier... has been writing since he penned a well-received series of picture books about impractical rocket ships at age 4. Since college, he has written numerous short stories, one novella, and the first halves of two novels (which, unfortunately, would make for a confusing read if he were to combine the two). He writes a daily humor blog, jameystegmaier.com. Jamey lives in St. Louis with his cat, Biddy, and his Kindle. "Lambs for the Slaughter" is Jamey's publishing debut.

Ted McAuley... is a twenty-eight-year-old writer living in Oregon. He has written three novels, The Changing, The Secret of Bethlamire and The Music Underneath. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including Dark Recesses Press, SNM Horror Magazine, The Lightning Journal, Descending Darkness, Twisted Dreams Magazine and Crimson Screams, a short story anthology. In addition to his love for writing and reading fiction, Ted is a film music enthusiast with well over four hundred soundtracks on CD. Ted can be reached at tedmcauley@hotmail.com.

Camille Alexa... lives in an Edwardian home painted a hundred shades of white. Her work appears in ChiZine, Fantasy Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Escape Pod, and a variety of anthologies. A collection of her speculative fiction and poetry, Push of the Sky, is forthcoming from Hadley Rille Books. More information and an updated bibliography at camillealexa.wordpress.com.

Dustin Cox... lives and works in Northern Arizona with his wife, two children, turtle and bunny. So far his work has only been featured here at “StrangeWeirdandWonderful” and “Free Throw” magazine. When not scribbling, he enjoys watching excessive amounts of T.V. and performing his true calling as a master of the custodial arts. To see more of his work you can visit his online portfolio http://www.elchupa.net/

Jeremy Martinson is... a bit like a rock star… Except he has no fame, fortune, groupies, and well… even a band! Also known as “Ponie” in certain circles Jeremy continues to have a dream, (or a vision if you will), of pursuing art as a career. However dark forces, so dark that they can’t even be seen, tend to ground him in this world commonly known as reality. Attending Fort Hays State University, Jeremy studied Art and Art Education but stumbled into a medical career. Still living in the waste lands of Kansas he works nights in a sleepcenter as a LPN/RPSGT. Also he currently serves as Mayor of Gorham, KS.

“I don’t think your dreams ever really die, they just become nagging reminders of what you should be doing with your life.” – Jeremy Martinson

www.jeremymartinson.com
www.myspace.com/poniesplace

Jeffery Scott Sims... was born in Oxford, Alabama, moved a lot as a youth, traveled a lot as an adult. I have worked as an archeologist on two continents, delved for Stone Age relics in Europe, explored jungle-shrouded ruins in Mexico... yet I choose to identify myself as an author.

Early on I was a great reader and writer; scarcely was I past the Dick and Jane phase than I fastened on science fiction, which remained a staple until adulthood. During the third grade I read all of the classic novels of H.G. Wells-- which to this day strike me as the epitome of that form-- shortly began writing my own little tales for the amusement of friends. As an adolescent I read a story, not heeding the author then, which began the permanent shift in my tastes. A year or two later I read a collection of tales by H.P. Lovecraft, soon discovered that mesmerizing story to be "The Shadow Out of Time". I was hooked, and have ever been since a fan of the double-dyed weird. In my teens I read half a dozen times The Lord of the Rings, found another outlet for imagination in pure fantasy. I began writing stories regularly, for the first time seriously intending to publish commercially

For an aggravatingly long span intentions were all. Market factors; my own amateurishness of technique; less than professional salesmanship; where the explanation for those lean days? All I know is that suddenly, without clear warning, I started to sell, and not only my latest productions, either. There should be a lesson in that. I never gave up, which must count for something. I am currently building up a satisfying body of genre work.

My literary gods, those I acknowledge as the masters, are Lovecraft (still, and always), Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, M.R. James, and E.R. Eddison. Each provides me with the very best of what I crave from great stories of their kind. I measure others, and myself, against them.

Save for a few forays into SF, and the occasional light touch, most of my writings can be described as weird horror and dark fantasy. I write of beasties creeping in the night, or beyond the rim of the universe; I write of fabulous worlds and remote eras of my own invention. I have sought, my very best, to learn from the masters without imitating them. The story I pen is meant to be mine, not a copy of another's.

I prefer to read and write what I call clean stories, by which I mean those which present a plot, and the characters to drive it, and having done that get going and keep going unto the last word. Seldom do I clutter a work with back story-- endless chatter about personal irrelevancies or private "issues"-- unless the plot absolutely demands it, and even then I am wary of topical excess which may seem clever at the time, pitiful later on. I am first and foremost a story teller, and one who wants his stories to live beyond the fleeting present.

Many of my tales are one-off creations, written and done with, yet scarcely planning to do so I have fashioned characters who came to mean so much that they began to appear again and again. So I have written many a yarn of the obsessive researcher Professor Anton Vorchek, he of the keen mind and hazy credentials, constantly delving into morbid mysteries than no one else can fathom, often accompanied by his loyal but querulous young assistant Theresa Delaney. So too I have written of the cold-minded, somber sorcerer of yesteryear Jacob Bleek, a man of few words but eager desire for ultimate wisdom and power, the goal of a quest for which he wanders the world and beyond, never (mercifully) achieving, but always finding marvelous adventure. Those characters will appear again, along with the numerous others who pass briefly by to face unusual perils or suffer unimaginable fates.

It is a pleasure to imagine the unimaginable. I love such tales because they connote the broadest, most powerful, most scintillating exercise of the mind. I look forward to reading many more of them, and to writing more.

Therese Arkenberg is... a student living in Wisconsin. When she isn't writing, she can
be found biking the trails in her area, reading a book from the library (where
she also works), or futily trying to organize her desk and her collection of
stuffed animals. She elaborates on both on her blog at http://mumbling-sage.livejournal.com/. Her work has been published in Byzarium ezine, Labyrinth Inhabitant, and Kaleidotrope.

Geoff W. Cole… graduated from Simon Fraser University's Writers Studio in 2007, and since then his work has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Apex Magazine, where he placed second in the Annual Halloween Short Story contest, The Ubyssey, and emerge2007. Geoff has degrees in biology and engineering, and lives with his wonderful fiancé in Vancouver, British Columbia. You can visit Geoff at www.geoffreywcole.com

Christine Kisthardt... grew up in Geneva, IL before graduating from Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, WI and Northwestern University (Evanston), where she received her degree in Radio, TV, Film. She was treated successfully for cancer at age 4. Consequent trips to NYC for medical checkups opened her eyes to travel, art, opera and theatre – which have remained her lifelong passions. When not serving as managing editor of an international scientific research journal, she studies ballet and French, and enjoys writing fiction. She lives in Tucson, AZ with her husband. She is still active in the lives of her college-aged children, a daughter and a son.

Teel James Glenn… is a native of Brooklyn though he’s traveled the world for thirty years as a Stuntman/ Fight choreographer/ Swordmaster, Jouster, Book Illustrator, Storyteller, Bodyguard and Actor. He was head instructor at the Hollywood Stunts professional stunt training center in New York and teaches stage sword privately. He is a veteran of forty-seven renaissance faires, scores of films (such as Lord of the G-Strings and Jersey Justice) and hundreds of T.V. appearances. Currently he stars as the masked cage fighter Vega (with a Castilian accent) in the international web series Street Fighter: the Later Years and in the forth coming T.V. sequel Street Fighter: Reunion and plays the claymore wielding Scottish pirate Hamish(with a Galsgow (sic) accent) in the forthcoming pirate feature film The High Seas. At home he speaks pure gibberish.

His greatest achievement however, is his awesome daughter Aislin Rose who is well spoken indeed.

He has had stories and articles printed in scores of magazines from Mad to Black Belt and Fantasy Tales and a number of books published: four in the Altiva fantasy saga: Tales of a Warrior Priest (an anthology), and Death at Dragonthroat, The Daemonhold Curse and Sister Warrior are available from ePress-Onlne as well as the mysteries A Hex of Shadows, Knight Errant :Death and Life at the Faire , and the science fiction Vision Quest Factor. He also has the non fiction book on the craft Them’s Fightin’ Words: A Writers Guide to Writing Fight Scenes from the same publisher.

Whiskey Creek Press is The Exceptionals Science Fiction Adventure series :#1 The Measure of a Man and #2 Across the Wasteland.

Regina Glei was born in Germany but nourished a fascination for the Far East ever since she was a little girl. She graduated in Japanese Studies
and lives and works now in Japan for over eight years already. Her other fascination is with words and although she does speak and read/write
Japanese, she still prefers to write in English. Living far away from her home country for so long, has surely influenced her writing too; it’s
speculative and sometimes weird...

Her short fiction has been/or is scheduled to be published by"Anthro", "Alternative Coordinates", "Twisted Tongue Magazine", "Arkham
Tales" and has been shortlisted by "Allegory Zine". Visit her web page at
http://www.juka-productions.com

Timothy W. Long has been writing tales and stories since he could hold a crayon. He has also read enough books to choke a land fill. A couple of years ago he decided to turn his hand to professional writing and attended classes at the prestigious Gotham Writers Workshop. Tim is the author of the horror novel Among the Living. He is also published on Alienskin and Fantastic horror. He has sold stories to almost a dozen horror anthologies, the most recent of which are Eric S. Brown's War Wolves and Rhiannon Frater's From the Witches Cauldron. His popular, free serial novel about a man stuck on a deserted island with only a female zombie can be read at zombie-wilson.blogspot.com.

Sharon lives in the small rural town of Erwin, Tennessee with her husband and children. Several of her short horror stories and dark poems have been published in various media including online & print magazines and several anthologies. She is currently working on her second novel of supernatural horror. Visit Inkspot, the author's website for more news and updates.

After a twenty year period of procrastination Deborah Walker has started to write speculative fiction and poetry. She lives in London with her two lovely, yet distracting young children. She recently won the MISFITS annual writing competition. She's had recent acceptances from Library of the Living Dead Zombonauts Anthology, A capella Zoo and Dreams and Nightmares.

Abra Staffin Wiebe has... had short stories accepted at publications including Art Times, Dark Krypt Horror Zine, Allegory, and Alienskin Magazine. I maintain Aswiebe's Market List, a resource for science fiction, fantasy, and horror writing markets. I also run the annual Spec the Halls contest for winter-themed fiction.

Bret Tallman lives in New York. His stories have appeared in Aoife's Kiss, Hub, Alienskin, Down in the Cellar and others.

Jeani Rector says… most people go to Disneyland while in Southern California, but she went to the Fangoria Weekend of Horror there instead. She grew up watching the Bob Wilkins Creature Feature on television and lived in a house that had the walls covered with framed Universal Monsters posters. It is all in good fun and actually, most people who know Jeani personally are of the opinion that she is a very normal person. She just writes abnormal stories. Doesn’t everybody? Her stories are featured in magazines such as Horrormasters, Morbid Outlook, Lost Souls, Horror in Words, Black Petals, Hackwriters, Bewildering Stories, Aphelion, Ultraverse, Story Mania, Macabre Cadaver, New Voices in Horror, All Destiny, and many others. You can contact Jeani Rector at www.aroundadarkcorner.com.

For nearly 20 years David Burton has... been providing high-quality and creative images for a wide diversity of clients. His paintings and illustrations have appeared as covers and interiors for hardcover and paperback books, magazines, comic books, advertising art, and character design and concept work for movies. He has won numerous awards for his work and is featured in collections around the world. Among his clients have been acclaimed author, Ray Bradbury and actress, Jessica Alba. Aside from art, David produced, directed and written a television commercial, written a script for a short film, worked in special effects, done some light stunt work, has acted in films and is a published poet and author. In the Summer of 2001, Al Williamson made David an Honorary member of the Feagle Gang (the exclusive artist group, not the bank robbers). Formed back in 1952, Al Williamson, along with frequent collaborators, Roy Krenkel, Angelo Torres and Frank Frazetta form while they were working at EC Comics. Web Site: www.davidburtonart.net <http://www.davidburtonart.net/>

Sean Farley...began his work in film at the age of eight with a small role in Sam Raimi's Crimewave (1985). More roles in commercials and theater followed. A few years later, he gave up acting to focus on screenwriting and film criticism.

His second film, 2007's "Surviving The Rush," which he also wrote and co-produced, marked his directorial debut. Sean will be reviewing films for Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine beginning in the Fall '08 Issue. His first short story, "Mr. Masonic," will be published in the Winter '08 Issue.

Sean alternates his time between writing, seeing films with his two best friends, working as a management executive for a movie theatre chain and taking care of his unnaturally large (but adorable) mutant cats, Zeus and Keyser Soze.