Benjamin Kane Ethridge is the Bram Stoker Award winning author of the novel Black & Orange (Bad Moon Books, 2010) and Bottled Abyss (Redrum Horror, 2012). For his master's thesis he wrote, "Causes of Unease: The Rhetoric of Horror in Fiction and Film" (available in an ivory tower near you). Ethridge lives in Southern California with his wife and two creatures who possess stunning resemblances to human children. When he isn't writing, reading or gaming, Benjamin is defending California's waterways and sewers from pollution.