Russell Jackson is a writer/illustrator based in Louisville, KY, and has appeared at conventions and on podcasts around the Midwest in support of his independent Lovecraftian comic book, Crawling Chaos. His fiction has been published in Black Ink Horror and the Indiana University Southeast Review, and his short story “The Lemurian Hourglass” won 2nd place in the Kentuckiana Metroversity Writing Competition. He listens to music at a sufficient volume to implode a human skull at twenty paces.