Prodigal Blues by Gary A. Braunbeck (Cemetery Dance)—Gary Braunbeck is a science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author. He has written a number of short stories and books, all of which have been published, some of which have actually been read by people other than his family. He was born in Newark, Ohio (the city that serves as the model for the fictitious Cedar Hill in many of his stories). His work has been nominated for the International Horror Guild Award, and in 2005 he received Bram Stoker Award nominations for both Novel (Keepers) and Long Fiction (In the Midnight Museum); he has twice won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction ("Duty" in 2003 and "We Now Pause for Station Identification" in 2005). In 2006 Gary published not only the novel Prodigal Blues and the collection Destinations Unknown, he also co-edited (with the late J. N. Williamson) Masques V. You can read more about Gary and his work at www.garybraunbeck.com .

Lisey's Story by Stephen King (Scribner)—Stephen King has been nominated for 25 previous Stoker Awards, and has won 6 times: In 1987 for Novel (Misery), 1990 for Collection (Four Past Midnight), 1995 for Long Fiction ("Lunch at the Gotham Cafe"), 1996 for Novel (The Green Mile), 1998 for Novel (Bag of Bones), and 2000 for Non-Fiction (On Writing). In 2002 he was awarded the HWA's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Gary A. Braunbeck	Stephen King

Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry (Pinnacle)—Jonathan Maberry has been a working writer for thirty years and is the author of seventeen nonfiction books, including Vampire Universe (Citadel Press). Ghost Road Blues (Pinnacle Books) is his first novel. Jonathan is a Board Member of the Philadelphia Writers Conference, a speaker for the National Writers Union, a writing mentor for the Mystery Writers of America, and president of the NJ-PA Chapter of the HWA. He is the co-founder of The Writers Corner USA, a writers' education center. In September he'll be launching The Cryptopedia Magazine, a horror ezine (a paying market), and is co-founder of the literary ezine Wild River Review. Jonathan lives in Bucks County, PA with his wife, Sara and son, Sam. In 2001 Jonathan's martial arts teaching and writing earned him an induction into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

Headstone City by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam)—Tom Piccirilli lives in Colorado with his wife Michelle Scalise where, besides writing, he spends an ungodly amount of time watching trash cult films and reading Gold Medal classic noir and hardboiled novels. He's a major fan of Japanese cinema, especially horror movies and samurai films. His previous novels include November Mourns and A Choir of Ill Children, and he edited the Stoker-winning poetry anthology The Devil's Wine. He also won the 2002 Stoker Award for Novel (The Night Class), the 2002 Stoker Award for Short Fiction ("The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair"), and the 2000 Stoker Award for Poetry ("A Student of Hell"). To lear more, check out his official website Epitaphs at www.tompiccirilli.com

Pressure by Jeff Strand (Earthling)—Jeff Strand's short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, Funny Stories of Scary Sex, Small Bites, The Absinthe Literary Review, and more. His books include Single White Psychopath Seeks Same (Mundania Press), Out of Whack (Hard Shell Word Factory), and The Sinister Mr. Corpse (Delirium); forthcoming is the novella Disposal (Biting Dog Publications), illustrated by Keith Minnion.

Jonathan Maberry	Tom Piccirilli	Jeff Strand

FIRST NOVEL

Bloodstone by Nate Kenyon (Five Star)—Nate Kenyon lives in a recently-restored 1840s Greek Revival home in the Boston area with his wife, Nicole, and their three children. His first novel, Bloodstone, was released in hardcover from Thomson Gale imprint Five Star in 2006 to critical acclaim, and his latest story has been recently accepted for publication by Dark Wisdom. Other stories have appeared in various magazines and in the horror anthology Terminal Frights. He has worked at the Brookline Public Library in Brookline, Mass. and the Boston College Law School as their Director of Marketing & Communications. He earned a BA in English from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 1993, winning awards in playwriting and fiction. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers. For more information on Nate's work including excerpts, images and contests, visit his website at www.natekenyon.com.

The Keeper by Sarah Langan (William Morrow)—Sarah Langan's stories have received honorable mentions in YBF&H, and are forthcoming from Cemetery Dance, Shivers, and Prime Books' Horror: The Best of the Year 2007. Her first novel, The Keeper, was published in 2006. Its sequel Virus (UK) / The Missing (US) is slated for publication in April 2007 (UK), and September, 2007 (US). She is currently at work on her third novel, Audrey's Door, and is also a master's candidate in environmental toxicology at New York University. She lives in Brooklyn, and is thrilled to be on the ballot!

Nate Kenyon	Sarah Langan

Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry (Pinnacle)—This is Jonathan's second nomination this year; he is also nominated in the Novel category for Ghost Road Blues.

The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff (St. Martins)—Alexandra Sokoloff is a screenwriter who has sold original horror and thriller scripts and written novel adaptations for numerous Hollywood studios. Her adaptation of Sabine Deitmer's psychological thriller Cold Kisses was filmed in Germany. She is the author of two new horror novels from St. Martin's Press: Stoker-nominated The Harrowing (2006) and The Price (coming in 2007), and a story in the illustrated noir superhero anthology The Darker Mask (Tor 2008). Alex is a union activist and former Director of the Writers Guild of America, West; sings as a Killerette in the all-author Killer Thriller Band; and dances every chance she gets. http://alexandrasokoloff.com

Jonathan Maberry	Alexandra Sokoloff

LONG FICTION

"Hallucigenia" by Laird Barron (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)—Laird Barron was born in Alaska, where he raised and trained huskies for many years. He moved to the Pacific Northwest in the mid 90s and began to concentrate on writing poetry and fiction. His award-nominated work has appeared in Sci Fiction, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and has been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Year's Best Fantasy 6 and Best New Fantasy: 2005. Mr. Barron currently resides in Olympia, Washington and is hard at work on many projects, including a novel and his first collection of short fiction.

Mama's Boy by Fran Friel (Insidious Publications)—Fran Friel is a full-time author and resides in rural New England with her husband, and their band of animal masters. She writes a weekly column for The Horror Library Blog-O-Rama, as well as Yada, Too, and she is a fiction editor for Dark Recesses Press. As a full member of The Horror Library, her short story fiction appears monthly in the Fresh Meat department. Fran's work has been featured in the 2006 anthology release Horror Library: Volume 1, as well as publications online and in print at The Horror Library, Insidious Reflections, Wicked Karnival, The Lightning Journal, Lamoille Lamentations, The Eldritch Gazette, and Dark Recesses Press.

Bloodstained Oz by Christopher Golden and James A. Moore (Earthling Publications)—Christopher Golden is the award-winning, bestselling author of such novels as The Myth Hunters, Wildwood Road, The Boys Are Back in Town, The Ferryman, Strangewood, Of Saints and Shadows, and the Body of Evidence series of teen thrillers. Working with actress/writer/director Amber Benson, he co-created and co-wrote Ghosts of Albion, an animated supernatural drama for BBC online, from which they created the book series of the same name. (www.ghostsofalbion.net) With Thomas E. Sniegoski, he is the co-author of the dark fantasy series The Menagerie as well as the young readers fantasy series OutCast and the comic book miniseries Talent, both of which were recently acquired by Universal Pictures. Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He graduated from Tufts University. His latest novel is The Borderkind, part two of a dark fantasy trilogy for Bantam Books entitled The Veil. In August, 2007, Bantam will publish the illustrated gothic novel Baltimore, or, the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, a collaboration with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. There are more than eight million copies of his books in print, in more than a dozen languages around the world. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com

Laird Barron	Fran Friel	Christopher Golden

James A. Moore has been writing professionally for the last seventeen years. To date he has thirteen novels in print, with two more slated for release this year. A full bibliography of his works can be found at www.jimshorror.com.

"Clubland Heroes" by Kim Newman (Retro Pulp Tales)—Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, the Anno Dracula novels and stories, The Quorum, The Original Dr Shade and Other Stories, Famous Monsters, Seven Stars, Unforgivable Stories, Dead Travel Fast, Life's Lottery, Back in the USSA (with Eugene Byrne), Where the Bodies Are Buried, Doctor Who: Time and Relative, The Man From the Diogenes Club and Secret Files of the Diogenes Club under his own name and The Vampire Genevieve and Orgy of the Blood Parasites as Jack Yeovil. His non-fiction books include Nightmare Movies, Ghastly Beyond Belief (with Neil Gaiman), Horror: 100 Best Books (with Stephen Jones), Wild West Movies, The BFI Companion to Horror, Millennium Movies and BFI Classics studies of Cat People and Doctor Who. He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire magazines and has written and broadcast widely on a range of topics, scripting radio documentaries about Val Lewton and role-playing games and TV programs about movie heroes and Sherlock Holmes. His short story ‘Week Woman' was adapted for the TV series The Hunger and he has directed and written a tiny short film Missing Girl. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Critics Award, the British Science Fiction Award and the British Fantasy Award but doesn't like to boast about them. He was born in Brixton (London), grew up in the West Country, went to University near Brighton and now lives in Islington (London). His official web-site, ‘Dr Shade's Laboratory' can be found at www.johnnyalucard.com.

Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge (Cemetery Dance)—Norman Partridge's first collection, Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales, won the Stoker Award for Collection in 1993. His novel, Slippin' Into Darkness, became the first hardcover published by Cemetery Dance, and his second story collection, Bad Intentions, was a World Fantasy Award finalist. He has published two suspense novels (Saguaro Riptide and The Ten Ounce Siesta), has written for DC Comics, and wrote The Crow: Wicked Prayer. He also won the 2001 Stoker Award for Collection for The Man With the Barbed-Wire Fists.

James A. Moore	Kim Newman	Norman Partridge

SHORT STORY

"FYI" by Mort Castle (Masques V)—"FYI" is Mort Castle's sixth Stoker nomination, and fourth in this category. His novels include Cursed Be the Child, The Strangers and Moon On the Water, and his short fiction has appeared in such anthologies as Lovecraft's Legacy, Still Dead, Masques IV, and Nukes: Four Horror Writers on the Ultimate Horror. He is the editor of On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association.

"Tested" by Lisa Morton (Cemetery Dance)—Lisa Morton's short fiction has appeared in numerous books and magazines, including Dark Terrors, Dark Delicacies, White of the Moon, The Museum of Horrors, and Mondo Zombie. As a screenwriter, her films include Blood Angels, Tornado Warning and Meet the Hollowheads, and she is the author of two non-fiction books, The Cinema of Tsui Hark and The Halloween Encyclopedia. In 2006 she won HWA's Richard Laymon President's Award, and that same year she performed live with the Rolling Darkness Revue. She can be found on the web at www.lisamorton.com

Mort Castle	Lisa Morton

"Feeding the Dead Inside" by Yvonne Navarro (Mondo Zombie)—Yvonne Navarro is the author of twenty solo and media novels, as well as over a hundred short stories. In her books she's written about vampires and zombies, destroyed the world then rebuilt it in small enclaves, kidnapped, rescued, murdered, maimed, and resurrected. She denies any personal knowledge or experience in doing any of those things. She's married to author Weston Ochse and lives in beautiful southeastern Arizona with him and two enormous rescue Great Danes, Goblin and The Ghost. By day she's an Operations Officer for a DIA contractor. Visit her at www.yvonnenavarro.com.

"Balance" by Gene O'Neill (Cemetery Dance)—Gene O'Neill has published 90 plus short story, two collections, and three novels, including the recently Collected Tales From the Baja Express from Delirium Books.

"31/10" by Stephen Volk (Dark Corners)—Stephen Volk is the creator/writer of the multi award-winning ITV drama series Afterlife starring Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln, and the notorious, almost legendary, BBC TV "Halloween hoax" Ghostwatch. A BAFTA-winning screenwriter, his credits include Ken Russell's Gothic, a retelling of the Mary Shelley/Frankenstein story, The Guardian, directed by William Friedkin, and Octane starring Madeleine Stowe. His first collection of crime, horror and psychological short stories, Dark Corners, was published by Gray Friar Press in 2006 and his novella "Certain Faces" appears in Choices (Pendragon Press, 2007). His story "31/10" was recently selected for Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.

Yvonne Navarro	Gene O'Neill	Stephen Volk

ANTHOLOGY

Retro Pulp Tales edited by Joe Lansdale (Subterranean)—Texas-born Mojo storyteller and scriptwriter Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than thirty novels in all genres, including crime, Western, horror and pulp adventure. The author of Act of Love, The Nightrunners, Cold in July, Savage Season, The Bottoms, and The Drive-In series, he is also known for his seven novels about two unlikely friends, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, who live in a town in East Texas and find themselves solving a variety of often violent or macabre mysteries. The series began with Savage Season in 1990 and Captains Outrageous (2001) is the most recent title in the on-going saga. Lansdale has also written scripts for comic books and animated television shows, and his novella Bubba Ho-Tep, about an aged Elvis Presley and black John F. Kennedy battling a soul-sucking mummy, was filmed by Don Coscarelli in 2002. His short story, "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted as the first episode of the first season of TV's Masters of Horror series. Joe R. Lansdale is the winner of six HWA Bram Stoker Awards, the British Fantasy Award, the MWA Edgar Award, the American Mystery Award, the Horror Critics Award, the "Shot in the Dark" International Crime Writer's award, the Booklist Editor's Award and the Critic's Choice Award.

Alone on the Darkside edited by John Pelan (Roc)—Prior to launching his writing career, John Pelan worked as a sales trainer, mixologist, steel-worker, and antiquarian bookseller. In 1986 he founded Axolotl Press and published several well-received volumes by authors such as Tim Powers, Charles de Lint, Michael Shea, and James P. Blaylock. He is the editor of several popular anthologies, including the HWA Presents: Dark Arts. His novella, The Colour out of Darkness is available from Cemetery Dance Publications, with a second novella, Breaking the Lines in the works. A major collection of his ghostly fiction Darkness, My Old Friend is forthcoming from Ash-Tree Press. As a researcher and historian of the horror genre John has edited over two-dozen single author collections including collections by Russell Kirk and Violet Hunt for Ash-Tree Press. He is currently working on assembling collections by Richard B. Gamon, Uel Key, and Daniel F. Galouye for publication by Darkside Press and Midnight House. John, his wife Kathy, and their six cats (and some 30,000 books) have just moved from Seattle to Albuquerque, New Mexico; which should serve to explain their absence from this year's World Horror Convention.

Joe Lansdale	John Pelan

Aegri Somnia: The Apex Featured Writer Anthology edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth (Apex)—A young writer and editor from Appalachia Kentucky, Jason has seen his fiction appear in over a dozen publications. More famously, he's the publisher and managing editor of Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest. In 1996, Jason earned his college degree from Transylvania University, giving him the pedigree needed to edit horror books and magazines. You are invited to visit his personal webspace at http://members.iglou.com/jasonb.

Gill Ainsworth, a British writer and the Senior Editor of Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, has an honours degree in Applied Biology from UEL, Stratford, England. For many years, she pursued a career in scientific research, publishing in respected journals both in the United States and in England. Forced to put her career on hold when she moved to Italy with her husband, she discovered the world of fiction. Now back in England, she works from home editing for Apex Digest and writing her own stories.

Mondo Zombie edited by John Skipp (Cemetery Dance)—John Skipp is one of America's most cheerfully perplexing Renaissance mutants. He's a New York Times bestselling novelist turned filmmaker, satirist, cultural crusader, musical pornographer, and splatterpunk poster child. His work as the blond half of Skipp & Spector resulted in nine books, including The Light at the End, The Scream, and two award-winning Books of the Dead. Mondo Zombie is Skipp's last editorial word on the subject, an undead anthology over 13 years in the making. After a long hiatus ("in the woodshed," he says), his most recent solo work includes Conscience, Stupography, The Long Last Call, and the feature film Jake's Wake.

Jason Sizemore	Gill Ainsworth	John Skipp

FICTION COLLECTION

Destinations Unknown by Gary Braunbeck (Cemetery Dance)—This is Gary's second nomination this year; he is also nominated for Prodigal Blues in the Novel category.

Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear by Terry Dowling (Cemetery Dance)—Born in Sydney in 1947, Terry Dowling is one of Australia's most awarded, versatile and internationally acclaimed writers of science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror. He is author of Rynosseros (1990), Blue Tyson (1992) and Twilight Beach (1993) (the Ditmar award-winning Tom Rynosseros saga, which, in his 2002 Fantastic Fictions Symposium keynote speech, US Professor Brian Attebery called "not only intricate and engaging, but important as well"), Wormwood (1991), The Man Who Lost Red (1994), An Intimate Knowledge of the Night (1995), Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling (1999), Blackwater Days (2000) and Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear (2006) (which earned a starred review in Publishers' Weekly in May 2006). He is editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning The Essential Ellison (1987/ revised 2001), Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF (1993) and The Jack Vance Treasury (2007). His short fiction has appeared in The Year's Best Science Fiction, The Year's Best SF, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF, The Year's Best Fantasy, The Best New Horror and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (a record eight times; he is the only author to have had two stories in the 2002 volume, one chosen by each editor), and in such major anthologies as Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction, The Dark, Dreaming Down Under, Gathering the Bones and The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories and in such diverse publications as the prestigious SciFiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, Oceans of the Mind, Ténèbres, Ikarie, Japan's SF and Russia's Game.Exe. His fiction has been translated into many languages and has been used in a course in forensic psychology in the US.

The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon)—Jeffrey Ford is the author of a trilogy of novels from Eos Harper Collins -- The Physiognomy, Memoranda, and The Beyond. His novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (Morrow/Harper Collins), was published in June 2002 as was his first story collection, The Fantasy Writer's Assistant & Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press). The summer of 2005 saw the publication of Ford's 6th novel, The Girl in the Glass, from Harper Collins (August 2005), and a stand alone novella, The Cosmology of the Wider World, from PS Publishers (July 2005). His second collection of short stories, The Empire of Ice Cream, appeared in April of ‘06 from Golden Gryphon Press. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Ford's work has received three World Fantasy Awards, a Nebula, an Edgar Allan Poe Award, a Grand Prix de L'Imaginaire, and The Fountain Award. Ford lives in South Jersey with his wife and two sons. He teaches Writing and Literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Gary A. Braunbeck	Terry Dowling	Jeffrey Ford

The Commandments by Angeline Hawkes (Nocturne Press)—Angeline Hawkes received a B.A. in Composite English Language Arts in 1991 from Texas A&M, Commerce. She is a former high school teacher. Angeline has publication credits in several genres dating from 1981 and resides in Texas with her husband, writer Christopher Fulbright and two children. She serves as editor of the HWA Internet Mailer. Angeline was recently named Alumni Ambassador for the Literature & Languages Department at Texas A&M University, Commerce. Visit her websites at www.angelinehawkes.com and www.fulbrightandhawkes.com.

American Morons by Glen Hirshberg (Earthling Publications)—Glen Hirshberg was born in Detroit in 1966, and grew up there and in San Diego. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize for Best Fiction, and his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Montana. Glen's first novel, The Snowman's Children, was published by Carroll and Graf in 2002. The Two Sams, published by Carroll and Graf in October 2003, collects his celebrated ghost stories which have received multiple International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Award nominations. Glen Hirshberg lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife and children.

Angeline Hawkes	Glen Hirshberg

NONFICTION

Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die by Michael Largo (Harper)—Michael Largo has been collecting statistics and information on ways to die for over a decade. He is the author of Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die, three novels, the former editor of New York Poetry, and the researcher/archivist for the film company Allied Artists. He lives with his family in Miami.

Cinema Macabre edited by Mark Morris (PS Publishing)— Mark Morris was born in the mining town of Bolsover in 1963, and became a full-time writer in 1988. He is the author of twelve novels, including Toady, Stitch, The Immaculate, The Secret of Anatomy, Mr Bad Face, Longbarrow, and Fiddleback (US title: The Lonely Places). A short story collection, Close to the Bone, was published in 1995, and numerous other stories, articles and reviews have appeared in a variety of anthologies and magazines. His latest novel, Nowhere Near an Angel, was published by PS Publishing (UK) in 2005, and Toady was recently reissued by Humdrumming Books (UK), with the rest of his back catalogue to follow. In 2006 Mark edited Cinema Macabre (PS), a book of horror movie essays by genre luminaries, and contributed three stories to Night Visions 12 (Subterranean Press), edited by Kealan Patrick Burke. 2007 will see the release of two new novels—The Deluge (Leisure Books) and Doctor Who: Forever Autumn (BBC Books).

Michael Largo	Mark Morris

Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth (Baylor Press)—Kim Paffenroth is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Iona College. He is a graduate of St. John's College (Annapolis, MD, 1988), Harvard Divinity School (1990), and the University of Notre Dame (1995). He has published several books on theology and the Bible, but recently has focused on the interface between religion and popular culture, especially in science fiction and horror. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and two children.

Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished by Rocky Wood (Cemetery Dance)—Rocky Wood has been a dedicated Stephen King and horror reader since 1977; and has undertaken two dedicated research trips to Maine to research his recent books. As a university student and for some years thereafter he moonlighted as a freelance journalist (writing a national newspaper column on UFO-related phenomena; and having articles on the security industry published internationally) and maintained his interest in writing throughout his career in business. He is the author of Stephen King, Uncollected, Unpublished (2006), The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King (2002) and the upcoming Stephen King: The Non-Fiction. He has also published many articles about King's work and spoke at the 2003 SKEMER Con at the Hotel Stanley in Estes Park, Colorado; Continuum 3 in Melbourne, Australia (2005), Continuum 4 in Melbourne (2006); and the 2nd Annual Dollar Baby Festival in Bangor, Maine (2005). Rocky lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two daughters. He is an avid Rugby and Cricket fan.

Kim Paffenroth	Rocky Wood

POETRY

Shades Fantastic by Bruce Boston (Gromagon Press) = Bruce Boston is the author of more than forty books and chapbooks, most recently, the novel The Guardener's Tale (Sam's Dot, 2007), and Night Smoke (Kelp Queen, 2007), a collaborative poetry collection with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon. His work has appeared in hundreds of publications and received a number of awards, most notably, a Pushcart Prize, the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov's Readers' Award, and the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. He lives in Ocala, Florida.

Valentine: Short Love Poems by Corrine de Winter (Black Arrow Press)—A member of the Horror Writer's Association, an organization that includes such luminaries as Stephen King, Clive Barker and Joyce Carol Oates, Corrine De Winter's collection The Women At The Funeral was the winner of the 2004 Bram Stoker Award, the most prestigious award that a horror genre writer can receive, and was published by Space & Time Press. A new collection Tango In The 9th Circle will be published this year by Dark Regions Press. De Winter's poems are a haunting mix of myth, dark sensuality and the sinister leanings of fairy tales. Her poetry has been called "Exquisite" by William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist. Widely published in literary magazines, journals and horror genre publications and anthologies, De Winter has won numerous awards including those from The New York Quarterly, Writer's Digest, The Mochila Review, Triton College of Arts & Sciences, The Rhysling Award (Science Fiction Writer's Association) and TV Guide. "Yes, my writing leans toward the dark side, but it also speaks to the heart and the psyche." says De Winter.

Bruce Boston	Corrine de Winter

The Troublesome Amputee by John Edward Lawson (Raw Dog Screaming Press)—John is an author, editor and poet living in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. His works include the novel Last Burn in Hell, the fiction collection Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades, and four poetry collections: The Troublesome Amputee, The Plague Factory, The Horrible and The Scars Are Complimentary. He was a finalist in the 2001 Fiction International writing competition. His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and his poetry for the Rhysling Award.

Songs of a Sorceress by Bobbi Sinha-Morey (Write Words, Inc.)—Bobbi Sinha-Morey is an archivist, secretary, and poet. Her poetry has appeared in such places as Poets' Podium, Bell's Letters Poet, Aoife's Kiss, Ceremony, Beyond Centauri, and Write On!!, among others. Her book of poetry Songs Of A Sorceress can be seen at Amazon.com and other books of poetry can be seen at ebooksonthe.net.

John Edward Lawson	Bobbi Sinha-Morey