People:

Linda Addison - author of Animated Objects and Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes

Clive Barker - author of Weaveworld, Coldheart Canyon, Abarat, and others

Laird Barron - author of The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Gary A. Braunbeck - author of In Silent Graves, Fear in a Handful of Dust, and others

Daniel Braum - author of numerous science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories

Poppy Z. Brite - author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, Liquor, and others

Kealan Patrick Burke - author of Ravenous Ghosts and The Turtle Boy

P.D. Cacek - author of Canyons, Night Prayers, and others

Ramsey Campbell - author of Nazareth Hill, The Darkest Part of the Woods, and others

Jonathan Carroll - author of The Wooden Sea, White Apples, and others

Mort Castle - author of Moon on the Water, The Strangers, and others

F. Brett Cox - amazing writer and editor

Ellen Datlow - renowned editor of sf/fantasy/horror anthologies

M.M. De Voe - Pushcart Prize-nominated author of numerous short stories

Lena DeTar - very talented, up-and-coming science fiction writer

Tananarive Due - author of The Between, My Soul to Keep, and others

Harlan Ellison - the best speculative-fiction writer working today, period

Barbara J. Ferrenz - author of Worse Than Death

Polly Frost - playwright and New Yorker author

Craig Shaw Gardner - author of Dark Mirror, The Purple Book of Peculiar Stories and others

Neil Gaiman - author of American Gods, the Sandman comics, and others

Sephera Giron - author of Eternal Sunset, House of Pain, and others

Christopher Golden - author of Strangewood, The Ferryman, and others

Ed Gorman - author of The Dark Fantastic, The Poker Club, and others

Jack Haringa - fiction writer, scholar, best dressed man in New England

Rhodi Hawk - author of A Twisted Ladder

Brian A. Hopkins - author of El Dia de Los Muertos, These I Know By Heart, and others

Gerard Houarner - author of The Beast That Was Max, Dead Cat Bounce, and others

Marcy Italiano - author of Pain Machine and my mistress... Web Mistress that is.

Michael Jasper - author of Gunning for the Buddha

Tina Jens - author of The Blues Ain't Nothing

Brian Keene - author of No Rest for the Wicked, The Rising, and others

Dan Keohane - author of Christmas Trees and Monkeys

Jack Ketchum - author of The Girl Next Door, The Lost, and others

Stephen King - talented newcomer

J.A. Konrath - author of the Jack Daniels mystery series

Monica S. Kuebler- performance poet and author of Some Words Spoken

Michael Laimo - author of The Dregs of Society, Atmosphere, and others

Sarah Langan - author of The Keeper

Joe R. Lansdale - author of The Drive-In, The Nightrunners, and others

Tim Lebbon - author of White and Other Tales of Ruin, Face, and others

Thomas Ligotti - author of Grimscribe, Noctuary, and others

Kelly Link - author of Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners

Brian Lumley - author of the Necroscope series

Louis Maistros - author of The Big Punch

Nick Mamatas - author of Move Under Ground, Under My Roof, and others

Michael Marano - author of Dawn Song

Elizabeth Massie - author of Sineater, Wire Mesh Mothers, and others

Graham Masterton - author of The Manitou, The House That Jack Built, and others

David Morrell - author of First Blood, The Totem, and others

James Morrow - author of Only Begotten Daughter, Towing Jehovah, and others

Joe Nassise - author of Riverwatch and The Templar Chronicles

Yvonne Navarro - author of That's Not My Name, Red Shadows, and others

Stewat O'Nan - author of A Prayer for the Dying, The Night Country, and others

Jack Passarella - author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel Wither

Adam Pepper - author of Memoria

Stefan Petrucha - best known for writing the X-Files comics, but also a talented novelist

J.T. Petty - filmmaker and author of the Clemency Pogue books

Tom Piccirilli - author of Hexes, A Choir of Ill Children, and others

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - authors of Relic, Cabinet of Curiosities, and others

Stephen Mark Rainey - author of Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark, Balak, and others

Judi Rohrig - excellent short story writer

Brett Savory - author of No Further Messages, In and Down and others

Michael Slade - pseudonymous author of Headhunter, Ghoul, and others

Peter Straub - author of Ghost Story, The Throat, and others

Karen Taylor - author of the Vampire Legacy series

Lee Thomas - author of Parish Damned and Stained

Paul Tremblay - author of Compositions for the Young and Old

Bev Vincent - author of The Road to the Dark Tower

Robert Weinberg - author of The Black Lodge, The Science of Superheroes, and others

David Wellington - author of Monster Island and others

F. Paul Wilson - author of The Keep, The Tomb, and the Repairman Jack series

Places:

Annabelle Magazine - funky Web-based lifestyle magazine

Borderlands Press - Thomas and Elizabeth Monteleone's specialty press

Burning Effigy Press - Canadian specialty press run by Rue Morgue's Monica S. Kuebler

Cemetery Dance - independent book and magazine publisher

ChiZine - Bram Stoker Award-winning fiction and poetry webzine

Earthling Publications - award-winning specialty press

Edgar Allan Poe Museum - the name says it all

The Eternal Night - excellent resource site for speculative fiction writers, books, and magazines

The Fantastic in Art and Literature - excellent research source

- insider news, interviews and reviews

FearZone - outstanding site for horror industry news, interviews and reviews

Feo Amante's Horror Home - great source of news and reviews

Hellnotes - news and reviews for horror writers and fans

Horror Fiction News Network - horror lit news source, with fiction excerpts, must-have lists and more

Horror Mall - great online store for all things horror

- global network of horror authors both established and new

HWA NYC Chapter - Web site for the monthly gathering of Big Apple horror writers

International Horror Guild - presenting annual awards for work in all horror media

Locus - trade magazine for the speculative fiction industry

Necessary Evil Press - award-winning specialty press

Night Shade Books - outstanding publisher of special and trade editions

Northeastern Writers Conference (NECON) - not to be missed

Shirley Jackson Awards - new annual award for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic

Ralan.com - the Web's best market report site for writers of speculative fiction

Twilight Tales - long-lived reading series out of Chicago

World Horror Convention - annual gathering of freaks like you and me

World Fantasy Convention - see above