Del Howison is a journalist, writer, and a Bram Stoker Award-winning editor of the anthology series Dark Delicacies. Del has been nominated for over half a dozen awards including the Shirley Jackson Award and the Black Quill. His short western/horror story The Lost Herd, originally published in Hot Blood 11 in 2005, was turned into the premiere (and highest rated) episode, ""The Sacrifice,"" for the NBC series Fear Itself. He is the co-founder and owner of Dark Delicacies, a book and gift store located in Burbank, California, which won the El Posto Negro award from Italy for best specialty store and was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Hall of Fame.

You can reach him and read his occasional blog on the Dark Delicacies website (www.darkdel.com)."