Bill Hughes, Editor/Web designer

Bill Hughes admits he's old enough to remember a time before the PC and the internets.  He spent too many years in college and got too many degrees . . . but had a lot of fun doing it.   He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife Julie, his five-year-old son Griffin, and a trio of troublesome cats.

He has been editing Dred--a.k.a Dread--in various forms off and on since 1997.  Over the years, his fiction has appeared in more than 25 different magazines and websites.   You can visit him in his attic.

M.E.Ellis, Associate Editor

M.E Ellis is a writer of psychological horror/thrillers and chick-lit. She veers from the darkness to humour at the flick of a switch in her mainly insane brain. Editor for Wild Child Publishing and Freya's Bower, associate editor for Dred, book reviewer and author scout, she is a very busy woman. How she finds the time to write her own novels is anyone's guess.

Her psychological horror/thriller books include Pervalism,  Quits, and Quits 2.  Her chick lits include Charade,and Liddy and her Other Half.  She also has stories in Wild Child Publishings Decimate: A Horror Anthology and Weirdly: A Collection of Strange Tales anthology and has a horror erotica novel entitled Garou Moon.  She also features in the Dreams and Desires volume 2 anthology with her chick lit Epiphany.

She is currently working on the finishing touches of her psychological thriller novel Five Pyramids, she is also writing another psychological entitled In Her Veins.  Add to that a co-author title with Faith Bicknell-Brown and another book, a non-fiction with her sister, M.E has enough to keep her busy for months to come.

D.A. Kellough, Contributing Editor

Pulp collector, B-movie enthusiast, and historian/folklorist D.A. Kellough has been associated with Dred since the early days.  As a writer and artist, his work appeared frequently in the print magazine, and his artwork appeared on several covers.  Dred is proud to resurrect his series "New Marvels of the Ohio River Valley," a chronicle of some of the strange people, places, and events in the recent history of the midwest.  He is currently at work on a novel about the end times.  You can visit one of his recent local history projects at http://homepage.mac.com/sdefa/IndianolaPk/web-content/index.html

Leo Vasilevskiy, Art Director

Leo Vasilevskiy is an expatriate of Ukraine, the city of Donetsk, a major European coal mining center.  His dark comedy short "Blind Date" is a finalist of Writemovies.com Contest#15.  He recently won 2nd place in The Writers Place 2007 teleplay contest for a Scrubs spec, and his short script Flash placed in semifinals with Bluecat Screenwriting Lab 2008 . His artwork won the Fall 2007 quarterly illustration contest with Advanced Photoshop Magazine.  
His main source of income is Russian-English freelance translations.   He is available for comissioned work in fine art and illustration.  His website is http://www.illustrationart.bravehost.com.

Gabriel Llanas, Book Reviewer 

Gabriel lives in North East Colorado with his wife, three kids, and a hamster named Vincent.  He is the Co-Founder of Punk Horror Press (www.punkhorror.com) and the resident book reviewer for this fine website.  When he isn't doing those two things or taking care of his fatherly duties he writes fiction, which you can find more of at www.dead-to-write.com.  

And he hates snow.

Christopher Stires, Movie Reviewer

Christopher Stires lives in Riverside CA.  

His science-fiction and western novella, To the Mountain of the Beast, has recently been released by Carnifex Press.  His alternate-history thriller, Rebel Nation, and the horror tale, The Inheritance, are currently available from Zumaya Publications.  Soon Zumaya will release his paranormal novel entitled Dark Legend.    

His short stories have appeared in Fangoria, Vestal Review, Apex Digest, Clash of Steel #3 Demons, Fantastic: Stories of the Imagination and others.  Christopher's story "EscapeVision" appeared in Dread  back in the print days.  Strangely enough, it was a story about � movies!

Check out his blog: Christopher Stires' Notebook at: http://norman1955.blogspot.com/

Michael Kay, Submission Editor/Feature writer

Michael Kay is a musical film-making writer with an unhealthy collection of movies and a strange affinity for things which make no sense. He is one half of Leatherpie Films and has tales in the Decimate Anthology from Wild Child and on Demonminds.com.  You can visit him on-line at http://michaelkay.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

Daniel I. Russell, Submission Editor/Feature writer

Daniel I. Russell was born near Liverpool in 1980. He has been featured in the horror anthologies Hold That Thought, From the Asylum, Macabre Underground volume 2,and Decimate, with many other magazine and ezine appearances, such as Afterburn SF. His novella Shutterbug, and novel Samhane will be available in 2007 from Wild Child Publishing.  He is a member of the Horror Writers' Association and a submissions editor for Dred. Daniel lives in Ormskirk, England. Visit him at www.daniel-i-russell.blogspot.com and www.myspace.com/horror_shutterbug.

Kody Boye, Submission Editor

Kody Boye is part of the newer wave of horror authors that are beginning to sweep this age of the world.  Boye generally writes horror, but he dabbles in dark fantasy, thriller and mystery. He has also taken up script writing as a hobby away from his normal writing.  His influences include Stephen King, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz, Joan Lowery Nixion and Cormac McCarthy.

He lives in a small town in Idaho.  You can visit him at www.freewebs.com/kodyboye. 

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