BRIAN KEENE is the author of over fifty books, mostly in the horror, crime, and fantasy genres. His 2003 novel, The Rising, is credited with inspiring pop culture's recurrent interest in zombies. He has written for such media properties as Thor, Doom Patrol, Justice League, Doctor Who, The X-Files, Aliens, and Masters of the Universe. Several of his novels and stories have been adapted for film, including Ghoul, The Naughty List, The Ties That Bind, and Fast Zombies Suck. His numerous awards and honors include the 2014 World Horror Grandmaster Award, 2001 Bram Stoker Award for Nonfiction, 2003 Bram Stoker Award for First Novel, the 2016 Imadjinn Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the 2015 Imaginarium Film Festival Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Short Film Genre, and Best Short Film Overall, the 2004 Shocker Award for Book of the Year, and Honors from United States Army International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and Whiteman A.F.B. (home of the B-2 Stealth Bomber) 509th Logistics Fuels Flight. Keene serves on the Board of Directors for the Scares That Care 501c charity organization.
BRYAN SMITH is the multiple Splatterpunk Award-winning author of more than thirty horror and crime novels and novellas, including the cult classic Depraved and its sequels, The Killing Kind, Slowly We Rot, The Freakshow, Kayla and the Devil, House of Blood, Dirty Rotten Hippies, Kill For Satan, Last Day, and many more. His novel 68 Kill was adapted into a motion picture directed by Trent Haaga and starring Matthew Gray Gubler of the long-running CBS series Criminal Minds. It won the Midnighters Award at the SXSW film festival in 2017 and was released to wide acclaim, including positive reviews in The New York Times and Bloody Disgusting. Smith also co-scripted an original Harley Quinn comic for DC Comics.
