Cthulhu Lives!: An Eldritch Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft (27 page)

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CONTRIBUTOR BIOS

Seattle-based writer
E. Dane Anderson
grew up in Spokane, Washington.  He attended Eastern Washington University and University College London, and holds masters degrees in both History and Archaeology. He is currently employed as an archaeologist for an Environmental consulting firm. He is also a photographer and musician.
Demon in Glass
is his first fiction publication.

Piers Beckley
came into this world naked, screaming, and covered in blood, and feels that this has coloured his outlook ever since. He lives in London, south of the river. Most of the monsters and fey there are gone now. Most of them.

Joff Brown
is a magazine editor, fiction writer, and writer-for-hire. Kids’ storybooks,
Doctor Who
short stories, fairy tales, that kind of thing. He’s @JoffB on Twitter. Last one to follow him’s a shoggoth.

Jeremy Clymer
is a husband, father, writer, and stand-up comic all inhabiting the same body. That body is currently located somewhere around Grand Rapids, Michigan in the United States. It has produced a number of published short stories, some of which are linked to on his blog at jeremyclymer.com. He’s also on Twitter under the username @JeremyClymer, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Gábor Csigás
is a writer (with most of his short stories published in Hungarian) whose surname was, as far as he knows, not invented by H.P. Lovecraft, even though it might seem and sound so to some. He’s also a designer (and a developer, where applicable) of book covers, websites and other weird things. Follow him on Twitter as @gaborcsigas.

Tim Dedopulos
is an unrepentant writer, editor, puzzle creator and game designer. A long-time lover of genre, he is particularly interested in the places where prose, film and game are coming together. He can be found at ghostwoods.com, or on Twitter as @ghostwoods.

Helmer Gorman
is a new writer working from early retirement in the Isles of Scotland. He spends his nights writing, accompanied by his cats, and his days enjoying the wilderness and imagining everyone else in the world has disappeared.

Michael Grey
was born and grew up in Yorkshire and now lives in Melbourne with his wife and two boys. His work has been featured in 
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
, the 
Australian Literature Review
 and the 
Journey Into...
 podcast, which was shortlisted for a 2013 Parsec Award.  He is currently taking applications for the role of ‘Writer’s Cat’.  Candidates can contact him at www.michaelgrey.com.au or on Twitter as @Mikes005.

Originally trained as a biomedical research scientist,
Lynne Hardy
was first introduced to Lovecraft’s work through Chaosium’s
Call of Cthulhu
roleplaying game whilst at university. Having failed to escape the mind-rending insanity of the Mythos, she now works on Modiphius Entertainment’s
Achtung! Cthulhu
game as a writer, editor and line manager, and can be found on Twitter as @CogsandCakes.

S. T. Joshi
is the author of
The Weird Tale
(1990),
The Modern Weird Tale
(2001), and
Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction
(2012). His award-winning biography
H. P. Lovecraft: A Life
(1996) was later expanded and updated as
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft
(2010). Joshi has prepared annotated editions of works by H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, Clark Ashton Smith, and other weird writers. He is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and has also won the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award, and other awards.

Leeman Kessler
has been depicting HP Lovecraft on stage and screen since 2010. Originally from Nigeria, he now lives in Canada with his wife and daughter where he hosts his comedic advice program,
Ask Lovecraft
, as well as acts, produces live theatre, podcasts, and generally strives to keep out of trouble. This is his first collaboration with Ghostwoods Books. Find him on Twitter as @asklovecraft.

G. K. Lomax
is a nom-de-internet behind which lurks a rather strange individual from the fair English county of Essex. Hitherto, his peculiar jottings have been posted to some of the more obscure corners of the ’net; this is his first foray into what he touchingly thinks of as “The big time.” 

Iain Lowson
has been a freelance writer for thumty-tum years now, flirting with journalism, writing loads of official
Star Wars
stuff, various bits and pieces for video games, and dabbling in RPGs. He created the award-winning
Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankenstein
RPG with some chums, the short story anthology for which –
Tales of Promethea
– is available from Ghostwoods Books. He blogs at: embraagain.blogspot.co.uk

Gethin A. Lynes
is a novelist, comics writer and a general peddler of parables. For some reason (having lived in such exotic locales as Worton, Maryland) he now resides in Perth, Australia with his remarkably tolerant, darling wife and two cats. His shameless cynicism, love of whisky and expletives, and uncanny talent for speaking before thinking regularly get him in trouble.

Marc Reichardt
lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, believes in politics that most others don’t find realistic (the Crawling Chaos has many masks...), and consequently writes about more believable worlds than our own. He shares space with three cats and entirely too many books for the 21st century. Find him on Twitter as @jackwraith, or at his blog, dichotomouspurity.blogspot.com.

John Reppion
has written weird articles for the likes of
Fortean Times
,
Strange Attractor Journal,
and
Darklore
. His day job is scripting comics with his wife and writing partner Leah Moore. John’s fiction has previously appeared in
SteamPunk Magazine
, on warrenellis.com, and been published by Vagrants Among Ruins and Swan River Press. Find him on Twitter as @johnreppion.

Greg Stolze
was born in Iowa in 1970 and has been trying to make amends ever since. A novelist and game designer, perhaps his most notable achievement has been finding a way to get money from the internet in exchange for giving away free stuff. You can read all about it at www.gregstolze.com/fiction_library.

Peter Tupper
is a writer and journalist in Vancouver, BC. His previously published fiction includes the steampunk erotica story collection
The Innocent’s Progress & Other Stories
(Circlet Press, 2010), the zombie erotica story
The Charge of the Soul
(Forbidden Fiction, 2012), and the science-fiction story
An Angel Has No Memory
(Inkstained Succubus, 2014).

Adam Vidler
is a journalist who grew up in outback Australia. He now resides in Sydney where he leads a largely normal existence. Even when Yog-Sothoth visits him in his dreams they simply drink whiskey together and play the occasional game of chess. Thus far Adam has never won.

Salomé Jones
has studied writing on both sides of the Atlantic. She lives in London with her partner and several plush Cthulhus, and awaits the return of the real thing. Find her on Twitter as @call_me_salome.

IMAGE CREDITS

Original Cthulhu sculpture by
: Jason McKittrick (www.cryptocurium.com).

Sculpture photograph
: by Dan Wickline (www.danwickline.com).

Cover textures by
: Textures by Mercurycode Resources (www.facebook.com/mercurycoderesources), Sirius-sdz (sirius-sdz.deviantart.com), and DivsM-stock (divsm-stock.deviantart.com).

Fonts
: “Selfish” by Eduardo Recife (www.misprintedtype.com), “Baron Neue” by Frank Hemmekam (www.behance.net/hemmekam), “Metalista” by Tomáš Brousil (www.suitcasetype.com), “Duerers Minuskeln” by Manfred Klein (www.moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/klein), and “Garamond” by Claude Garamond via Christophe Plantin and Adobe.

Our cover designer, Gábor Csigás, can be found on the web at gaborcsigas.deviantart.com (and comes highly recommended by Ghostwoods Books – seriously, the guy’s a freaking genius!)