Christopher Hivner | email
"The Silence"

Over the past 5 years Chirstopher has had stories and poems published in the on-line magazines: The Blue Lady, The Orphic Chronicle, House of Pain, Frightnet, Shadowfeast, Penny Dreadful, The Ultimate Unknown, The Black Abyss, Vortex of the Macabre, Shadowdance, The Inflated Graveworm, Dark Angel, Mindmares, Outer Darkness and others.

Andrew Shorrock | email | web site
gallery artist - "Apocrypha," "Black Roses" and "Love Spell"

Andrew is 31, lives in Lancashire, UK and is single. He began playing around with Photoshop about eighteen months ago and got Bryce 2 in March 1997. He says, "My art is mainly done for enjoyment in my spare time but if I find some commercial success — then great!" He claims the following as influences: Dave McKean, Holly Warburton, Steve Stone, HR Giger, Catherine MacIntyre, Jeff Uelsmann and JK Potter. Favorite authors are John Sandford, Ridley Pearson, Carl Hiaasen, Robert McCammon, Michael Slade, Tim Powers, Michael Connolly and Robert Rankin.

Beecher Smith | email | web site
"The Burrower From the Bluff"

Beecher Smith lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where he served as Elvis Presley's personal attorney and still represents "the Estate." Stephen King says only Beecher "really knows that Elvis has left the building." With a B.A. in English Literature from Millsaps College, he has appeared in over 30 magazines, including Crossroads, Writer's Block, The Black Rose, Bardic Runes, Medusa's Hairdo, Freezer Burn, Renaissance, and The Black Lily; and fantasy and horror anthologies such as Strange Wonderland and The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Post-mortem (Delta Books, 1994). He is a member of the Horror Writers' Association, with Active Status. He has won numerous awards at writers' conferences and has lectured at the Arkansas Writers' Conference, MidSouthCon, the Mid-South Writers' Convention, and the Mid-South Poetry Festival. He has also served as a moderator and panelist at several HWA conventions, and at MidSouthCon for the past four years. Beecher is a past Poet Laureate of both the Poetry Society of Tennessee and the Mid-South Writers' Association. In 1997 he won the prestigious Darrell Award for Best Horror/SF/Fantasy short story for both 1995 and 1996 from the Memphis Science Fiction Association for his stories "Don't Look Back" (Medusa's Hairdo, July 1995) and "The Shadow People." In May of 1998, he received the Mid-South Writers' Association's Prose Writer of the Year Award. Besides being actively engaged in the profession of law, he operates a small press, Hot Biscuit Productions, Inc., under the aegis of which he edited the horror/SF/fantasy anthology, Monsters From Memphis (Zapizdat Publications: Palo Alto, CA; 1997), and the sequel, More Monsters From Memphis (ibid). A third anthology is planned for early in 2000, to be entitled Even More Monsters From Memphis. Beecher also wrote a collection of poetry and short stories, Recovering My Sanity (ibid), which recently went out of print.

Tim Waggoner | email | web site
"Simulacrum"

Tim Waggoner has published around fifty stories of horror and fantasy in various magazines and anthologies. He teaches creative writing at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio.

Rew X | web site
cover art - "OverhillOverdale" (front) and "IfTheseShadows" (back)

Hurm.