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Available worldwide, each annual book features:
• Original, razor-wire fiction.
• Non-Fictional accounts of the unusual, weird and out of the way.
• Informative articles.
• Art: drenching pages with the concrete and the convex.

SPECS:
• 5.5X8.5: color cover with 180 perfect-bound pages
• $15.00 an issue

Performance artist, writer, thespian and master of special effects; Mr. Payne's talents have been highlighted in various venues including the History Channel's riveting series, Haunted Places.

Robert received a degree in Fine Art and Anthropology from Rochester Institute of Technology. He works as a luthier, dabbles in amateur filmography and manufactures custom-milled auto parts, via his business, Mortillaro Customs.

Lee is a 3D digital artist. Her specialty is Poser, Bryce, and Photoshop. She also paints and makes prints. She has a B.A. degree in Creative Writing and Studio Art minor. Her goal in life is to be a full-time working creative professional. Her recent accomplishments include, designing the theatrical poster for the indie film, “Extinction” and book cover art for “Digital Daydreams.” She illustrates for many ezines including: Static Movement, Withersin, The Lorelei Signal, and Spacesuits and SixGuns. Lee Kuruganti won Denvention 3's competition to design the 2008 Hugo Award statue base
Check out Lee's work on her website.

Jon lives in Philadelphia, where he graduated Temple University's Film School. He has worked in the film industry in the Philadelphia area for several years, working on such films as "The Village", "Jersey Girl", "Like Mike" and "Lady in the Water". Currently he is earning his MFA in Creative Writing at Wilkes University, as well as finishing work on a screenplay that he plans on producing.

University of California, San Diego alumni, Misty holds certification in a number of public health fields. She has authored numerous articles for professional journals and manuals, and frequently freelances for Word Crafters Writers Collective. Commercially, her works can be found in a number of places, including Three Ring Circus (Seal Press) and Florida Horror (Carnifex Press). She is also an accomplished helicopter pilot, instructor of fine arts and a concert violinist- where she performed at Carnegie Hall.

Adam Armstrong is a writer and visual artist from Northern Kentucky. He is a voracious reader, reading roughly a hundred books a year and hundreds of short stories and articles in the small press. An obsessive autodidact he has learned to speak German and Spanish. He spends an unhealthy amount of time studying literature, visual arts, poetry, philosophy, and anatomy.

Withersin introduces a literary experience that is a fresh and intelligent change of pace.

"It’s dark, enigmatic, unpredictable, and ready to take flight."

-Kim Paffenroth, author of Dying To Live

"A stand out publication of cutting-edge horror with twists of madness and humor."

-Kelly Jameson, author of Dead On

Bosaiya is a self-taught, award-winning, internationally recognized and exhibited fine art photographer who specializes in large format photographs of unusual subjects. He enjoys finding the beauty in the overlooked and discarded while exploring the every day world around him. Bosaiya's first book of photography, Here There Be Dragons, is available from Amazon.com and includes a foreward by photographer and master printer Dr. Tim Rudman. See more of Bosaiya's work at his website.

Garrett is a youngish writer of Horror and Bizarro fiction and winner of the first annual Ultimate Bizarro Showdown. His bookMurderland Part 1:H8 came out in Summer of 2008 and its sequel Murderland Part 2: Life During Wartime is coming Fall 2009. You can find out more about these books at www.evilnerdempire.com/propaganda.htm. Australian publisher Legumeman will be releasing his novellaArchelon Ranch in Fall of 2009 as well. You can find out more about this at www.legumeman.com. When he is not writing books, he is associate editior of absurdist humor journal Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens: www.absurdistjournal.com. He wears many hats metaphorical and otherwise, and is impeccably stylish in all of them.

Jordan is a published novelist, the editor-in-chief of the Darkened Horizons anthology series, a painter, and a critically acclaimed poet. Jordan has spent a good deal, a pathetically large amount actually, of his 28 years succumbing to the pleasures of pop culture. He owns more than a thousand DVDs, a library of books and more than a thousand albums. His tastes are eclectic, to be sure, finding beauty in almost every genre and artistic medium. Born in Missouri, raised in Colorado; he has lived in many states and British Columbia. He takes care of his disabled mother, three minor siblings, a pack of dogs and three cats, with a few fish because he didn’t feel enough of a stress on his limited budget. He has several projects in development, two of which should be released to the market within the next year.