Edward Lee is an American novelist specializing in the field of horror, and has authored 40 books, more than half of which have been published by mass-market New York paperback companies such as Leisure/Dorchester, Berkley, and Zebra/Kensington. He is a Bram Stoker award nominee for his story “Mr. Torso,” and his short stories have appeared in over a dozen mass-market anthologies, including THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES OF 2000, Pocket’s HOT BLOOD series, and the award-wining 999. Several of his novels have sold translation rights to Germany, Greece, and Romania. He also publishes quite actively in the small-press/limited-edition hardcover market; many of his books in this category have become collector’s items. While a number of Lee’s projects have been optioned for film, only one has been made, HEADER, which was released on DVD to mixed reviews in June, 2009, by Synapse Films.

Lee is particularly known for over-the-top occult concepts and an accelerated treatment of erotic and/or morbid sexual imagery and visceral violence. He was born on May 25, 1957 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Bowie, Maryland. In the late-70s he served in the U.S. Army’s 1st Armored Division, in Erlangen, West Germany, then, for a short time, was a municipal police officer in Cottage City, Maryland. Lee also attended the University of Maryland as an English major but quit in his last semester to pursue his dream of being a horror novelist. For over 15 years, he worked as the night manager for a security company in Annapolis, Maryland, while writing in his spare time. In 1997, however, he became a full-time writer, first spending several years in Seattle and then moving to St. Pete Beach, Florida, where he currently resides.

Of note, the author cites as his strongest influence horror legend H. P. Lovecraft; in 2007, Lee embarked on what he calls his “Lovecraft kick” and wrote a spate of novels and novellas which tribute Lovecraft and his famous Cthulhu Mythos. Among these projects are THE INNSWICH HORROR, “Trolley No. 1852,” HAUNTER OF THE THRESHOLD, GOING MONSTERING, “Pages Torn From A Travel Journal,” and “You Are My Everything.” Lee promises more Lovecraftian work on the horizon.

Bibliography

Nightbait (1982) written under the pseudonym Philip Straker

Nightlust (1982) written under the pseudonym Philip Straker

Ghouls (1988)

Coven (1991)

Incubi (1991)

Succubi (1992)

The Chosen (1993)

Creekers (1994)

Sacrifice (1995) written under the pseudonym Richard Kinion

Header (1995)

Goon (1996) with John Pelan

The Bighead (1997)

Shifters (1998) with John Pelan

Portrait of the Psychopath as a Young Woman (1998) with Elizabeth Steffen

Splatterspunk: The Micah Hays Stories (1998) with John Pelan

"Masks" (1999)

"Operator B" (1999): Cemetery Dance Publications. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 450-copy limited hardcover.

"Dahmer’s Not Dead" with Elizabeth Steffen (1999): Cemetery Dance Publications. Published as a 52-copy leather-bound hardcover and 1000-copy limited hardcover.

"The Stickmen" (1999): Cemetery Dance Publications. Published as a 52-copy leather-bound hardcover and 1000-copy limited hardcover.

"The Deaths of the Cold War Kings: The Assassinations of Diem & JFK" with Bradley O'Leary (2000): Cemetery Dance Publications.

"City Infernal" (2001): Cemetery Dance Publications. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 1000-copy limited hardcover.

(April 2002): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback.

"Mr. Torso" (2002): Published as a 52-copy hardcover and 300-copy limited softcover.

"Sex, Drugs and Power Tools" (2002)

"Family Tradition" (2002) with John Pelan

"Monstrosity" (2002): Cemetery Dance Publications. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 1000-copy limited hardcover.

Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback.

"Ever Nat" (2003): Published as a 52-copy hardcover and 300-copy limited softcover.

"The Baby" (2003): Published as a 52-copy hardcover and 300-copy limited softcover.

"Teratologist" (2003) with Wrath James White

"Incubi" (2003): Necro Publications.

"Infernal Angel" (2003): Cemetery Dance Publications. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 750-copy limited hardcover.

(January 2004): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback.

"Messenger" (August 2004): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback.

"The Backwoods" (October 2005): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback.

(December 2005): Cemetery Dance Publications. Published as a 52-copy leather-bound hardcover and 750-copy limited hardcover.

"Monster Lake" (2005). Necro Publications. First book for young readers.

"Flesh Gothic" (February 2005): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback.

"Slither" (2006: Necro Publications.)

"Gast" (2007)

(October 2009): Leisure Books. Revised, retitled "Black Train", and published as a Mass Market Paperback.

"House Infernal" (October 2007): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback.

(February 2008): Cemetery Dance Publications. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 1000-copy limited hardcover.

"Minotauress" (December 2008): Necro Publications. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 300-copy limited hardcover.

"Brides of the Impaler" (September 2008): Leisure Books. Published as a Mass Market Paperback.

(May 2011): Cemetery Dance Publications. Published as Hardcover Limited Edition of 1000 signed copies bound in full cloth and Smyth sewn and Traycased Hardcover Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker.

"Golemesque" (March 2009): Necro Publications. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 300-copy limited hardcover.

(April 2009): Leisure Books. Published as "Golem" as a Mass Market Paperback.

"Trolley No. 1852" (May 2009): Bloodletting Press. Published as a 26-copy leather-bound hardcover and 300-copy limited hardcover.(October 2010) Deadite Press, Trade Paperback.

"Haunter of the Threshold" (Summer 2009) Bloodletting Press. Exclusive limited-edition. (December 2010) Deadite Press, Trade Paperback.

"City of Sixes" (2009) Necro Publications. Exclusive limited-edition chapbook included with copies of "Infernally Yours".

"You are My Everything" (January 2010) Necro Publications.

"Going Monstering" (January 2010) Bloodletting Press. Exclusive limited-edition.

"Header 2" (June 2010) Camelot Books. Exclusive limited-edition.

"The Innswich Horror" (Summer 2010) Cemetery Dance. Exclusive limited-edition (Club Members Only), (July 2010), Deadite Press Trade paperback.

"Lucifers Lottery" (October 2010) Leisure Books. Currently eBook only, possible release date of July 2011 for physical book.

"Pages Torn From a Travel Journal" (January 31, 2011) Bloodletting Press.

"Vampire Lodge" (January, 2011) Necro Publications. E-Book only (second book for young readers)

"Witch Water" (Spring 2011) Bloodletting Press. Limited edition hardcover

"The Dunwich Romance" (tbd)

"Header 3" (Heads) (tbd) Bloodletting Press. Limited edition

Collections

The Ushers (1999)

Of Pigs and Spiders (1999) with John Pelan, Brett Alexander Savory and David Niall Wilson

Partners in Chyme (2001) with Ryan Harding

Sleep Disorder (2003) with Jack Ketchum

Haunted House (2007)

Brain Cheese Buffet (2010) Deadite Press

Bullet Through Your Face (2010) Deadite Press

Carnal Surgery (April 2011) Deadite Press

Anthologies

Infernally Yours (2009) 'The Senery' by Edward Lee Necro Publications, a limited-edition hardcover.

Dark Seductions: Tales of Erotic Horror (1993) ‘Private Pleasures’ by Edward Lee

Bizarre Sex and Other Crimes of Passion (1994) ‘I’d Give Anything for You’ by Edward Lee & Jack Ketchum

Deadly After Dark: The Hot Blood Series (1994) ‘Mr. Torso’ by Edward Lee

Seeds of Fear: The Hot Blood Series (1995) ‘Grub Girl’ by Edward Lee

Stranger By Night: The Hot Blood Series (1995) ‘Dead Girls in Love’ by Edward Lee & Gary Bowen

Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium (1996) ‘The Stick Woman’ by Edward Lee

Fear the Fever: The Hot Blood Series (1996) ‘Love Letters from the Rain Forest’ by Jack Ketchum & Edward Lee

White House Horrors (1996) ‘Night of the Vegetables’ by Edward Lee

The UFO Files (1997) ‘Secret Service’ by Edward Lee

Inside The Works (1997) ‘The Pig’ by Edward Lee

Whitley Strieber’s Aliens (1998) ‘Scripture Girl’ by Edward Lee

999 (1999) ‘ICU’ by Edward Lee

Graven Images (2000) ‘Masks’ by Jack Ketchum & Edward Lee

Triage (2001) 'In the Year of Our Lord 2202' by Edward Lee

Excitable Boys (2002) ‘The McCrath Model SS40-C, Series S’ by Edward Lee

Damned: An Anthology of the Lost (2004) ‘Angel’ by Edward Lee

Small Bites (2004) ‘The Room’ by Edward Lee

Movies

Edward Lee’s story "Header" has been made into the film Header. Edward Lee and Jack Ketchum are featured in cameo roles in the movie.

Tony Tremblay is the Bram Stoker nominated author of The Moore House. He is the writer of short story collections containing numerous tales that have been published in various horror anthologies, horror magazines, and webzines. Tremblay has also worked as a reviewer of horror fiction for Cemetery Dance Magazine and Horror World. In addition to his print work, Tremblay is the host of That Taco Society Presents, a cable T. V. show (also available on You Tube) that features discussions on horror as well as guest interviews with horror authors. The author lives in New Hampshire.

Ryan Harding is the three-time Splatterpunk Award-winning author of books like Genital Grinder and collaborations with Jason Taverner (Reincursion, Reincarnage), Kristopher Triana (The Night Stockers), Lucas Mangum (Pandemonium), and Edward Lee (Header 3). His short stories have appeared in the anthologies Brewtality, The Distended Table, The Big Book of Blasphemy, The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg, Splatterpunk Forever, Past Indiscretions, Masters of Horror, Into Painfreak, DOA 3, and The Year's Best Hardcore Horror Vol. 3. His work has also been published in German and Polish. Upcoming projects include the collection Transcendental Mutilation from Death’s Head Press, a novel with Bryan Smith, and a splatter western.

Randy Chandler is the author of the novels STOLEN ROADS, DIME DETECTIVE and DAEMON OF THE DARK WOOD, and of two previously published novels BAD JUJU and HELLz BELLz (all now available on Kindle). He also co-authored DUET FOR THE DEVIL with t. Winter-Damon (God rest his soul). Randy's collection of short stories is DEVILS, DEATH & DARK WONDERS. His first ever fantasy novel is ANGEL STEEL. He co-edits YEAR'S BEST HARDCORE HORROR with Cheryl Mullenax for Comet Press.

Randy has been an indie magazine editor/publisher, a freelance book reviewer, a mental health worker, a gas-pump jockey, an ambulance attendant, a soldier in Vietnam, and a funeral home flunky. He often haunts fields of carnage where angels and devils do battle.

Gerard Houarner is a native New Yorker, born to Breton immigrants, a product of the New York City school system, the City College of New York, and Columbia University.

In grade school, he enjoyed writing and illustrating 1-2 page "novelizations" of sf and monster movies he watched on black and white TV. He picked up 50's and 60's sf books at the library and used book stores, graduated to digest sf magazines, and on the day of the first moon landing started reading Lord of the Rings. He started sending out stories as a teenager in the early 70's. In high school, he took his first writing course (Frank McCourt also taught writing at this school, but alas, his class was filled, though second hand advice from friends in his class were valuable).

His first published story appeared in Space and Time magazine in 1974.

At CCNY, he attended writing classes taught by Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Joel Oppenheimer (Black Mountain poet and Village Voice staple), and Irwin Stark (a teacher to many writers, including Norman Spinrad). Heller thought he could write, but didn't know how anyone would make money from the things he wrote. Joel was amused by his attempts at poetry. Stark took an interest in a short, experimental sf story, but also questioned publishing possibilities. He also crashed, along with many others, a writing class for graduate students taught by William Burroughs.

Tempted by the writing life, and a few sales to the small press, he took a year to work before going to graduage school to explore career choices. He applied to and was accepted to the Columbia University graduate writing program, the NYU fim school, and, because he discovered a talent for listening to people, the Rehabilitation Counselor program at Teachers College at Columbia. During this time, through friends he was able to visit editors' offices, book stores, film sets, and of course bars to get a feel for various careers and how he might earn a living working in those fields.

He chose counseling. It promised a stable living, and listening along with an ability to write were advantages in the profession. And though making a living as a writer seemed remote, he would be free to continue writing evenings and weekends.

The school provided full-time employment and course credits. He worked and rose through office administrative ranks at the Title IX Sex Desegregation Assistance Center (DIrector Effie Bynum), while attending classes, researched and wrote papers, and worked on a novel. He spent very little time at home. Though he did not deliver training, he does say "you're welcome" when people praise the many medals,victories and awards earned by women in the Olympics and other women's sports events

For his internship, he interviewed at the Postgraduate Center, a coveted placement in the city. When asked about the box he had carried into the interview, he replied that he was delivering a fantasy novel manuscript to an editor later in the day. The Director immediately questioned his ability to help people if he was also prepoccupied with imaginary beings and events. He replied that writing fiction for public readership demanded an acute awareness of real people and events to make an imaginary story believable.

He secured the internship, and was hired as a counselor upon graduation. The novel eventually sold to Lester Del Rey at Ballantine, and after editing, was published in 1986.

Later, he also attended workshops led by Shawna McCarthy, Nancy Kress and Terry Bisson.

Through the 80's and into the 90's, his fiction moved from fantasy and science fiction to horror, and eventually dark humor. Initiating the change of perspective on his writing was the time spent working at the Postgraduate clinic, located near Hell's Kitchen across the street from a Blarney Stone bar, next to an SRO for individuals released from the Riker's Island jail complex.

Experience at a methadone clinic on Delancey Street deepened his interest in darker stories.

The lower east side neighborhood was rich in events and experiences -- a building collapse,with the roar and dust cloud to be recalled years later when the Twin Towers fell; truckers speedballing in their cabs while parked under the clinic supervisor's second floor office; being chased by drug dealers on Essex street; police locking down McDonalds for drug searches; visiting and talking to local store owners the clinic supervisor had robbed before his recovery; assignment as the first counselor in the clinic to work with identified AIDS patients...

...the clients' stories -- some unable to step down to lower doses; others substituting alcohol, placidyl, etc. for their need; a cadre of Chinese men whose mothers gave them opium in China to keep them home, which didn't stop them from immigrating but crippled their ability to function once they arrived; once promising young people struggling to function...

...discussions with vets about their experiences, fears, trauma and actions, that evolved into a personal question and a dramatic story question - can those who have committed terrible acts ever find redemption?

As a mental health professional, he found these and many other questions, the why, when, how of pain, trauma, death, the dance between predator and prey, in everyday work, which sometimes found their way into the kinds of stories that asked to be written.

Over the decades, he has drawn inspiration from life, shadows, the absurd, and from the experiences working in the mental health field throughout NYC from the 80's through 2019, including a West Side counseling center, a lower east-side methadone clinic at the dawn of the AIDS era, a Bronx clinc in the crack era, a children's psychiatric facility, Bronx and Manhattan state psychiatric facilities, a forensic psychiatric hospital (the real-life Arkham).

He retired after serving as Rehab Director at Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, and at Manhattan Psychiatric Center.

As a writer, he's had over 300 short stories, as well as novels and collections, published in the past 40 years. Genres include horror, fantasy, science fiction, and humor. He has also edited or co-edited anthologies and serves as Fiction Editor for Space and Time magazine (also available through Amazon.com).

He continues to write, at night, mostly about the dark.

For more, check out www.gerardhouarner.net, or http://www.facebook.com/gerard.houarner

K. Trap Jones is a 3-time Splatterpunk Award nominated author / editor of horror novels / anthologies and a decade’s worth of short stories. His novel, The Sinner won the 2010 Royal Palm Literary Award. Other novels include: The Drunken Exorcist, The Big Bad, The Charm Hunter, The Harvester, The King’s Ox, One Bad Fur Day and the upcoming splatter western, The Bounty on Jed and Nugget.

He is the owner of The Evil Cookie Publishing. As a product of the ‘80s, he likes his movies bloody and his music heavy. Trap can be found lurking around Tampa, FL

"There's a new generation of horror writers bursting onto the scene, and Jones is one of the leaders of the pack." -- EDWARD LEE, author of City Infernal, Header, and The Bighead

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