Danny Rhodes grew up in Grantham, Lincolnshire before moving to Kent in 1994. He has lived in the Cathedral city ever since.

His debut novel, 'Asboville' was published in October 2006. Well received by critics it was selected as a Waterstones Booksellers Paperback of the Year and adapted for BBC Films by the dramatist Nick Leather.

Rhodes' second novel 'Soldier Boy' was published in February 2009.

'FAN' tells the story of a football supporter trying to come to terms with tragedy, loss and a disconnect from the game he loves. It was published in April 2014.

Danny continues to write short stories in a variety of genres.

His short story, 'Toadstone', was shortlisted for the prestigious BBC National Short Story Award 2021.

Visit his website at www.dannyrhodes.net for the latest information.

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Michael Arnzen (http://gorelets.com) is an award-winning author of horror and dark suspense fiction, a poet, and an English professor. His trophy case includes four Bram Stoker Awards and an International Horror Guild Award for his often funny, always disturbing stories. The best of these appear in the Bram Stoker Award-winning career-length retrospective, Proverbs for Monsters, which Dread Central called "a guided tour of insanity and the macabre, with a few moments of touching grace combined with repulsive terror...[which] serves to document the evolution of a great writer."

Arnzen holds a PhD in English from the University of Oregon (where he researched his non-fiction book, The Popular Uncanny) and he is presently a Professor at Seton Hill University, where he teaches horror and suspense fiction in the country's only graduate program in Writing Popular Fiction (http://fiction.setonhill.edu).

Arnzen resides near Pittsburgh, PA.

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"In a little over a decade, Michael A. Arnzen has achieved what few writers manage in a lifetime. He has become the master of a brand of literature that is uniquely his own, and I do not doubt that his approach to horror will soon (if it has not already) be referred to as 'Arnzenian.' When you begin an Arnzen story, you embark on a journey where the old maps do not apply. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory, barreling through landscapes more fascinating and twisted than any previously encountered. Be assured, you will be amazed, startled, amused, and creeped out along the way, but whatever the road has in store, you will not be able to stop reading until the story ends. Horrifying, captivating, ironic -- Arnzenian! -- the works of Michael A. Arnzen are in a class all their own. Fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride!" -- Lawrence C. Connolly, author of Veins

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Hailed by BOOKLIST as “one of the most clever and original talents in contemporary horror,” Kealan Patrick Burke was born and raised in Ireland and emigrated to the United States a few weeks before 9/11. Since then, he has written five novels, among them the popular southern gothic slasher KIN, and over two hundred short stories and novellas, including PEEKERS, SOUR CANDY and THE HOUSE ON ABIGAIL LANE, all of which have been optioned for film.

A five-time Bram Stoker Award-nominee, Burke won the award in 2005 for his coming-of-age novella THE TURTLE BOY, the first book in the acclaimed Timmy Quinn series.

As editor, he helmed the anthologies NIGHT VISIONS 12, TAVERNS OF THE DEAD, and QUIETLY NOW, a tribute anthology to one of Burke’s influences, the late Charles L. Grant.

Most recently, he adapted his work to comic book format for four volumes of John Carpenter’s TALES FOR A HALLOWEEN NIGHT series of anthologies and contributed a short story to Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s HELLBOY: AN ASSORTMENT OF HORRORS. He is currently at work on a new novel, MR. STITCH.

Kealan is represented by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House.

He lives in an unhaunted house in Ohio with a Scooby Doo lookalike rescue pup named Red.

Lorne Dixon grew up on a diet on yellow-spined paperbacks, black-and-white monster movies, and the thunder lizard backbeat of rock n' roll. His novels include Bleak December, Blue Eel, Snarl, The Lifeless, and Eternal Unrest. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of anthologies and magazines.

Cameron Pierce is the author of eleven books, including the Wonderland Book Award-winning collection Lost in Cat Brain Land. His work has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Hobart, The Big Click, and Vol. I Brooklyn, and has been reviewed and featured on Comedy Central and The Guardian. He was also the author of the column Fishing and Beer, where he interviewed acclaimed angler Bill Dance and John Lurie of Fishing with John. Pierce is the head editor of Lazy Fascist Press and has edited three anthologies, including The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade. He lives with his wife in Astoria, Oregon.

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, International Thriller Writers Award, and Pushcart Prize for his works of dark and speculative fiction. He has over 100 stories and non-fiction author credits appearing in publications around the world; has edited multiple anthologies (including the current series, The Horror Writers Association’s HAUNTED LIBRARY OF HORROR CLASSICS, through SourceBooks, with co-editor Leslie S. Klinger); and has created an ongoing series of author primers championing modern masters of the dark and macabre, EXPLORING DARK SHORT FICTION through his press, Dark Moon Books. He is also publisher and acquisitions editor for the renowned +HORROR LIBRARY+ anthology series. 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). Visit Eric at: www.ericjguignard.com, his blog: ericjguignard.blogspot.com, or Twitter: @ericjguignard.

John F.D. Taff is a multi-Bram Stoker Award short-listed dark fiction author with more than 30 years experience, and more than 100 short stories and seven novels in print.

He has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Unnerving, Deathrealm, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, as well as anthologies such as Hot Blood: Seeds of Fear, Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, Shock Rock II, Lullabies for Suffering, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Behold!, Shadows Over Main Street 2, Horror Library V, Best of Horror Library, Dark Visions Vol. 1, Ominous Realities, Death's Realm, I Can Taste the Blood and Savage Beasts. His work will appear soon in The Seven Deadliest and I Can Hear the Shadows.

His novels include The Bell Witch, Kill-Off and the serialized apocalyptic epic The Fearing. Thunderstorm Books and Grey Matter Press will release a one-volume version of The Fearing in 2021, in limited edition hardcover, soft cover and digital. Short fiction collections include Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection and Little Black Spots, both published by Grey Matter Press.

Taff's novella collection, The End in All Beginnings, was called one of the best novella collections by Jack Ketchum and was a Stoker Award Finalist. His short "A Winter's Tale" was also a Stoker Finalist.

His upcoming anthology Dark Stars, a tribute to that seminal '80s work Dark Forces, will be published by Tor/Nightfire 11/2/21.

His website is at johnfdtaff.com. Follow him on Twitter @johnfdtaff.

Tracie McBride is a New Zealander of Maori and European descent who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her debut collection Ghosts Can Bleed contains much of the work that earned her a Sir Julius Vogel Award, with a second collection - Drive, She Said - published by IFWG Publishing in 2020. Her stories and the anthologies they have appeared in have won or been shortlisted for several awards including the Stoker, Aurealis, and Australian Shadows Awards. Visitors to her blog are welcome at http://traciemcbridewriter.wordpress.com/.

Charles Colyott lives on a farm in the middle of nowhere (Illinois, U.S.A.) with his wife, 2 daughters, cats, and a herd of llamas and alpacas. He is surrounded by so much cuteness it's very difficult for him to develop any credibility as a dark and gritty writer. Nevertheless, he has appeared in Read by Dawn II, Dark Recesses Press, Withersin magazine, Horror Library Volumes III & IV, Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry, and Zippered Flesh, among other places. He also teaches a beginner level Tai Chi Ch'uan class in which no one has died (yet) of the death touch.

You can get in touch with him on Facebook, or email him at charlescolyott@gmail.com.

Unlike his llamas, he does not spit.

Shane McKenzie is the author of many books, including Muerte Con Carne, Pus Junkies, Addicted to the Dead, All You Can Eat, Mutt, Fat Off Sex and Violence, and lots more. He wrote comics for Zenescope Entertainment in their Oz series, Grimm Fairy Tales series, and Grimm Tales of Terror series. The film El Gigante, done by LuchaGore Productions and directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero, is based on the first chapter of Muerte Con Carne. He continues to write screenplays for LuchaGore. He lives in Austin, TX with his wife and daughter. He's staring at you right now.

www.shanemckenzie.org

Colleen Anderson writes fiction, dark fiction, erotica, poetry, SF, fantasy, and anything of interest. She has a BFA in Creative Writing and freelances as a copyeditor and proofreader. She has co-edited Tesseracts 17 with East Coast, dark fiction writer Steve Vernon, Playground of Lost Toys with Ontario, award-winning author Ursula Pflug, and edited Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland published in May 2018.

Thrice nominated for the Aurora Award (twice in poetry and for Playground), as well as shortlisted for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, the Friends of Merril short fiction contest, the Rannu competition (and placed second in poetry), the SFPA poetry contest, Colleen has also won the Jerry Jazz Musician short story contest. She has also received several honorable mentions in the Year's Best SF, Year's Best Horror and Fantasy, and the Writers of the Future.

A recent recipient of a Canada Council grant in writing, she has published over 200 pieces of fiction and poetry. Some venues include Grievous Angel, Cemetery Dance, Polu Texni, Polar Borealis, Transition magazine and many others. Her poetry chapbook "Ancient Tales, Grand Deaths and Past Lives" is available through Kelp Queen Press (part of Chizine Publishing).

Colleen has served on several award juries for the Bram Stoker awards and the British Fantasy Awards. She is a member of HWA, SFPA and SF Canada. Her fiction collection, Embers Amongst the Fallen, is available on Amazon and Smashwords. UK Black Shuck Books will publish her new collection, A Body of Work, in fall 2018. She is also working on a poetry collection, an alternate history novel, and a futuristic novel. There are always projects on the go. You can find out more on Colleen's blog: www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com

Some of the early influences on her writing were Edgar Allen Poe, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlien and Frank Herbert.

You can see other books that contain her stories at Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/481782.Colleen_Anderson

Ian Withrow is the author of several short stories. He currently resides in western Montana, where he worships good music, great books, and sleeping with every limb tucked safely beneath the covers.

Rick J. Brown is a horror and science fiction writer whose work appeared in the Bram Stoker nominated horror Anthologies, Horror Library, Vol. 1, Butcher Shop Quartet II, and The Best of Horror Library, vol 1-5 by Cutting Block Press. He has received two Honorable Mentions from Writers of the Future, the top international writing contest for science fiction and fantasy writers, and has written screenplays in professional workshops with Hollywood writer/producer Glenn Benest, an ex-collaborator of Wes Craven. One of his screenplays was deemed “masterfully written” by Twilight/Protagonist Pictures. He is a professor of psychology in Southern California, and a photographer of nature and wildlife (rickjbrown.com).

"Wow... got a chance to read THE PUPPET SHOW... I think it’s a fabulous piece of work — imaginative, terrifying, moving... Really captivated me! Great work..."

-- Stephen Susco, screenwriter of THE GRUDGE and THE GRUDGE 2

Patrick Beltran has been a fiction editor since 2011. He's edited or co-edited anthologies, collections and novels, including Associate Editor of two Bram Stoker Award® nominated anthologies. He's a member of the Editorial Freelancer's Association, an Active Member of the Horror Writer's Association, and also an experienced screenwriter. When he's not slaying editorial dragons, he plays in a rock band for fun.

Daniel L. Naden has always been a writer. It's an affliction, a blessing, a curse...a dominant part of his life for as long as he can remember. He has published work in the areas of politics, humor, philosopy, and of course, fiction. Dan's stories explore the irony in life, through the lens of horror, suspense, & sci-fi. His writing has appeared in great anthologies, like: The Best of Horror Library: Volumes 1-5, The Horror Library: Volume 2, Dark Distortions: Volume 1, and Our Shadows Speak, along with top-notch publications like Dark Recesses Magazine, Vault IX, Astounding Tales, Ragged Edge, and Montage. Dan's latest novella, Parting Shot is coming from HellBound Books.

Ronald McGillvray is a writer from Ottawa, Canada. He writes short stories, scripts, novellas and is currently working on a novel. His horror short story collection, Tales From The Parkland is available as a print or ebook on Amazon. His writing credits include the short story, The Garbage Collectors, which was published in Horror Library Volume 2 as well as in their best of anthology. An audio version of his story, Big Boy, was produced by Pseudopod and his story, A Night Out, was published by Dark Fire Fiction.

His new children's fantasy novella, James' Journey To Dreamland is now available as a print or ebook on Amazon.

Two of his film scripts, The Storm and The Goodbye, were produced by Cellardweller Projects. The Storm was chosen as one of the films to be screened at the World Horror Convention. It also screened at the Shocklines Film Festival in New York City.

His story, Head Case, was made into a film produced by Columbia College in Chicago. His film script, Magic Man, was optioned by Hyde Park Media.

His stage play, The Line, was chosen as part of the reading series by the Saint John Theatre Company.

In the works are two new films, Chimes and The Crepuscule, that he’s recently written.

Find out more about Ronald McGillvray at:

www.ronaldmcgillvray.com