Authors
- Brian Keene
Greg F. Gifune
Jeff Strand
Michael McBride
Weston Ochse
Jeffrey Thomas
Mark McLaughlin
John Everson
BRIAN KEENE
“Fear is finding a lump in your testicle or breast;
the screech of car tires on a wet road;
the phone call in the middle of the night;
the sudden silence from the other room…”
—Brian Keene
Best-selling author Brian Keene’s books include The Rising, City of the Dead, Terminal, Ghoul, Fear of Gravity and dozens more. Keene lives in Pennsylvania. He enjoys it when readers buy him beer.
Brian Keene is signed with Delirium Books through 2010. Delirium will be publishing all of Keene’s full length books in limited edition hardcover as well as some in trade paperback.
Website URL: www.briankeene.com
Delirium Titles:
- 4 x 4 (2001)
The Rising (2003)
No Rest At All (2003)
Fear of Gravity (2004)
Sympathy For The Devil (2004)
City of the Dead (2005)
Earthworm Gods (2005)
In Delirium—as editor (2006)
Running With The Devil (2006)
The Rising: Selected Scenes From The End of the World (2006)
The Rising: Death In Four Colors (2007)
Ghoul (2007)
Clickers II (2007)
The New Fear (2007)
Dead Sea (forthcoming)
Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes From The End Of The World (forthcoming)
Unhappy Endings (forthcoming)
GREG F. GIFUNE
“Fear is like all great predators.
By the time you realize it’s taken hold of you, it’s already too late.” —Greg F. Gifune
Called “One of the best writers of his generation” by both the Roswell Literary Review and author Brian Keene, Greg F. Gifune is the author of numerous short stories, several novels and two short story collections. In addition to working as a full-time author, he has also recently joined the staff at Delirium Books as Associate Editor. An avid film buff, reader, and animal rights advocate, Greg resides in Massachusetts with his wife and a bevy of very cool cats. He and his wife also work with and care for abandoned cats, both feral and domesticated, a cause very near and dear to their hearts.
Greg F. Gifune has signed a long-term book deal with Delirium Books. Delirium Books will be publishing all his full length books in limited edition hardcover.
Website URL: www.gregfgifune.com
Delirium Titles:
- Heretics (2001)
The Bleeding Season (2003)
Down To Sleep (2004)
Deep Night (2005)
Dominion (2007)
Blood In Electric Blue (forthcoming)
JEFF STRAND
“Fear is an adorable, fluffy,
wide-eyed, purring little kitten…FROM HELL!!!”—Jeff Strand
Jeff Strand was born December 14, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was an adorable baby but he had a really big head. When he was six months old, his parents moved to the sunny beaches of Fairbanks, Alaska. They did not consult him in the matter, though they generously let him tag along.
Jeff was reading by the age of three, and very early on discovered an amazing talent for drawing. Well, maybe not a talent per se…actually, most emoticons show more talent than he did 
but the love for drawing was definitely there. A huge chunk of his early childhood was spent drawing Spider-Man comics, violating copyright law left and right without a smidgen of guilt.
As his school days began, Jeff discovered his passion for writing. His teachers strongly encouraged this passion, but they got really sick of him writing nothing but Spider-Man stories. But he couldn’t help it. Spider-Man was just too cool.
But then tragedy struck…or will strike…real life hasn’t caught up with this bio yet, but most likely there’ll be some devastating tragedy to screw everything up. Otherwise it’s a boring story.
And now, Delirium posts his biography onto his author’s page. What new adventures await? What new challenges? What new typographical erroruz will he miss as he enters the next phase of his writing career?
To be continued…
Jeff Strand has signed a 3-book deal with Delirium Books. Delirium Books will publish his next three horror-comedy novels, the next which is called Benjamin’s Parasite.
Website URL: www.jeffstrand.com
Delirium Titles: The Sinister Mr. Corpse (2007)
MICHAEL MCBRIDE
“Fear is where innocence hides in the adult mind.” —Michael McBride
Michael McBride lives in Westminster, Colorado with his beautiful wife and four brilliant children. He is the author of the highly-acclaimed Chronicles of the Apocalypse series, the forthcoming God’s End, and Zero. There will also be several surprise announcements coming in 2007. His shorter works have been featured in such prominent magazines as Cemetery Dance, Dark Discoveries, and Dark Wisdom.
His alter ego works as a registered radiologic technologist, which means he has some fancy letters after his name. He survives on massive amounts of caffeine to counteract the sleep deprivation and never misses a professional hockey or football game on TV.
Website URL: www.mcbridehorror.com
Delirium Titles:
- God’s End (2007)
The Infected (forthcoming)
Blood Wish (forthcoming)
God’s End II: Blizzard of Souls (forthcoming)
WESTON OCHSE
“Fear is pain in someone else’s eyes.” —Weston Ochse
Weston lives in the Arizona Desert. When he’s not dodging border patrol, illegal aliens, tarantual wasps, and rabid coyotes he’s chained to his desk writing. He has been widely published in magazines, comic books and peered journals. His novel Scarecrow Gods won the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel. His co-authored collection Appalachian Galapagos was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for Fiction. He’s also one of the founding members of MuyMal.com. If found wandering along the side of the road, please return him to his wife, Yvonne Navarro, and his two Great Danes.
Website URL: www.westonochse.com
Delirium Titles:
- Scary Rednecks: The Appalachian Omnibus (2004)
Scarecrow Gods (2005)
Scary Rednecks (2006)
Recalled To Life (2007)
The Golden Thread (forthcoming)
JEFFREY THOMAS
“Fear is the reminder that we can die. Thus, in keeping us vigilant to danger, fear keeps us alive. Sustaining us, ever with us, maybe our loyalest companion. Fear is our friend.”
Jeffrey Thomas has held such ominous jobs as vamp cutter, palletizer, leather cutter, paint masker, negative stripper, plate burner, and writer. When not taking long and mysterious journeys to such far-flung worlds as Punktown and Hades, he takes short and exotic journeys to his wife’s home country of Vietnam, where he has crawled through the Cu Chi Tunnels, fired US and Russian automatic weapons, sped around on a motorbike, drunk rice wine from a bottle containing a dead cobra, eaten deer meat, drunk bird saliva, and obtained all kinds of rich literary inspiration. Thomas has yin/yang tattoos on his hands, once fought with three girlfriends simultaneously, has a delightful autistic teenage son, owns a pinto Akita big as a pinto, and wanders the bleak and burning sands of life from one oasis of coffee to the next. Oh, and just to add: Fear is fighting with three girlfriends simultaneously.
Website URL: www.jeffreyethomas.com
Delirium Titles:
- Terror Incognita (2000)
Punktown (2003)
A Puppet Show (2004)
The Arms of the Sun (2004)
Nether (2004)
Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood (2004), AAAIIIEEE!!! (2004), Thirteen Specimens (2006)
Ugly Heaven, Beautiful Hell (forthcoming w/ Carlton Mellick III)
MARK MCLAUGHLIN
“Fear is caused by the arrival of the unexpected—and so is happiness. It all depends on whether the unexpected is going to delight you or destroy you.” —Mark McLaughlin
Mark McLaughlin is a proud Graeco-Franco-Gaelic: half Greek, part French and part Irish/Scottish. And even though he is mostly Greek, he completely missed out on the sun-kissed bronzed-skin gene. Instead, he ended up with the alabaster complexion of a Transylvanian nobleman, which leads him to believe that Dracula may have visited the Greek isles, or perhaps France, Ireland or Scotland at some point in his toothy career. Mark has given readings from his various books in Seattle, Boston, Denver, New York, Atlanta, London, and plenty of other swanky cities. Mark enjoys sushi, chocolates, sunflower seeds, alligator meat, movies of all sorts, and of course, cartoons. Who doesn’t love cartoons? Mark has seen it all and done it all. He knows where the bodies are buried. He has heard the loathsome cry of the marsupial jackal. He goes out drinking with the Loch Ness monster three times a year, and once subdued and shaved a full-grown Yeti, just for kicks.
Website URL: www.geocities.com/mcmonstrous
Delirium Titles:
- Shoggoth Cacciatore (1999)
Motivational Shrieker (2004)
Slime After Slime (2005)
Pickman’s Motel (2007)
Monster Behind the Wheel (forthcoming)
JOHN EVERSON
“Fear is the sound of footsteps on the stairs when the house is supposed to be empty.” —John Everson
John Everson shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. There’s also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker courtesy of Charlee Jacob, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can’t really play but that his son Shaun likes to hear him beat on anyway. Sometimes his wife Geri is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it’s usually only to brew another cup of coffee. In order to avoid the onerous task of writing, he holds down a regular job as a publications director, records pop-rock songs in a hidden home studio, experiments with the insatiable culinary joys of the jalapeno, designs photo collage art book covers for Delirium and his own boutique small press, loses hours in expanding an array of gardens and chases frequent excursions into the bizarre visual headspace of ’70s euro-horror DVDs with a shot of Makers Mark and a tall glass of Newcastle.
Website URL: www.johneverson.com
Delirium Titles:
- Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions (2000)
Covenant (2004)
Failure (2006)
Sacrifice (2007)
In Delirium II —as editor (forthcoming)
