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| Louise Bohmer: Louise does interviews and reviews for CWW/Wicked Karnival. Also a writer of dark fiction and poetry, her work has appeared in Camp Horror, Enter the Realm, ( A Freaky Frights Anthology scheduled for release in October) Nevermore Magazine and House of Pain. |
| Nancy Jackson: Nancy has works in Corpse Magazine, Macabre, Cyber Pulp Magazine, and various anthologies including Small Bites, Cyber Pulp Halloween Anthology 3.0, Maelstrom I, and Strange News. She is an editor with Cyber Pulp and her book collection Reading my Mind will debut January 2005. Lurk at her website http://www.nancyajackson.com if you dare! |
| Lisa Ulibarri is a mutimedia artist whos talents range from her artisian like creations of her booming business to writing and graphics. Her debut is in Raging Horrormones (not out yet), As an artist she debuted in The Corpse magazine and Black Petals . She now has two columns in Black Petals, a story and 2 illos being published in the Halloween Cyber Pulp antho. is also part of the crew of Carnival of Wicked Writers, among many other things. A taste of her talents can be seen at: http://www.oocities.org/lisaannulibarri |
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| Greetings and Welcome to the premiere Halloween edition of Wicked Karnival brought to you by Carnival of Wicked Writers a group aimed at keeping the genre of horror alive and well and promoting those therein. Meet Some of the wonderful people behind Wicked Karnival. |
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| Brian Yount is a fledgling author. He is webmaster of an online writing forum, The Carnival of Wicked Writers, http://freezenerve.proboards32.com/index.cgi
His first publication was in the critically acclaimed anthology Small Bites and you can look for him in the Halloween 3.0 anthology, also from Cyber-Pulp. Any comments, suggestions, and/or critiques are welcome at: bewisedesigns@hotmail.com |
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| It all began in the mid 80’s in the city of Atlanta, Ga. A film entitled “Poltergeist” traumatized a young boy by the name of Paul Danda. Bad dreams ensued, and the fear of horror films and novels was born. If being traumatized by a Spielberg and Kahn film wasn’t enough, a little shocker from a man named Tobe Hooper, solidified the fear that was seeded in his brain. That film was “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
As Paul Danda grew up, a natural love for music crept to the surface, and he took to it like stink on shit. A place to vent his creativity, the guitar took over his life from the ages of twelve to twenty-three. Numerous bands, stints with different genres, lots of sex, drugs, and rock & roll took its toll on him causing a natural shift in his attention, bringing Paul to find a new outlet for his creativity. And that begins the start of his love for reading, writing, and film. The traumatized Paul Danda, now a grown man, began reading lots of Stephen King books, Clive Barker’s “Books of Blood,” and discovered Edward Lee’s sick sense of humor. Now he can’t get enough of it. Along with his love for terror, his love for film blossomed to the point of wanting to direct and write for the screen. At some point down the line you’ll be watching a freakish film, and wonder what kind of sick fuck could direct something so atrocious… that’ll be me. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Paul is a cynical, sarcastic, lovable soul that seeps in negativity and spits it out glorified. Delighting in reader's discomfort, his writings of the disturbing kind make him revel in the knowledge of your disgust at what you read. Stay twisted, and be happy. Paul is watching… Paul's magazine of Dark Fiction is debuting October 31st. Visit the site here: http://www.insidiousreflections.com |
| Steve Vernon was born and raised in the Northern Ontario shield. His stories have appeared in The Horror Show, Cemetery Dance, Karl Edward Year's Best Horror, Horror Garage and many other markets. He has worked as a roustabout and loves carnivals. He is armed and dangerous, and if seen should be approached with large slices of donair pizza, heavy on the sauce. |
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| Keith Gouveia recently finished Small Bites an anthology to benefit Charles Grant, which he co-edited with Garrett Peck. Inside this tome is nearly two hundred short-short stories from some of Horror's brightest stars. You can learn more about Keith here: http://hometown.aol.com/gohan1140/ |
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