horror fiction
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USA
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JF Gonzalez was born in 1964 in Inglewood, California. He is the author of multiple novels including CLICKERS, CONVERSION, SHAPESHIFTER, and MATERNAL INSTINCT, wrote the short-story collection OLD GHOSTS AND OTHER REVENANTS, and has penned over 40 short stories published since the late 80's in magazines and anthologies such as YOUNG BLOOD, BEST OF HORRORFIND, BLACK OCTOBER, and THE ASYLUM. He has also been published, and has received honourable mentions in YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR.
He has been a ghost-writer, was a typesetter for a publishing company specializing in issuing works by award-winning literary writers like Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, and James Michener, edited two horror/dark fantasy magazines, was a publisher, and has written two screenplays (one which was optioned briefly).
He is best known for his horror fiction, especially his first novel CLICKERS, although he's written science fiction, fantasy, mystery, suspense, as well as a lot of material for men's magazines over the years.
He currently lives in a small town in Pennsylvania where it snows in the winter and is hot and humid in the summer. The pythons he keep as pets love the summer; the computers he works on prefer the cold. He likes music, books, computers, movies, coffee, snakes big enough to eat people, and intelligent people who have a warped sense of humor. He doesn't like public gatherings, conformity, religious fanatics, stupid people, and lima beans.
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"Author JF Gonzalez, signs a book at the HorrorFind
Convention in Baltimore MD."
Victor Heck was born in East St. Louis in 1967. He is author of the horror novels A DARKNESS INBRED and THE BOOK OF LEGION, has appeared in horror anthologies such as SEX CRIMES, and is editor for the critically-acclaimed ASYLUM ANTHOLOGY SERIES. He has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award, has been on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award multiple times (but has never won); and THE ASYLUM has been given honourable mentions in more than one edition of YEARS BEST FANTASY AND HORROR.
In addition to being a novelist and editor, for several years he was owner/operator of the award-winning small press publishing house DARKTALES PUBLICATIONS publishing books by well-known authors such as Mort Castle, Robert Weinberg, J. Michael Straczynski, Nancy Kilpatrick and Adam Niswander to name a few. Vic is a graphic designer, wrote PC game reviews for CINESCAPE, and once had a column called STRAIGHT OUTTA HECK where he wrote commentaries and interviewed horror authors such as Yvonne Navarro and John Saul. Vic also once worked as an extra in the HBO Pictures movie TRUMAN. He is currently in school to become a Physical Rehabilitation Massage Therapist.
He is very 'into' Electronica, Ambient and Techno music...one might say he is obsessed with it. Tangerine Dream, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Orbital, Robert Fripp, Underworld, Death In Vegas, Air, but also rave/dance music by Paul Oakenfold, DJ Sasha, and multitudinous others; pretty much anything that comes out of Ibiza these days. He was recently married (Halloween Night '03) and has four great kids (two of his own, and two more via marriage) who think what their dad does is cool, but who endure the pained smiles of other parents at PTA meetings. He says he is also thinking of buying a fish and naming it "Tetsuo."
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"Author Victor Heck, seen here with Forrest
Ackerman at World Horror Con in Kansas City MO."
Wayne Allen Sallee was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 19, 1959 and received his BA in English Literature in 1982. His first short story sale ("Rapid Transit" to Grue) followed in 1985. Since then he's had hundreds of stories and poems appear on both sides of the Atlantic in such venues as Deathrealm, Sex Crimes, Borderlands II, Cemetery Dance and many more. To name them all would require a lot of web space. His first novel, THE HOLY TERROR, was published in 2002 to great acclaimed and he followed it up with a collection of short stories in 1996, WITH WOUNDS STILL WET. Forthcoming are more short stories, poems, and hopefully another novel.
Angel Garcia is a Los Angeles, California native who works as a journalist and a psychotherapist. Aside from numerous academic studies, her fiction output is meager. VOYEUR is her first novel, and it probably won't be her last. She currently resides in the Los Angeles area with an Iguana, a Burmese Python, several Venus Flytraps, and a tankfull of exotic fish.
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