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Brian J. Showers

Brian J. Showers is originally from Madison, Wisconsin. He now runs the Swan River Press and has written short stories, articles, and reviews for magazines such as Rue Morgue, Ghosts & Scholars, Le Fanu Studies and Supernatural Tales. His short story collection, The Bleeding Horse (Mercier Press), won the Children of the Night Award in 2008. He is also the author of Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin (Nonsuch, 2006) and Old Albert — An Epilogue (Ex Occidente, 2011); with Gary W. Crawford and Jim Rockhill he co-edited the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu (Hippocampus Press, 2011). He currently resides on the Emerald Isle, somewhere in the verdant and ghost-haunted wilderness of Dublin City, where he is busy at work on his next collection of strange tales. The Swan River Press can be found on Facebook here.

Meggan Kehrli
MK@MEGGANKEHRLI.COM

Meggan Kehrli is the illustrator of The Old Tailor & The Gaunt Man, many of The Swan River Press's Haunted History series, and the cover artist for Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin. In real life, she runs a graphic design studio in lovely Chicago, the great metropolis somewhere between New York and Los Angeles. Her studio work includes a broad range projects--from corporate collateral to holiday cards. She enjoys combining her artistic talents with her design pursuits through illustration, printmaking and paper arts. Meggan can be visited online at www.meggankehrli.com.

Duane Spurlock

Except for three years as a bookseller, illustrator Duane Spurlock's professional career has centered on publishing--as a newspaper writer, editor-in-chief for software how-to journals, editorial director for internet publisher Emazing.com, and publications director in the health care field. He maintains The Pulp Rack, which focuses on the popular fiction published in magazines during the first half of the twentieth century. Duane has illustrated five chapbooks for The Swan River Press and did interior illustrations for Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin and The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories. He and his wife and their children live and garden, read and draw, and tell stories to one another in Kentucky.