John Palisano is the author of ‘Dust of the Dead’, ‘Ghost Heart’, ‘Nerves’, and ‘Night of 1,000 Beasts’. His novellas include ‘Placerita’, ‘Glass House’ and ‘Starlight Drive: Four Halloween Tales’. His first short fiction collection ‘All that Withers’ celebrates over a decade of short story highlights.

Palisano won the Bram Stoker Award in short fiction for ‘Happy Joe’s Rest Stop’ and has been nominated for a Rondo Award. His short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, PS Publishing, Independent Legions, Space & Time, Dim Shores, Kelp Journal, Monstrous Books, DarkFuse, Crystal Lake, Terror Tales, Lovecraft eZine, Horror Library, Bizarro Pulp, Written Backwards, Dark Continents, Big Time Books, McFarland Press, Darkscribe, Dark House, Vincere Press and many more.

Non-fiction pieces have appeared in Blumhouse Online, Fangoria, and Dark Discoveries magazines and he’s been quoted in Vanity Fair, The Writer, and the Los Angeles Times. He’s a recent past President of the Horror Writers Association.