CPAOD Bios: John Everson

John Everson is a Chicago-based "multi-writer". Fiction in the horror veins, music journalism for newspapers and magazines, music for pop bands, and serial killer plays. Since 1993 his fiction has appeared in magazines like Grue, Bloodsongs, Dead of Night, and Terminal Fright as well as in the anthologies Decadence 2, Tourniquet Heart, TransVersions, Bloodtype, and more. He has served as a Fiction Editor for Dark Regions magazine and currently works as an assistant editor for Necro Publications and proofreader for Earthling Publications.

In October 2000 Delirium Books published John's first hardcover collection of short stories, Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions. The book is sold out through the publisher, but Cage is still available from some book stores and the author.

In April 2003, Twilight Tales Books debuted John's second collection, Vigilantes of Love, at the World Horror Convention in Kansas City. The paperback includes 15 dark fantasy and horror tales. A review of the book on www.feoamante.com said "John Everson has a flair for starting a story down one path and then just when we know where it is going and how it will end, he turns it around and reminds us that life is unpredictable. VIGILANTES OF LOVE is a collection of fifteen well written stories that range from fantasy to horror. Some are hardcore horror stories and some are lighter fare. All of them are worth reading."

John's pop music review column, Pop Stops, has appeared weekly in The Star Newspapers since 1988. He has also written music columns for the horror and dark fantasy magazines Talebones, Wetbones, and Midnight Hour. His original music is included on the Lone Wolf Publications CD-ROM anthologies Bloodtype and Carnival, and his incidental music appeared in a 2003 Chicago production of the Martin Mundt play The Jackie Sexknife Show.

Aside from being a regular CPAOD reviewer, John had a poem in issue #7 and a short story in issue #10.

email: john@johneverson.com
url: www.johneverson.com
mailing list: groups.yahoo.com/group/JohnEverson

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