Mike Lera is a Los Angeles-based author, screenwriter and journalist whose horror fiction can be found in over a dozen anthologies, including Dark and Evil II, All Dark Places 2, Horror USA: California and Rod Serling Books’ Submitted For Your Approval. He has also published with such prominent magazines as Famous Monsters of Filmland and The Literary Hatchet and currently writes for Horror Nation. Having written and produced several short horror films based on successfully published stories of his, Lera has found equal success in both the film festival and streaming service circuit with his screen work.

When not scaring people, Lera scavenges comic/martial art/horror cons for anything to wear, hang, tac, shelf and add to his geek shrine.