Awards:
Ash-Tree Press, Specialty Press Awards, 1999
Nominations:
At Ease with the Dead, Anthology, 2007
Acquainted with the Night, Anthology, 2004
Category: Specialty Press Award
Mynhardt, Joe
Awards:
Specialty Press Award, 2020
It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life (Crystal Lake Publishing), Non-fiction, 2018
Nominations:
Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre (Crystal Lake Publishing), Non-fiction, 2017
Horror 201: The Silver Scream (Crystal Lake Publishing), Non-fiction, 2015
Horror 101: The Way Forward (Crystal Lake Publishing), Non-fiction, 2014
BIO: Joe Mynhardt is a four-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated South African publisher, non-fiction and short story editor, and mentor.
A former primary school teacher, Joe is now the owner and CEO of Crystal Lake Publishing, which he founded in August, 2012. Since then he’s published and edited short stories, novellas, interviews and essays by the likes of Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Charlaine Harris, Ramsey Campbell, John Connolly, Jack Ketchum, Jonathan Maberry, Christopher Golden, Graham Masterton, Damien Angelica Walters, Adam Nevill, Lisa Morton, Elizabeth Massie, Joe McKinney, Joe R. Lansdale, Edward Lee, Paul Tremblay, Wes Craven, John Carpenter, George A. Romero, Mick Garris, and hundreds more.
Just like Crystal Lake Publishing, which strives to be a platform for launching author careers, Joe believes in reaching out to all authors, new and experienced, and being a beacon of friendship and guidance in the Dark Fiction field. In 2018 he started a coalition of small press publishers to support both each other and their authors.
Joe’s influences stretch from Poe, Doyle, and Lovecraft to King, Connolly, and Gaiman (and so many more).
You can read more about Joe and Crystal Lake Publishing at www.crystallakepub.com or find him on Facebook.
Monteleone, Thomas F.
Awards:
Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016
Borderlands 6 (Samhain Publishing, Ltd.), Anthology, 2016
Borderlands Press, Specialty Press Award, 2015
Fearful Symmetries, Fiction Collection, 2004
Borderlands 5, Anthology, 2003
The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association, Non-fiction, 2003
Blood of the Lamb, Novel, 1992
Nominations:
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel, Non-fiction, 2004
“Looking for Mr Flip”, Long Fiction, 1995
Manzetti, Alessandro
Awards:
The Inhabitant of the Lake (Independent Legions Publishing), Graphic Novel, 2021
The Place of Broken Things (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2019
Independent Legions Press, Specialty Press Award, 2017
Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2015
Nominations:
Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt (Independent Legions Publishing), Graphic Novel, 2022
Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein) (Independent Legions Publishing), Graphic Novel, 2020
Whitechapel Rhapsody: Dark Poems (Independent Legions Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2020
Calcutta Horror (Independent Legions Publishing), Graphic Novel, 2019
The Keeper of Chernobyl (Omnium Gatherum), Long Fiction, 2019
War (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2018
The Beauty of Death Vol. 2: Death by Water (Independent Legions Publishing), Anthology, 2017
No Mercy (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2017
The Beauty of Death (Independent Legions Publishing), Anthology, 2016
Sacrificial Nights (Kipple Officina Libraria), Poetry Collection, 2016
Venus Intervention (Kipple Officina Libraria), Poetry Collection, 2014
BIO: Alessandro Manzetti (Rome, Italy) is a multiple time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, editor, scriptwriter and essayist of horror fiction and dark poetry. His work has been published extensively (more than 40 books) in Italian and English, including novels, short and long fiction, poetry, essays, graphic novels and collections.English publications include his novels ‘Shanti – The Sadist Heaven (2019) and ‘Naraka – The Ultimate Human Breeding’ (2018), the novella ‘The Keeper of Chernobyl’ (2019), the collections ‘The Radioactive Bride’ (2020) and ‘The Garden of Delight’ (2017) the poetry collections ‘Dancing with Maria’s Ghost’ (2021), ‘Whitechapel Rhapsody’ (2020), ‘The Place of Broken Things’ (2019, with Linda D. Addison), ‘War’ (2018, with Marge Simon), ‘No Mercy’ (2017), ‘Sacrificial Nights’ (2016, with Bruce Boston) ‘Eden Underground’ (2015), ‘Venus Intervention’ (2014, with Corrine de Winter), the graphic novels ‘Kraken Inferno’ (2022), ‘The Inhabitant of the Lake’ (2021), ‘Calcutta Horror’ (2019), ‘Her Life Matters’ (2020), and the essay/guide ‘150 Exquisite Horror Books’ (2021).He edited the anthologies ‘The Beauty of Death’ (2016), ‘The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 – Death by Water’ (2017, with Jodi Renee Lester), ‘Monsters of Any Kind’ (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti) and ‘2021 Rhysling Anthology’ (2021)His stories and poems have appeared in Italian, USA, UK, Australian, Canadian, Russian and Polish magazines such as Weird Tales Magazine, Dark Moon Digest, Splatterpunk Zine, Disturbed Digest, Space and Time Magazine, Darker Magazine, The Horror Zine, Dark Moon Digest, Illumen, Devolution Z, Hinnom, Recompose, Polu Texni, Nothing’s Sacred, Okolica Strachu, and anthologies such as ‘The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13’, ‘Classic Monsters Unleashed’, ‘Splatterpunk Forever’, ‘Best Hardcore Horror of the Year Vol. 2, 4, 5, 6’, ‘The Big Book of Blasphemy’, ‘Midnight Under the Big Top’, ‘Rhysling Anthology’ (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), ‘HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 3 and 4’, ‘The Beauty of Death Vol. 1 and Vol. 2’, ‘World of Light and Darkness’, ‘One of Us’ and many others.Social media/Web site links:Web site: http://www.battiago.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/amanzetti
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/Qqv9mBZpFZ4
Jonez, Kate
Awards:
Omnium Gatherum, Specialty Press Award, 2016
Nominations:
Lady Bits (Trepidatio Publishing), Fiction Collection, 2019
“All the Day You’ll Have Good Luck” (Black Static #47), Short Fiction, 2015
Candy House (Evil Jester Press), First Novel, 2013
BIO: Dark fantasy and horror author Kate Jonez has twice been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and once for the Shirley Jackson. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 8, Black Static, Pseudopod, Gamut and Haunted Nights edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton.
She is also the chief editor at the Bram Stoker Award winning small press Omnium Gatherum which is dedicated to publishing unique dark fantasy, weird fiction and horror.
