MIKE MIGNOLA’s fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse, leading to over two decades of comics spinoffs, prose books, animated films, and live-action films. He worked on Francis Ford Coppola’s film Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Disney’s
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and with director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). A new film by Neil Marshall was released in 2019. Mike’s books have earned numerous awards and are published ina great many countries. He lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.
CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Ararat, The Pandora Room, Snowblind, and many other novels. With Mike Mignola, he co-created the Dark Horse comics series Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. As editor, Golden has produced numerous anthologies, including The New Dead, Seize the Night, and Hark! The Herald Angels Scream. He has also written screenplays, video games, radio plays, and an online animated series. A frequent lecturer and keynote speaker, Golden co-hosts the podcasts “Three Guys with Beards” and “Defenders Dialogue,” and he founded the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival. He lives in Massachusetts with his family and too many books. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com.
THOMAS SNIEGOSKI is a novelist, comic book writer, and journalist. He has worked on comic book universes including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Batman, Vampirella, and many others. He has also co-created works including Grim Death and Bill, the Electrocuted Criminal with Mike Mignola. His fantasy YA series Fallen was adapted into a trilogy of films. Sniegoski and Christopher Golden have also collaborated on the adult dark fantasy series The Menagerie, and multiple creator-owned comic book series, including The Sisterhood, which is being prepped for a feature film by InterMedia, and Talent, currently in development at Universal after a major bidding war. He resides in Massachusetts with his wife.
PETER BERGTING has spent all of his life drawing silly and scary things and made his comic book debut with the 2006 series The Portent. He loves working on his slice of the Mignolaverse and plops down in front of the drawing board with a big, cheesy grin every day.
