Featured Poet: Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman is an artificial intelligence originally constructed in 1573 out of brass and quartz and small lodestones, and upgraded and improved several times since. He spends most of his time in a globular pool of nutrients maintained in an abandoned and decaying space station currently in geosynchronous orbit in the Clarke Belt. For recreation he is believed to write monographs on the history of Prince Hall Freemasonry. In appearance he is currently somewhere between an oversized and bedraggled rat and a small carnival merry-go-round.

Featured Poet: David N. Wilson

David Niall Wilson has been writing and publishing horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction since the mid-eighties.  His novels include Deep Blue, The Grails Covenant Trilogy, Star Trek Voyager: Chrysalis, Except You Go Through Shadow, This is My Blood, and the Dark Ages Vampire clan novel Lasombra.  He has over 120 short stories published in two collections and various anthologies and magazines.  David lives and loves with Patricia Lee Macomber in the historic William R. White House in Hertford, NC with their children, Billy and Stephanie, occasionally his boys Zach and Zane, a psychotic cat and a dwarf bunny who continues to belie his “dwarfness”.  David is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Professional Achievement in poetry for his collaboration with Rain Graves and Mark Mclaughlin, The Gossamer Eye.

James S. Dorr

James Dorr's new book, Darker Loves: Tales of Mystery and Regret, is due out in 2006 from Dark Regions Press as a companion to his current fiction and poetry collection, Strange Mistresses: Tales of Wonder and Romance (Dark Regions, 2001). Other work has appeared in  Gothic.net, Chi-Zine, Yellow Bat Review, Rouge et Noir, Aboriginal SF, Mindmares, Star*Line, Roadworks (UK), The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, and numerous anthologies.  Dorr is an active member of SFWA and HWA, an Anthony (mystery) and Darrell (fiction set in the US Mid-South) finalist, winner of the 2002 World Horror Convention Poetry Competition, winner of Best of the Web 1998, a Pushcart Prize nominee, multi-time Rhysling finalist, and has had work listed in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror eleven of the past thirteen years. This is his second appearance in Spiderwords.

Amy Grech

Amy Grech has sold over one hundred stories and three poems to various anthologies and magazines including: Alien Skin Magazine, Bare Bone, Blood Rose, Buried.com, City Slab Magazine, Cold Storage, Cthulhu Sex, Dawn Sky, Flashshot: Year One, Funeral Party 2, Hell Hath No Fury, Horrorfind.com, Murder by Six, Nasty Snips, October Rush, Red Scream Magazine, Rogue Worlds, Shadow Writers - Volume 2, Terror Tales, The Book of Dark Wisdom, The Horror Express, The Late Late Show, and many others. Her novel, The Art of Deception, is available at Amazon.com. Naked Snake Press recently published her chapbook Cold Comfort. Stories are forthcoming in: Apex, Inhuman Magazine, Mind Scraps, Space & Time, and Story House. She is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association who lives in Brooklyn.

A.M. Muffaz

A.M. Muffaz is a figment of your imagination, cousin to the monster under the bed and a nagging reminder of last night's dubious egg salad. Some of her rambles have shown up in the Chiaroscuro, Gothic.Net and Star*Line, among others. If you wish to join her cult of hamster sniffers, you may do so here.

Steve Vernon

Steve Vernon has been writing horror since the mid-eighties. His novella Long Horn, Big Shaggy - A Tale of Wild West Terror and Reanimated Buffalo continues to refuse to die. Steve is releasing a short collection of super hero horror tales early in the summer of 2006. The collection, Nothing to Lose from Nocturne Press, centers around the adventures of a character so dark that he'd give the Batman a case of the screaming-eyeteeth-nightmares. You ain't seen nothing until you've seen Captain Nothing. Folks might also want to check out his tale of the world's largest madame, "A Fractal Shotglass", in Flesh and Blood #17.