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b. 1979  Mt. Morris, Illinois, USA

Benjamin Gardner is a writer and artist living in the Midwestern United States. Recent publications include Mysterium Tremendum #1, Night Terrors vol. 4, and the forthcoming anthology The Knot Wound Round Your Finger. He was a contributing writer to the Civilizations blog for the television series produced by BBC and PBS. 

Gardner’s short animation hallucination dream sequence (2017) was an official selection for Iowa PBS’s Film Lounge Season 2, Cosmocinema Film Festival in London, The Shared Sight Film Festival in Romania, and the Experimental Film exhibition at the CICA Museum in South Korea. It won Best Animation in 2020 at the Beyond the Curve International Film Festival and Best Experimental Film at the 4th Dimensional Film Festival in Bali. 

He makes music as ASURTA and Lost Music Library, releasing albums through Neverwoord Records and Nim - Brut. 

He is the co-owner and editor at Theurgical Studies Press, a publishing company that makes limited edition risograph zines of a horror, weird, and speculative nature. He is also publishing graphic and multimedia stories and novels as Adorcist Books, currently releasing the serial multimedia novel The Trailer on Quiet Lake.


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