Dracula: Rise of the Beast

About

Milena Benini started writing when she was 12 and simply never stopped. She has written five novels in Croatian and one in English as well as numerous short stories some of which have been translated into several languages including Spanish and Polish. She is also the winner of five SFera awards as well as a number of other local awards. She lives in Zagreb with her family.Emil Minchev was born in Sofia Bulgaria on the 26th of October 1984. He has a master's degree in International Relations from Sofia University and has translated more than 40 books including Bram Stoker's Dracula and Dracula's Guest Oscar Wilde's De Profundis and many others. He has also written for various Bulgarian magazines and published three novels of his own Towers of Stone and Bone (a fantasy novel) Unlimited Access (an epistolary anti-utopian novel) and Nose for Crime (a sci-fi detective novel).Caren Gussoff Sumption is a SF writer living in Seattle WA. The author of Homecoming (2000) and The Wave and Other Stories (2003) first published by Serpent's Tail/High Risk Books and The Birthday Problem (2014) by Pink Narcissus Press Gussoff Sumption's been published in anthologies by Seal Press and Prime Books. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and in 2008 was the Carl Brandon Society's Octavia E. Butler Scholar at Clarion West.Bogi Takacs is a Hungarian Jewish agender trans person currently living in the US as a resident alien. E writes both speculative fiction and poetry and eir work has been published in a variety of venues like Clarkesworld Lightspeed Apex and Strange Horizons among others.Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds where he now lives. Married he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor has trained in stage-fighting and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind possibly excepting his son. He's the author of the critically acclaimed series Shadows of the Apt and Echoes of the Fall of the standalone works Guns of the Dawn and Children of Time and numerous short stories and novellas.David Thomas Moore is the Fiction Commissioning Editor at Rebellion Publishing and the editor of Holmesian alternate-universe anthology Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets Shakespearean shared-world Monstrous Little Voices Stokerian pseudohistory Dracula: Rise of the Beast and Kiplingesque anti-colonial anthology Not So Stories. Australian by birth he lives in Reading England with his wife and daughter.