catt dahman, a native Texan, is a prolific horror writer with Severed Press and J Ellington Ashton. She writes True Crime, extreme horror, mainstream horror, has a crime series, several prehistoric thriller novels, a zombie series, and she writes historical horror/mysteries. With degrees in psychology from Texas A&M, she delves into the personalities of her characters and the depravity of the human mind. She has over sixty novels available and appears in several anthologies. One of her biggest accomplishments, over thirty years of writing, is working in the horror, an area that she was once told was out-of-reach because of her gender. She participates in conventions and book-signings regularly where she speaks at panel discussions and likes meeting horror fanatics.

Mark Woods is a highly successful Head Chef from Norfolk, UK, where most of his books are set, as well as being the author of several highly popular horror novels including his debut novella,Time Of Tides; his short story collection, Fear of the Dark; The Golem; Lockdown - an extreme horror novel; Backyard Bigfoot; and the first two books in his zombie series, Fear of the Dead and Contagion.

He was also one of six authors responsible for the creation of the alternative Vampire novel, Feral Hearts.

Updates to his latest work can be found on his Facebook page, here: www.facebook.com/markwoodsauthor or on his Blog, miss muppet ate my hamster, which can be found here: http://sparkymarky1973.blogspot.co.uk/

A longtime fan of horror and fantasy, Ms. Lyons writes character-driven novels that, while influenced by the dark and gothic, can also be heavily laced with fantasy, romance, history, and magic. Amanda M. Lyons has lived her whole life in rural Ohio, where she lives with her fiance and two children. She is the author of Night is Falling, the Shades of Midnight gothic vampire series, the apocalyptic Other Dangers series, Sacrum Umbra: The Gothic Stories of Amanda M. Lyons, In Ventre Tuo: Tales of Madness and Gore, The Lesser Apocrypha, Haint Blue, Ally Laughtner and the Pickled Pumpkinmen, and The Hungry Season: Three Stories for Hungry Hearts. She is also a co-author of Feral Hearts and a contributing author to several anthologies.

Look for titles like Vast Ocean/Vast Sea, Jodie, and others in the coming future.

Website: http://amandamlyons.weebly.com/

Blog: http://amandamlyons.weebly.com/blog

Jim Goforth is a horror author currently based in Albury, Australia. Happily married with two kids and a cat, he has been writing tales of horror since the early nineties.

After years of detouring into working with the worldwide extreme metal community and writing reviews for hundreds of bands across the globe with Black Belle Music he returned to his biggest writing love with first book Plebs published by J. Ellington Ashton Press. Along with Plebs, he is the author of a collection of short stories/novellas With Tooth and Claw, extreme metal undead opus Undead Fleshcrave: The Zombie Trigger, Riders: Plebs 2-Book One and Two, co-author of collaborative novel Feral Hearts and editor for the Rejected For Content anthology series (taking over the reins after volume one Splattergore. He also has stories in both Splattergore and Volume 2: Aberrant Menagerie).

He has also appeared in Tales From the Lake Vol. 2, Axes of Evil, Terror Train, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories For the Wicked Soul, Floppy Shoes Apocalypse, Teeming Terrors, Ghosts: An Anthology of Horror From the Beyond, Suburban Secrets: A Neighborhood of Nightmares, Doorway To Death: An Anthology From the Other Side, Easter Eggs and Bunny Boilers, MvF: Death Personified, Drowning in Gore, Trashed, Full Moon Slaughter, Moon Books Horror Anthology 2016, Dual Depravity (with John Ledger), VS: US vs UK Horror, Bah! Humbug: An Anthology of Christmas Horror Stories and edited volumes 2, 3 and 4 of RFC (Aberrant Menagerie, Vicious Vengeance and Highway to Hell). Coming next from Jim will be a brand new novel, The Sleep, another collab novel Lycanthroship, a host of undisclosed projects, as well as appearances in Vampz vs Wolvz, Matt Shaw’s The Devil’s Guests and numerous other anthologies.

He is currently working on several new novels.

Michael Fisher, Fish to his friends and family, has worn many hats in his long life. He’s done a little of everything, including US Navy Hospital Corpsman, club DJ, security specialist, psychiatric technician, painter, and currently, father, Mason, author and tattooer, not necessarily in that order. He has a love of ugly Hawaian shirts. He also bears a passing resemblance to Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski.

His work includes the collaborative novel Feral Hearts, his first novel DC’s Dead, and short stories in Midnight Remains, Rejected for Content: Splattergore, Rejected for Content 2: Aberrant Menagerie, Floppy Shoes Apocalypse, TrollKind: Under the Bridge, Urban Legends: Emergence of Fear, FVM: The Deadliest of the Species, Doorway to Death as well as many other upcoming anthologies. Within Stranger Aeons is the first anthology on which he has taken lead.

Michael is an award-winning author, artist and editor with J. Ellington Ashton Press. Awards include Honorable Mention for Short Story of the Year 2013 for the Return of the Devil Fly in Midnight Remains, as well as Top Ten Artist and Top Ten Editor from Critters Workshop Annual Preditors & Editors 2014 Awards and Top Ten Author, Artist, Editor, Book Cover, Nonfiction Article and Short Story from Critters Workshop Annual Preditors & Editors 2015 Awards. He also placed in the Top Ten Author, Artist, Editor, Book Cover, Mystery Novel from Critters Workshop Annual Preditors & Editors 2016 Awards. DC’s Dead was awarded J. Ellington Ashton Press’ Editor’s Choice Award for Novel in 2015, while It Always Bites You in the End was runner up for J. Ellington Ashton Press’ Editor’s Choice Award for Novel and Within Stranger Aeons was runner up for Anthology of the Year in 2016.

Michael is the art director at J. Ellington Ashton Press and designs book covers under the name Meister Arthur Dunkel. He is also a member of the Horror Writers Association.

Edward P. Cardillo, a member of the Horror Writers Association, is an author of horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. He is the winner of 3 Readers Favorite International Book Awards, JEA Writer of the Year 2013, and is in the Facebook Zombie Book of the Month Club Hall of Fame.

By day Cardillo is a clinical psychologist working with children on the autism spectrum, geriatrics, and adults with Down Syndrome. By night he concocts tales to terrify his readers...

He enjoys both jobs immensely.

Check out his website to view his books, interviews, awards, etc.: edwardcardillo.com