Northwest Horror Professionals

About Me

Northwest Horror Professionals is a group welcoming horror writers, artists, editors and publishers in and around Oregon/Washington to network, plan events and share news.
Our members include authors Jeremy Robert Johnson , Jemiah Jefferson , John R. Little , Carlton Mellick III , Elizabeth Engstrom , Bruce Holland Rogers , Laird Barron , Brian Knight , and Christine Morgan .
Artists include Alan M. Clark , Devon Devereaux and Paul Groendes .
Publishers who call the Northwest home include Afterbirth Books , Dark Horse Comics , Dark Side Press/Midnight House Press , Eraserhead Press , Fairwood Press , IFD Publishing , Triple Tree Publishing , Arkham Press , and Nocturne Press .
Horror magazines that operate in Oregon/Washington include Dark Discoveries , City Slab , Talebones , Post Mortem , and Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries .
This MySpace profile was created to highlight member profiles, share news of our member's book releases and local appearances. Please subscribe to our blog to receive up to the minute news!..

My Blog

Carlton Mellick III's SAUSAGEY SANTA

.. For Matthew Fry, inventor of the 'Sly Guy' haircut, life at the North Pole just isn't what he expected. The elves are far too obsessed with playing Dungeons and Dragons, the reindeer have a tendenc...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:06:00 GMT

New Jeremy Robert Johnson story...

NWHP member Jeremy Robert Johnson will have a new story, "Simple Equations", in the anthology A DARK AND DEADLY VALLEY: A WORLD WAR II HORROR ANTHOLOGY edited by Mike Heffernan, published by Silvertho...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:25:00 GMT

Bruce Holland Rogers wins World Fantasy!

Northwest Horror Professionals member Bruce Holland Rogers won the World Fantasy Award this past weekend in Austin, Texas for his collection The Keyhole Opera (Wheatland Press). CONGR...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:55:00 GMT

Check out "Rahner's Rotten Rentals"!

NWHP member Mark Rahner, pop culture writer at the Seattle Times, posts an annual video around Halloween for the Seattle Times called "Rahner's Rotten Rentals", a homage/spoof of old late-night ...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:19:00 GMT

Jeremy Robert Johnson in the new CD!

Author and NWHP member Jeremy Robert Johnson has a short story, "A Flood of Harriers", and an interview in the latest edition of Cemetery Dance magazine (#56, hitting news stands very soon)....
Posted by on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:19:00 GMT

Stephen King visits the Northwest

The master of horror, Stephen King, will be stopping by Seattle and Portland during his tour to promote his upcoming novel LISEY'S STORY (Oct. 24). First, as part of the Seattle Arts & Lectures se...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:33:00 GMT

Congrats to Laird Barron and Bruce Holland Rogers!

Northwest Horror Professionals member's Laird Barron and Bruce Holland Rogers have been nominated for 2006 World Fantasy Awards. For Laird it was for his novella "The Imago Sequence" (Fantasy & Sc...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:14:00 GMT

Fright Town opens Oct. 13th in Portland!

FRIGHT TOWN (www.frighttown.com) The Pacific Northwest's three most horrifying haunted houses return to the Memorial Coliseum this Friday, October 13th! A festival of fears awaits you at every turn!Fi...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:09:00 GMT

H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival THIS weekend!

Portland's own annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, will be held this weekend, Oct. 6-8 at the Hollywood Theater. Guests include author Ramsey Campbell, actress Barbara Crampton, author and Lovecraft...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:48:00 GMT

Carlton Mellick III article at Blood Zone Media

There is a brief article about NWHP member Carlton Mellick III at Blood Zone Media.com.
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:44:00 GMT