Chris Friend lives in a small town in West Virginia USA, and has been published in many small press horror magazines over the past twenty-odd years. Influences include Geiger, Wayne Barlow, Beksinski, Allen Koszowski, Virgil Finlay, Edward Gorey and loves the abstract surrealism of Joan Miro. Lives with his mother and a cat named Cleo, and works as a Nurse's Aide. Loves zombies, vampires, early glam era David Bowie, the B-52's, Blondie, Soundgarden, The Cure, old heavy metal by Led Zeppalin and Black Sabbath.  He thinks Russell Crowe is a hunk.