Cold Flesh Contributor Bios

Reginald Bloom “Easter Always Falls on a Sunday” is the literary nom de plume of Scott Aaron Stine. He has had his work published in such periodicals as Lovecraft’s Weird Mysteries, Raw Media Mags, Touchstone NW, and Lethologica, and in such e-zines as D.E. Davidson’s Crimson and The Art of Horror, the latter of which was a story accepted for their Blood & Bones Halloween Collection anthology. He also placed third in the Seventh Chiaroscuro Short Story Contest. (His contribution, “Your Infection,” also appeared in the October 2001 issue of the e-zine Chiaroscuro--Treatments of Light & Shade in Words, and was given an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror.) Under his given name, he is the author of The Gorehound’s Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s & 1970s, as well as the follow-up devoted to 1980s fare, both from McFarland Publishing. He also published and edited such magazines as GICK!, Trashfiend and Filthy Habits. His forthcoming Trashfiend book from Headpress Magazine’s Critical Vision Imprint picks up where the magazine left off, and is also devoted entirely to disposable horrors from the 1960s and 1970s. (www.stigmatapress.com) The author currently resides in an unmarked grave in Everett, Washington, the ghastly result of watching far too many Al Adamson and Andy Milligan films.

Rebecca Brock “Ground Floor” has had stories published in the horror anthologies Moon Over Madness, The Book of More Flesh, Hell Hath No Fury, Cold Flesh, and an upcoming small press anthology dealing with the undead. She is also the co-scripter of the Stephen King short film, The Road Virus Heads North and the (hopefully) upcoming adaptation of the Stephen King novella, The Library Policeman. Her stories also appear online at All Things Zombie and Homepage of the Dead. She is currently the director of a small rural library and an adjunct English instructor when not writing, reading, watching zombie movies, or performing various researching duties for Joe Bob Briggs, patron saint of drive-in cinema. Right now, she is working on a variety of horror stories, a couple of novels, and a collection of zombie stories entitled Black Days to be published in 2006 (if the zombie apocalypse doesn’t hit first).

Dan Brodribb “Glass Houses” is a Canadian writer and stand-up comedian. In addition to his short stories, he writes regular humor columns and features. A number of his works have been adapted for the stage, and both the screen- and stage-play versions of his story The Stud Club have been recognized by the Alberta Playwright’s Network and the Television and Film Institute. He is currently working on a script for a zombie movie due to be produced by 990 Films.

Recently Dan has branched into film acting with appearances in a number of local independent films including Reroute, and Kill N’ Kleen.

James R. Cain “Dead Flies” has had stories and poems published in over one hundred publications, including Red Scream and the anthologies Cold Flesh, Lurking Fear, Cold Glass Pain and Cloaked in Shadows. His horror novel Ek Chuah is due to be published by Active Bladder (USA) in Aug 2006. Visit him online at darkanimus.com/cain.html.

Kevin A. Christinat “Deliver Unto Me, Oh Lord” is twenty-seven years old and lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife, Emily. He teaches high school English at Northeast Magnet and is currently attending Wichita State University for his Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing. Kevin has been writing for sixteen years, and while this is his first professional sale, it also marks his twelfth story published.

James Cooper “The Dead Shall Have No Dominion” lives in Nottinghamshire, England, with his wife and son. He teaches English at a secondary school in Nottingham and has recently just sold his first novel to Crowswing Books in the UK. The Midway, all 172,000 words of it, will be published in April 2007 under the New Wave imprint. His short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Midnight Street, Cold Flesh, The Harrow, Black Petals and Not One of Us. He lives very close to Sherwood Forest and often spends the afternoon wondering what Robin Hood would have done to publishers who rejected his work.

For more information visit at www.81x.com/jscooper/themidway.

John Everson “Camille Smiled” is the author of the Bram Stoker award-winning horror novel Covenant (Delirium Books), as well as the author of two horror and dark fantasy short story collections - Vigilantes of Love (Twilight Tales, 2003) and Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions (Delirium Books, 2000). He is also the co-editor and designer of the Spooks! ghost story anthology (Twilight Tales, 2004). His fiction has appeared in magazines like Space and Time, Red Scream, Black October and Grue, and in the anthologies Damned: An Anthology of the Lost, Small Bites, Peepshow, Decadence 2, Tourniquet Heart, The Dead Inn and the CD-ROM anthology Bloodtype, which includes an Everson-composed techno theme song.

For more info and a complete short story bibliography, visit John Everson: Dark Arts at www.johneverson.com.

Paul Fry Editor was born in Birmingham, England in 1971. Ever since he read The Cellar by Richard Laymon he has always loved horror stories. It was because of his love of Richard Laymon’s books that he got into writing and editing. The first book he edited was an anthology based on the undead called Cold Storage, back in 2000. Then in 2001 he created, edited and published Peep Show erotic horror magazine, which ran until 2003. For more details and to purchase his books please visit Short, Scary Tales Publications at http://sstpublications.co.uk.

James Futch “Cover” lives somewhere in the back alleys of Atlanta, cardboard box for shelter and IBM Thinkpad to pass the time. His short stories have appeared in anthologies like Reckless Abandon, Vicious Shivers, and The Best Of Horrorfind II. More zombie antics can be found in Night Of The Loving Dead, a novella in collaboration with J. Newman.

J. F. Gonzalez “Ménage Á Trois” is the critically-acclaimed author of several novels including Survivor, The Beloved, Maternal Instinct, and Clickers (with Mark Williams), among others. Beginning in February of 2006, Leisure Books will begin reprinting his work in mass-market paperback (starting with Survivor). His short fiction regularly appears in various anthologies and magazines, some of the latest include Cold Flesh, Dark Arts, Hot Blood 12: Strange Bedfellows, and In Delirium. Current projects include laboring over a pair of novels, one for Leisure, the second a collaboration with Brian Keene on the sequel to his first novel Clickers for Delirium Books. For more information, visit his website at www.jfgonzalez.com.

Tim Johnson “Bits and Pieces” is a member of the Horror Writers Association, and the coauthor of Two Die Four. His fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies. He lives in Massachusetts, where he spends his time reading, writing, and rooting for the Red Sox. Visit him online at CrimsonSlime.com. He loves to hear from his readers.

Patrick Lestewka “The Day I Killed Hitler (Again)” is the pseudonym of Craig Davidson, a Canadian writer currently living in Iowa City. His novel, The Preserve, is out from Necro Publications. His first short story collection, Rust And Bone, will be out with WW Norton in November. Here are a few quotes from authors who dug it:

“Davidson . . . smudges the line between comedy and horror, cruelty and mercy. His remarkable stories are challenging and upsetting. . . . Don’t look for comfort, here.”—Chuck Palahniuk

“These big, riveting stories about tough guys in trouble are the best I’ve read in a long time from a young writer. There’s enough incident, shock and suspense for a dozen books. This collection is filled with stories you haven’t heard before.”—Bret Easton Ellis

“There is a strikingly original tone to Mr. Davidson’s stories. The prose is spare yet elegant, the insights are fresh and real, and best of all there is a boundless humanity in Mr. Davidson’s writing: a love of life that is beautifully woven with an acute sense of its darkness. This is in every way an extraordinary book.”—Clive Barker

Aurelio Rico Lopez III “On Earth as It Is” has published work in the likes of Dark Animus, Lunatic Chameleon, Electric Velocipede, Beyond Centauri, and Scifaikuest. More of his writings are featured in the anthology The Blackest Death Vol. I, the chapbook Broken Mirrors, the scifaiku anthology Random Planets, and the e-book Julia, Daughter of. . . . Aurelio is from Iloilo City, Philippines. Email him at thirdylopez2001@yahoo.com.

Jennifer Loring “Maternity Ward” has published over twenty short stories and poems in various venues such as Scared Naked Magazine and Aoife’s Kiss. In 2004 she received an honorable mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for her story “The Bombay Trash Service.” She will appear in another zombie anthology called Zombie Aid, as well as the anthology Time For Bedlam. Jenn lives in Pittsburgh, PA where she has been, among other things, a DJ.

Neil McAdams “When She Died, He Came” is the pen name of a young woman whose father is a very high ranking politician in the American Government and cannot risk embarrassing her father.

Robert Morrish “Do the Trains Still Run on Time?” is the editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and former editor of The Scream Factory magazine, and has edited or co-edited anthologies such as October Dreams and Quick Chills II. His short fiction has appeared in periodicoals such as All Hallows and Fangoria Online, and anthologies such as Horrors!, The UFO Files, Subterranean Gallery, Shivers, Shivers 2, Shivers 3, and The Texas Rangers. Morrish’s “The Outsider,” which appeared in The Texas Rangers and was his first Western short story, was selected as one of three finalists for the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best short story.

Morrish has had non-fiction work appear in books such as Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, and periodicals such as Publishers Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, Weird Tales, and Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine. Born and raised in Michigan, Morrish now lives deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, with his lovely wife Kayalucia (who he wed, most appropriately, on Halloween), five dogs, two horses, and a black cat.

In late-breaking news, Morrish will be making a guest appearance, reading his short story “Junkyard of the Damned,” at the October 28th, 2005 Capitola, CA stop of the Rolling Darkness Revue. The RDR features authors Peter Atkins, Dennis Etchison, and Glen Hirshberg presenting dramatic readings of their work, accompanied by music, effects, and local guests.

Marc Paoletti “Colder Still” is a graduate student at Columbia College earning his MFA in fiction. Before moving to Chicago, he wrote advertising copy in Los Angeles. In addition, he worked in the film industry as a licensed special effects pyrotechnician (he blew things up and got paid for it). His recent fiction can be found in the anthologies Hair Trigger 27, The Book of Voices, My Angels and My Demons at War, The Blackest Death Volume 2 and the forthcoming Thou Shalt Not and The Best Uunderground Fiction Volume 1.

Lee Pletzers (AKA Richard Lee) “The Cold” is the author of three previous novels. He is a column writer for Camp Horror and has edited seven anthologies. He is currently at work on his next book. writer113.com

John Rector “A Season of Sleep” has contributed fiction to several publications, including The Seattle Review, Black October Magazine, NFG, The Edge: Tales of Suspense, The 13th Warrior Review, Prose Ax, FlashQuake (1st place for fiction), and 42nd Parallel where he won the Porterhouse Prize for best fiction. He can be reached at johnrector@cox.net.

Ron Shiflet “Incident at Hell Creek” is a native Texan who prays every night to Robert E. Howard. He doesn’t know if it helps but figures it can’t hurt. When not writing or reading, he enjoys watching horror movies, listening to music and going a little mad sometimes. His fiction has been accepted by publications such as The Book of Dark Wisdom, Strange Tales, Dark Legacy, Horror Carousel, Nocturne, Mount Zion Speculative Review and Seasons in the Night. His stories have or will be appearing in anthologies such as Cold Flesh, Horrors Beyond, Eldritch Blue, Arkham Tales, Goremet Cuisine, Vintage Moon, Maelstrom Vol. 1, and Travel a Time Historic.

D.L. Snell “Limbless Bodies Swaying” feeds pulp fiction to man-eating corpses. The entrails of his recent offering, “Pale Moonlight,” can be found in The Undead, a zombie-infested anthology from Permuted Press. If you wish to gnaw on a scrap of Snell’s next feast, or if you wish to find a slab on which to lay your own cadaverous fiction, visit Snell’s website, Exit66.net.

Gene Stewart “Zombie Love” was born on the 146th birthday of Charles Dickens in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He began writing eight years later and publishing three years after that.

Editor Jeanne Cavelos favorably compared one of his unpublished short novels, Box Set, to J. D. Salinger’s work, while writer Harlan Ellison has called his work “Scintillant.”

Stewart’s fiction spans many styles and genres but hallmarks of his work include compassion for the common man; themes of doubt, paranoia, and the discovery of hidden worlds or agendas; and the integrity of the individual when faced with astounding events or intense challenges.

In 1980 he married his fiancee, who had just joined the US Air Force. For the next twenty-two years they traveled all over the United States, experiencing the deserts of Texas, the beaches of coastal Mississippi, the swampland of Georgia, the valleys of Ohio, and the prairies and high plains of Nebraska. In addition, they enjoyed extended stays in Japan and Germany.

His family includes three sons and two lively terriers. He currently lives in the American midwest, where he is researching and writing a novel of ancient sins, modern lies, and eternal truths.

Please visit his website, www.genestewart.com.