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Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had nearly two hundred poems and stories published so far, and three books. His collected fairy and folk tales, The Witch Made Me Do It, a novella, The Witches’ Bane, and his collected fantasy stories, Capricious Visions. He works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of five review editors.

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Rosalind Barden's zany, cozy noir mystery novel set in 1930s Depression-era Los Angeles, SPARKY OF BUNKER HILL AND THE COLD KID CASE, is a Firebird Book Award 1st Place Cozy Mystery Winner, Literary Titan Gold Medal Book Award Winner, Author Academy Top 10 Mystery Winner, and Critters Readers Poll Top 10 Finisher for both Best Mystery and Best Young Adult Books. Over thirty of Rosalind Barden's short stories have appeared in print anthologies and webzines, such as the U.K.'s acclaimed WHISPERS OF WICKEDNESS. Mystery and Horror LLC has selected her stories for multiple print anthologies, including FAPA President's Book Award Silver Medalist HISTORY AND MYSTERY OH MY! She is a regular contributor to the STRANGELY FUNNY anthology series. Ellen Datlow selected her short story LION FRIEND as a Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention after it appeared in CERN ZOO, a British Fantasy Society nominee for best anthology, part of DF Lewis' award winning NEMONYMOUS anthology series. TV MONSTER is her print children's book that she wrote and illustrated. In addition, her scripts, novel manuscripts and short fiction have placed in numerous competitions, including the Writers Digest Screenplay Competition and the Shriekfast Film Festival. She writes in Los Angeles, California. Photo credit: Guy Viau.

Gwen Mayo is a history junkie, with a passion for troubled times. Her Nessa Donnelly series is steeped in the violent history of her native Kentucky. Circle of Dishonor, her first novel , is set during the turbulent political upheaval following the American Civil War, at a time when vigilantes and secret societies wielded power, and murder was more common in Kentucky than it was in anywhere else in the United States.

In partnership with humorist Sarah E. Glenn she writes the Three Snowbirds historical mysteries. These Roaring 20s mysteries feature a soon to retire US army nurse, Cornelia Pettijohn and her companion Teddy Lawless. Cornelia's Uncle Percival Pettijohn, a mischievous little old man with a striking resemblance to Santa Claus, "helps the ladies" as they take on gangsters, swindlers, grifters, and murderers.

She currently lives and writes in Safety Harbor, Florida but grew up in a large family in the hills of Eastern Kentucky. She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, a member of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, the Derby Rotten Scoundrels Chapter of Sisters in Crime, the Florida Gulf Coast SiC and the SiC GUPPIES Chapter. Her numerous short stories have appeared in anthologies, at online short fiction sites, micro-fiction collections, and once showed up on the back of a coffee can. She desperately hopes that everyone will buy her books so she can retire and write all day.

I am the author of DEAD BY MIDNIGHT and APOCALYPSE BY MIDNIGHT...novels near and dear to my heart.

I also wrote the Z-BOAT Trilogy by Permuted Press and CONTAMINATED with Severed Press.

I have degrees in Anthropology and Psychology. In my free time, I read, watch movies, play with my dog, and enjoy chocolate and LEGO's. I am an active member of the International Thriller Writers Organization.

Fort Worth writer Jonathan Shipley has never bought into "newer is better." Old houses, old furniture, and old portraits are his way of life, and like many collectors, he cohabits with more antiques than strictly fit into his house. He has had fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories published in dozens of magazines and anthologies, including SWORD & SORCERESS, volumes 25 through 31, and AFTER DEATH that won the 2014 Bram Stoker Award. However, he is actually a novel writer at heart and spends most of his writing time on a vast story arc that ranges from Nazi occultism to vampires to futuristic space opera.

Pamela K. Kinney gave up long ago trying not to listen to the voices in her head and has written award-winning bestselling horror, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, nonfiction ghost books, and a cryptid book ever since. Three of her nonfiction ghost books garnered Library of Virginia nominations. Her horror short story, "Bottled Spirits," was runner up for the 2013 WSFA Small Press Award and is considered one of the seven best genre short fiction for that year. One of her ghost books went to second printing and second edition with new stories and photos added.

Pamela and her husband live with one crazy black cat. Along with writing, Pamela has acted on stage and film, does paranormal investigations for Paranormal World Seekers for AVA Productions, and is a member of Horror Writers Association and Virginia Writers Club. Learn more about Pamela K. Kinney at https://PamelaKKinney.com.

Anna Taborska was born in London, England. She is a filmmaker and writer of horror stories, screenplays and poetry. Anna has written and directed two short fiction films, two documentaries and award-winning TV drama 'The Rain Has Stopped'. She also worked on twenty other film and TV productions, and was involved in the making of two major BBC television series: 'Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution' and 'World War Two behind Closed Doors - Stalin, the Nazis and the West'. Her stories have appeared in a number of Year's Best anthologies, including 'The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four' and 'Best British Horror 2014'. Anna's short story 'Bagpuss' was an Eric Hoffer Award Honouree, and the screenplay adaptation of her story 'Little Pig' was a finalist in the Shriekfest Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2009. Anna's debut short story collection, 'For Those who Dream Monsters', released by Mortbury Press in 2013, won The Children of the Night Award. Anna is a five-time Bram Stoker Award nominee and a three-time British Fantasy Award nominee. You can view Anna's full resume here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1245940/, watch her films and book trailers here: http://www.youtube.com/annataborska and learn more about her short stories and screenplays here: http://annataborska.wix.com/horror.

Marc Sorondo lives with his wife and children in New York. He loves to read, and his interests range from fiction to comic books, physics to history, oceanography to cryptozoology, and just about everything in between. He's a perpetual student and occasional teacher.

For more information, go to MarcSorondo.com.

Gustavo Bondoni is an Argentine writer with over three hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. His latest novel is Jungle Lab Terror (2020). He has also published another monster book Ice Station: Death (2019), three science fiction novels: Incursion (2017), Outside (2017) and Siege (2016) and an ebook novella entitled Branch. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflection (2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019) Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).

In 2019, Gustavo was awarded second place in the Jim Baen Memorial Contest and in 2018 he received a Judges Commendation (and second place) in The James White Award. He was also a 2019 finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest.

His website is at www.gustavobondoni.com

Chantal Boudreau is an accountant by day and an author/illustrator during evenings and weekends, who lives by the ocean in beautiful Nova Scotia, Canada with her husband and two children. In addition to being a CMA-MBA, she has a BA with a major in English from Dalhousie University. A member of the Horror Writers Association, she writes and illustrates predominantly horror, dark fantasy and fantasy and has had several of her short stories published in anthologies. Fervor, her debut novel, a dystopian science fantasy tale, was released in March of 2011 followed by sequels Elevation, Transcendence, and Providence. Other releases include her novel, Magic University, the first in her fantasy series, Masters & Renegades, and its sequels, Casualties of War and Prisoners of Fate, as well as her Snowy Barrens Trilogy.

David Neilsen is the author of odd, weird, supernatural, and occasionally slightly disturbing stories. His debut novel, Doctor Fell and the Playground of Doom, won the 2017 Silver Falchion award and was a semi-finalist in the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Middle Grade Fantasy. Other books include Beyond the Doors, Lillian Lovecraft and the Harmless Horrors, and the Chronicles of the Deadly Dead series. David is based next door to Sleepy Hollow, NY and also works as a professional storyteller up and down the Hudson River Valley. His one-man performances based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft have sent many screaming into the hills in search of their sanity while his education school presentations have inspired hundreds of Middle Grade-aged children. You can find out more about David at his site, located at: http://david-neilsen.com

DJ Tyrer is probably best known as a horror writer, but has written in many other different genres and styles, as well as being behind the Atlantean Publishing small press.

Paul Wartenberg developed an interest in writing as far back as the first grade, and pursued an interest in creative writing alongside studying for a career in journalism. He graduated from the University of Florida in 1992 with a bachelors in Journalism, but during his studies he worked as a part-time student at the campus library, which redirected his professional interests. He quickly went to the University of South Florida to study librarianship, earning a Masters in Library and Information Sciences in 1993.

His professional career has mostly been in libraries. Working Broward County Libraries from 1994 to 2003. Then at the UF Smathers Libraries from 2003 to 2006. He then worked at Pasco County Libraries from 2006 to 2008. He is currently working as the reference librarian at Bartow Public Library.

He's been a resident of Florida since childhood, which means that, yes he has seen a lot of crazy stuff...

"Quirky, Intelligent, Highly readable" - John Wagner (Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, A History of Violence)

"Stories so good that they fall into the category of 'I'm going to steal this as soon as I get my time-machine working.'" - Michael Carroll (New Heroes, Judge Dredd, Jennifer Blood)

"...demonstrates an old fashioned knack for chills and thrills" - Scream Magazine

David Court is a short story author and novelist, whose works have appeared in over a dozen venues including Tales to Terrify, StarShipSofa, Strangely Funny, Fears Accomplice and The Voices Within. Whilst primarily a horror writer, he also writes science fiction, poetry and satire.

His writing style has been described as "Darkly cynical" and “Quirky and highly readable” and David can't bring himself to disagree with either of those statements.

Growing up in the UK in the eighties, David's earliest influences were the books of Stephen King and Clive Barker, and the films of John Carpenter and George Romero. The first wave of Video Nasties may also have had a profound effect on his psyche.

David works as a Software Developer and lives in Coventry with his wife, Rebel the puppy, and an ever-growing beard. David's wife once asked him if he'd write about how great she was. David replied that he would, because he specialized in short fiction. Despite that, they are still married.

Columbkill Noonan was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. She teaches Anatomy and Physiology at a university in Maryland. Her writing is mostly speculative fiction (especially stories that involve mythology, or the supernatural, or any combination thereof). Some of her work is a bit on the spooky side, but usually there is a touch of humor (who says the afterlife has to be serious?)

When she's not teaching or writing, Columbkill can be found with her rescue horse (whose name is Mittens), hiking in the woods, or doing yoga of all kinds (aerial yoga and SUP yoga are particular favorites). She is an avid traveler, and most of her travels have resulted in a story (The Unexpected Travelers was written after a seriously oxygen-deprived trip to Machu Picchu). You can visit her on her website, http://columbkill.weebly.com/, or on Twitter @ColumbkillNoon1, or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ColumbkillNoonan

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My mom read to me pretty much every night growing up and my big brother had shelves lined with comics, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Heinlein, Tolkien, Asimov, Bradbury, Robeson (Lester Dent), and so on and so forth. I fell in love with it all.

In fifth grade I wrote my first novel ... a Doc Savage/Tarzan mashup. (There were snakemen, people. Snakemen!)

Fast forward and I'm now much (much) older than my fifth-grade self, and I see today's world of indie authors as a throwback to the golden era of pulp magazines. And it's a wonderful thing.

I live in Denver with two Chihuahuas, where by day I write user guides for a software company and by night, or rather by early evening because, you know, late nights are a thing of the past, I write about an Irish family of monster hunters.

Don't let my last name fool you, I'm half Irish-y (with dabs of Welsh, Scottish, and English mixed in).

And now we're all caught up. Thanks and take care.

Alex Azar is an award winning author bred, born, and raised in New Jersey. He had aspirations beyond his humble beginnings, goals that would take him to the skyscrapers of Metropolis and the alleys of Gotham. Alex was going to be a superhero. Then one tragic day, tragedy tragically struck. He remembered he wasn't an orphan and by law would only be able to become a sidekick. Circumstances preventing him from achieving his dream, Alex's mind fractured and he now spends his nights writing about the darkest horrors that plague the recesses of his twisted mind and black heart. His days are filled being the dutiful sidekick the law requires him to be, until he can one day be the hero the world (or at least New Jersey) needs.

Alex was first published in 2010, and he's since published over a dozen short stories, including his award winning collection "Nightmare Noir." Alex is a two time winner of the Preditors & Editors Best Horror Short Story of the year. Alex lives with his wife and their two cats, Leonidas and Miles Davis.

Brandon Ketchum is a speculative fiction writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. His stories include dark and weird horror and fantasy, science fiction, science fantasy, tech noir, high and urban fantasy, and pulp. He has been published with Every Day Fiction, Verto Publishing's Gothic Tales of Terror anthology, Mad Scientist Journal, and other publications. Brandon attended the 2013 and 2015 Cascade Writers Workshop, and the 2015 In Your Write Mind Workshop.

DJ Tyrer is probably best known as a horror writer, but has written in many other different genres and styles, as well as being behind the Atlantean Publishing small press.

Published Short Stories

Under D. H. Lewis

Tommy Bloody Bones, Fear's Accomplice: Halloween, Noodle Doodle Press, 2014.

The Jigarkhwar, Superhero Monster Hunter: The Good Fight, Emby Press, 2015.

Whomsoever Digs A Pit, Deathlehem Revisited: An Anthology of Holiday Horrors for Charity, Grinning Skull Press, 2015.

Under Eldon Litchfield

Lester, Tales From The Boiler Room, Mighty Quill Books, 2017.

Ghost Girl, Strangely Funny V, Mystery and Horror, LLC, 2018.

Prey Heed To The Preacher Man, Generation X-ed, Dark Ink Press, 2022.

Influences

H. P. Lovecraft, Neil Gaiman, Stephan King, Creepy and Eerie magazines of the 70s and 80s, any horror comic, Ray Harryhausen, John Carpenter, John Keel, Stan Lee, old folktales, Fate magazine, Fortean Times, myths and legends from around the world, Dion Fortune, Joseph Campbell, Bernie Wrightson, Terry Pratchett, every good and terrible monster movie I watched as a kid, Shirley Jackson, John Ajvide Lindqvist, and I best stop here or it’ll be too long a list.

Hometown

Winston-Salem, NC.

Social Media

Facebook: Eldon Litchfield

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Max Sparber is an author, journalist, and playwright from Minneapolis. His speculative fiction has appeared in “The Best of Strange of Strange Horizons: Year One” and “People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Publications in 2018 include having stories anthologized in “Fangs and Broken Bones,” “Strangely Funny,” “Sanctuary,” “Black Buttons Vol. 3,” “Ye Olde Magik Shoppe,” and “Under the Full Moon’s Light.”

Ken Teutsch is a writer, performer and film maker. His newest novel is the fast-paced farce, "No Good Stuff in the Book of Job." His short stories have have appeared in such diverse publications as Mystery Weekly, Adromeda Spaceways Magazine, Cowboy Jamboree, Halfway Down the Stairs, as well as in the anthologies Shadow People, Old Weird South, First Came Fear, Into the Yonder 2, and Strangely Funny. In addition, he records and performs as his comedy alter-ego, perennially emerging country music almost-superstar, Rudy Terwilliger.

DJ Tyrer is probably best known as a horror writer, but has written in many other different genres and styles, as well as being behind the Atlantean Publishing small press.

Juliet Boyd is a British writer and lives in Somerset in the south-west of England. She writes both novels and short stories. Her main interests are fantasy and science fiction, although her short stories, usually flash fiction, also incorporate weird fiction and horror. She also has a number of writing-related non-fiction titles.

When not writing, she can often be found reading, baking, or gardening. The reading has, of late, extended to Italian books, as she started learning Italian in December 2020. In addition to these more sedate pastimes, she has discovered a passion for hooping and is gradually adding to her extremely small repertoire of moves.

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Judith Field was born in Liverpool and lives in London. She is the daughter of writers, and learned how to agonise over fiction submissions at her mother’s (and father’s) knee.

She has two daughters, a son, a granddaughter and a grandson (who inspired her first published story when he broke her laptop keyboard. Unlike in the story, a magical creature didn’t come out of the laptop and fix her life). Her fiction, mainly speculative, has appeared in a variety of publications, mainly in the USA. She speaks five languages and can say, “Please publish this story” in all of them. She is also a pharmacist, freelance journalist, editor, medical writer, and indexer.

Sarah E. Glenn loves mystery and horror stories, often with a sidecar of humor. Several have appeared in mystery and paranormal anthologies, including G.W. Thomas’ Ghostbreakers series, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, and Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology.

She developed strong ideals from her parents, a salesman turned missionary and a social worker. Despite their tutelage and a short stint as a classical languages grad student, she still loves Kolchak, superheroes, geek fandoms, and pop culture.

Her great-great aunt served as a nurse in WWI, and was injured by poison gas during the fighting. After being mustered out, she traveled widely. A hundred years later, 'Aunt Dess' would inspire Sarah and co-author Gwen Mayo to create the Three Snowbirds series.

B. David Spicer lives in Ohio, where he earned a BA in English from Ohio University. He has always been an avid reader and one day woke up and started writing fiction of his own. He writes crime fiction, science fiction and horror fiction and occasionally writes scripts for independent comic book publishers. His short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and journals throughout the country and overseas. In his meager spare time he enjoys reading, hiking and playing boardgames. He shares a house with an imperious cat and more books than any one person should own.

David Perlmutter is a freelance writer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His published works include the non-fiction books America ‘Toons In: A History Of Television Animation (McFarland and Co.) and The Encyclopedia Of American Animated Television Shows (Rowman and Littlefield); as well as a number of speculative fiction collections and novellas.

Daniel Hale writes dark fantasy and horror. His short stories have been published in several anthologies, and in his debut collection, "The Library Beneath the Streets." He lives in Akron, OH.

Writer, gamer, pro-wrestling aficionado. Dad.

I claim to write stories, but really I just find them in The Closet, dust them off, add a few commas and send them out into the world.

Proudly Canadian, born and raised in Newfoundland, fine-tuned and educated in Toronto and currently residing in Ottawa with a beautiful wife, two wonderful children and various furry four-legged companions.

R.C. Mulhare has the distinction of reading a translation of the famous cursed play "The King in Yellow" without going mad,once successfully defended her day-job workplace from zombies, through some judicious use of clearance-rack garden tools, and fought off a group of Yog-Sothoth cultists in the hallway of a hotel in Providence, Rhode Island...

In actuality, R.C. Mulhare was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and grew up in one of the surrounding towns, in a hundred year old house up the street from a centuries-old cemetery. Her interest in the dark and mysterious started when she was quite young, when her mother read the faery tales of the Brothers Grimm and quoted the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe to her, while her Irish storyteller father infused her with a fondness for strange characters and quirky situations. When she isn't writing, she moonlights in grocery retail, and given the cross-section of people you see in grocery stores, this gives her a lot of ideas for characters in her stories. A two-time Amazon best-selling author, contributor to the Hugo Award Winning Archive of Our Own, and member of the New England Horror Writers, her work previously appeared with Atlantean Publishing, Macabre Maine, and FunDead Publications, Deadman's Tome, and Weirdbook Magazine, with four more stories already slated for release in 2019. She shares her home with her family, two small parrots, about fifteen hundred books and an unknown number of eldritch things that rattle in the walls when she's writing late in the night....

A frequent contributor to Mystery Magazine, Edward Lodi has written more than 30 books, including six Cranberry Country Mysteries, and several books on 17th-century New England history, as well as collections of New England folklore. His short fiction has appeared in anthologies published by Cemetery Dance, Murderous Ink, Main Street Rag, Rock Village Publishing, Superior Shores Press, and others. His story "Charnel House" was recently featured on Night Terrors Podcast.

Kevin A. Davis has written three contemporary fantasy series: The Khimmer Chronicles (six books), the AngelSong Series (six books), and his newest episodic series the DRC Files. The award-winning Book One of the DRC Files, Atlanta's Guide to Cryptids, has elements of horror especially in the opening and has risen into the top 100 best sellers in Contemporary Fantasy in multiple months since its launch.

He has coauthored the Sorrowbron Trilogy with April Davis, and has another book underway with Tim Lewis.

Author, publisher, and speaker, Kevin A Davis travels to cons, festivals, and conferences in the southeastern US. He lives in rural North Florida and is tolerated by his wife and three persians (cats). In his spare time he helps in their downtown bookstore and publishes anthologies under Inkd Pub.

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USA Today Bestselling Author Erin Lee is a dark fiction/reality author and therapist chasing a crazy dream one crazy story at a time. She is the author of more than sixty books and founder of Crazy Ink Publishing, LLC.

Her Diary of a Serial Killer Series is an international bestselling series as is the Moving On Series that she co-wrote with Chelsi Davis. She is also the author of the award-winning Circus Freak Series - soon to be a full length novel called Circus Freaks. Upcoming titles include Lusus Naturae, Pretty Bones and Boned.

Lee holds a master’s degree in psychology and works with at-risk families and as a court appointed special advocate. She writes reality-based fiction under the pen name EL George. When she isn’t busy dissecting the human experience, she enjoys escaping from reality through reading and spending time with her muses and canine companions —Thomas the Terrier and Milo Muse. To her, laughter is the best medicine of all.

Robert Allen Lupton is retired and lives in New Mexico where he was a commercial hot air balloon pilot. Robert runs and writes every day, but not necessarily in that order. More than 200 of his short stories have been published in various print anthologies and online magazines.

His novel, "Foxborn," was published in April 2017 and the sequel, "Dragonborn," a year later. His novel, “Dejanna of the Double Star” was published in December 2020. Several of his previously published short stories of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, humor, and horror have been published in five collections, “Running Into Trouble,” ”Through a Wine Glass Darkly.” “Strong Spirts,” “Hello Darkness,” and “Visions Softly Creeping."

He has edited and published two anthologies, "Feral: It Takes A Forest To Raise A Child,” and “Are You A Robot?” His third anthology, “Witch Wizard Warlock,” is scheduled to be published in September 2023.

Over 1800 drabbles, short stories exactly 100 words long, and several articles are available to read at: https://www.erbzine.com/lupton/

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Rosalind Barden's zany, cozy noir mystery novel set in 1930s Depression-era Los Angeles, SPARKY OF BUNKER HILL AND THE COLD KID CASE, is a Firebird Book Award 1st Place Cozy Mystery Winner, Literary Titan Gold Medal Book Award Winner, Author Academy Top 10 Mystery Winner, and Critters Readers Poll Top 10 Finisher for both Best Mystery and Best Young Adult Books. Over thirty of Rosalind Barden's short stories have appeared in print anthologies and webzines, such as the U.K.'s acclaimed WHISPERS OF WICKEDNESS. Mystery and Horror LLC has selected her stories for multiple print anthologies, including FAPA President's Book Award Silver Medalist HISTORY AND MYSTERY OH MY! She is a regular contributor to the STRANGELY FUNNY anthology series. Ellen Datlow selected her short story LION FRIEND as a Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention after it appeared in CERN ZOO, a British Fantasy Society nominee for best anthology, part of DF Lewis' award winning NEMONYMOUS anthology series. TV MONSTER is her print children's book that she wrote and illustrated. In addition, her scripts, novel manuscripts and short fiction have placed in numerous competitions, including the Writers Digest Screenplay Competition and the Shriekfast Film Festival. She writes in Los Angeles, California. Photo credit: Guy Viau.

B.F. Vega is a horror writer, political poet, and overworked theater artist living in California's North Bay Area. She is a member of the HWA and the Shuffle Collective. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in Nightmare Whispers, Dark Celebrations, Infection, Dark Nature, Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging, Haunts & Hellions, O is for Outbreak, Strangely Funny, Dragon Soul Press Haunt, and Good Southern Witches, amongst others. Most recently, her short story Lanai appeared in Manor of Frights by Horror Addicts, and her slasher What the Sonoran Takes will appear in the upcoming S is For Slasher through Red Cape. She is still shocked when people refer to her as an author--every time.

Charis is a world wanderer who lived for years in Trinidad as a child, resided in Hong Kong as an adult, but always winds up home on the Columbia River shores. Their writings have been published widely, most recently in Defenestration, Land Beyond the World, Jokes Review, Corner Bar Magazine, Underside Stories, and Aphelion Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Their satiric Science Fiction novel, 51 Ways To End Your World, is currently available for purchase. Read their next story in the Strangely Funny IX anthology, and their next novel, Amboozled, will be available soon!

Larry Hinkle is the least famous writer you’ve never heard of. A copywriter living with his wife and two doggos in Rockville, Maryland, when he's not writing stories that scare people into peeing their pants, he writes ads that scare people into buying adult diapers so they’re not caught peeing their pants.

"The Eris Ridge Trail," his new cosmic horror road trip novella (with dogs!) was released in March 2025, while his debut collection, “The Space Between,” came out in February 2024.

His work has also appeared in "October Screams: A Halloween Anthology," "The Rack: Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks," and The NoSleep Podcast, among others.

He's an active member of the HWA (his short stories made the preliminary Stoker ballot in 2020 and 2022); a graduate of Fright Club and Crystal Lake’s Author’s Journey program; an HWA mentee; and a survivor of the Borderlands Writers Bootcamp.

David Wesley Hill is the author of around forty short stories and a couple novels, including the award-winning nautical adventure, At Drake's Command. Mr. Hill lives in rural North Carolina.