E. R. Bills is an award-winning author and freelance journalist. His fiction work includes Pendulum Grim (2020) and he was the co-creator and is the current executive editor of the annual Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, the first anthology of Texas horror, featuring works from Joe. R. Lansdale, Stephen Graham Jones, Robert E. Howard, Katherine Anne Porter, O. Henry, David Bowles, etc. His horror fiction has been compared to that of Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Matt Shaw, Theodore Sturgeon and others. Bills’ nonfiction works include Texas Obscurities: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional and Nefarious (2013), The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas (2014), Texas Far and Wide: The Tornado with Eyes, Gettysburg’s Last Casualty, the Celestial Skipping Stone and Other Tales (2017), Texas Oblivion: Mysterious Disappearances, Escapes and Cover-Ups (2021) 100 Things to Do in Texas Before You Die (2022) and the upcoming Tell-Tale Texas: Investigations into Infamous History (2023). Bills has also written for the Austin American-Statesman, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Co-Op Power magazine, Fort Worth Magazine and Fort Worth Weekly. He currently lives in North Texas with his wife, Stacie.