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Eric R Lowther—Alley Cat

Eric Lowther is a semi-amateur writer from north eastern Ohio, the land the sun forgot. Currently, he is hoping that either this writing gig takes off or the zombie apocalypse occurs so his accumulated life knowledge can be put to practical use.

Eric writes in character under the name of Aurthur Helms for an alternative-present website called Zombie World News at: www.zombieworldnews.com.

Eric Lowther @ Theaker's Quarterly

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AJ Brown—The Woodshed

A good old boy from the south, AJ Brown dabbles in writing, occasionally producing a gem or two. With a mind that never ceases to come up with ideas, he is constantly jotting thoughts onto scrap pieces of paper or napkins or whatever is handy at the time. He mostly writes horror but has attempted other genres and likes to experiment with writing styles. He is a member of R.J. Cavender's Terrible Twelve at the Horror Library does an interview series called NiNe QuestioNs.

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Chris Morrow—Fear & the Storm

Chris Morrow has had his fiction published in numerous print and online magazines. His horror novella When Darkness Falls will be published by Aspen Mountain Press in the spring. Chris recently finished his first full length novel and is in the process of procuring representation by a literary agent. Also look to purchase his story, When Darkness Falls.

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Trevor Price—Thin Walls

This story is dedicated to the memory of Susan.

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Gerald C Matics—Enthralled

Gerald C Matics has been called a master of horror, but what his wife says in the throes of rage ought not be taken too seriously. By day he is a legal writer, leaving open to question which facet of his writing is the more terrifying. Gerald lives and writes in King of Prussia, PA, with his aforementioned horror fan of a wife, Lisa, and his son, Jack, who is too young to read what he writes. To learn more about Mr. Matics, he invites you to visit him at his website.

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Ralph Robert Moore—Red Boat

Moore's fiction has been published in America, England, Ireland and Australia, and translated into Lithuanian. He has been anthologized in the nineteenth edition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, published by St. Martin's Press, edited by Ellen Datlow; Ten Years of the Best of Sign O' the Times; Darkness Rising; Revelation III; and Read By Dawn (edited by Ramsey Campbell). An interview with Ralph Robert Moore, as well as a bibliography and new story, is in the seventh issue of Midnight Street. His story The Machine of a Religious Man was nominated as Best Story of the Year in the 2006 British Fantasy Society Awards.

Magazines that have featured Moore include Albedo One, Collages and Bricolages, ChiZine, fugue, Lullaby Hearse, Lunatic Chameleon, Midnight Street, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, Redsine, Revelation, ROADWORKS, Sein Und Werden, Sign O' the Times, Songs of Innocence (and Experience), Space and Time, The Los Angeles Times Calendar Magazine, and Thirteen. His novel Father Figure was published in 2003. And he recently completed his first play, Duck Eggs.

   Praise for Father Figure:

"It is easy to see why Father Figure has become an underground classic over the years. It is a dark, extremely disturbing but completely gripping suspense thriller with a strongly erotic subtext...Moore is an extremely talented writer with a gift for pushing the reader's emotional buttons...certainly liable to become a cult classic, and deservedly so."

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Frank Sullivan—Delusions & Definitions

Frank Sullivan began his writing career turning out ad-copy, but picked up fiction because he wanted to be a part of something real. Frank lives and writes near Boston , Ma.

CD Allen—The Rector House

CD Allen is a writer of horror and supernatural thrillers. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he also works for a pharmaceutical company. He divides his time between reading, writing, watching movies and studying anthropology. His stories an interviews (of big name writers) have appeared in Wanderings Magazine as well as the Rainfall Books E'ch Pi El. A reprint of his story, Crawling Terrors From Sho-Beth Mein, can be found in the “best of” collection, Cthulhu's Creatures, also by Rainfall Books. Another 2008 release, Black Box, will also be printing his story, The Portal.

CD is also co-creator and assistant editor of the Dark Distortions anthology and the chief editor of the up-and-coming Frightscripts anthology. 

You can also find out more about him at his website. Or visit his Myspace page.

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Ken Goldman—The Noah Hypothesis

Former teacher Ken Goldman has homes on both the Main Line in Pennsylvania and the South Jersey shore, depending upon the track of the sun. His stories appear in over 465 publications in the U.S. and Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Australia. Anthologies his stories appear in (or will be appearing in) during 2007-2008 are Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths (Graveside Tales), and Potter’s Field 2 (Sam’s Dot Publications). A number of his works can be seen in Tabloid Purposes and upcoming anthology, Class in Session, offerings from Lake Fossil Press. A paperback of his short stories, “You Had Me At Arrgh! : Five Uneasy Pieces by Ken Goldman” has been published by Sam’s Dot Publishing.

Ken has received a number of honorable mentions in best of collections including: for "A Head Full of Pigs" in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection : 1993, for "The Snow Angel" in Datlow and Windling’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection : 1995, for "The Boardwalk Cats" in Datlow and Windling’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Sixteenth Annual Collection; for "Young Girls Are Coming to Ajo" in Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link  & Gavin J. Grant’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Seventeenth Annual Collection (2003), and for "POE 103" in Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Twentieth Annual Collection (2007).

“You Had Me At ARRGH!!” (Sam’s Dot Publishing), the short story paperback containing six of Ken Goldman’s short stories, is among the top ten all-time Best Sellers at The Genre Mall, a major online distributor of small press publications.

Find Ken Goldman's New Book Here...

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Brandy Leah Schwan—Retribution is a Temptress

For information on the gift that is Brandy Leah Schwan please visit the Grim Trixter at her online home . . .

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Lorne Dixon—Gigging the Raw Box

Lorne Dixon lives and writes somewhere off an Exit of Route 78 in residential New Jersey. He grew up on a diet of yellow-spined paperbacks, black and white monster movies, and the thunder lizard backbeat of rock n' roll.

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Kim Despins—Onus

Kim Despins lives and plays in Colorado. She has been writing fiction as long as she can remember. Her work has appeared in +Horror Library+ volume 2, Emerging Voices and a few other anthologies, including Black Sails where she unleashed her inner swashbuckler. Her work also appears alongside some frighteningly talented writers at The Horror Library.

A review by Michelle Lee at www.thefix-online.com, praised her contribution to +Horror Library 2+. “Crushed Neem” by Kim Despins is a fiery ghost story boasting a chilling setting as it pits Sam against his own will. Despins puts a winning lottery ticket in front of Sam, and only a door—and the myriad of specters that haunt his apartment building, keeping him and his neighbors captive in what should be their safe haven—stand between Sam and his million dollars. The story reads effortlessly, its parts blended together like a fine recipe. While it’s neither the darkest nor the most horrific story in this anthology, it is a fine example of horror.

Other work can be seen in “Crushed Neem”, Horror Library, volume 2., “Black Mary’s Curse”, Black Sails anthology, “Banjo” and “The Interview”, Writers Post Journal, “The Door Behind My Door”, Emerging Voices Contributing Writer at The Horror Library.

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Michael Anthony—Night of the Cheddar Moon

Michael Anthony lives in Santa Rosa, California. He works in health care, currently at a drug abuse clinic.

His story Don't Leave, She Said will be appearing Jan. 08 in Desolate Places anthology from Hadley Rille books.

Erik Smetana—Pick

Erik Smetana is stricken with a compulsion to put words on paper. This affliction has led to projects that are at times deemed macabre, occasionally mysterious, sometimes as intriguing and every once in awhile as spooky. His stories have managed to worm their way into otherwise respectable places, some in print, some online, some under pseudonyms. Examples of such publishing atrocities have occurred in Zygote In My Coffee, The Late Late Show, Twisted Dreams, 13 Human Souls, Boston Literary Magazine, Thieves Jargon, and 52nd City to name a few.

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John Logan—Web

John Logan writes horror stories. His stories and occasional movie review or essay can be seen at www.horrorlibrary.net. He lives in Raleigh, NC with a wife, two children and a worthless hound. He can be contacted at jlogan@inbox.com.

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Jeffrey Buford—Caldwell 2222

Jeffrey was born in the small bustling riverboat town of Alton, Illinois on a cold day in hell. Born into a large family, he displayed a creative and often surprising interest in the arts. Other publications include "How to Tame a Werewolf with baked Spaghetti", "The Cemetery of Glass Coffins", and "A Neighborhood of cats."Currently at work on a comic series titled "The 13th Key" and a novel, "Timothy's Walk". Other creative interests include his interest in illustrating and music, specifically the piano. He invites you to take a look at more of his work at Jeffrey's space.

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Rick McQuiston—To Keep Something In

A 40 year-old father of two who loves to read, write, play drums and paint. He manages a condo project and shopping center by day and churn out horror fiction by night. He is increasingly published and recently completed his second book Chills By Candlelight. It is, along with my first book, Many Midnights. I'm also a member of the International Order of Horror Professionals as well as a guest author at Memphis Junior High School. More of my work can be see at my website.

Other of Rick's works can be seen in: Tales From a Moonlit Path (short story and article), Arcane Twilight and From the Aslym (art and prose).

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Petra Miller—Shade

Petra Miller's short work has appeared most recently in Horror Library Volume 2, (April 2007) and Down in the Cellar (September 2007). She was also the Grand Prize Recipient of Writer's Digest World Popular Fiction Contest. Her story, Saving Grace, was printed in the July 2006 issue.

She lives in Arizona with her husband, four children, Freebie the Cat, Tinker the Chihuahua, Jimmy the gecko, Jaime the Mexican Garter snake and Twiggy the Scorpion.

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DC Sowders—A Night Encounter in Confederate Virginia

DC Sowders, who currently calls southern Arizona home, has also spent time in such places as San Francisco, coastal Oregon, and South America–-enjoying work in the fields of electronics, mail delivery and museum administration.

Sowders invites you to take a look at additional offerings, such as "Gregson's Solution", a zombie tale published online in an e-zine named The Lightning Journal (2005) and in the first issue of Proletariat Comics' Horizons magazine (also 2005).

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Tom Miller—How the Smokecarver Crete Cadawaller Saved America

Tom Miller has been a travel guidebook writer, EMT, map editor, marathon runner, and improvisational comedian. When not altering Wikipedia to better agree with his novel, The False Histories, he teaches English at Duquesne University. His work has appeared in Notre Dame Review, the science fiction anthology The New Book of Masks, and the McSweeney's website.

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