Into Painfreak

Edward Lee is the author of over 50 horror, fantasy, and sci-fi novels, and dozens of short stories. He has also had comic scripts published by DC Comics, Verotik Inc., and Cemetery Dance. A great number of his novels have been reprinted in Germany, Poland, Japan, Italy, Romania, Greece, Russia, Spain and other countries. He is a Bram Stoker Award Nominee; his Lovecraftian novel INNSWICH HORROR won the 2010 Vincent Price Award for Best Foreign Book (Austria), his novel WHITE TRASH GOTHIC won the 2018 Splatterpunk Award for Best Extreme Horror Novel, and in 2020 Lee won the J.F. Gonzales Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2009, the movie version of his novella HEADER was released by Synapse Films; several of his novels are currently under option.

Lee is a U.S. Army veteran and lives in Seminole, Florida.

GERARD HOUARNER is a retired but still licensed mental health counselor and certified rehabilitation counselor, after 38 years of street clinic and government institutional work, including a stint in a Forensic Psychiatric Center (a real world’s “Arkham”)

He’s had over 300 short stories published since his first publication at 19 in Space and Time, some of which can be found in 10 collections including the latest, Painfreak: Ultimate Edition from The Evil Cookie Publishing. Anthologies include a couple of “Dead Cat” collaborations with the artist Gak and a host of horror’s best writers and poets. Novels include the “Max” series and a couple of fantasies including In the Country of Dreaming Caravans.

He's had many valuable writing teachers of the years, but none ever spoke truer words than his first—Joseph Heller at CCNY for a couple of years in the 70’s—who read his sf and fantasy stories and told him he could write well enough, but didn't know how he'd make a living writing the kinds of things he liked to write. So it goes...

Website: http://www.cith.org/gerard

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Gerard-Houarner/e/B001KCRFAA

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gerard.houarner

CHARLEE JACOB is an American author specializing in horror fiction, dark fantasy, and poetry. Her writing career began in 1981 with the publication of several poems under the name Charlee Carter Broach. She began writing as Charlee Jacob in 1986.

This native Texan is best known for her graphic explorations of the themes of human degradation, sexual extremism, and supernatural evil. Her first novel This Symbiotic Fascination (Necro Publications, 1997) was nominated for the International Horror Guild Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Her novel Dread in the Beast tied David Morrell’s Creepers for first place for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel of 2005, and her poetry collection Sineater won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection in 2005 as well.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Charlee-Jacob/e/B00JI02IS0

WRATH JAMES WHITE is a former World Class Heavyweight Kickboxer, a professional Kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts trainer, distance runner, performance artist, former street brawler and professional bad-ass who is now known for creating some of the most disturbing works of fiction in print.

Wrath’s most recent books are Something Terrible co-written with Sultan Z. White, 400 Days of Oppression, Voracious, and Prey Drive (Succulent Prey Part II). He is also the author of Sacrifice, Pure Hate, The Reaper, Skinz, Like Porno for Psychos, The Resurrectionist, Yaccub’s Curse, Succulent Prey, Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town, The Book of a Thousand Sins, His Pain, and Population Zero. He is the co-author of Teratologist co-written with the king of extreme horror, Edward Lee, Orgy of Souls co-written with Maurice Broaddus, Hero co-written with J.F. Gonzalez, and Poisoning Eros co-written with Monica J. O’Rourke.

Wrath lives and works in Austin, Texas.

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Wrath-James-White/e/B003TT0O78

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wrathjw

Twitter: http://twitter.com/WrathJW

LUCY TAYLOR is an award-winning author who has published seven novels, including the Stoker Award winning The Safety of Unknown Cities, Eternal Hearts, Dancing with Demons, and Spree, and over a hundred and fifty short stories.

More recently her work has appeared in the anthologies Monsters of Any Kind (Independent Legions); Tales From the Lake, vol. 5, (Crystal Lake Publishing), The Big Book of Blasphemy (Necro Publications); Cutting Edge (Akashic Books); A Fistful of Dinosaurs (Mad Cow Press); Body Shocks (Tachyon), and Horror Library, volume 7 (Dark Moon Books) and the horror/western novella Desolation (Poltergeist Press). Her story “Sweetlings” (Tor.com) was a Bram Stoker Award finalist in 2017. 

Her work has been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Russian and Chinese.

Taylor lives in the high desert outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.

JEFF STRAND is the Bram Stoker Award and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of 50+ books, including PRESSURE, DWELLER, and MY PRETTIES.

You can visit his Gleefully Macabre website at www.jeffstrand.com

K. TRAP JONES is an artist and extreme horror author of 10 novels and over 150 short stories throughout the past decade. His works have won the 2010 Royal Palm Literary Award and racked up 6 Splatterpunk Award nominations and have been optioned for film/screenplay.

Trap is the owner of The Evil Cookie Publishing and spends most of his time hand drawing cover art and publishing 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 where he is a staple at local metal and country concerts.

The Evil Cookie: http://www.theevilcookie.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theevilc00kie/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/EvilCookiePub

MONICA O’ROURKE has published more than one hundred short stories in magazines such as Postscripts, Nasty Piece of Work, Fangoria, Nemonymous, and Brutarian and anthologies such as The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra and The Beauty of Death.

She is the author of Poisoning Eros, written with Wrath James White, Suffer the Flesh, What Happens in the Darkness, and the collection In the End, Only Darkness.

Her books and stories have been translated and published in Germany, Greece, and Russia She works as a freelance editor, writer, and book coach.

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Monica-J.-ORourke/e/B00AOO3SLU

Facebook: www.facebook.com/MonicaJORourke

Twitter: http://twitter.com/monicajorourke

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/search?q=monica+o%27rourke