Neil Ayres | web site | email
"Coma"

Neil Ayres was born in London in 1979 but now lives in Surrey, where he shares his hime with his girlfriend, his Samoyed and an aquatic apple snail. His debut novel is entitled Nicolo's Gifts and is available from Bluechrome publishing. Neil is the editor of Fragment Magazine.

Amy Grech | web site
"Rampart"

Amy Grech has sold over seventy stories to various magazines including: 1000Delights.com, Alexandria Digital Literature, Blue Murder Magazine, Buried.com, Cold Storage, Dark Funeral, Dark Muse, Deviant Minds, Funeral Party 2, Horrorfind.com, House of Pain, The Murder Hole, Nasty Snips, Rogue Worlds, Shadow Keep, Shadow of the Marquis, Tapestry Magazine, Terror Tales, The Swamp, Twisted Tales, and Venus or Vixen. Her novel, The Art of Deception is available at amazon.com. Stories are forthcoming in: Blood Moon Zine, Blood Rose, Micro Stories Anthology, Reckless Abandon, Savage Night, and The Dream People. She is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association who lives in Brooklyn. Visit her web site for a good fright.

Mary Musselman | email
"Eye of the Beholder"

When Mary's aunt read stories to her of man-eating bears at her grandparents’ cabin, she had no idea she was instilling a love for horror tales into the mind and imagination of a young girl. That fascination only grew stronger through years of watching The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock and Outer Limits. Along the way, Mary discovered that she liked creating stories and characters in her head or in journals — until she finally took the plunge and wrote a one-page short story about a misunderstood monster. From then on, the "monsters"have filled the pages of her stories about the supernatural. Mary's work has appeared in Tapestry, Eotu Ezine, The A-List, Aphelion, Parchment Symbols, Twilight Times, Blood Rose and the current Unhinged. One of her stories will be part of an upcoming e-anthology by Danielle Naibert.

Niklas Sundin | email | web site
gallery artist - "Indexed Ladder", "III. Descending" and "A Peculiar Burden"

A freelance illustrator and musician, Niklas is 27. He studied literature, psychology and arts at University of Gothenburg, and web and multimedia design at ITC, as well as various courses in oil painting, silversmithing, acrylics, and watercolor. He has recorded five albums and toured worldwide with the band Dark Tranquility. He says he has been a compulsive drawer since early age, always busy with whatever pen and paper he could get his hands on. He began working extensively in traditional media, but has been, in recent years, experimenting with digital techniques into his artwork. In the summer of 1999, Niklas formed Cabin Fever Media to offer freelance illustration and design services. He has worked on a vast amount of interesting projects, including over 60 album cover designs.

Lee Clark Zumpe | email | web site
"Saurian Bridge"

Since he began writing professionally in the early 1990s, Lee Clark Zumpe's work has appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies such as Nerve Cowboy, Flesh and Blood, and Dark Legacy. Some of his most recent publications include the poem "Psych Ward"in the Fall/Winter 2001 issue of The Higginsville Reader, and the short story "Dreaming in New Bern" in Songs of Innocence. Later this year, Anxiety Publications will produce his chapbook of poetry titled An Invisible Shimmer. His work can also be seen in upcoming issues of The Edge, Wicked Hollow, and Star*Line. Lee Clark is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Mythopoeic Society. In addition to writing and working full time at Sears Home Services, he is pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in English at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he recently received the Charles F. Brooks Award for Technical Writing.

Rew X | web site
cover art - "chance meeting" and "city of the fathers"

Sometimes, Rew X says, he finds himself staring at his hands — at which point, he immediately averts his gaze and pretends to look elsewhere, lest they commit some act or action that might, in the very least, startle him. Sometimes he notices too, that he has a tongue, and still blames that sudden intrusive feeling of swollen lumpiness that Lucy described in an early Peanuts comic strip. He becomes rather angry at much-beloved cartoonist Charles M. Schulz for this vile ruination. That, and for ruining Citizen Kane for him ten years before he would ever see the film.