Joe Hill

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award–winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).

David Cronenberg

Filmmaker David Cronenberg reputation as an authentic auteur has been firmly established by his uniquely personal body of work as both a director and writer. Beginning with his nascent career in underground filmmaking and the horror genre, Cronenberg has developed a dramatic oeuvre of outstanding depth and breadth, and consequently has been lauded as one of the world’s most influential directors. Cronenberg’s films include Shivers, Rabid, Fast Company, The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, eXistenZ, The Dead Zone, M. Butterfly, Spider, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method, Cosmopolis, Maps to the Stars, Crimes of the Future and The Shrouds. In 2014 he debuted his first novel, Consumed, which is now being developed as a feature film.

Cronenberg has earned critical praise and recognition internationally, including induction into the Order of Canada and France’s Légion d’Honneur.