Bryan Hall is a fiction writer living happily in a one hundred year old farmhouse deep in the mountains of North Carolina with his wife and children, along with an assortment of animals both wild and domesticated.Growing up in the Appalachias, he's soaked up decades of fact and fiction from the area, bits and pieces of which usually weave their way into his writing whether he realizes it at the time or not.His first novel, Containment Room Seven, will be released by Permuted Press in 2011 and he's currently working on the next. His short fiction collection Whispers the Dark collects fourteen of his best short stories together. You can visit him online at www.bryanhallfiction.com.