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Issue #4 - Halloween 2010 Contributors Graham Masterton Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in 1976, a chilling tale of a Native American medicine man reborn in the present day to exact his revenge on the white man. It became an instant bestseller and was filmed with Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Burgess Meredith, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens and Ann Sothern. Since then Graham has published more than 35 horror novels, including Charnel House, which was awarded a Special Edgar by Mystery Writers of America; Mirror, which was awarded a Silver Medal by West Coast Review of Books; and Family Portrait, an update of Oscar Wildeis tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was the only non-French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger in France. Three of Graham's stories were filmed for TV in Tony Scottis horror series The Hunger, and 'The Secret Shih-Tan', starring Jason Scott Lee, was shortlisted for a Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writers Association. Another short story, 'Underbed', about a boy finding a mysterious world underneath his blankets, was voted best short story by Horror Critics Guild. Graham's latest horror novels to be published in the United States are Spirit (Leisure,December, 2001); Trauma, (Signet, January, 2002) and The Chosen Child (Tor, January, 2002). Motion picture rights in Trauma have been optioned by Jonathan Mostow, who directed U-571. The Chosen Child, set in the sewers of Warsaw, was named Best Horror Novel of the Year by Science Fiction Chronicle and highly praised in Publisheris Weekly. Altogether Graham has written more than a hundred novels ranging from thrillers (The Sweetman Curve, Ikon) to disaster novels (Plague, Famine) to historical sagas (Rich and Maiden Voyage - both appeared in the New York Times bestseller list). He has published four collections of short stories, Fortnight of Fear, Flights of Fear, Faces of Fear and Feelings of Fear. He has also written horror novels for children (House of Bones, Hair-Raiser) and has just finished the fifth volume in a very popular series for young adults, Rook, based on the adventures of an idiosyncratic remedial English teacher in a Los Angeles community college who has the facility to see ghosts. A critical biography and bibliography, Manitou Man, was published in 1999 by the British Fantasy Society. Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British menis magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughsi novel The Wild Boys. At the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January, 2001. He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Menis Health, Woman, Womanis Own and other mass-market self-improvement magazines. He and his wife Wiescka live Surrey, England. He has just finished writing a black thriller featuring Irelandis only female detective superintendent, Katie Maguire, set in the Cork underworld; and a dark fantasy, Jessicais Angel, about a girlis search for five supposedly-dead children. He has written several new short stories and is currently working on a new horror novel, as yet untitled. Check out his official site at www.grahammasterton.co.uk
JF Gonzalez J. F. Gonzalez is the author of several acclaimed novels of terror and suspense including Clickers (with Mark Williams), Clickers III: Dagon Rising (with Brian Keene), Primitive, The Corporation, and many others, as well as over seventy short stories and numerous articles. Born in Los Angeles, CA, Gonzalez was raised in the nearby suburb of Gardena. Following graduation from high school in 1982 he attended college, and then dropped in and out for the next several years before quitting for good in 1986. In 1990, he co-founded Iniquities Publications and worked as the co-editor/publisher of Iniquities magazine and Phantasm magazine until 1997. He currently works as a full-time writer but is considering a new career, either as a forest ranger or a tugboat captain. Visit him at www.jfgonzalez.com
John Everson John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the Leisure Books novels Covenant, Sacrifice and The 13th. Over the past 15 years, John's short fiction has appeared in more than 50 magazines, including Space & Time, Dark Discoveries and Grue, as well as in a couple dozen anthologies, most recently in The Death Panel, Horror Library Vol. 3, A Dark and Deadly Valley, Damned, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook. His stories have also been translated and published in Polish and French. A wide selection of his short fiction has been collected in three short story collections – Needles & Sins (Necro Books, 2007), Vigilantes of Love (Twilight Tales, 2003) and Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions (Delirium Books, 2000). "Letting Go," one of the short stories from Needles & Sins was nominated for a 2007 Bram Stoker Award. In 2006, he co-founded Dark Arts Books (www.darkartsbooks.com) to produce trade paperback collections spotlighting the cutting edge work of some of the best authors working in short dark fantasy fiction today. John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. There's also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker courtesy of Charlee Jacob, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can't really play but that his son Shaun likes to hear him beat on anyway. Sometimes his wife Geri is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it's usually only to brew another cup of coffee. In order to avoid the onerous task of writing, he holds down a regular job as a medical association department director, records pop-rock songs in a hidden home studio, experiments with the insatiable culinary joys of the jalapeno, designs photo collage art book covers for a variety of small presses, loses hours in expanding an array of gardens and chases frequent excursions into the bizarre visual headspace of '70s euro-horror DVDs with a shot of Makers Mark and a tall glass of Newcastle. For information on his fiction, art and music, visit John Everson: Dark Arts at www.johneverson.com
Randy Chandler Randy Chandler is co-author (with t. Winter-Damon) of Duet For The Devil and of The Forbidden Gospels Of Man-cruel. He is the author of Bad Juju and HELLz BELLz. He has been a magazine editor/publisher, a freelance book reviewer, a mental health worker, a gas-pump jockey, an ambulance attendant, a soldier in Vietnam and a funeral home flunky. He often haunts fields of carnage where angels and devils do battle. Check out Randy Chandler's Website
EK Zimmerman E K Zimmerman lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, three cats and a curly hair tarantula named Sam. In addition to writing fiction, E K has written and directed several short films, authored hundreds of reviews of trashy exploitation movies as his alter ego Mr. Trash, and watched as gutless theater producers excised all the nastiest bits from his plays. His stories have previously appeared in Sorin Oak Review, and he is presently at work on a novel. You can contact him at mynameistrash@gmail.com
Matthew F. Riley Mathew F. Riley is the co-founder of Bookswarm Ltd, a companypublishing the online magazines bookhugger.co.uk and bookdagger.com;and the popular review blog bookgeeks.co.uk. With several supernaturalshort stories published or forthcoming in international genremagazines, his short story Seems Only Right, won the British FantasySociety’s short story competition in 2008. He is Media Reviews Editorof Prism, the British Fantasy Society’s newsletter, and co-runs thehorrorreanimated.com blog with Joseph D'Lacey. More information at http://www.mathewfriley.com
Matthew Fryer Matthew Fryer was born in Sheffield, England, and there he still lives with his wife and some cats. His short fiction has appeared in several magazines including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Necrotic Tissue, along with the anthologies Dark Jesters: An Anthology of Humorous Horror, Damned Nation, Skull and Crossbones, Horror Library II, Flesh & Bone: Rise of the Necromancers and Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry. As well as reading and writing fiction, his interests include spiders, loud music, Vincent Price films, big cities, Red Dwarf, zombies, playing poker and going to the pub.
Check out Matthew's website at http://matthewfryer.com
Kevin Sheehan Kevin Sheehan has been writing and publishing stories for over a decade. His horror fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, such as “Morpheus Tales”, “Ethereal Tales”, “Tabard Inn”, “Sinister Element” and the horror anthology, “Stories of Fear, Volume II”. He received critial acclaim for his novella, “Father Exorcist” as well as his darkly humorous novel, "Should Old Acquaintance Be Rubbed Out". Kevin currently lives in a dark corner of New York. When not writing, watching the Mets, or harrassing other writers, he is an executive director at an international video company in Connecticut.
Andy Weeks
Andy Weeks is an award-winning journalist who, when not uncovering the facts, likes to create his own worlds of fantasy fiction. He's been published in a variety of newspapers, magazines and e-zines, including Fangoria, Dark Moon Rising, and Nocturne (UK). Born in Southern California before the advent of cell phones, public Internet and American Idol, he likes dogs, chocolate and Naomi Watts (not necessarily in that order). When not putting out a daily newspaper or tackling other writing projects, he can be found wearing khakis, sipping pink lemonade and watching reruns of Mr. Bean. He currently is writing his first novel, and once it’s finished will consider having his own website. For now, readers may contact him at andy3weeks@gmail.com Back to DEAD LINES ISSUE #4 | |
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