''Dark Regions Press'' is an independent specialty
publisher
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of horror, dark fiction, fantasy and science fiction, specializing in horror and dark fiction in business since 1985 founded by Joe Morey. They have gained recognition around the world for their creative works in genre fiction and poetry. Dark Regions Press was awarded the Horror Writers Association 2010 Specialty Press Award and the Italian 2012 Black Spot Award for Excellence in a Foreign Publisher. They produce premium signed hardcover editions for collectors as well as quality trade paperbacks and ebook editions. Their books have received seven Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writers Association.
DRP has published hundreds of authors, artists, and poets such as Clive Barker, Joe R. Lansdale, Santiago Caruso, Ramsey Campbell, Kevin J. Anderson, Vincent Chong, Bentley Little, Michael D. Resnick, Rick Hautala, Bruce Boston, Robert Frazier, W.H. Pugmire, Simon Strantzas, Jeffrey Thomas, Charlee Jacob, Richard Gavin, Tim Waggoner and hundreds more. Dark Regions Press has been creating specialty books and creative projects for over twenty-nine years.
The press has staff throughout the United States working virtually but also has a localized office in Portland, Oregon from where they ship their orders and maintain the primary components of the business.
Dark Regions Press staff, authors, artists and products have appeared in FANGORIA Magazine, Rue Morgue Magazine, Cemetery Dance Magazine, Dark Discoveries Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist Online, LA Times, The Sunday Chicago Tribune, The Examiner, Playboy, Comic-Con, Wired, The Huffington Post, Horror World, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, iBooks, Sony Reader store and many other publications and vendors.
List of Authors
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Michael A. Arnzen
*Allyson Bird
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Clive Barker
Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English novelist, playwright, author, film director, and visual artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the ''Books of Blood'', which established him as a leading h ...
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Robert Borski
Robert Anthony Borski Jr. (born October 20, 1948) is an American politician. He was a Democratic Party Congressman from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1983 until 2003, representing the state's 3rd congressional district.
Borski was born in ...
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Bruce Boston
Bruce Boston (born 1943) is an American speculative fiction writer and poet.
Early years
Bruce Boston was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California.Diane SeversonInterview with Bruce Boston''Amazing Stories'' March 15, 2013 (accessed Se ...
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Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. He is the author of over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them winners of literary awa ...
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Mort Castle
Mort Castle (born 1946) is an American horror author and writing teacher, with more than 500 short stories and 17 books to his credit, including ''Cursed Be the Child'' (Leisure Books, 1994) and ''The Strangers''. Castle's first novel was publi ...
*James Chambers
*G.O. Clark
*Christopher Conlon
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Gary William Crawford
Gary William Crawford (January 1, 1953 -July 9, 2020) was an American writer and small press publisher.
He is the founder and editor of Gothic Press, which since 1979 has published books and periodicals in the field of Gothic literature. From ...
*James Dorr
*David Dunwoody
*Gabrielle Faust
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Janet Fox
Janet Fox (June 12, 1912 – April 22, 2002) was an American actress.
Life and career
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Fox was the niece of American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art after lea ...
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Robert Frazier
*Jim Gavin
*Richard Gavin
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Rick Hautala
Rick Hautala (February 3, 1949 – March 21, 2013) was an American speculative fiction and horror writer. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1974, where he received a Master of Art in English Literature. Rick arrived on the horror sc ...
*Angeline Hawkes
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C.J. Henderson
*Brian A. Hopkins
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Sarah A. Hoyt
Sarah A. Hoyt (born November 18, 1962) is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction writer. She moved to the United States in the early 1980s, married Dan Hoyt in 1985, and became an American citizen in 1988.
She w ...
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Charlee Jacob
Nell Anne 'Charlee' Jacob (June 2, 1952 - July 14, 2019) was an American author specializing in horror fiction, dark fantasy, and poetry. Her writing career began in 1981 with the publication of several poems under the name Charlee Carter Broach. ...
*Julia Jeffrey
*Shaun Jeffrey
*Michael Kelly
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Caitlín R. Kiernan
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 26 May 1964) is an Irish-born American published paleontologist and author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including 10 novels, series of comic books, and more than 250 published short stories, novella ...
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Joe R. Lansdale
Joe Richard Lansdale (born October 28, 1951) is an American writer and martial arts instructor.
A prose writer in a variety of genres - Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense - he's also written comic books and screenplays. Se ...
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Mary Soon Lee
Mary Soon Lee (born 1965) is a British speculative fiction writer and poet.
Biography
Early life
Mary Soon Lee was born in London, England, to a Malaysian Chinese father and an Irish mother. As a child, she enjoyed reading science fiction a ...
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Michael McBride
*Daniel McGachey
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Joe McKinney
Joseph Anthony McKinney (born 12 May 1967) is an Irish stage, film and television actor and voice-over artist. Rathfarnham-born McKinney trained and worked as a hairdresser for four years, before joining fringe theatre. He trained at Inchicore ...
*Gary McMahon
*William Meikle
*Paul Melniczek
*Wayne Miller
*Tom Moran
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Gene O'Neill
Gene O'Neill is best known as a multi-award nominated writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction.
O'Neill's professional writing career began after completing the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1979. Since that time, over 100 of ...
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Scott Nicholson
Scott Nicholson (born 1963) is an American author specializing in horror or thrillers, often set in rural Appalachia. His debut, ''The Red Church'', was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award.
''Thank you for the Flowers''
The anthology ''Tha ...
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Weston Ochse
Weston Ochse (born 1965 in Gillette, Wyoming) is an American author and educator. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for his short fiction. His novel SEAL Team 666 is currently bein ...
*William Ollie
*Jeffrey Osier
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Tom Piccirilli
Thomas Piccirilli (May 27, 1965 – July 11, 2015) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Career
Piccirilli sold over 150 stories in the mystery, thriller, horror, erotica, and science fiction fields. Some of his stories were include ...
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W.H. Pugmire
Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire (born William Harry Pugmire; May 3, 1951 – March 26, 2019), was a writer of weird fiction and horror fiction based in Seattle, Washington. His works typically were published as W. H. Pugmire (his adopted middle name derive ...
*Gina Ranalli
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Mike Resnick
Michael Diamond Resnick (; March 5, 1942 – January 9, 2020) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He won five Hugo awards and a Nebula award, and was the guest of honor at Chicon 7. He was the executive editor of the defunct ...
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Tony Richards
*Gord Rollo
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Steven Savile
Steven Savile (born 12 October 1969) is a British fantasy, horror and thriller writer and editor living in Sweden. His published work includes novels and numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies.
Career
Steven Savile started out ...
*David B. Silva
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Harry Shannon
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Marge Simon
Marge Baliff Simon (born 1942) is an American artist and a writer of speculative poetry and fiction.
Biography
Early life
Marge Simon was born in Bethesda, Maryland, but grew up in Boulder, Colorado.
Education and career
She received her B ...
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Dave Smeds
Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.
Bibliography
War of the Dragons series
*''The Sorcery Within'' (1985)
*''The Schemes of Dragons'' (1989)
Novels
*''Sinki ...
*Jeff Strand
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Simon Strantzas
Simon Strantzas (born 1972) is a weird fiction author from Toronto, Canada. He has written five story collections and been nominated for a British Fantasy Award in 2009. He has also edited three anthologies including ''Aickman's Heirs'' which won ...
*Jeffrey Thomas
*Scott Thomas
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Mary Turzillo
Mary A. Turzillo (born 1940) is an American science fiction writer noted primarily for short stories. She won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 2000 for her story ''Mars is No Place for Children'', published originally in ''Science Fiction ...
*Laura J. Underwood
*Steve Vernon
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Tim Waggoner
Tim Waggoner is the author of numerous novels and short stories in the Fantasy, horror fiction, Horror, and Thriller (genre), Thriller genres.
Education
Waggoner graduated from Wright State University in 1989 with a Master of Arts in English ...
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Frank Walls
*Jason Whitley
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David Niall Wilson
David Niall Wilson (born 1959 in Clay County, Illinois) is an American writer primarily known for his works of horror, science fiction, and fantasy fiction.
The Academic Study of Wilson's Novels
Scholars such as A. Asbjørn Jøn, at the Unive ...
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