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Mick Sims writes dark fiction as a team with Len Maynard. Len Maynard (1953) and Mick Sims (1952) have been writing together for a long time. They met in 1964, aged eleven, at Ambrose Fleming Technical Grammar School in Ponders End, Enfield. They weren’t friends immediately, that came later, when, aged 18, they had left school and started work – Len Maynard as a lapidary in London and Mick Sims for Lloyds Bank. They both still work for the same employers. They began to talk […]
Born, 20th April, 1958, Simon Clark is the author of such highly regarded horror novels as Nailed By The Heart, Blood Crazy, Darker, Vampyrrhic and The Fall, while his short stories have been collected in Blood & Grit and Salt Snake & Other Bloody Cuts. He has also written prose material for the internationally famous rock band U2. Raised in a family of storytellers – family legend told of a stolen human skull buried beneath the Clark garage – he sold his first ghost story […]
Larry Bradby is a photographer specializing in dark and gothic subject matter. His credits include Night Dreams, Blue Blood, and Marquis. You can find all Gothic.net articles and fiction relating to Larry Bradby at tag Larry Bradby. web site: Larry Bradby Facebook: Larry Bradby
Steve Burt is one busy guy. In addition to administering Burt Creations, doing bookstore, library and other public readings, teaching on school visits in the Northeast and beyond, and making guest appearances with the print, radio, and TV media, the minister/author manages to find time to pastor First Congregational Church in Lyme, Connecticut (where his parishioners fondly call him “The Sinister Minister”). Steven E. Burt is a dynamic presence, with a genuine and heartfelt appreciation for people, something that is unmistakably reflected in the many […]
An active member of the HWA (Horror Writers Association), M. R. Sellars is a relatively unassuming homebody who, in his own words, considers himself just a “guy with a lot of nightmares and a word processing program.” Legend has it he started making up stories to entertain a stuffed bear during his single digit years, then began writing them down sometime around his early teens when the growing catalogue of fiction started causing him to experience migraines. Although he had several short stories and newspaper […]
Shaun Jeffrey was born in 1965 and lives in Cheshire, England with his partner, Debra and their fantastic son, Callum. Growing up in a house in a cemetery, his playground was the graveyard – perfect grounding for writing horror, and his early reading experience came from headstones! Shaun Jeffrey has had over 40 short stories published, one collection entitled Voyeurs of Death, and three novels, Evilution, The Kult and Deadfall. The Kult has been optioned for film and shooting has begun. Shaun Jeffrey tries to […]
Steve Calvert has been a horror fan all of his life and as a child he loved reading ghost stories and watched more than his fair share of Frankenstein films from behind the sofa. Nothing has changed much over the years, except that Steve Calvert now watches the films from the right side of the sofa, and that he writes a little as well. In the past he has written all sorts of things including poetry and magazine articles. The thing that he likes to […]
Sarah Langan grew up on Long Island and went to college in Waterville, Maine, where she published her first story, “Sick People”. She got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Sarah Langan’s influences include Russell Banks, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Kelly Link, Somerset Maugham, Lorrie Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Eudora Welty, the films of Ingmar Bergman and Will Ferrell, all media relating to Rodney Dangerfield, the movie The Jerk, […]
Michael Bracken, an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction, and advertising copy, provides a variety of creative services to organizations and publishers worldwide. In addition to writing advertising, media releases, and promotional material for businesses and nonprofit organizations, Michael is the author of 11 books and more than 1,200 shorter works published in more than 150 publications. He has edited five crime fiction anthologies and provides editorial services to book and periodical publishers. Michael Bracken regularly speaks about writing, editing, and publishing at conferences, conventions, and […]
Marge Ballif Simon freelances as a writer-poet-illustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as Nebula Awards 32, Strange Horizons, Flashquake, Flash Me Magazine, Dreams & Nightmares, The Pedestal Magazine, and Vestal Review. Marge Simon is a former president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. She now serves as editor of its bimonthly journal Star*Line, and edits the column “Blood and Spades: Poets of the Dark Side” for the monthly newsletter of the Horror Writers Association Marge has received the Bram Stoker Award and the Rhysling […]
