Dead & Bloated

K. Trap Jones is an artist and extreme horror author of 9+ novels and over 150 short stories throughout the past decade. His works have won the 2010 Royal Palm Literary Award racked up 5 Splatterpunk Award nominations and been optioned for film/screenplay.

He is the owner of The Evil Cookie Publishing and spends most of his time hand drawing cover art and creating gory ass books to add to the The Evil Cookie catalog. As a product of the ‘80s, he likes his movies bloody and his music heavy.

Trap can be found lurking around Tampa, FL.

Gerard Houarner fell to Earth in the fifties and has been trying to recover ever since, mostly through reading and writing. He earned a living as a mental health professional, which influenced his focus on the darker aspects of life and humanity.

Retired now, he continues to add to the over 300 stories he’s had published over roughly 45 years, and hopes to add some more novels to the list. He also serves as Fiction Editor for Space and Time Magazine.

For more, check out www.gerardhouarner.net

Christine Morgan divides her writing time among many genres, from horror to historical, from superheroes to smut, anything in between and combinations thereof. She’s a future crazy-cat-lady and a longtime gamer, who enjoys British television, cheesy action/disaster movies, cooking and crafts. Which latter two led a podcast to refer to her as “The Martha Stewart of extreme horror,” so, make of that what you will!

Her short stories have appeared in over a hundred anthologies. Her novels include the historical pioneer blizzard snow monastery White Death, the Splatterpunk Award Winning Lakehouse Infernal, the totally trashy Spermjackers From Hell, the deep-sea chompy Trench Mouth, the splattery western The Night Silver River Run Red, and others.

She also takes on editing and proofreading gigs, was a longtime contributor to The Horror Fiction Review, and has twice earned an Honorable Mention from Ellen Datlow in the Year’s Best series.

Christine currently lives in southern California, where she is her mother’s full-time live-in caregiver. She is always glad to hear from readers, as well as other authors and hey, agents, publishers, movie people, it's all good!

Wile E. Young is from Texas, where he grew up surrounded by stories of ghosts and monsters. During his writing career he has managed to both have a price put on his head, win the 2021 Splatterpunk Award for Best Novel.

He obtained his bachelor’s degree in History, which provided no advantage or benefit during his years as an aviation specialist and I.T. guru.

Science fiction and horror author Stephen Kozeniewski is a two-time winner of the World Horror Gross Out Contest.

His published novels include the Splatterpunk Award-nominated The Hematophages and its Indie Horror Book Award-nominated prequel Skinwrapper.

Jonathan Butcher is a pre-award-winning, pre-bestselling English author of vile trash. Previous works include the splatterpunk body horror Chocolateman and the extreme horror/thriller What Good Girls Do, which has an upcoming sequel entitled What Good Men Do.

Much like his personality, Jonathan’s writing is sometimes ridiculous, sometimes distressing, and sometimes both at the same time. He’s currently writing a marginally less horrific book about a psychic escort.

Robert Essig is the author of over a dozen books including Tweaker Creatures, Stronger Than Hate, Death Obsessed, and Shallow Graves (with Jack Bantry).

He has published well over 100 short stories, most recently in Double Barrel Vol. 3 and Welcome to the Splatter Club.

He is the editor of the anthology Chew on This! Robert lives with his family in East Tennessee.

Find out what he's been up to at robertessig.blogspot.com

Lucas Milliron has been through some shit. Haven’t we all? The difference isn’t really the baggage, but how we carry it with us.

He was born and raised a native to Florida, the oldest of three siblings to a loving mother and father.

Lucas still resides in in South Florida with his wife.

Once an operating room registered nurse, Bridgett Nelson so enjoyed playing with human organs, she decided to turn her macabre interest into a horror writing career. She loves bubble baths (because nothing says spooooky writer like orange-scented bubbles), hates not knowing what’s swimming in the water with her, lives for Halloween season (but loathes chainsaw-wielding dudes in haunted houses), adores her West Virginia University Mountaineers, is very pro-Oxford comma, and thinks bananas are absolutely disgusting.

Bridgett has contributed to multiple anthologies, including AMERICAN CANNIBAL, releasing March 7th, 2023. Her debut collection, A BOUQUET OF VISCERA, is now available in ALL formats.

More tidbits! Bridgett is a(n)…

HWA: WV Chapter co-chair. Editor. Audiobook proofer. Bookworm. Dog lover. Tarantula whisperer. Bra avoider. ENJF. Amaretto Sour obsessor.

Check out her website for more info.

www.bridgettnelson.com

Matthew Weber is author of the books Bobcats,Teeth Marks, A Dark & Winding Road, and The Bull, as well as three children's books under the pen name M.T. Weber. He is the editor of the Double Barrel Horror anthology series and owner of Pint Bottle Press.

He makes his living as editor-in-chief of Home Improvement & Repairs magazine and plays bass for the punk band Skeptic?. Weber lives just north of Birmingham, Alabama with his wife, three kids, a dog, and a lizard.

Sutter Kang lives deep in the hills of Kentucky. He crawls out of his hole to go to work to make enough money to survive. Bella, the trusty hound, watches and advises in all his writing endeavors. She’s a bit of a stickler...

He plays guitar on occasion, though most would not call it musical. When not writing, he enjoys watching horror movies, listening to music, and reading.

Steve Vernon is a Nova Scotia author whose earliest horror story appeared in the pages of Cemetery Dance Magazine issue #2. That’s right. The man is older than the dirt that grows under dirt.

You’ll find his stories in Dark Passions (Hot Blood XIII), Karl Edward Wagner’s Year’s Best Horror Stories XIX, Shivers V and many other magazines and anthologies. In Nova Scotia he is known for his maritime folklore collections including Maritime Murder: Deadly Crimes from the Buried Past, Where The Ghosts Are: A Guide to Nova Scotia’s Spookiest Places and Maritime Monsters: A Field Guide (Nimbus Publishing).

Two black cats, a wife and a beer fridge make his life.

Alex Norcross is a writer of dark fiction from the suburbs of Washington, D.C. where he grew up on a diet of Goosebumps, Stephen King, and scoutmasters revealing state secrets around campfires.

His work has been published in Dark Words: Stories of Urban Legends and Folklore and will appear in the forthcoming short story collection Every Shade of Darkness.

You can find him and photos of his foster dogs on Twitter and Instagram at ANorcrossWriter.

Shelley Lavigne is a purveyor of moist literature, usually queer horror. Their words can be found at The Dread Machine, If There’s Anyone Left and others. They live in Ontario where they roam their neighbourhood in search of haunted houses and cool bugs.

You can also find them on twitter @shelleysghoul.

Alexander C. Bailey is an author from Iowa. He has multiple stories published in several anthologies, with many more works to come. If you would like to get to know Alexander follow him on Twitter @AlexFromIA. He can also be found on Goodreads and Amazon under Alexander C. Bailey

Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Alexander-C-Bailey/e/B086C7VDYM/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_6

Twitter

https://twitter.com/AlexFromIA

Jack Feerick has been a working writer for nearly two decades, mostly writing features for the kind of magazines your mom reads. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of small press outlets, including KYSO Flash, Going Down Swinging, Penny, Panoply, and R-Spec.

When not squeaking out a living as a freelance proofreader, he plays with a power-pop band. He lives and works in the wilds of western New York, in a mill town along the banks of Black Creek.