Charles Gramlich is a member of REHupa, the Robert E. Howard United Press Association, and is an Assistant Editor of The Dark Man, the Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies. He teaches psychology at Xavier University of Louisiana and is  married to artist and photographer, Lana Gramlich.

Dr. Gramlich is the author of several novels and numerous short stories. His first novel in paperback form was Cold in the Light. His most recent novels in paperback, Swords of Talera, Wings Over Talera and Witch of Talera, are Sword & Planet works in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter of Mars series.

Charles P. Zaglanis began his career in genre fiction by contributing to RPG books for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu before moving on to short fiction in various anthologies. Along the way he became a slush reader for Dark Wisdom magazine, eventually earning his way to the Assistant Editor position. Through Machiavellian machinations and pure dumb luck, Chuck has now garnered the position of Acquisitions Editor for the magazine’s parent company, Elder Signs Press, Inc. Visit him at http://deep1hybrid.blogspot.com/  and Facebook.

Chris Welch is originally from Akron, Ohio and currently lives in southern Wisconsin, where he works as a freelance reporter for a local newspaper and news radio station. He also teaches English part time at Madison College. His poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in various small press and professional publications. His most recent fiction can be found in the anthologies Dark Wisdom: The Best of Dark Fiction, Catopolis, and both volumes of The HWA Presents Blood Lite (the second volume will be released in October 2010.)

Christine Purcell is a freelance writer. She’s been published in House of Horror, ESC! Magazine, The Loch Raven Review, Third Reader, and The Copperfield Review. Visit her blog at www.christinepurcell.blogspot.com

A self-describe “lovable geek,” Daniel J. Hogan is a writer and creator of the Magic of Eyri Podcast, a free fantasy/comedy podcast. He is also the co-host of the Internet talk show, LansingNext. Daniel resides in an underground bunker in Lansing, Michigan, where he is building an army of clockwork ninja. You can follow Daniel on Twitter @danieljhogan .

David J. West was born in Salt Lake City, Utah but has lived throughout the United States and briefly in Mexico. He has been writing mythos tainted stories since he learned to read and is an avid collector of books and swords. He enjoys traveling, and visiting the many places he writes about. He currently lives in Utah with his wife and three children, each with more unusual names than his own. His first novel, Heroes of the Fallen was published in the spring of 2010.

David hails from Minnesota in a house where the dogs outnumber the people.  His short fiction is scheduled to appear in Bull Spec and is currently available in Brain Harvest and Pseudopod, and two anthologies by Northern Frights –Shadows of the Emerald City and War of the Worlds:  Frontlines.  He’s the co-editor of Diabolical Plots, home of interviews, reviews, and editorials of all topics related to speculative fiction.  He’s also a staff member of Flash Fiction Online.

Jeff Edwards has dabbled in fiction for the past thirty years. His short stories have appeared in Potomac Review and Garland.

Jeff’s non-fiction has appeared in print magazines such as Dark Wisdom, Paradox, and Shroud, and online magazines such as Horror World, Innsmouth Free Press, and Strange Horizons.

Visit Jeff online at jeffwedwards.wordpress.com

Lee Clark Zumpe, a proofreader and entertainment columnist for Tampa Bay Newspapers, earned a bachelor’s degree in English at the University of South Florida. He lives a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico with his wife and daughter.

Lee’s inclination toward horror manifested itself early in his childhood when he began flipping through the pages of Forrest J. Ackerman’s Famous Monsters of Filmland and reading Gold Key Comic classics like Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery and Grimm’s Ghost Stories. His short stories and poetry have appeared in a variety of publications such as Weird Tales, Space and Time and Dark Wisdom and in the anthologies Horrors Beyond, Corpse Blossoms, and Cthulhu Unbound, Vol. 1.

Blog:  Mutterings of a Mad Poet

Facebook:  Lee Zumpe

Sidney Williams is the author of eight published novels: Azarius, Night Brothers, Blood Hunter, Gnelfs and When Darkness Falls under his own name, and New Year’s Evil, The Gift and Deadly Delivery for younger readers under the name Michael August. All are coming soon in Kindle and other e-book formats. He has also written a host of short stories and several comic book mini-series: The Mantus Files, Sirens, The Scary Book and Marauder. He is a former newspaper reporter and currently works as a web editor. Visit him online at sidisalive.com

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a writer of speculative fiction, with stories in Fantasy Magazine and Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction. She also publishes the ‘zine Innsmouth Free Press. You can find her on Twitter @silviamg or wandering around Vancouver mumbling to herself.

Stephen Mark Rainey authored the novels Balak, The Lebo Coven, Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark(with Elizabeth Massie), The Nightmare Frontier, and Blue Devil Island; five short story collections; over 90 published short stories; and three audio dramas based on the Dark Shadows TV series. For ten years, he edited the award-winning Deathrealm magazine and has edited three anthologies of horror/dark fantasy fiction. Mark lives in Greensboro, NC.

Stewart Sternberg is the new blog editor on ESP’s revamped website. An author and educator from Michigan, his work has been published in various anthologies, including ESP’s “High Seas Cthulhu.” Coming this November, but available for pre-release on Amazon now, you can find his survival horror novel “The Ravening”. Follow Stewart on his blog “House-of-Sternberg.blogspot.com” or on twitter at twitter.com/ssternberg. If you’re interested in submitting a genre related commentary, review, interview, or news item, please email him at blogeditor@eldersignspress.com

Stuart Conover is the founder of the horror production company iScreamProductions and the popular undead themed blog Buy Zombie. He is a zombie enthusiast and involved heavily with many online horror blogs, projects, and the horror community.

Theresa Lucas is best know as SQT over at Fantasy & SciFi Lovin’ News & Reviews. Previous jobs at a small town newspaper and in Hollywood on one of the earliest reality-television shows (to her lasting chagrin) laid the foundation to a lifelong love of writing about pop culture. Growing up on fantasy fiction and Star Trek steered her toward writing about those genres and she’s been writing reviews and commentary for her blog on related topics for the last three years.

William Jones has received Bram Stoker Award nominations, International Horror Guild Award and Origins Award nominations for his works. He is the editor of several anthologies, including The Anthology of Dark Wisdom: The Best of Dark Fiction, Frontier Cthulhu: Ancient Horrors in the New World, High Seas Cthulhu, and the Horrors Beyond Series. His book, The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson was selected by Editor Ellen Datlow as a “seminal” work for readers of Lovecraftian horror. He has also written a number of role-playing game supplements, and his writings have been translated into several languages. His most recent novel is Pallid Light: The Waking Dead. He lives in Michigan.