Carl Abrahamsson

Carl Abrahamsson works as a journalist and photographer in Stockholm, Sweden. He also makes strange music with the band COTTON FEROX. "Although writing is my main focus and my number one driving force, I'm also passionately in love with photography. And when these two become aggressive rivals for my attention, I make music to calm things down." (www)

Shira B.

Shira B. is a California-based writer whose works -- often dark in theme -- have appeared in various small press journals and magazines. She enjoys open fields, libraries, curiosities, and manifestations of infestations. Shira misses the days of patent medicine, school formals, and dressing up (hats, gloves, and all) to go to the Picture Palace. She hopes that Armageddon doesn't occur during her lifetime.

Greg Bauder

Greg Bauder has a BA in English from the University of British Columbia, where he is studying Creative Writing.

Mary Jo Bole

Mary Jo Bole teaches ceramics at Ohio State University. An interview with her appeared in MORBID CURIOSITY #2. Her wacky ceramic work graces MORBID CURIOSITY #5 and #6.

Greg Boukas

Greg Boukas is an illustrator and tattooist located in the Washington, D.C. area. His artwork appears in MORBID CURIOSITY #2-6. He enjoys bringing out the gruesome in everything.

M. Christian

M. Christian's stories can be seen in BEST AMERICAN EROTICA, BEST GAY EROTICA, BEST LESBIAN EROTICA, BEST TRANSGENDERED EROTICA, and over 150 over books, magazines, and websites. He's the editor of 12 anthologies, including GUILTY PLEASURES, BEST S/M EROTICA, and THE BURNING PEN. His first collection of stories, DIRTY WORDS, has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and his second, SPEAKING PARTS, will be out in July 2002. The third, BODYWORK, will be out early in 2003. (www)

Forestter Cobalt

Forestter Cobalt has been a contributing editor and writer for a number of print and Internet magazines including LUMPEN, SUPERSPHERE.COM and 100WORDS.NET. He's currently mapping out the geography of his dream world. He lives in Chicago with two kittens.

Jeff Dauber

This is Jeff's second appearance in MORBID CURIOSITY. He lives in San Francisco with three cats, none of which have pointy toes.

Suzanne Dechnik

Artist Suzanne Dechnik shows her art at the WESTGATE GALLERY in New Orleans. Her atmospheric artwork also appeared in MORBID CURIOSITY #5. (www)

Kalifer Deil

Kalifer Deil is a Silicon Valley engineer who dabbles in writing, sculpture, and home design. He started a number of companies and has worked for several computer mega-companies as well. He has written a number of science fiction short stories and novels that he hopes to get published someday. His latest project is a play based on Ray Kurtzweil that is bound to carry people down unsettling if not terrifying avenues of thought.

Morgan Elliott

This is Morgan's first contribution to MORBID CURIOSITY.

Garry Erwin

Garry Erwin is presently incarcerated.

Dean Estes

Dean Estes had written about Mormonism and Mexico for MORBID CURIOSITY. He is currently a student in San Francisco.

Drew Feuer

Drew Feuer is presently incarcerated.

Roy K. Felps

Roy K. Felps wrote about the hallucinating homeless in MORBID CURIOSITY #4. He is the force behind DEAD ANGEL ezine and MONOTREMATA RECORDS. (www)

Dana Fredsti

This is Dana's fifth essay for MORBID CURIOSITY. She has stories in CATFANTASTIC IV and the fabled MONDO ZOMBIE. She is working now on a documentary about feral cats, while going through re-write hell on a horror script.

William Grace

William Grace was the brains and beauty behind the SIGHTS SOUNDS LIBERTIES gallery event in San Francisco in February 2002. He's also a partner in ENTERRUPTION RECORDS and the ENTERRUPTION zine. He's no longer a medical guinea pig. (www)

Gordon A. Graves

Gordon's stories have appeared in CALLIOPE, BLACK PETALS, ALIEN WORLDS, PEEKS & VALLEYS, THE FAIRFIELD COUNTY WEEKLY, and MOOREEFFOC.

Dalton Graham

Dalton Graham is a polyamorist who studies pain. This is her third contribution to MORBID CURIOSITY.

Chad Hensley

Chad Hensley's non-fiction has appeared in HUSTLER, GAUNTLET, SECONDS, TERRORIZER, and the Feral House book APOCALYPSE CULTURE 2. His second poetry collection, WHAT THE CACODAEMON WHISPERED, is available from Flesh & Blood Press. Chad is the editor of ESOTERRA: THE JOURNAL OF EXTREME CULTURE. (www)

Mike Hunter

Along with the creation of surrealist art and horror fiction, Mike Hunter's interests include psychology, anthropology, and alternative spirituality. He and illustrator Lizabeth West have created DARK MOON ART. His illustrations have beautified MORBID CURIOSITY 3-6. (www)

Dorian Katz

Dorian Katz has shown her art at 381g Gallery and Cellspace. Her detailed line work illustrations have appeared in MORBID CURIOSITY #1, 2, 5 and 6.

Clay Kenyon

Clay Kenyon is a man of mystery.

R. Samuel Klatchko

R. Samuel Klatchko's luminous black-and-white photography has graced the last 5 issues of MORBID CURIOSITY.

Mason Jones

Once the impresario behind CHARNEL MUSIC, Mason Jones now concentrates on his band SubArachnoid Space and his zine, ONGAKU OTAKU. This is his second essay for MORBID CURIOSITY. (www)

Peter E. Lewis

Peter E. Lewis is the editor of OUT OF ORDER.

Daniel McQuillan

Dan McQuillan is 35 years old and lives in London. He develops multilingual web sites with refugee groups. Dan and others have founded the GENOA JUSTICE CAMPAIGN to fight for justice. He kept his bloodstained shirt. (www)

Jennifer L. Moore

Jennifer L. Moore's writing passions are poetry and nonfiction. Her essays have appeared in MORBID CURIOSITY 2-6. She lives in Maryland with four cats and other scary things.

George Neville-Neil

George Neville-Neil is a quiet Irish boy trapped in the body of a Jewish anarchist. He's written about finding his landlord dead, getting tested for AIDS, cruising, and anarchy in Père Lachaise for MORBID CURIOSITY.

Cristina Legato Orr

Cristina Legato Orr takes scary photos of dead animals. She does not kill the animals. People bring them to her. (www)

Miranda S. Padgett

Miranda S. Padgett lives in a tiny house with a haunted garden in the wilds of Oregon. She edits PSYCHOTROPIC HEAD zine. Throughout her life, Miranda has been consumed by the urge to create disturbing art and literature. She immensely enjoys her counterphobia.

M. Parfitt

M. Parfitt lives amid bottles of blood, bags of hair and dog fur, assorted dead insects, boxes of old photographs, and stacks of crumbling old books. Sooner or later, everything makes its way into her artwork. When she's not making art, she haunts old cemeteries and visits public restrooms. Her stories have featured in every issue of MORBID CURIOSITY.

Erik Quarry

Erik G. Quarry resides in Hayward, California. He received his B.A. in Art at Cal State Hayward University and is a member of the ASSOCIATION FOR GRAVESTONE STUDIES. His work has been published in the WESTGATE NEWSLETTER and MORBID CURIOSITY. El Dia De Los Muertos and woodcuts from the Middle Ages on the Danse Macabre are his main inspirations.

Timothy Renner

Timothy Renner grew up in a haunted farmhouse in rural Maryland. He now lives in a strange house in southern Pennsylvania where he spends his time making music, drawing, making and refinishing musical instruments, and taking long walks in the woods. Timothy has released several records and CDs with his bands (STONE BREATH, THE SPECTRAL LIGHT & MOONSHINE FIREFLY SNAKEOIL JAMBOREE) and solo (as TIMOTHY THE REVELATOR). He designed the limited edition MORBID CURIOSITY T-shirt. (email) (www)

Loren Rhoads

Loren Rhoads defines her life with her curiosity. She's written nonfiction about the trouble it has gotten her into -- and out of -- for GOTHIC.NET, CYBER-PSYCHOS A.O.D., TAILSPINS, THE BONE PALACE, ENTERRUPTION, TRIPS, TRAVELER'S TALES, and UNZIPPED. She's edited Morbid Curiosity since 1997. There's nothing she likes more than to read true first-person stories of other people's run-ins with their own curiosity. Indulge her at Morbid@charnel.com. (email) (www)

Chris Schnapp

Chris Schnapp is inspired by Simon Marsden and his work with infrared photography. Chris' infrared photos appear in MORBID CURIOSITY #5 and #6 and on the STONES CD from Lone Wolf Publications.

Robert E. Shuster

Robert E. Shuster is the author of SEVENACIDE, THE 13 COLONIES, and I, VAMPIRE. This is his first appearance in MORBID CURIOSITY. (www)

Lee Smith

Lee Smith wrote about working on THE X-FILES and an insectidal Armageddon for previous issues of MORBID CURIOSITY. This is his third contribution to MC.

John Sulak

John Sulak is the co-author of MODERN PAGANS, published by RE/Search.

Brian Thomas

Brian Thomas has appeared in every Automatism Press publication. He's dodged bullets in a drive-by shooting, explored a graveyard in Venezuela, buried a cat, locked himself into a cell in Auschwitz, visited the Black Virgin in Poland, and worked with a human skeleton that he didn't know was real. He's looking for someone to bury him alive.

Jill Tracy

Critics have described Jill Tracy as "a femme fatale for the Thinking Man." An award-winning singer, pianist, and composer leading THE MALCONTENT ORCHESTRA, she is known for her seductively macabre song-stylings, cinematic arrangements and stunning performances. Expanding on the songwriting craft, Jill Tracy finds her passion of late has been penning short fiction and, in the case of "The Keeper of the Shop," memoir. (www)

Kimberlee Traub

Kimberlee Traub resides in Eastern Pennsylvania and has a BFA in Illustration. She designs custom tattoos and creates art for underground zines such as MORBID OUTLOOK. She has been involved in several art shows and galleries, including a Gothic art show in Austin, TX and a fantasy exhibition held by the creators of DARK REALMS. In 1999, Kimberlee created greeting cards for pagan holidays, Dracula Valentines, Gothic weddings, etc. Her publications include a "Gothic coloring book" called SILENT FABLES. A fascination with the horror genre also inspires her to work annually for local haunted houses. To see more of her work please email. (email)

Vale

Vale is the founder of RE/Search Publications. He's the co-author of MODERN PAGANS. (www)

Lilah Wild

Lilah Wild is a horror writer whose passions include industrial music, film noir, tribal dance, aimless midnight drives, photographing antique architecture, and the way of the cat. She currently resides in the bay area. (www)

Willow

Willow told this story at World Horror Convention 2001 in Seattle. (www)