Comeau is a writer and writing instructor whose work has appeared in Hottest Blood, Women of the West, Borderlands 2 and 3, Year's Best Horror XIX, Best New Horror 2, 3, and 5, and others. The District of Columbia resident is currently working on a novel.

James Crawford.

New Yorker Crawford has been writing since he was very young, with earlier material appearing in comics fanzines and Vampirella. This is his first professionally published prose fiction.

Michael Garrett.

Michael Garrett is coeditor of the Hot Blood series and author of the suspense thriller Keeper. His work has recently appeared in Shock Rock II and Fear Itself. He is an instructor for the Writer's Digest School and teaches writing seminars at college campuses across the Southeast. He resides in Alabama with his wife and children.

Jeff Gelb.

Gelb is a California-based editor of the Shock Rock and Fear Itself anthologies, and coeditor of the Hot Blood series. He is the author of the horror novel Specters, and, as a rabid comic book collector and historian, is a frequent contributor to magazines about comic books such as Comics Buyers Guide, Comics Interview, and Overstreet's Gold & Silver. His short fiction has appeared in such anthologies as Scare Care and 100 Vicious Little Vampires.

Stephen R. George.

Canada's George is the author of a dozen novels, including Torment, b.l.o.o.d.y Valentine, Deadly Vengeance, Nightscape, Near Dead, and The Forgotten. His most recent novel is Seeing Eye.

Ronald Kelly Kelly, a native of Tennessee, is the author of eight novels, including The Possession, Fear, and most recently, Blood Kin. He has been published in numerous anthologies, and his short fiction has been featured in his audio collection, Dark Dixie: Tales of Southern Horror.

Edward Lee Lee is the author of nine horror novels, Ghouls, Succubi, and Creekers among them. His most recent novel is Sacrifice. His short fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Bizarre Bazaar, Dark Seductions, and Voice in the Night, plus a chapbook called s.e.x, Truth & Reality. The Maryland resident is currently writing an SF novel, The Epicycle, a collaborative horror novel with t. Winter-Damon called Shifters, and a horror epic called The Bighead, which he says he hopes will be the grossest book ever written.

Bentley Little Californian Little is a respected D. H. Lawrence scholar who claims to have worked in various carnivals and strip clubs throughout the Southwest. He is the author of The Mailman, Death Instinct, The Summoning, and the Stoker award-winning The Reve-lation. His latest novel is University.

Rex Miller Butcher, next in the series of Chaingang novels, was published in December '94. Missouri's Miller is the author of eleven novels, two nonfiction books, two teleplays, and some fifty short stories, including ones in Fear Itself, the Hot Blood books, Shock Rock II, Forbidden Acts, and a forthcoming anthology featuring Will Eisner's The Spirit.

Billie Sue Mosiman Mosiman, a Texas resident, is the author of five novels of suspense, including Night Cruise, Slice, and Deadly Affections. Upcoming are Widow and Suddenly. She is the author of upwards of seventy short stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Hard-boiled, Pulphouse, Horror Show, and more. Her anthology sales include Invitation to Murder, Psycho-Paths, Dark Crimes 2, Predators, Monsters in Our Midst, Frankenstein: The Monster Wakes, and Santa Clues.

Michael Newton Michael Newton has published 112 books since 1977, with eleven more "in the can" and pending release from various publishers by 1996. His work includes fifty-two episodes of the Mack Bolan series, plus nonfiction volumes like Raising h.e.l.l and Silent Rage. Newton lives in Indiana.

Kathryn Ptacek Kathryn Ptacek has written eighteen novels, edited three anthologies, including Women of Darkness, and has published two dozen stories. She is also the editor of The Gila Queen's Guide to Markets, a comprehensive market newsletter for writers and authors, and works full-time at the New Jersey Herald.

Wayne Allen Sallee The fiction of Illinois resident Sallee has been reprinted in DAW's Year's Best Horror Stories annually since 1986. He's won Stoker awards for novelette, short story, and for his first novel, The Holy Terror. His fiction has appeared in such anthologies as 100 Vicious Little Vampires, Love in Vein, and Nightmares on Elm Street. Sallee is currently at work on several novels, including Mamie's, Near Morning, and The Skull Carpenters.

Brinke Stevens California's Stevens is a world-renowned Scream Queen who's starred in over two dozen horror films, including Teenage Exorcist, for which she wrote the screenplay, Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity, and the upcoming Mommy. She has been a production executive for Weird Tales, staff writer for Monsterland, and correspondent for Femmes Fatales. She is the heroine of her own comic book series, a star of trading cards, and has several model kits based on her various horror personae. She's currently writing erotic horror short stories, a new movie script, and a children's book.

John F. D. Taff Taff has been published in Shock Rock 2, Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, 2 AM, Midnight Zoo, and Aberrations. His first published short story was awarded an honorable mention in the Sixth Annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. He lives in Missouri, where he is working on his second novel.

Larry Tritten California's Tritten is a veteran magazine editor and writer whose credits include Amazing, Azimov's, Cosmopolitan, F&SF, New Yorker, Harper's, National Lampoon, Playboy, Redbook, Twilight Zone, Spy, and Vanity Fair.

Scott H. Urban Urban's stories, poems, and commentaries have appeared through the dark fantasy small press in publications like After Hours, Doppelganger, Fantasy and Terror, and Thin Ice. His paperback appearances include Fear Itself and Shock Rock II. The North Carolina resident is at work on his first novel, Crevices.

J. N. Williamson.

Indiana's Williamson is a veteran horror novelist whose fifty-three works include Don't Take Away the Light, The Book of Webster's, and Bloodlines. He is no less prodigious in short stories, with over 140 works appearing in anthologies including Hot Blood, Hotter Blood, Werewolf, and Vampire Detectives, along with magazines like Twilight Zone, Weird Tales, and Night Cry.

The Hot Blood Series.

HOT BLOOD.

HOTTER BLOOD.

HOTTEST BLOOD.

DEADLY AFTER DARK.

SEEDS OF FEAR.

HOT BLOOD XI: FATAL ATTRACTIONS.

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS.