Jeff Gelb - Seeds of Fear

The fiction of Illinois resident Sallee has been reprinted in DAW's Year's Best Horror Stories annually since 1986. He's won Stoker awards for novelette, short story, and for his first novel, The Holy Terror. His fiction has appeared in such anthologies as 100 Vicious Little Vampires, Love in Vein, and Nightmares on Elm Street. Sallee is currently at work on several novels, including Mamie's, Near Morning, and The Skull Carpenters.

California's Stevens is a world-renowned Scream Queen who's starred in over two dozen horror films, including Teenage Exorcist, for which she wrote the screenplay, Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity, and the upcoming Mommy. She has been a production executive for Weird Tales, staff writer for Monsterland, and correspondent for Femmes Fatales. She is the heroine of her own comic book series, a star of trading cards, and has several model kits based on her various horror personae. She's currently writing erotic horror short stories, a new movie script, and a children's book.

Taff has been published in Shock Rock 2, Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, 2 AM, Midnight Zoo, and Aberrations. His first published short story was awarded an honorable mention in the Sixth Annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. He lives in Missouri, where he is working on his second novel.

California's Tritten is a veteran magazine editor and writer whose credits include Amazing, Azimov's, Cosmopolitan, F&SF, New Yorker, Harper's, National Lampoon, Playboy, Redbook, Twilight Zone, Spy, and Vanity Fair.

Urban's stories, poems, and commentaries have appeared through the dark fantasy small press in publications like After Hours, Doppelganger, Fantasy and Terror, and Thin Ice. His paperback appearances include Fear Itself and Shock Rock II. The North Carolina resident is at work on his first novel, Crevices.

Indiana's Williamson is a veteran horror novelist whose fifty-three works include Don't Take Away the Light, The Book of Webster's, and Bloodlines. He is no less prodigious in short stories, with over 140 works appearing in anthologies including Hot Blood, Hotter Blood, Werewolf, and Vampire Detectives, along with magazines like Twilight Zone, Weird Tales, and Night Cry.