Meet the Authors:
Sean Logan - "Sea People"
Sean Logan's stories have appeared in about twenty publications including Pseudopod, Black Ink Horror and the anthologies The Vault of Punk Horror, Hideous Evermore and Vile Things. He lives in Northern California where he works as a marketing writer.
Bill Ward - "Croc Burger"
BILL WARD's fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, including Murky Depths, Every Day Fiction, Rage of the Behemoth, and Dead Souls, and he has also written background material and serial shorts for science fiction and fantasy tabletop game publications. He maintains a blog at www.billwardwriter.com.
Christopher Jacobsmeyer - "In Pieces"
Christopher Jacobsmeyer is a self-styled fantasy author dabbling in the realms of sci-fi and horror. His tolerant wife and headstrong daughters humor him as long as it suits their needs. If that weren't enough, a trio of cats keeps him in check with their whispered designs of conquest at night.
Bradd Parton - "Designated Dier"
An addition to self-publishing his own comic series online and in print--3 issues to date--Bradd Parton's prose work was recently accepted for publication in an upcoming anthology edited by Scott Nicholson entitled Little Shivers.
J. Troy Seate - "Haggerty's Trunk"
Mr. Seate has written everything from humor to the macabre. His short stories appear in several magazines, anthologies and webzines. His two one-author anthologies, Descent into Darkness and From the Depths of Darkness, and his two suspense thrillers, Chosen, and its sequel, Shanghai is Crying are available through amazon.com and most bookstores. Troy lives in Golden, Colorado. Visit him on his website at www.geocities.com/jtroyseate.
Bradd Parton - "The One That Didn't Get Away"
An addition to self-publishing his own comic series online and in print--3 issues to date--Bradd Parton's prose work was recently accepted for publication in an upcoming anthology edited by Scott Nicholson entitled Little Shivers.
Laura Eno - "Mirrors Don't Lie"
Laura Eno (lauraeno.blogspot.com) lives in Florida with her husband. She has written two YA fantasy novel and a paranormal romance but lately feels compelled to write in the dark fantasy/horror genre. Her flash fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Twisted Dreams, The Monsters Next Door, Flashes in the Dark, 10Flash and MicroHorror.
Michael A. Kechula - "Highway 35"
Michael A. Kechula, a retired tech writer, has won first place in eight fiction contests and placed in seven others. His stories have been published by 115 magazines and 32 anthologies in Australia, Canada, England, India, Scotland, and US. He’s authored two books of flash fiction stories: “A Full Deck of Zombies--61 Speculative Fiction Tales” and "The Area 51 Option + 49 Speculative Fiction Tales."
Jessy Marie Roberts - "In The Wind"
Jessy Marie Roberts lives in a "haunted" house in Western Nebraska with her husband and their two dogs, Tucker and Snags. She grew up in Morgan Hill, California. Visit her online at jessymarieroberts.weebly.com.
Jennifer Greylyn - "Consideration"
A writer for most of her life, Jennifer Greylyn has only recently been persuaded by the thoughtful but not very subtle prompting of family and friends that other people might enjoy her work as well. Her stories have appeared in, among other other places, the zines Abyss and Apex and Bards and Sages Quarterly and the anthologies Lilith Unbound, Malpractice: Tales of Bedside Terror and The Book of Exodi and more stories are forthcoming in the zines Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Neo-opsis as well as the vampire anthology, Evolve. She writes under a pseudonym to keep her writing life separate from her more mundane existence as a university teacher and tutor.
Liz Clift - "Gray Matter"
Liz Clift lives and writes in Ames, Iowa where she passes her free time teaching, cycling, running, and fending off very idea of cold winters.
Jacob Henry Orloff - "A Scraping on the Wall"
Jacob Henry Orloff has been writing horror fiction throughout several centuries in various past lives. In his current incarnation, he has been writing for nearly three years and is currently attending school as an English major.
Chris Bartholomew - "By the Light of the Lantern"
Chris Bartholomew is a writer of dark fiction and has over 200 stories in print publications, anthologies, and some online venues. She is head writer for the international print Serial Killer Magazine with over 70 articles in 8 issues. She also has an ezine where she publishes speculative fiction of other writers, entitled; Static Movement.
Jessica Brown - "Forward, Forward, Forward"
Jessica Brown is a fan of horror and dark fantasy whose work has been featured in Shadow Feast, The Nocoturnal Lyric, Bloodfetish, Horrotica and The Harrow. She is currently publishing Rain, and Internet horror novel. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Jessica A. Weiss - "Silence is Deadly"
Jessica A. Weiss lives on the Southeasten Seaboard with her husband, children and various animals. When she isn't busy with them, she writes as much as she can. You can find her writing blog at The Writers Side of the Looking Glass (thewriterssideofthelookingglass.blogspot.com/).
Jennifer R. Povey - "The Child"
Jennifer R. Povey is in her mid thirties, and lives in Northern Virginia with her husband. She writes a variety of speculative fiction, whilst following current affairs and occasionally indulging in horse riding and role playing games. She has recent fiction in Warrior Wisewoman 2, Big Pulp and Alternative Coordinates.
Ennis Drake - "The Dark That Keeps Her"
Ennis Drake's short fiction has appeared online at Underland Press, Membra Disjecta, and Greenpunk.net. He lives and writes.
Kevin Brown - "Quiet"
Kevin Brown recently won the Permafrost Literary Journal's Midnight Sun Fiction Contest, the Touchstone Fiction Competition, and placed third in the Cadenza Fiction Contest. He has published work in GUD, Space & Time, Murky Depths, Morpheus Tales, sub-TERRAIN, Rosebud, and Underground Voices. His website is: www.invisiblebodies.com.
Jodi MacArthur - "Bunny Man"
Exiled in deep southern Texas, Jodi MacArthur is a Seattle author hoping to write her way back to the Pacific Northwest. In her spare time, she twitters at her beloved finches, Hitchcock and Emily, and drinks coffee - but never at the same time. Visit her online at www.jodimacarthur.blogspot.com
Natalie L. Sin - "Donor"
Natalie L. Sin is a horror writer living in the midwest. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications, including "Necrotic Tissue," "Shroud Magazine," and "The Devil's Food" anthology. When not writing, Sin enjoys strong coffee, Korean Boy Bands, and the greater works of DJ Ozma.
Jason Everett Morris - "Frenemies"
After six years majoring in a language he'd been speaking since diapers, Jason Everett Morris decided a life of storytelling was the only one worth living. He lives in Austin, Texas, with one human and three dachshunds who no longer struggle when dressed for LARPing.
Ruth Imeson - "Broken Spirits"
Ruth Imeson is an archivist living in England. When she isn't writing she can usually be found hunting ghosts.
Sam Cox - "Living Doll"
Sam Cox the editor of House Of Horror ezine www.houseofhorror.org.uk. With one novel and a collection of short stories published, she has been writing for ten years. Also, House of Horror has recently put out their first anthology Mausoleum Memoirs and she has a few stories published with The Monsters Next Door, Pagan Imagination and Flashes In The Dark ezines.
Brian M. Sammons - "There's Something Rotten in Ohio"
Brian M. Sammons lives in Michigan, loves horror films and books, writes stories and reviews, and is described by his neighbors as; “such a nice, quiet man.” His tales have appeared in many magazines and books, most recently in the anthologies CTHULHU UNBOUND and MONSTROUS.
John Pupo - "That Perfect Dress"
John has always been obsessed with urban legends. He even went as far as to constantly eat pop rocks while drinking Coke. Somehow he’s still alive, and able to write.
Jerry Enni - "Breakfast With Mary"
Jerry Enni lives in a small house in the center of the San Joaquin Valley with his beautiful family. By day he makes signs, and by night he writes stories; one of which you'll find in this anthology [Twisted Legends]. He hopes you enjoy reading it as much as he enjoyed writing it.
John Pennington - "Manufactured Tragedies"
John Pennington was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana and now currently resides in Bloomington. Besides writing, he enjoys playing music, reading, collecting vinyl records, and playing lots of video games.
Sam Battrick - "The Nameless Samaritan"
Sam Battrick was driven out of his homeland of New Zealand by angry hobbits, washed up on the shores of the Oregon coast and was taken in by friendly locals. He writes horror, comedy and horror comedies. Horromedies? Visit him online at www.sambattrick.com where he promises he won't talk to you in the third person.
Alva J. Roberts - "Hello Kitty"
Alva J. Roberts lives in Western Nebraska with his wife and two dogs. When he is not writing, he works as a librarian at the local library. Visit him online at alvaroberts.weebly.com.
Bill Mattox - "Rash"
Bill Mattox lives in Northern California where he has been writing short fiction for close to ten years, most of which was lost due to an unfortunate wine-related accident. He is actively trying to break the habit of over-editing hiw work and never submitting it anywhere.
Michael Penncavage - "Obituary"
Michael Penncavage’s story, “The Cost of Doing Business” originally appeared in Thuglit, Issue 24 and won a 2008 Derringer Award for best mystery. He has been an Associate Editor for Space and Time Magazine as well as the Editor of the horror/suspense anthology, Tales From a Darker State. One of his stories has recently been filmed as a short movie. Fiction of his can be found in approximately 60 magazines and anthologies from 3 different countries such as Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine in the USA, Here and Now in England, Crime Factory in Australia.
Charles West - "The Effect of Gravity on New Year's Eve"
Charles West is a writer and teacher in central California. He has published poetry, nonfiction and fiction in a variety of publications, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Isaac Asimov Science Fiction Magazine and Hardboiled. His mystery novel, THE SACRED DISC, was published in 2000 by Salvo Press.
Jameson T. Caine - "Desolation's Brood"
Jameson T. Caine drives a tanker truck by day and calls himself a writer by night, the latter fueled by a steady diet of soda and salty snacks. He has stories appearing in the Devil's Food anthology, Sand #5, Lurid Lit, The Monsters Next Door #8, 52 Stitches, Everyday Weirdness, Flashes in the Dark and Tweet the Meat. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two dogs, where he travels many a lonesome country road as part of his job. Visit him online at www.jamesontcaine.blogspot.com/.
Anthony Giangregorio - "A Corpse of Hot Cocoa"
Anthony Giangregorio is the author and editor of more than 25 novels, almost all of them about zombies. His work has appeared in Dead Science by Coscomentertainment, Dead Worlds: Undead Stories Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4, and an upcoming anthology (Zombology) by Library of the Living Dead Press and their werewolf anthology titled War Wolves. He also has stories in End of Days: An Apocalyptic Anthology Volumes 1 & 2. Check out his website at www.undeadpress.com.
Sean Logan's stories have appeared in about twenty publications including Pseudopod, Black Ink Horror and the anthologies The Vault of Punk Horror, Hideous Evermore and Vile Things. He lives in Northern California where he works as a marketing writer.
Bill Ward - "Croc Burger"
BILL WARD's fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, including Murky Depths, Every Day Fiction, Rage of the Behemoth, and Dead Souls, and he has also written background material and serial shorts for science fiction and fantasy tabletop game publications. He maintains a blog at www.billwardwriter.com.
Christopher Jacobsmeyer - "In Pieces"
Christopher Jacobsmeyer is a self-styled fantasy author dabbling in the realms of sci-fi and horror. His tolerant wife and headstrong daughters humor him as long as it suits their needs. If that weren't enough, a trio of cats keeps him in check with their whispered designs of conquest at night.
Bradd Parton - "Designated Dier"
An addition to self-publishing his own comic series online and in print--3 issues to date--Bradd Parton's prose work was recently accepted for publication in an upcoming anthology edited by Scott Nicholson entitled Little Shivers.
J. Troy Seate - "Haggerty's Trunk"
Mr. Seate has written everything from humor to the macabre. His short stories appear in several magazines, anthologies and webzines. His two one-author anthologies, Descent into Darkness and From the Depths of Darkness, and his two suspense thrillers, Chosen, and its sequel, Shanghai is Crying are available through amazon.com and most bookstores. Troy lives in Golden, Colorado. Visit him on his website at www.geocities.com/jtroyseate.
Bradd Parton - "The One That Didn't Get Away"
An addition to self-publishing his own comic series online and in print--3 issues to date--Bradd Parton's prose work was recently accepted for publication in an upcoming anthology edited by Scott Nicholson entitled Little Shivers.
Laura Eno - "Mirrors Don't Lie"
Laura Eno (lauraeno.blogspot.com) lives in Florida with her husband. She has written two YA fantasy novel and a paranormal romance but lately feels compelled to write in the dark fantasy/horror genre. Her flash fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Twisted Dreams, The Monsters Next Door, Flashes in the Dark, 10Flash and MicroHorror.
Michael A. Kechula - "Highway 35"
Michael A. Kechula, a retired tech writer, has won first place in eight fiction contests and placed in seven others. His stories have been published by 115 magazines and 32 anthologies in Australia, Canada, England, India, Scotland, and US. He’s authored two books of flash fiction stories: “A Full Deck of Zombies--61 Speculative Fiction Tales” and "The Area 51 Option + 49 Speculative Fiction Tales."
Jessy Marie Roberts - "In The Wind"
Jessy Marie Roberts lives in a "haunted" house in Western Nebraska with her husband and their two dogs, Tucker and Snags. She grew up in Morgan Hill, California. Visit her online at jessymarieroberts.weebly.com.
Jennifer Greylyn - "Consideration"
A writer for most of her life, Jennifer Greylyn has only recently been persuaded by the thoughtful but not very subtle prompting of family and friends that other people might enjoy her work as well. Her stories have appeared in, among other other places, the zines Abyss and Apex and Bards and Sages Quarterly and the anthologies Lilith Unbound, Malpractice: Tales of Bedside Terror and The Book of Exodi and more stories are forthcoming in the zines Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Neo-opsis as well as the vampire anthology, Evolve. She writes under a pseudonym to keep her writing life separate from her more mundane existence as a university teacher and tutor.
Liz Clift - "Gray Matter"
Liz Clift lives and writes in Ames, Iowa where she passes her free time teaching, cycling, running, and fending off very idea of cold winters.
Jacob Henry Orloff - "A Scraping on the Wall"
Jacob Henry Orloff has been writing horror fiction throughout several centuries in various past lives. In his current incarnation, he has been writing for nearly three years and is currently attending school as an English major.
Chris Bartholomew - "By the Light of the Lantern"
Chris Bartholomew is a writer of dark fiction and has over 200 stories in print publications, anthologies, and some online venues. She is head writer for the international print Serial Killer Magazine with over 70 articles in 8 issues. She also has an ezine where she publishes speculative fiction of other writers, entitled; Static Movement.
Jessica Brown - "Forward, Forward, Forward"
Jessica Brown is a fan of horror and dark fantasy whose work has been featured in Shadow Feast, The Nocoturnal Lyric, Bloodfetish, Horrotica and The Harrow. She is currently publishing Rain, and Internet horror novel. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Jessica A. Weiss - "Silence is Deadly"
Jessica A. Weiss lives on the Southeasten Seaboard with her husband, children and various animals. When she isn't busy with them, she writes as much as she can. You can find her writing blog at The Writers Side of the Looking Glass (thewriterssideofthelookingglass.blogspot.com/).
Jennifer R. Povey - "The Child"
Jennifer R. Povey is in her mid thirties, and lives in Northern Virginia with her husband. She writes a variety of speculative fiction, whilst following current affairs and occasionally indulging in horse riding and role playing games. She has recent fiction in Warrior Wisewoman 2, Big Pulp and Alternative Coordinates.
Ennis Drake - "The Dark That Keeps Her"
Ennis Drake's short fiction has appeared online at Underland Press, Membra Disjecta, and Greenpunk.net. He lives and writes.
Kevin Brown - "Quiet"
Kevin Brown recently won the Permafrost Literary Journal's Midnight Sun Fiction Contest, the Touchstone Fiction Competition, and placed third in the Cadenza Fiction Contest. He has published work in GUD, Space & Time, Murky Depths, Morpheus Tales, sub-TERRAIN, Rosebud, and Underground Voices. His website is: www.invisiblebodies.com.
Jodi MacArthur - "Bunny Man"
Exiled in deep southern Texas, Jodi MacArthur is a Seattle author hoping to write her way back to the Pacific Northwest. In her spare time, she twitters at her beloved finches, Hitchcock and Emily, and drinks coffee - but never at the same time. Visit her online at www.jodimacarthur.blogspot.com
Natalie L. Sin - "Donor"
Natalie L. Sin is a horror writer living in the midwest. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications, including "Necrotic Tissue," "Shroud Magazine," and "The Devil's Food" anthology. When not writing, Sin enjoys strong coffee, Korean Boy Bands, and the greater works of DJ Ozma.
Jason Everett Morris - "Frenemies"
After six years majoring in a language he'd been speaking since diapers, Jason Everett Morris decided a life of storytelling was the only one worth living. He lives in Austin, Texas, with one human and three dachshunds who no longer struggle when dressed for LARPing.
Ruth Imeson - "Broken Spirits"
Ruth Imeson is an archivist living in England. When she isn't writing she can usually be found hunting ghosts.
Sam Cox - "Living Doll"
Sam Cox the editor of House Of Horror ezine www.houseofhorror.org.uk. With one novel and a collection of short stories published, she has been writing for ten years. Also, House of Horror has recently put out their first anthology Mausoleum Memoirs and she has a few stories published with The Monsters Next Door, Pagan Imagination and Flashes In The Dark ezines.
Brian M. Sammons - "There's Something Rotten in Ohio"
Brian M. Sammons lives in Michigan, loves horror films and books, writes stories and reviews, and is described by his neighbors as; “such a nice, quiet man.” His tales have appeared in many magazines and books, most recently in the anthologies CTHULHU UNBOUND and MONSTROUS.
John Pupo - "That Perfect Dress"
John has always been obsessed with urban legends. He even went as far as to constantly eat pop rocks while drinking Coke. Somehow he’s still alive, and able to write.
Jerry Enni - "Breakfast With Mary"
Jerry Enni lives in a small house in the center of the San Joaquin Valley with his beautiful family. By day he makes signs, and by night he writes stories; one of which you'll find in this anthology [Twisted Legends]. He hopes you enjoy reading it as much as he enjoyed writing it.
John Pennington - "Manufactured Tragedies"
John Pennington was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana and now currently resides in Bloomington. Besides writing, he enjoys playing music, reading, collecting vinyl records, and playing lots of video games.
Sam Battrick - "The Nameless Samaritan"
Sam Battrick was driven out of his homeland of New Zealand by angry hobbits, washed up on the shores of the Oregon coast and was taken in by friendly locals. He writes horror, comedy and horror comedies. Horromedies? Visit him online at www.sambattrick.com where he promises he won't talk to you in the third person.
Alva J. Roberts - "Hello Kitty"
Alva J. Roberts lives in Western Nebraska with his wife and two dogs. When he is not writing, he works as a librarian at the local library. Visit him online at alvaroberts.weebly.com.
Bill Mattox - "Rash"
Bill Mattox lives in Northern California where he has been writing short fiction for close to ten years, most of which was lost due to an unfortunate wine-related accident. He is actively trying to break the habit of over-editing hiw work and never submitting it anywhere.
Michael Penncavage - "Obituary"
Michael Penncavage’s story, “The Cost of Doing Business” originally appeared in Thuglit, Issue 24 and won a 2008 Derringer Award for best mystery. He has been an Associate Editor for Space and Time Magazine as well as the Editor of the horror/suspense anthology, Tales From a Darker State. One of his stories has recently been filmed as a short movie. Fiction of his can be found in approximately 60 magazines and anthologies from 3 different countries such as Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine in the USA, Here and Now in England, Crime Factory in Australia.
Charles West - "The Effect of Gravity on New Year's Eve"
Charles West is a writer and teacher in central California. He has published poetry, nonfiction and fiction in a variety of publications, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Isaac Asimov Science Fiction Magazine and Hardboiled. His mystery novel, THE SACRED DISC, was published in 2000 by Salvo Press.
Jameson T. Caine - "Desolation's Brood"
Jameson T. Caine drives a tanker truck by day and calls himself a writer by night, the latter fueled by a steady diet of soda and salty snacks. He has stories appearing in the Devil's Food anthology, Sand #5, Lurid Lit, The Monsters Next Door #8, 52 Stitches, Everyday Weirdness, Flashes in the Dark and Tweet the Meat. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two dogs, where he travels many a lonesome country road as part of his job. Visit him online at www.jamesontcaine.blogspot.com/.
Anthony Giangregorio - "A Corpse of Hot Cocoa"
Anthony Giangregorio is the author and editor of more than 25 novels, almost all of them about zombies. His work has appeared in Dead Science by Coscomentertainment, Dead Worlds: Undead Stories Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4, and an upcoming anthology (Zombology) by Library of the Living Dead Press and their werewolf anthology titled War Wolves. He also has stories in End of Days: An Apocalyptic Anthology Volumes 1 & 2. Check out his website at www.undeadpress.com.