Eric J. Guignard has twice won the Bram Stoker Award (the highest literary award of horror fiction), won the Shirley Jackson Award, and been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and International Thriller Writers Award for his works of dark and speculative fiction. He has over 100 stories appearing in publications internationally; has edited multiple anthologies (including his most recent, PROFESSOR CHARLATAN BARDOT’S TRAVEL ANTHOLOGY TO THE MOST (FICTIONAL) HAUNTED BUILDINGS IN THE WEIRD, WILD WORLD, and A WORLD OF HORROR, each a showcase of international horror short fiction. His next anthology is a Middle Grade-revisiting of classic literature tales, SCARING AND DARING ADVENTURES to be released 2025 by HarperCollins. He currently publishes the acclaimed series of author primers created to champion modern masters of the dark and macabre, EXPLORING DARK SHORT FICTION. He is also publisher and acquisitions editor for the renowned +HORROR LIBRARY+ anthology series. Formerly, he was curator of the series HAUNTED LIBRARY OF HORROR CLASSICS, through SourceBooks with co-editor Leslie S. Klinger. His latest books are LAST CASE AT A BAGGAGE AUCTION; DOORWAYS TO THE DEADEYE; and short story collection THAT WHICH GROWS WILD: 16 TALES OF DARK FICTION (Cemetery Dance). His second collection A GRAVESIDE GALLERY: TALES OF GHOSTS AND DARK MATTERS will be out in 2025 (Cemetery Dance). Visit Eric at his website, blog, or social media.

Ruschelle Dillon is a freelance writer whose efforts focus on the dark humor and the horror genres. Ms. Dillon’s brand of humor has been incorporated in a wide variety of projects, including the novelette "Bone-sai", published through Black Bed Sheet Books as well as the live-action video shorts “Don’t Punch the Corpse” and “Mothman”.

She also interviews talented authors for the Horror Tree website.

Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and online zines such as Strangely Funny III, Story Shack, Siren’s Call, Weird Ales- Another Round, Women in Horror Anthology Vol 2, Dark Voices, Sanitarium Magazine Vol.1, DeadCades: The Infernal Decimation and Fear and Fables, Flashes of Hope, Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology and K is for Kidnap. Her collection of short stories, Arithmophobia was published on Dec of 2017 by Mystery and Horror LLC is available through Amazon & Barnes and Noble. Her newest novella, The Stain has made its debut in May 2020, published by Black Bed Sheet Books. She appears in Daughters of Darkness book one.

Ruschelle lives in Johnstown with her husband Ed and the numerous critters they share their home with. She's also a musician, playing guitar and singing in the band, The Dillon's

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Stephanie M. Wytovich is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her work has been showcased in numerous magazines and anthologies such as Weird Tales, Nightmare Magazine, Southwest Review, Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 2, The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 8, as well as many others.

Wytovich is the Poetry Editor for Raw Dog Screaming Press, an adjunct at Western Connecticut State University, Southern New Hampshire University, and Point Park University, and a mentor with Crystal Lake Publishing. She is a recipient of the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant and has received the Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for non-fiction writing.

Wytovich is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, an active member of the Horror Writers Association, and a graduate of Seton Hill University’s MFA program for Writing Popular Fiction. Her Bram Stoker Award-winning poetry collection, Brothel, earned a home with Raw Dog Screaming Press alongside Hysteria: A Collection of Madness, Mourning Jewelry, An Exorcism of Angels, Sheet Music to My Acoustic Nightmare, and most recently, The Apocalyptic Mannequin. Her debut novel, The Eighth, is published with Dark Regions Press.

Follow Wytovich at http://stephaniewytovich.blogspot.com/ and on Twitter and Instagram @SWytovich​ and @thehauntedbookshelf. You can also find her essays, nonfiction, and class offerings on LitReactor.

H.R. Boldwood, author of "The Corpse Whisperer" series, is a writer of horror and speculative fiction. In another incarnation, Boldwood is a Pushcart Prize nominee and was awarded the 2009 Bilbo Award for creative writing by Thomas More College. Publication credits include, “Killing it Softly,” “Short Story America,” “Bete Noir,” “Everyday Fiction,” “Toys in the Attic,” “Floppy Shoes Apocalypse II,” “Pilcrow and Dagger,” and “Sirens Call.”

Boldwood’s characters are often disreputable and not to be trusted. They are kicked to the curb at every conceivable opportunity when some poor, unsuspecting publisher welcomes them with open arms. No responsibility is taken by this author for the dastardly and sometimes criminal acts committed by this ragtag group of miscreants.

Cindy O'Quinn is an Appalachian writer from the beautiful mountains of West Virginia, where she was steeped in folklore from an early age. She now lives and writes about scary happenings on the old Tessier Homestead located in the woods of northern Maine.

Her work has been published in the Shirley Jackson Award winning anthology, THE TWISTED BOOK OF SHADOWS. Cindy's story, "Lydia", from the anthology was a 2019 Bram Stoker Award Nominee. She's also been published in HWA Poetry Showcase Vol V, Nothing's Sacred Vol 4 & 5, Speculative City, Space & Time, and others.

Follow her on Facebook @CindyOQuinnWriter, Twitter @COQuinnWrites, and Instagram cindy.oquinn.

S.H. Cooper is a Florida based, multi-genre author with a focus on horror and fantasy. Her titles include the Victorian gothic novella, INHERITING HER GHOSTS, the cosmic horror novella, THE FESTERING ONES, and the YA fantasy novel, THE KNIGHT'S DAUGHTER, in addition to three short story collections and the horror comedy podcast, Calling Darkness. She is also a regular contributor to the award winning anthology series, The NoSleep Podcast. When not writing, she enjoys spending time with her husband, pets, and a cup of Earl Grey.

Stephanie Ellis lives in Wrexham in Wales in the UK with her family and is a writer of dark fiction and poetry.

I live in the UK near the Bronte moors where I walk my rescue dog, Roxy. I write dark fiction, and ghost stories. I was obsessed with historic haunted houses growing up and old movies especially film noirs of the 1940's. I blend the two genres in my fiction. I teach creative writing, edit and mentor writers. Away from my writing I swim, craft, sing, eat chocolate and laugh a lot with friends.

Kev Harrison is the Independent Press Award-winning writer of Shadow of the Hidden. Originally from England, Kev now livies and works in Lisbon, Portugal. He has previously lived in Turkey and Poland.

His debut novel, the award-winning 'Shadow of the Hidden' is available now from Brigid's Gate Press, while his acclaimed debut novella, 'The Balance,' a work of folk-horror with eco-horror themes, is available now, from Lycan Valley Press. His second novella, 'Below,' is available now from Brigids Gate Press. He has two releases in Demain Publishing's Short Sharp Shocks! range: 'Cinders of a Blind Man Who Could See' and 'Curfew'.

He has had short fiction published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including Lost Films, from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, Below the Stairs: Tales From The Cellar from Things in the Well, Aphotic Realm Magazine's 'Fangs' issue and 'In Darkness Delight: Creatures of the Night from Corpus Press. He has also had short fiction featured on The Other Stories and Tales to Terrify podcasts. Thirteen tales of his short fiction are now collected in his debut collection, Paths Best Left Untrodden.

He is a staff writer for This is Horror.

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Ben Monroe has spent most of his life in Northern California, where he lives in the East Bay Area with his wife and two children. He is the author of In the Belly of the Beast and Other Tales of Cthulhu Wars, the Seething, the graphic novel Planet Apocalypse, and short stories in several anthologies. 

You can find more information about him and his work at www.benmonroe.com

Catherine McCarthy weaves dark tales on an ancient loom from her farmhouse in West Wales.

Her published novellas and novels include Immortelle, Mosaic, A Moonlit Path of Madness, The Wolf and the Favour and her most recent, The House at the End of Lacelean Street. Her short fiction has been published in various anthologies and magazines, including those by House of Gamut, Black Spot Books, and Dark Matter Ink.

In 2020 she won the Aberystwyth University Prize for her short fiction.

Time away from the loom is spent hiking the Welsh coast path or huddled in an ancient graveyard reading Dylan Thomas or Poe.