The Joke is on Mankind

Dan Henk

was born on a small army base in the Deep South.

He’s been homeless, made it through brain cancer, got stabbed by a crackhead, totaled three cars, three bikes, and plunged backwards through a windshield. After four hours in a coma, he sprang back and resumed his normal life. There is a running theory that he is a cyborg. Despite all that, he has three novels and two chapbooks out, and has done a slew of artwork for books and magazines. You can see his latest travails and triumphs on his website, danhenk.com

Dicey Grenor, also known as Spicy Dicey, is an attorney, author,

podcaster, and screenwriter. As author of The Narcoleptic Vampire Series, and other dark erotic romance, sci-fi, fantasy, horror books (15), short stories (30+), and scripts (4), Dicey enjoys crossing genres while writing inclusive, character-driven stories about sexy creatures that don't stay dead.

  diceygrenorbooks.com

Nathan Robinson is the author of Starters, Ketchup On Everything, Midway, and Devil Let Me Go. He lives in a haunted house in the north of England. By day, he works as a high school librarian, by night, he sleeps.

Follow him @natthewriter

CODY GOODFELLOW has written nine novels and five collections of short stories. His writing has been favored with three Wonderland Book Awards for excellence in Bizarro fiction. His comics work has appeared in Mystery Meat, Dark Horse’s Creepy, Skin Crawl, and Slow Death Zero. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous TV shows, videos by Anthrax and Beck, and a Days Inn commercial. He also wrote, co-produced, and scored the Lovecraftian hygiene films Baby Got Bass and Stay At Home Dad, which can be viewed on YouTube. He “lives” in San Diego, California.

Patrick Lacey was born and raised in a haunted house. He spends his time writing about things that make the general public shiver. He lives in a hopefully un-haunted house in Massachusetts with two hyperactive cats, his daughter, his son, and his wife.

Robert Essig is the author of fifteen books, including Baby Fights, Secret

Basements and Broth House. He has published over 150 short stories and edited three small press anthologies such as Chew on This!, which was

nominated for a Splatterpunk Award. Robert lived with his family in East Tennessee. For updates, subscribe to his free newsletter at robertessig.substack.com. You can grab signed copies of his books at essighorror.bigcartel.com.

Ryan C. Thomas is an award-winning journalist and editor in San Diego, California. He is the author of 14 novels (including the cult classic, The Summer I Died), numerous novellas and short stories and can often be found in the bars around Southern California playing guitar. When he is not writing or rocking out, he is at home with his wife, son, daughter and pets watching really bad B-movies. Visit him online at RyanCThomas. Com

 Thomas R Clark is a two-time Splatterpunk Award Nominee (Best Novella, 2021 for BELLA’S BOYS and Best Short Story, 2022 for FIREFLIES & APPLE PIES). His most recent release, WE ARE 13, is available through his personal imprint, Nightswan Press. He is the blog manager and senior columnist for Memento Mori Ink magazine. Tom’s journalism and entertainment critiques have appeared in Rue Morgue, Stranger With Friction, House of Stitched Magazine, This Is Infamous, and miscellaneous internet outlets. He lives in Central New York with his wife and their canine companions

Lucas Mangum is the Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Snow Angels, Barn Door to Hell, Saint Sadist, Haunted Hearts, and Gods of the Dark Web.

With Ryan Harding he wrote Pandemonium, which was nominated for a Splatterpunk Award. It pays tribute to the Italian Demons films, and showcases his love of professional wrestling. With Wesley Southard he wrote The Final Gate, which takes its cue from the films of Lucio Fulci and went on to inspire a death metal EP of the same name by UK artist Seven Doors. He lives in Austin with his family. For more information, go to LMHorror.com.

Jeff Strand is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of over sixty books, most of them horror/comedy. He lives in Duluth, Minnesota, with fellow Splatterpunk Award-winner Bridgett Nelson. You can visit his Gleefully Macabre website at www.JeffStrand.com

Merrill David is a brain tumor survivor who now resides in East Texas with his wife and their Chiweenie dog Vinny. His list of works includes his Wicked Awake zombie novel series, a splatterpunk sci-fi novel named Fester, a paranormal amusement park novel called Season Pass, the horror/mafia crime novel Lasagna, and a short disgusting story on the Godless platform called Bloodcum.

Terry Campbell is a 60-year-old author living in McKinney, TX. Graveside Press will publish his novella The Seething Below as a Tiny Terrors in August, and his werewolf novel Shun the Moon will be released later this year by Water Dragon Publishing. He can be found on Threads @aintelmo11

Christine Morgan, after several traumatic life-upheavals, is now enjoying the peace and quiet of the remote high desert, with her dad and the cats for company. Author of the Splatterpunk Award-winning LAKEHOUSE INFERNAL and many other works, she writes, reviews, edits, does weird crafts, and has way more sharks and dinosaurs than someone of her age probably should. She can be found online at:ChristineMarieMorgan.wordpress.com, on various social media platforms, or by email at [email protected]