BRYAN SMITH is the multiple Splatterpunk Award-winning author of more than thirty horror and crime novels and novellas, including the cult classic Depraved and its sequels, The Killing Kind, Slowly We Rot, The Freakshow, Kayla and the Devil, House of Blood, Dirty Rotten Hippies, Kill For Satan, Last Day, and many more. His novel 68 Kill was adapted into a motion picture directed by Trent Haaga and starring Matthew Gray Gubler of the long-running CBS series Criminal Minds. It won the Midnighters Award at the SXSW film festival in 2017 and was released to wide acclaim, including positive reviews in The New York Times and Bloody Disgusting. Smith also co-scripted an original Harley Quinn comic for DC Comics.