I am a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with over thirty novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. I have had books published with a variety of publishers including Dark Regions Press, DarkFuse and Severed Press, and my work has appeared in a number of professional anthologies and magazines.

I live in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company and when I'm not writing I drink beer, play guitar and dream of fortune and glory.

Dane Hatchell was born and lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the author of ONE DINOSAUR ONE BULLET, THE DINOSAUR BATTLE of NEW ORLEANS, FEAR THE DINOSAUR SMILE, BIGFOOT ABOMINATION, PREHISTORIC WWII, LOST WORLD of PATAGONIA, LOST WORLD II: SAVAGE PATAGONIA, and RESURRECTION X. Co-author of the novella: SLIPWAY GREY, and the novels: DEAD ON THE BAYOU, THE DARK TIMES, and THE DIRECTOR'S CUT. Multiple short stories by Dane have appeared in various anthologies over the last several years.

Kevin David Anderson’s debut novel the geeky, cult zombie classic, Night of the Living Trekkies, from Quirk Books, the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, is a funny, offbeat Zombie novel that explores the pop culture carnage that ensues when the undead crash a Star Trek convention. Publishers Weekly gave Night of the Living Trekkies a starred review and the Washington Post listed it as one of the top five Zombie novels of 2010.

Night of the Living Trekkies and Anderson’s follow-up, Night of the ZomBEEs were required reading in college courses, most notably a class designed for incoming freshmen, How to Survive Your Freshman Year by Studying the Zombie Apocalypse, at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania.

Anderson’s short stories have appeared in almost a hundred publications, from anthologies and magazines to podcasts and radio dramas. His work has appeared in multiple languages and on every continent, excluding Antarctica - mostly because penguins and polar bears don’t read. Anderson was the first American to be published in the award-winning South African Horror Magazine, Something Wicked. He has contributed to many award-worthy publications including the British Fantasy Award-winning Magazine Murky Depths, and the Bram Stoker nominated anthology, The Beauty of Death from Independent Legions Publishing. Many of Anderson’s stories have been turned into audio productions with voice talents like Jason Hill, Rish Outfield, and Mur Lafferty, on Parsec Award-winning podcasts like Pseudopod, The Drabblecast, The Dunesteef and on the very popular Simply Scary Podcast and the No Sleep Podcast.

When not writing horror, comedy, or horror-comedy, Anderson likes spending time at the beach with his family, attending horror conventions and book festivals, and writing and telling bad, corny, nerdy jokes. Dad jokes with a geeky twist are his specialty and with the help of his son, he published The Geektastic Joke Book for Kids under the pseudonym, Giggles A. Lott and Nee Slapper. Giggles & Slapper have followed with STAR WARS: The Jokes Awaken, and JURASSIC JOKES: A Book 65 Million Years in the Making. STAR WARS: The Jokes AWAKEN was named one of the top 10 Star Wars gifts for kids by Best Deals For Kids (dot) com in 2020.

Anderson was born in Indiana, and currently lives and writes speculative fiction in Southern California. Before becoming a writer and active member of the HWA (Horror Writers Association), Anderson earned a B. A. in Mass Communication (TCOM) with a focus on Media Production from CSUF (Fresno State). He worked as a marketing professional for more than a decade, during which he managed award-winning campaigns for both television and radio. Currently, he is doing something much more rewarding. Anderson is a high school special education teacher.

Jessica McHugh is a novelist, a 2x Bram Stoker Award-nominated poet, & an internationally-produced playwright running amok in the fields of horror, sci-fi, young adult, and wherever else her peculiar mind leads. She’s had twenty-seven books published in fourteen years, including her bizarro romp, “The Green Kangaroos,” her YA series, “The Darla Decker Diaries,” and her Elgin Award nominated blackout poetry collection, “A Complex Accident of Life. ” For more info about publications and blackout poetry commissions, please visit McHughniverse.com.

Kenneth W. Cain is an author of horror and dark fiction, and a Splatterpunk Award nominated freelance editor. He is also the publisher and editor-in-chief at Crystal Lake: Torrid Waters. Cain is an Active member of the HWA and a Full member of the SFWA. To date, he has had over one hundred short stories and thirteen novels/novellas, as well as a handful each of nonfiction pieces, books for children, and poems released by many great publishers such as Crystal Lake Publishing, JournalStone, and Cemetery Gates Media. He has also edited ten anthologies, with a new one coming in 2024. Cain suffers from chronic pain, and as such, likes to keep busy. He lives in Chester County PA with his family and two furbabies, Butterbean and Bodhi. His full publishing history is available on his website.

Past Bram Stoker Award(R) nominee James Dorr combines the charm of a gentleman born in the US South with the wiles of a near-New York City upbringing, the canniness of a one-time New England resident, and the guile of an outwardly stolid Midwesterner, or so he says. It is known that he was born in Florida, grew up in New Jersey, went to college in Massachusetts, and currently lives in Indiana where he harbors a Goth cat named Triana. He is a short story writer and poet working mainly in dark fantasy and horror with forays into science fiction and mystery, an active member of HWA and SFWA, and has previously worked as a technical writer for an academic computing center, associate editor on a city magazine, a nonfiction freelance writer, and a semi-professional Renaissance musician.

See http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com for more information on James's doings, past, present, and possible future. Feel free to drop a note as the spirit moves -- he's always happy to hear readers' comments, and often will answer, so let your friends know too.

Robert Ford has written the novels Burner, The Compound, No Lipstick in Avalon, and Blood Roses, a horror-western. He also has a collection of his short fiction The God Beneath my Garden, a novella collection, Inner Demons, and the novella Larva Me Tender.

He collaborated, with John Boden, on the novellas Rattlesnake Kisses, Cattywampus, and Black Salve, in the Knucklebucket Thang series.

With author Matt Hayward, Robert co-wrote the novel A Penny for Your Thoughts.

Robert lives in Central Pennsylvania, and is usually hard at work on at least two projects at a time. You can find out more about his upcoming releases at www.robertfordauthor.com

Max Booth III is the co-owner of Ghoulish Books, a small press and horror bookstore based in San Antonio, TX. He writes books and movies and hosts several podcasts, such as GHOULISH, DECAYED TAPES, and DOG EARS. He is afraid of everything.

Guy Anthony De Marco is a speculative fiction author; a Graphic Novel Bram Stoker Award finalist; winner of the HWA Silver Hammer Award; a prolific short story and flash fiction crafter; a novelist and poet; an invisible man with superhero powers; a game writer; and a coffee addict. One of these is false.

Guy is a member of the following organizations: SFWA, ITW, WWA, SFPA, IAMTW, ASCAP, MWG, SWG, HWA. He hopes to collect the rest of the letters of the alphabet one day. Additional information can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Anthony_De_Marco and www.GuyAnthonyDeMarco.com.

Jamie Lackey lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and their cats. She enjoys reading, writing, tabletop role playing games, video games, watching anime, baking, hiking, and mushroom hunting.

She has over 160 short fiction credits, and her short stories have appeared in places like Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex Magazine, Escape Pod, and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Her fiction has appeared on the Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention and Tangent Online Recommended Reading Lists, and she's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Her longer works include two novellas, Moving Forward: A Novella of Life After Zombies and The Forest God, as well as her debut novel, Left Hand Gods. She also has four short story collections available: One Revolution: A Year of Flash Fiction; Second Revolution: Another Year of Flash Fiction; The Blood of Four Gods and Other Stories; and A Metal Box Floating Between Stars and Other Stories.

She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in 2006 with a degree in Creative Writing. She studied under James Gunn at the Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Writer's Workshop in 2010 and has taken various workshops with Cat Rambo.

She read submissions for the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine for five years and was an assistant editor for the Hugo-winning Electric Velocipede from 2012-2013. She served as editor for Triangulation: Lost Voices in 2015 and Triangulation: Beneath the Surface in 2016.

Learn more about her at her website, www.jamielackey.com

Michele Mixell is an author, photographer, artist, dinosaur wrangler, part-time arsonist, and destroyer of worlds originally from Central Pennsylvania. She is a creator of weird creepy stuff and collects inexplicable things. She also likes turtles.

While appearing docile in nature, she has been known to spit venom when confronted. She should be approached with extreme caution, avoiding sudden or abrupt movements. Should you encounter her in the wild, proceed to the nearest emergency shelter and alert authorities as soon as possible.

Richard Farren Barber was born in Nottingham in July 1970. After studying in London he returned to the East Midlands. He lives with his wife and son and works as a manager for a local university.

He’s fairly confident people only read these bios m to check the author isn’t a serial killer. (Spoiler alert: he’s not.)

He has over 80 short stories published, seven novellas: “The Power of Nothing”, “The Sleeping Dead”, “Odette”, “Perfect Darkness, Perfect Silence”, “Closer Still”, “All Hell.” , and “Twenty Years Dead.” His two novels are: “The Living and the Lost” and “The Screaming Dead” (Co-authored with Peter Mark May).

If you want to check on his serial killer tendencies, follow him on twitter.com/rfarrenbarber and www.facebook.com/richardfarrenbarber

His website can be found here www.richardfarrenbarber.co.uk

Wesley Southard is the Splatterpunk Award-Winning author of The Betrayed, Closing Costs, One For The Road, Resisting Madness, Slaves to Gravity (with Somer Canon), Cruel Summer, and Where The Devil Waits (with Mark Steensland), some of which has been translated into Italian, and has had short stories appear in outlets such as Cover of Darkness Magazine, Eulogies II: Tales from the Cellar and Clickers Forever: A Tribute to J.F. Gonzalez. He is a graduate of the Atlanta Institute of Music, and he currently lives in South Central Pennsylvania with his wife and their cavalcade of animals.

Visit him online at www.wesleysouthard.com

Facebook at www.facebook.com/wes.southard

Or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/WesSouthard

Raised in rural Wisconsin, David Greske grew up feeding chickens, milking cows, and watching Saturday afternoon creature features. Not necessarily in that order. He has been writing horror stories since the age of seven and one of his first literary endeavors was a rip-off of a Dark Shadows episode. Many years later his stories have appeared in Black Ink Horror, Back Roads, Thirteen, and Dark Moon Digest.

To date, he has published five novels, ANATHEMA, NIGHT WHISPERS, RETRIBUTION, BLOOD RIVER and HARLOW All are available on Amazon.com He co-wrote the screenplay to his latest novel, BLOOD RIVER, which has been made into a feature film by ForbesFilm and should be available to the public soon.

David Greske currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he is busy writing the screenplay for Blood River 2 and preparing a collection of his short stories.

Visit his website at www.davidgreske.com

Member of both the Horror Writers Association and New England Horror Writers, when Rob Smales isn't at the day job or caring for his twenty-something son and their two dogs, he's writing something either funny or scary, but quite likely dark. Author of dozens of short stories, the collection Echoes of Darkness, the novella Friends in High Places, and his newest release, a creepy-crawley little book titled LaundryLegs, Rob identifies as a dad, writer, editor, and postal worker—in that order. He hails from Salem, Massachusetts, where he writes, works, and, occasionally, sleeps.

My name Mandy J. De Geit.

I dropped the "J" and smashed the De Geit together after my first story was published and I realized more words in my name meant the longer my autograph would be... Chalk it up to either time management or laziness, they're both pretty much the same.

I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I've lived here since 1999 I think, it's been awhile anyways. Home for me was originally Timmins, Ontario, it's a little town up four hours north of North Bay. *(I'm hoping to be the next big thing from Timmins, put it on the map for something else other than that Shania girl.)

I chose to make Ottawa my home, for the last... 13 years or so. I'm kinda gypsy-like/nomadic and I don't like staying put for too long, but aside from travelling around Canada and the US, I haven't strayed too far from Ottawa... yet.

I have a few things under my writing belt now, but it all started with She Makes Me Smile, in May 2012.

*(I should add here that a lot has happened regarding my short story She Makes Me Smile. It went from published to pulled to self-published and well... It'll be easier if you just see my blog for more information. Otherwise, SMMS can be found here on Amazon, along with a few of my other stories.)

You can find a full list of publications here. http://mandydegeit.wordpress.com/publications/

At the moment, I call myself an author of creepy fiction as I'm not sure how else to explain what I write. I try to write about things that just might happen. I write more about the darkness that resides inside people around us, the secrets our friends might carry or the things that people close to us think about and are capable of. There's really no category for that yet so creepy fiction works for me for now. I see myself heading off into other genres, such as bizarro and comedy, but I'll always come back to horror.

Thanks stopping by, happy reading!

MDG

Chantal Noordeloos lives in the Netherlands, where she spends her time with her wacky, supportive husband, and outrageously cunning daughter, who is growing up to be a supervillain. When she is not busy exploring interesting new realities, or arguing with characters (aka writing), she likes to dabble in drawing.

In 1999 she graduated from the Norwich School of Art and Design, where she focused mostly on creative writing.

There are many genres that Chantal likes to explore in her writing. Currently Sci-fi Steampunk is one of her favourites, but her 'go to' genre will always be horror. "It helps being scared of everything; that gives me plenty of inspiration," she says.

Chantal likes to write for all ages, and storytelling is the element of writing that she enjoys most. "Writing should be an escape from everyday life, and I like to provide people with new places to escape to, and new people to meet."

Meriah L. Crawford has been a private investigator since 2003, working on a wide array of cases including background investigations, accident and theft cases, patent infringement, counterfeiting, harassment, shootings, and murder. About the only thing she hasn't investigated is marital infidelity.

In 2006, after she finished her MFA in creative writing, Meriah began teaching part-time; she became a full-time professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in August of 2010. She has published a variety of non-fiction work, short stories, poetry, and a co-authored novel. More information is available at www.meriahcrawford.com.

G.N. Braun aka Geoff Brown is an Australian writer raised in Melbourne’s gritty Western Suburbs.

He is a trained nurse, and holds a Cert. IV in Professional Writing and Editing, as well as a Dip. Arts (Professional Writing and Editing).

At graduation, Braun was awarded ‘Vocational Student of the Year’ and ’2012 Student of the Year’ by his college.

He writes fiction across various genres, and is the author of short stories ‘Boneyard Smack’, ‘Bubba wants YOU’, ‘Insurrection’ (all available as free downloads from Legumeman Books), and ‘Santa Akbar!’ (published in Festive Fear: Global Edition, out through Tasmaniac Publications in Australia). He has a short story–’Autumn as Metaphor’–in the charity anthology Horror For Good (‘Autumn’ has now been reprinted four other times) and a short story–’Brand New Day’–in Midnight Echo #7, and has had numerous articles published in newspapers. He is the past president of the Australian Horror Writers Association (2011-2013), as well as the past director of the Australian Shadows Awards. He is an editor and columnist for UK site This is Horror, and the guest editor for Midnight Echo #9.

His memoir, Hammered, was released in early 2012 by Legumeman Books and has been extensively reviewed.

He is the owner of Cohesion Editing and Proofreading, and has now opened a publishing house, Cohesion Press.

Cameron Suey lives in California with his wife and two children. He works as a writer in the games industry, most recently on "Rise of the Tomb Raider." His work has appeared on the Pseudopod Podcast, anthologies including Shadows over Main Street, and was featured in the first issues of Jamais Vu and Flapperhouse. He can be found on the web at cameronsuey.com, at his blog thejosefkstories.com, and on twitter as @josefkstories.

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Tina Rath lives in London. She has had a number of short stories published in both genre and mainstream press (see ISFDB for some titles)and has several novels currently on the stocks. She is a vampire expert and Queen Victoria look alike, as well as working (when she can) as an actress and model. Her collection of short stories, currently available both as an ebook and a large-print hardback, A Chimaera in My Wardrobe is made up of short fantasy and fairy stories, several based on her experience as an SA. A 'life collection' of her short stories, "Talking to Strangers" is available in Kindle and paperback.

New release for Halloween Paul Finch's 'Terror Tales of the Home Counties' containing a new story by Tina Rath - "Where Are They Now?" -

"She would never have got into a car with a perfect stranger, on a sunny day, when she knew a bus would be along in a few minutes. It’s not as if it was pouring with rain … I mean, she wasn’t an idiot. Sharp as a tack … and they never found anything. Not a trace of her or her belongings. Her bank card’s never been used, her phone wasn’t recycled … Nothing."

Where Are They Now? by Tina Rath

See a review of 'Talking to Strangers' (Alchemy Press) from John Gilbert in Phantasmagoria Magazine 15

When people try to ridicule the horror and fantasy genres as lightweight and frothy or gory and gratuitous puff, I just point them in the direction of authors such as Tina Rath. Dr Rath is truly a renaissance woman; an academic with a fascination for supernatural literature and folklore, an actress, Queen Victoria impersonator, poet, and librarian; she has a formidable intellect and ferocious wit. Oh, and according to Gail Nina-Anderson’s ‘Introduction’ to Talking to Strangers, Tina’s latest short story collection, she is a part-time vampire.

The twenty-nine supernatural tales in her brand new ‘best of’ collection range from the dark and forbidding to the gently humorous, many of them distilling a sense of unease from everyday items in contemporary settings with a hefty sting in the tale. The best stories in the collection demonstrate Dr. Rath’s deep knowledge of classic and contemporary supernatural fiction. Alien encounters is the theme of ‘Talking to Strangers in Finsbury Park’; ‘A Visit to Blastings Manor’ is a superb Christmas ghost story; in ‘This is How It Happened’, a classic fairy tale is given a modern setting. A young cleaner gives a hospital ward an unusually deep clean in ‘Ilona’ and in ‘A Beautiful Boy’, a handsome young man appears to bring out the best and youthfulness renewed in an old folks’ home.

A newcomer at St Walburga’s school shows herself as no geek and no pushover for the bullies in ‘Scruffy The Vampire Slayer’ and a lodger proves more difficult to get rid of than originally anticipated in ‘Sitting Tenant’. ‘Diversion’ takes bus passengers on anything but a magical mystery tour whilst ‘A Trick of The Dark’ poses the fateful question, “What kind of job finishes just at sun-set?”. ‘“It’s White and It Follows Me”’ is a ghostly lament; ‘The Fetch’ in a tale of a ghostly guest first published last year in a collection to commemorate the life of R. Chetwynd-Hayes; in ‘The Bus’, Mrs Fortescue waits for eternity and in the ‘Fifth Sense’ the author engages in some clever lycanthropic olfaction (the lengths to which I go in order to hide spoilers).

Packed full of supernatural fun and surprises, Talking to Strangers… demonstrates the great breadth and depth of Tina Rath’s talent as a writer of supernatural fiction, collecting together the very best of her output during thirty-seven very productive years and four stories which were specially written for this book. Entertaining, dark, perplexing and humorous, the stories will keep horror fans enthralled during many a day in lockdown and beyond.

Robin Devereaux-Nelson is a free-lance, technical and fiction writer, film maker and artist living in Mid-Michigan. She has written for Health and Healing Magazine, 360 Main Street, Demand Media, Hubpages and the SoWell Review. Her writing experience is extensive, covering journalistic, technical and creative writing. She has written for both Web and paper publications.

In addition to her technical work, Devereaux-Nelson was 2011 award-winner in the Liberal Arts Network and Development (LAND) Contest for short fiction and poetry, winner of the Renker Foundation Writing Award, and a first place national winner in the League for Innovation Writing Competition for play-writing and essay, as well as second place winner for fiction and poetry. Additionally, she is the winner of the Fabri Literary Prize for her first novel, In Violet’s Wake, which was released in December 2013 by Counterpoint/Softskull Press. Her work appears two anthologies, 22 Naked Bodies Inside by Pixelhose Publishing and Dark Bits Magazine Anthology.

Devereaux-Nelson is a screen writer whose films THE HANDBAG and SPECIAL DELIVERY were official selections at the Hells Half Mile Film Festival 2013. Both films, and her thriller INTENT were also be shown at the Things That Go Bump In The Night Film Festival the same year. THE HANDBAG was an official selection at the Made In Michigan Film Festival in October 2013, as well.

Her other works include The Nora Pepper Paranormal Series, Book One: Pendulum and Book Two: The Zone, a children’s picture book, You Are Like A Rainbow and a collection of short and flash fiction, Rotten Peaches. She is also the author of several non-fiction works.

Stephanie Jessop won Best Original Horror Screenplay at the 2013 Shriekfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition. She has also been a finalist in several other screenplay competitions across the country. She has published stories in various horror anthologies including A Chimerical World: Tales of the Unseelie Court and Ugly Babies Volume 2 and is a regular contributor to Brick Moon Fiction’s ongoing speculative fiction anthologies. She grew up in the sticky, swampy parts of Texas but can be found online at stephaniejessop.com.

Angela Pritchett writes speculative fiction (Horror, Steampunk, Fantasy, Sci-Fi) and essays from her Cat and Pug infested home in North Carolina. Her stories are published in various US and UK anthologies. She has also written a number of short film scripts as well as directed them. She can also be seen in horror films such as Porkchop 2, Plan 9, as well as TV shows like It's Supernatural and The ID Channel's "Extreme Measures".

you can visit her online at

angelapritchett.blogspot.com

Cynthia’s short stories have appeared in a variety of publications and anthologies, including Dark Lit, The Fringe, Anthropomorphic Podcast, Sorcerous Signals, and ShadowSpinners: A Collection of Dark Tales. Her first novel, Aftermath, has just been released by Shadowspinners Press.

She lives in coastal South Carolina with a passionate historian and an vocal basset hound who will howl along to country music, rap, or symphonies. When not writing you will find her studying and teaching Tarot, conducting sound healing with Himalayan singing bowls, or walking on the beach.

I’m a swedish writer for litterature, film, radio, comics etc. To date I have written six horror and crime novels and a 14-book series of childrens horror (called ”Monster monster”). I have also written an ample and particoloured bouquet of horror short stories, of which twentytwo can be read in the short story collection ”Mardrömmaren” (”The nighmare usher”).

Before being a writer I was a film director, making two feature films ("Sleepwalker" 2000, and "Skills" 2010), and wrote several screenplays, e.g "Pathfinder" from Marcus Nispel, and Swedish thriller "Odjuret" ("The beast") from Daniel "The girl who played with fire" Alfredson.

For a more detailed list of titles, see my Wikipedia page.

Carson Buckingham knew from childhood that she wanted to be a writer and began, at age six, by writing books of her own, hand-drawing covers, and selling them to any family member who would pay (usually a gumball) for what she referred to as “great literature.” When she ran out of relatives, she came to the conclusion that there was no real money to be made in self-publishing, so she studied writing and read voraciously for the next eighteen years, while simultaneously collecting enough rejection slips to re-paper her living room…twice.

When her landlord chucked her out for, in his words, “making the apartment into one hell of a downer,” she redoubled her efforts, and collected four times the rejection slips in half the time, single-handedly causing the first paper shortage in U.S. history.

But she persevered, improved greatly over the years, and here we are.

Carson has been/is a professional proofreader, editor, anthologist, newspaper reporter, copywriter, technical writer, novelist, short story writer and comedy writer. She prefers fiction writing above all, since fiction, ultimately, is where the truth is. Her novels and short stories fall under the horror subgenres of dark fantasy (think Poe, not swords and sorcery) and paranormal suspense and are meant to chill the reader without blood and guts and veins in the teeth.

Her blog is at http://carsonbuckingham.blogspot.com/ and though she is a horror writer, Carson's blog is humorous (she hopes) with commentary on life's absurdities updated each week in THE WEEKLY RANT. THE CAPTIONED PHOTO OF THE DAY is there, too, along with the HORROR-SCOPES and even shots of her garden in Arizona. You can also find out about what she's up to in the world of dark fantasy in the BOOK BLURBS and CARSON'S NEWS sections.

She loves reading and gardening; but not at the same time. Though born and raised in Connecticut, she lives in Arizona now—and Connecticut is glad to be rid of her!