Ray Van Horn, Jr.

Ray Van Horn, Jr. is the author of "Coming of Rage" and "Revolution Calling," available through Raw Earth Ink. He spent 16 years covering music and film for outlets such as Blabbermouth, AMP, Dee Snider’s House of Hair, Music Dish, DVD Review, Horror News.net, Fangoria Musick, Metal Maniacs, Noisecreep, Impose and many others. He has contributed essays to Neil Daniels’ music biographies on Iron Maiden and ZZ Top. His blog, “The Metal Minute” won Metal Hammer Magazine’s “Best Personal Blog” award. Ray wrote NHL game analysis for The Hockey Nut and other sports articles for Kid Shtick. He was a beat reporter and photographer for The Emmitsburg Dispatch and The Northern News. He was the host of the forum “Comic Books” at ReadWave. Ray wrote serialized superhero fiction for Cyber Age Adventures and his work has also appeared at Akashic Books, Atomic Flyswatter, The Rubbertop Review, Reedsy, Story Bytes and New Noise, plus the anthologies “Axes of Evil” and “Axes of Evil II.” He was the 1999 winner of Quantum Muse’s fiction contest. Ray has been featured at numerous poetry open mike events in his native state of Maryland.