I am a writer of Fantastika and Speculative Fiction.

My earliest surviving short story dates from 1989, and since that time I have embarked on an ambitious project of writing a story cycle consisting of exactly 1000 linked tales. Recently I decided to give this cycle the overall name of PANDORA'S BLUFF. The reference is to the box of troubles in the old myth. Each tale is a trouble, but hope can be found within them all.

My favourite fiction writers are Italo Calvino, Stanislaw Lem, Boris Vian, Flann O'Brien, Alasdair Gray and Donald Barthelme, all of whom have a well-developed sense of irony and a powerful imagination. I particularly enjoy literature that combines humour with seriousness, and that fuses the emotional with the intellectual, the profound with the lighthearted, the spontaneous with the precise.

My first book was published in 1995 and sold slowly but it seemed to strike a chord with some people. My subsequent books sold more strongly as my reputation gradually increased. I have been told that I am a "cult author" and I'm pleased with the description, but obviously I also want to reach out to a wider audience!

NICK CATO is the author of the novel DON OF THE DEAD, and the novellas THE APOCALYPSE OF PETER, THE LAST PORNO THEATER, THE ATROCITY VENDOR, UPTOWN DEATH SQUAD, CHEW TOYS and DEATH WITCH. He has two short story collections, the latest titled THE SATANIC RITES OF SASQUATCH AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES. His non-fiction film book SUBURBAN GRINDHOUSE was released by Headpress Publishing in 2020, who will also be publishing his second film book in late 2023.

Get all the news on David W. Barbee's upcoming projects here: https://davidwbarbee.wordpress.com/page/

David W Barbee is the author of LASER HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, JIMBO YOJIMBO, THE NIGHT'S NEON FANGS, and the Wonderland award-nominated A TOWN CALLED SUCKHOLE. His fiction has appeared in Forbidden Futures, Verbicide Magazine, Zombie Punks Fck Off, Full Metal Orgasm,, A Terrible Thing, Walk Hand in Hand into Extinction, Fossil Lake IV: Sharkasaurus, To Be One With You: An Anthology of Parasitic Horror, Amazing Stories of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade.

Adam Millard is the author of twenty-six novels, thirteen novellas, and more than two hundred short stories, which can be found in various collections, magazine, and anthologies. Probably best known for his post-apocalyptic fiction, Adam also writes fantasy/horror for children and Bizarro fiction for several publishers. His work has recently been translated for the German market.

www.adammillard.co.uk

Chris Kelso is a British Fantasy Award-nominated writer and editor. Kelso has also been nominated for a Brave New Weird Award for his story, 'Jenny Longlegs', written with Brian Evenson. Aside from his 15 novels/novellas, 2 short story collections and 2 non-fiction books, his work has been published in - 3AM magazine, Black Static, Interzone, Locus magazine, 3-Lobe Burning Eye, Daily Science Fiction, Antipodean-SF, SF Signal, Dark Discoveries, The Scottish Poetry Library, Invert/Extant, The Lovecraft e-zine, Sensitive Skin, Evergreen Review, Verbicide, and many others. He has been translated into French and is the two-time winner of the Ginger Nuts of Horror Novel of the Year.

Aric Sundquist is an author and editor of speculative fiction. His stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Fearful Fathoms Vol. 1, The Best of Dark Moon Digest, Night Terrors III, Evil Jester Digest Vol. 1, and Attic Toys. Being a writer and a musician at heart, he also enjoys board games, guitar, and traveling. Currently he lives in Marquette, MI, with his girlfriend Elsa, and a ferocious beagle named Bruce.

In 2019 he formed Dark Peninsula Press, an independent publishing company specializing in horror and thriller anthologies.

Visit his website at: http://aricsundquist.weebly.com/

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Christoph Paul is an award-winning humor author. He writes non-fiction, YA, Bizarro, horror, and poetry including: The Passion of the Christoph, Great White House Volume 1 and Volume 2, Slasher Camp for Nerd Dorks, and Horror Film Poems. He is an editor for CLASH Media and CLASH Books and edited the anthologies Walk Hand in Hand Into Extinction: Stories Inspired by True Detective and This Book Ain’t Nuttin to F*%k With: A Wu-Tang Tribute Anthology. Under the pen name Mandy De Sandra, he writes Bizarro Erotica that has been covered in VICE, Huffington Post, Jezebel, and AV Club.

Daniel Vlasaty is the author of STAY UGLY, A NEW AND DIFFERENT KIND OF PAIN, ONLY BONES, AMPHETAMINE PSYCHOSIS, and THE CHURCH OF TV AS GOD. He lives in Chicago.

Konstantine Paradias is a writer by choice. At the moment, he's published over

100 stories in English, Japanese, Romanian,German, Dutch and Portuguese and has

worked in a freelancing capacity for videogames, screenplays and anthologies.

People tell him he's got a writing problem but he can, like, quit whenever he wants, man.

His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Author of two chapbooks and two anthologies: "Nouveau's Midnight Sun: Transcriptions From Golgonooza and Beyond" which featured John Yau, Sutton Breiding, David Shapiro, Brian Lucas and others, he recently edited a collection entitled "Songs of the Shattered World: The Broken Hymns of Hastur", bringing the Yellow King back to his Decadent roots with poets like Kristin Prevallet, Leigh Blackmore, and Christina Zadawisky.

Pedro Proença writes, plays Magic: The Gathering, is a bassist, and works at an hospital (but try not to remind him of this last one). His first book is BENJAMIN, part of the 2015-16 New Bizarro Author Series from Eraserhead Press. He has been published by Fireside Press and Dynatox Ministries, as well as having stories appearing in Bizarro Central and Flash Forge. He lives in Rio de Janeiro with his girlfriend Sarah Sindorf (who did the cover art for BENJAMIN), his family, and their assorted pets. He blogs at http://thebizarroworldofpedro.blogspot.com/, and you can find him at http://www.facebook.com/punksterbass and @Bizarro_Pedro on Twitter

DJ Tyrer is probably best known as a horror writer, but has written in many other different genres and styles, as well as being behind the Atlantean Publishing small press.

A Ne'er-Do-Well of renown, his book Swords, Snakes, and Shipwrecks is newly reissued from The Oldstyle Tales Press

Tom Leins is a disgraced ex-film critic from Paignton, UK. Since 2003 his short stories have been widely published in magazines, anthologies and online.

He is best known for the Paignton Noir series, which includes MEAT BUBBLES & OTHER STORIES, BONEYARD DOGS and TEN PINTS OF BLOOD (all published via Close To The Bone) and REPETITION KILLS YOU and SHARP KNIVES & LOUD GUNS (both via All Due Respect).

In addition, THE GOOD BOOK: FAIRY TALES FOR HARD MEN, a collection of wrestling noir set in 1980s Florida, was published by All Due Respect in January 2020.

Suggested Paignton Noir reading order:

1. Skull Meat

2. Meat Bubbles & Other Stories (includes Snuff Racket)

3. Boneyard Dogs

4. Ten Pints of Blood (includes Spine Farm)

5. Sin Clinic

6. Repetition Kills You

7. Sharp Knives & Loud Guns (includes Slug Bait, Smut Loop and Sweating Blood)

8. Dirty Bullion (co-written with Benedict J. Jones)

9. Skeleton Crew

10. Slop Shop

Leza Cantoral was born in Mexico and moved to the Chicago suburbs when she was 12. She runs CLASH Books and is the editor of Print Projects for Luna Luna Magazine. She lives in New Hampshire with the love of her life and their two cats. 'Cartoons in the Suicide Forest' is her first short story collection.

She is currently working on a YA Bizarro novella called 'The Ice Cream Girl Gospels'

You can find her on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter @lezacantoral

Carter Rydyr are Steve Carter and Antoinette Rydyr (a.k.a S.C.A.R.). Their strange and eclectic works incorporates anything from sci-fi and horror fantasy to surrealism and weird satire. All of it has a strong element of the bizarre and a healthy dose of experimentalism. They create in a variety of mediums – prose fiction, illustration, comic books, screenplays and even music, which they produce with their experimental band TeknoSadisT. All albums can be heard on Bandcamp. https://teknosadist.bandcamp.com/

They have recently published a series of graphic novels including: the steamy jungle adventure “Savage Bitch”, a collection of fantastic beasts and antediluvian freaks titled “Bestiary of Monstruum”, the out-of-this-world anthology “Weird Worlds – Subversive Science Fiction Stories”, Australia’s most controversial comicbook resurrected in the graphic novel “Phantastique – Tales of Taboo Terror”, and the extremo “Weird Sex Fantasy – Tales of Sex and Death for the Totally Jaded”. Plus many more…

Their original screenplay “Curse of the Swampies”, a horror sci-fi film, won “Best Feature Film Screenplay” at the A Night of Horror International Film Festival 2010.

A collaboration with Ethan Somerville saw the creation of their steampunk western novel, “Weird Wild West” parts one and two published in 2018 by Bizarro Pulp Press.

More grotesque delights can be viewed on their website: www.weirdwildart.com

Antoinette Rydyr is a writer and artist, who works with Steve Carter to form the creative team known as S.C.A.R. Their strange and eclectic works incorporates anything from sci-fi and horror fantasy to surrealism and weird satire. All of it has a strong element of the bizarre and a healthy dose of experimentalism. They create in a variety of mediums – prose fiction, illustration, comic books, screenplays and even music, which they produce with their experimental band TeknoSadisT. All albums can be heard on Bandcamp. https://teknosadist.bandcamp.com/

They have recently published a series of graphic novels including: the steamy jungle adventure “Savage Bitch”, a collection of fantastic beasts and antediluvian freaks titled “Bestiary of Monstruum”, the out-of-this-world anthology “Weird Worlds – Subversive Science Fiction Stories”, Australia’s most controversial comicbook resurrected in the graphic novel “Phantastique – Tales of Taboo Terror”, and the extremo “Weird Sex Fantasy – Tales of Sex and Death for the Totally Jaded”. Plus many more…

Their original screenplay “Curse of the Swampies”, a horror sci-fi film, won “Best Feature Film Screenplay” at the A Night of Horror International Film Festival 2010.

A collaboration with Ethan Somerville saw the creation of their steampunk western novel, “Weird Wild West” parts one and two published in 2018 by Bizarro Pulp Press.

More grotesque delights can be viewed on their website: www.weirdwildart.com

Nicholas Day is an award-nominated writer working predominantly within the horror, science fiction, and crime genres.

He co-owns Rooster Republic Press and its imprint, Strangehouse Books, with fellow writer Don Noble. Additionally, he oversees acquisitions and art for Journalstone's imprint, Bizarro Pulp Press.

You can find him at:

https://twitter.com/nickdayonline

roosterrepublicpress.com

instagram.com/first_name_nick_last_name_day/

nicholasdayonline.com

Steve Carter is an artist and writer, who works with Antoinette Rydyr to form the creative team known as S.C.A.R. Their strange and eclectic works incorporates anything from sci-fi and horror fantasy to surrealism and weird satire. All of it has a strong element of the bizarre and a healthy dose of experimentalism. They create in a variety of mediums – prose fiction, illustration, comic books, screenplays and even music, which they produce with their experimental band TeknoSadisT. All albums can be heard on Bandcamp. https://teknosadist.bandcamp.com/

They have recently published a series of graphic novels including: the steamy jungle adventure “Savage Bitch”, a collection of fantastic beasts and antediluvian freaks titled “Bestiary of Monstruum”, the out-of-this-world anthology “Weird Worlds – Subversive Science Fiction Stories”, Australia’s most controversial comicbook resurrected in the graphic novel “Phantastique – Tales of Taboo Terror”, and the extremo “Weird Sex Fantasy – Tales of Sex and Death for the Totally Jaded”. Plus many more…

Their original screenplay “Curse of the Swampies”, a horror sci-fi film, won “Best Feature Film Screenplay” at the A Night of Horror International Film Festival 2010.

A collaboration with Ethan Somerville saw the creation of their steampunk western novel, “Weird Wild West” parts one and two published in 2018 by Bizarro Pulp Press.

More grotesque delights can be viewed on their website: www.weirdwildart.com