JEFFREY J. MARIOTTE is the award-winning author of more than fifty novels, including thrillers Empty Rooms and The Devil’s Bait, supernatural thrillers Season of the Wolf, Missing White Girl, River Runs Red, and Cold Black Hearts, horror epic The Slab, the Dark Vengeance teen horror quartet, and others. With writing partner (and wife) Marsheila Rockwell, he wrote the science fiction/horror/thriller 7 SYKOS, and has published numerous shorter works. He also writes comic books, including the long-running horror/Western comic book series Desperadoes and original graphic novels Zombie Cop and Fade to Black. He has worked in virtually every aspect of the book business, and is currently the editor-in-chief of Visionary Comics.