Tim Curran | email
"The Moon in Their Eyes"

Tim Curran lives in Michigan, works in a factory by day, and writes by night. His tales have appeared inmost of the major small press magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Crime Spree, Weird Trails, and Strange War Tales. His novel, Skull Moon, a horror/western, will be published this fall by RFI West in e-book and trade paperback.

Thomas Deja | email
"Rats From Spain"

Thomas Deja has lived and worked in New York City all his life — which may explain why most of what he writes is horror fiction. From his earliest work for the seminal humor 'zine Inside Joke to stories in magazines like Creatio ex Nihilo, After Hours, Rictus, Bare Bone and Not One of Us, as well as the short-story anthologies The Asylum Volume One: The Psycho Ward, and Decadence, he has continued to deliver the message that runs through all his work: the nature of life is changing, and it hates you. His work has received Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and has been published in four languages. Mr. Deja's most well-known stories are those that have appeared in the Marvel Comics paperback anthologies The Ultimate Hulk, X-Men Legends and Five Decades of the X-Men.

Mr. Deja is Fiction Editor for Fangoria's "Frightful Fiction" section. He is the founder of Underworlds, a new fiction magazine that he is putting together under the aegis of Prime Books. The first issue will hit bookstores in October.

Mr. Deja has also worked in the music industry, writing bios for various Latino artists and co-writing the video for the Barrio Boyzz' Spanish language hit "No Me Dejes." He has also acted as script doctor on a number of independent film projects.

Luke A. Metzler | email
"The Excelsior"

Luke Metzler finds time to write fiction between work and school. He is an avid reader of science fiction and horror, especially the works of Pohl, Niven, Lovecraft, Simmons, and McCammon.

Travis Smith | web site
gallery artist - "Brave Murder Day", "Blackwater Park 12" and "The Face of Melinda"

Travis Smith is the illustrator and designer of CD cover art for bands Skinlab, Soilwork, Deadsoul Tribe, Beseech, and Forgiving Eden, among others. He has also illustrated comic book covers for Violent Messiahs and Butcher Knight.

Thomas Lee Joseph Smith | email
"The Last Idea"

Thomas Lee Joseph Smith is a member of, Writers Under The Arch (
WUTA), a writers group in St. Louis. Tom has three children and a very patient wife. When he isn't writing, Tom likes to spend time playing lead guitar in the heavy metal band I Can't Believe I'm Not Bitter.

Rew X | web site
cover artist - "manticore" and "gorgon"

Rew X says he was thoroughly, surprisingly, helplessly disturbed, upon finally viewing the classic horror movie Night of the Lepus.