From Glass Eye Pix, the studio that brought you THE LAST WINTER, I SELL THE DEAD, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, and STAKE LAND, comes TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE, audio plays for a digital age. Hosted by horror maestro Larry Fessenden, these half hour downloadable tales from the twisted minds of today's horror auteurs will chill and delight fans of the uncanny and macabre. Curated by Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid.

LARRY FESSENDEN (curator/producer) is the award-winning writer/director of the art horror movies NO TELLING, HABIT, WENDIGO and THE LAST WINTER. He has been a producer on over a dozen films, including I SELL THE DEAD, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL and WENDY AND LUCY. He directed an episode of NBC’s Fear Itself entitled “SKIN AND BONES.” Fessenden has acted in numerous films including I SELL THE DEAD, BROKEN FLOWERS, THE BRAVE ONE, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD and HABIT. Fessenden founded Glass Eye Pix in 1985 with the mission of supporting individual voices in the arts.

GLENN McQUAID (curator/producer) Writer director Glenn McQuaid was born and raised on the North side of Dublin. McQuaid's first Collaboration with Larry Fessenden came about when he coordinated the visual effects on THE ROOST. Since then he has worked on several of Glass Eye Pix productions including THE LAST WINTER, HOUSE OF THE DEVIL and STAKELAND.  McQuaid’s feature debut I SELL THE DEAD was a festival favorite that sold to IFC and is currently available to rent or buy at all decent retailers. He is currently curating TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE, and developing various feature projects.

LISA WISELY (producer) Lisa is a partner in The Work Room Productions and feature film producer with work that includes teh critically acclaimed feature film AUTOMATONS as well as SATAN HATES YOU which is currently showing in festivals worldwide. She has worked as a producer and Business Manager for several film companies including Glass Eye Pix (THE LAST WINTER, I SELL THE DEAD, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL) and Noujaim Films (CONTROL ROOM, STARTUP.COM), Inc. and heads up all operations at Channel Midnight Releasing, an independent feature film distribution company.

GARY PULLIN (logo and graphics) is an award winning artist and has been Rue Morgue’s art director since 2001, overseeing all design aspects of the magazine as well as illustrating the covers, event posters, merchandise, and website design. The publication is into its thirteenth year, recently celebrated it’s 100th issue and has become the industry’s leading magazine for horror in culture and entertainment. Gary has worked with many notable artists such as Clive Barker, Basil Gogos and Mike Mingola. Gary has been a regular contributing ilustrator to the popular heavy metal magazing Revolver and Royal Flush Magazine, an international publication dedicated to music, art, and comics. His loveof music has landed him work designing gig posters, t-shirts and album art for bands such as The Misfits, Tiger Army, The Brains, Ghoultown, The Creepshow and Electric Frankenstein. His work has also appeared on DVD releases of BLOOD FEAST 2 The HILARIOUS HOUSE OF FRIGHTENSTEIN box set (For Anchor Bay Canada) and most recenty, THE COFFIN JOE COLLECTION (For Anchor Bay UK). Gary has shown his work at art galleriesand clubs in his hometown London Ontario, Toronto, New York, Montreal and was recently voted “artist of the year” at the Rondo Hatton Awards. “Like a modern Frankenstein, Gary reanimates nostalgia and unleashes it to bite your ass!” — Guillermo del Toro (PAN’S LABYRINTH, HELLBOY).

VOLTAIRE (animated introduction) started his career as a stop-motion animator and director in the eighties, at a handful of New York City animation houses, During those years, a teenaged Voltaire animated stop-motion commercials for Budweiser, Ikea, RC cola, Hess, Parker Brothers, Kellogg's, Arm and Hammer, Marvel and many others. Voltaire went on to direct a handful of horror, sci-fi and Halloween oriented station IDs for SyFy Channel, USA Networks, Discovery, The Learning Channel, Fangoria and others. After a ten year hiatus from the film business that saw Voltaire develop a large following for his music, comic books and toys, Aurelio Voltaire has returned to making films for the love of it. He is presently working on a series of shorts call the "Chimerascope series". The first four films in the series are narrated by Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo), Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance), Deborah Harry (Blondie) and Richard Butler (The Psychedelic Furs). The films have toured the festival circuit and have been seen at scores of horror and animation film festivals around the world as well as collected a handful of awards. www.youtube.com/voltairenyc

JEFF GRACE (theme music) is a composer working for film, concert and stage. His work has been performed by Flux Quartet, Bulgarica Philharmonia, Lucia Micarelli, Valentina Farcas (Berlin Comic Opera), Marcus DeLoach (New York City Opera), Kenny Barron and members of the Metropolitan and New York Philharmonic orchestras.Jeff’s recent film credits include Jim Mickle's STAKE LAND, Kelly Reichardt’s MEEK’S CUTOFF, Larry Fessenden’s THE LAST WINTER, Ti West’s THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, THE ROOST, TRIGGER MAN, and Ilya Chaiken’s LIBERTY KID, as well as NBC’s Fear Itself episode SKIN & BONES. From 2001 to 2004 Jeff was an assistant to Academy Award winning composer Howard Shore working on the three films of Peter Jackson’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, Martin Scorsese’s THE GANGS OF NEW YORK, David Cronenberg’s SPIDER, David Fincher’s PANIC ROOM, and Frank Oz’s THE SCORE. Through that association, Jeff worked with such artists as Renee Fleming, Annie Lennox, Enya, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Kronos Quartet, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Terry Edward’s London Voices, and top studio orchestras and musicians in London, Los Angeles and New York.

 
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