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.

A native of the Chicago suburbs, Glen Krisch hopes to add to his list of ghosts he's witnessed (two), as well as develop his rather pedestrian telekinetic and precognitive skills. His novels include Amazon Bestseller WHERE DARKNESS DWELLS, THE NIGHTMARE WITHIN, NOTHING LASTING, ARKADIUM RISING, ECHOES OF VIOLENCE, and LITTLE WHISPERS.

Kenneth W. Cain is the author of four novels, four short story collections, four novellas, and several children’s books among his body of work. He is the editor for the anthologies Tales From The Lake Volume 5, When the Clock Strikes 13, and Midnight in the Graveyard. The winner of the 2017 Silver Hammer Award, Cain is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association as well as chair for the membership committee and the Pennsylvania chapter. Cain resides in Chester County, Pennsylvania with his wife and two children.

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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.

In his head, Jason Parent lives in many places, but in the real world, he calls New England his home. The region offers an abundance of settings for his writing and many wonderful places in which to write them. He currently resides in Rhode Island.

In a prior life, Jason spent most of his time in front of a judge . . . as a civil litigator. When he wanted a change, he traded in his cheap suits for flip flops and designer stubble. The flops got repossessed the next day, and he's back in the legal field . . . sorta. But that's another story.

When he's not working, Jason likes to kayak, catch a movie, and travel any place that will let him enter. And read and write, of course--he does that too sometimes.

Please visit the author on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorJasonParent?ref=hl, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AuthorJasParent, or at his website, http://authorjasonparent.com/, for information regarding upcoming events or releases, or if you have any questions or comments for him.

Tyler Jones is the author of CRITERIUM, THE DARK SIDE OF THE ROOM, ENTER SOFTLY, ALMOST RUTH, and BURN THE PLANS (a short story collection coming from Cemetery Gates Media in 2022).

His work has appeared in the anthologies BURNT TONGUES (edited by Chuck Palahniuk), MIDNIGHT FROM BEYOND THE STARS, CHILLING CRIME SHORT STORIES (Gothic Fantasy), 101 PROOF HORROR, CAMPFIRE MACABRE, PARANORMAL CONTACT, and in Dark Moon Digest, Aphotic Realm, Coffin Bell, Cemetery Dance, LitReactor, and The NoSleep Podcast.

His stories have been optioned for film.

He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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twitter: @tjoneswriter

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Lana Cooper doesn't usually talk about herself in the third person, but makes an exception when writing an author bio. In 2014, she published her first novel, "Bad Taste In Men," a humorous coming-of-age tale for awkward geeks who grew up in the '90s. She has also written short stories for several anthologies and is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA). Cooper has written extensively on a variety of pop culture topics for PopMatters and her own blog, Delightfully Dysfunctional. She enjoys talking to stuffed animals and avoiding eye-contact with strangers on public transportation.

Chad has written for Famous Monsters of Filmland, Rue Morgue, Cemetery Dance, and Scream magazine. He's had dozens of short stories published, and some of his books include: OF FOSTER HOMES & FLIES, STIRRING THE SHEETS, THE PALE WHITE, SKULLFACE BOY, THE NEON OWL and OUT BEHIND THE BARN co-written with John Boden. Lutzke's work has been praised by authors Jack Ketchum, Richard Chizmar, Joe Lansdale, Stephen Graham Jones and his own mother.

He can be found lurking the internet at www.chadlutzke.com

Patrick R. McDonough is a writer, reviewer, and podcaster. He is the producer and one of the hosts of the Dead Headspace podcast.

Elford Alley is a horror author and disgraced paranormal investigator. You can find his horror-comedy novels Apartment 239 and In Search of the Nobility, TX Wildman on Amazon, and Ash and Bone: Tales of Terror and Last Night in the Damned House is available from Velox Books. His short stories have appeared in multiple anthologies, including Paranormal Contact, Beneath, Cosmos, Something Bad Happened, and Campfire Macabre. His work has also been featured in Huffington Post, Cracked, and DoomRocket. He enjoys folklore, looking for monsters, and exploring weird places. You can also check out his website for updates: elfordalley.com.

I'm a writer and director. I wrote and directed In The Dark (www.louisepaxton.co.uk) and The Possession Of David O'Reilly (UK title : The Torment).

My debut novel, REMAINS, is out now.

I welcome feedback and love to hear from people who have seen my movies and read my stories. Feel free to get in touch!

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Sara Tantlinger is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes, and the Stoker-nominated works To Be Devoured, Cradleland of Parasites, and Not All Monsters. Along with being a mentor for the HWA Mentorship Program, she is also a co-organizer for the HWA Pittsburgh Chapter. She embraces all things macabre and can be found lurking in graveyards or on Twitter @SaraTantlinger, at saratantlinger.com and on Instagram @inkychaotics

doungjai gam is the author of 'glass slipper dreams, shattered' and 'watch the whole goddamned thing burn.' her short fiction and poetry have been published in LampLight, Cape Cod Poetry Review, The Bad Book, and Nox Pareidolia, among other places. “Crossroads of Opportunity,” a story she co-wrote with Ed Kurtz, appeared in the Stoker-nominated Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road and was reprinted in Year’s Best Hardcore, Volume Four.

born in Thailand, she currently resides in New England with author Ed Kurtz

R. J. Joseph is a Stoker Award™ nominated, Texas based writer who earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and who must exorcise the demons of her imagination so they don't haunt her being. A life long horror fan and writer of many things, she joyously discovered and embraced writing in the academic arena about three important aspects of of her life: horror, Black femininity, and popular culture. She has had works published in various venues, including the Halloween issue of Southwest Review and The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Series. When she isn't writing, reading, or teaching, she can usually be found wrangling her huge blended family of one husband, four adult sprouts, seven teenaged sproutlings, four grandboo seedlings, and one furry hellbeast who sometimes pretends to be a dog.

When R. J. isn't writing, teaching, or reading voraciously, she can usually be found wrangling one of various sprouts or sproutlings from her blended family of 11...along with one husband and one hellbeast that masquerades as a dog sometimes. R.J. is also an instructor at The Speculative Fiction Academy and a co-host of the Genre Blackademia podcast.

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Sonora Taylor is the author of several short stories and novels, including Seeing Things, Little Paranoias: Stories, and Without Condition. In 2020, she won the Ladies of Horror Fiction awards for Best Collection (Little Paranoias) and Best Novel (Without Condition). Her short stories have been published by Camden Park Press, Burial Day Press, Kandisha Press, Cemetery Gates Media, Sirens Call Publications, Tales to Terrify, and others.

Along with V. Castro, Sonora co-manages Fright Girl Summer (frightgirlsummer.com), an online book festival promoting marginalized authors and voices. In 2022, Sonora and Nico Bell will edit an anthology of fat-positive horror called Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology.

Sonora is currently working on her fourth novel. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and a rescue dog.

Visit Sonora online at sonorawrites.com.

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Praised by Robert Coover for being a “noir master” and Brian Evenson for writing “transgressive fiction at its uncomfortable best,” Michael Harris Cohen is a recipient of the New Century Writer’s Scholarship from Zoetrope: All-Story, a Fulbright grant for literary translation, and fellowships from the OMI International Arts Center for Writers, Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Djerassi Foundation, The Jentel Artist’s Residency, The Blue Mountain Center and the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation.

At Brown University he received the Weston Award for best graduate fiction manuscript. He’s also won the Modern Grimmoire Literary Prize as well as Mixer Publishing’s Sex, Violence and Satire prize.

Michael lives with his wife and two daughters in Sofia. He teaches creative writing and literature at the American University in Bulgaria. Occasionally he tweets @fictionknot

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Eddie Generous has fallen off three different roofs and been lit on fire on multiple occasions. He grew up on a farm and later slept with his shoes under his pillows in homeless shelters. He dropped out of high school to afford rent on a room at a crummy boarding house, but eventually graduated from a mediocre college. He is the author of several small press books, has 2.8 rescue cats (one needed a leg amputation), is a podcast host, and lives on the Pacific Coast of Canada.

Brandon Scott crafts tales of Supernatural Suspense and Dark Fantasy from the mountains of Western North Carolina. He is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association and is featured in various anthologies such as: The Dead Unleashed, 25 Gates of Hell, Campfire Macabre, Institutionalized, Dark Murmurs and From The Depths.

His debut novel of the Vodou series was launched in 2019 by Devil Dog Press with the third in the series published in 2021.

He's currently under contract with Silent House Press.

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, No Gods for Drowning, The Worm and His Kings, Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Benny Rose the Cannibal King, and The Possession of Natalie Glasgow. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Assocation, with dozens of short stories appearing in Pseudopod, Vastarien, Dark Matter Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and other publications. An avid reader and lifelong Godzilla fangirl, she lives with her wife in Maryland conducting secret mad science experiments.

Find Hailey at www.haileypiper.com or follow her on Twitter via @HaileyPiperSays.

My books include After the Change (published by MKM Bridge Press), the horror novel placed on the Bram Stoker Preliminary Ballot 2019 for Superior Achievement in a Novel, Highway Twenty (published by HellBound Books) and the soon to be released thriller Secret Harbor (to be published by Black Rose Writing).

My work has appeared in Blood Moon Rising Magazine, Horrorzine Magazine, Schlock Magazine, Minutes Before Six, Terror House Magazine, Siren's Call Magazine, Black Petals Horror/Science Fiction Magazine, HellBound Books anthology “Ghosts, Spirits and Specters”, The Electric Press, Dissections The Journal of Contemporary Horror, Soteira Press Anthology “What Monsters Do For Love”, The Point Magazine, The Huffington Post, Carecovidartresource, has been adapted for theater and produced in the Seattle area, is used as curriculum at the University of Washington and has received an Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. This year I also have short stories being released by Rainfall Books, Horror Tree – Trembling with Fear, Transmundane Press, The University of Chicago, Awakenings Review, Fox Hollow Stories and Scribe Magazine.

I live in Sydney, Australia with my awesome husband and cheeky cat.

Writing is something I've been doing since my teens, and never get tired of it. I enjoy writing in a variety of genres, but all of my stories are shadowed by darkness because I can't keep the horror out of every tale.

When I'm not writing, I like to watch movies, my favourite TV shows, enjoy going for long walks, and love reading. I'm a HUGE reader. I love books--both writing and reading them! I'm a total bibliophile.

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Being a writer is something you can't get away from, no matter what job you're working at to pay the bills. And I tried out a number of them, from cooking to bartending, and even a number of years as a pharmacy technician. But there was always a short story or a novel in the works. It took a lot of work, and a few decades, to finally achieve the published author status. Now that I'm there, there's no going back.

I love a good horror novel, which is why I have almost every Stephen King book there is on my bookshelf. My short stories are great for a chill if that's what you're into. Though I only have a few out there so far, I'm doing my best to add to those writing credits.

John Timm writes short fiction in a number of genres from inspirational to magical realism and even soft horror. His work has been published in Bartleby Snopes, Close to the Bone, The Coffin Bell, The Fiction Attic, Story Shack, Switchblade and elsewhere. He received an M.A. degree in Spanish from Marquette University and an M.A. in Portuguese from University of Wisconsin-Madison where he also earned a Ph.D. in Spanish. He is currently putting the finishing touches on two novels and a short screenplay.

Derek Austin Johnson has lived most of his life in the Lone Star State. His work has appeared in The Horror Zine, Rayguns Over Texas, Horror U.S.A.: Texas, Terror Tract, and Campfire Macabre.

He lives in Central Texas.

Writer of horrory things, clumsy runner, gluten free baker, Goonie, awful singer. Author of Go Down Hard (Grindhouse Press) and To Offer Her Pleasure (Weirdpunk Books). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Also writes the dirty as Sommer Marsden. Baltimore native. Lives with a herd of strange people a.k.a. her family.

Trading in a police badge, Janine is now a full-time Splatterpunk Award nominated writer, whilst also being a mum, wife and Disney addict. Influenced by the works of King from a young age, she likes to shock readers with violence and scare them with monsters - both mythical and man-made.

Coming 2022 SAUSAGES - The Making of Dog Soldiers.

You'll likely find her devouring work by Glenn Rolfe, Hunter Shea and Tim Meyer or watching Neil Marshall movies.

Her biggest fans are her hubby and daughter.

Follow her on Twitter https://twitter.com/janinepipe28

Lisa is a Texas-born, Kansas-bred writer of fantasy, science fiction and horror. She has an honorable discharge from the United States Army, a degree in chemical engineering, and twenty years’ experience as a professional engineer. Lisa currently lives in Maryland with her husband, two youngest children, father-in-law and cats. She is a member of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) and the Horror Writers Association.

Alex Ebenstein [eb-en-stine] is a maker of maps by day, writer of horror fiction by night. He lives with his family in Michigan. He has stories published in Boneyard Soup Magazine, Tales to Terrify Podcast, and by Cemetery Gates Media, among others. He is also the founder of Dread Stone Press and edited "Field Notes from a Nightmare: An Anthology of Ecological Horror." Find him on Twitter @AlexEbenstein.

Joe Sullivan is the author of Corpse Cold: New American Folklore; Marvelry's Curiosity Shop; and a variety of horror anthologies, collections, and novellas. He is the editor of Places We Fear to Tread; Other Voices, Other Tombs; and Campfire Macabre.

You can check out all of his work at cemeterygatesmedia.com or follow him on twitter @cemeterygatesm.

A United States Marine Corps Veteran and Horror writer, John lives somewhere in Rhode Island with his wife, kids, cat, and English Bulldog.

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.