Richard Matheson, author of I AM LEGEND, HELL HOUSE, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, THE SHRINKING MAN and SOMEWHERE IN TIME to name just a few, was the primary writer other than Rod Serling for the original THE TWILIGHT ZONE. He penned 14 scripts, some of the most memorable to air. Matheson has also written numerous short stories and screenplays, among them DUEL, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN and STIR OF ECHOES, all based on his fiction. He currently lives in California where he continues to write screenplays. He has just completed a new novel to be published in 2002.

Stanley Wiater is considered one of the greatest experts in horror and dark fiction. His career as a professional writer began in 1975, and since then, his articles, stories, and most especially his interviews have given him world-wide renown. He is the writer who has most often interviewed Stephen King, Peter Straub, Richard Laymon, among so many others; investigating the creative mind of the maestros of horror in literature and in the cinema, thereby offering lovers of this genre the chance to “listen” to their voices. He is the author of DARK DREAMERS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MASTERS OF HORROR, winner of the Bram Stoker Award in 1991 from the Horror Writers Association, DARK THOUGHTS: ON WRITING, winner of a Bram Stoker in 1998, DARK DREAMERS: FACING THE MASTERS OF FEAR (a collection of photographs and commentary with the 100 greatest masters of horror), and THE STEPHEN KING UNIVERSE.