Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., is the author of the novels, The Orphan Palace and Nightmare's Disciple, and he has written many short stories that have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Horror, The Children of Old Leech, Year's Best Weird Fiction, Book of Cthulhu, "Lovecraft eZine". His highly-acclaimed short story collections, Blood Will Have Its Season, SIN & ashes, Portraits of Ruin, and A House of Hollow Wounds were published by Hippocampus Press.

His work has been praised by Thomas Ligotti, Ellen Datlow, Laird Barron, S.T. Joshi, Michael Cisco, Jeff Thomas (PUNKTOWN), and many other notable writers and editors.

Joe has edited the anthologies, A Season in Carcosa, The Grimscribe's Puppets (TGP won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology), and Cassilda's Song.

You can find his blog at: http://thisyellowmadness.blogspot.com/

Michael Griffin's stories have appeared in magazines like Apex, Black Static, Lovecraft eZine and Strange Aeons , and such anthologies as the Shirley Jackson Award winner The Grimscribe's Puppets, the Laird Barron tribute The Children of Old Leech, and Cthulhu Fhtagn! His standalone novella Far From Streets was published by Dunhams Manor Press, and his debut collection The Lure of Devouring Light will be published by Word Horde in April, 2016.

His work is upcoming in Leaves of a Necronomicon, Autumn Cthulhu, Nightscript 2 and Eternal Frankenstein.

Michael blogs about books and writing at griffinwords.com. On Twitter, he generally posts as @mgsoundvisions and writing-specific news appears as @griffinwords. He's also an electronic ambient musician and founder of Hypnos Recordings, an ambient music record label he operates with his wife in Portland, Oregon.

T.E. Grau is a Shirley Jackson Award- and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author whose books include I Am The River (nominated for the 2018 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel), They Don’t Come Home Anymore, The Mission, and The Nameless Dark (nominated for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection). His work has been published around the world, translated into Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Japanese. Grau lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, and is represented by Kim Yau (film/TV - Los Angeles) and Katelyn Dougherty (literary - New York) at Paradigm Talent Agency.

ROSS E. LOCKHART is an author, anthologist, and freelance editor. A lifelong fan of supernatural, fantastic, speculative, and weird fiction, Lockhart is a veteran of small-press publishing, having edited scores of well-regarded novels of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

Lockhart edited the acclaimed Lovecraftian anthologies THE BOOK OF CTHULHU I and II and TALES OF JACK THE RIPPER (Word Horde). He is the author of the rock-and-roll novel CHICK BASSIST (Lazy Fascist Press). Lockhart lives in an old church in Petaluma, California, with his wife Jennifer, hundreds of books, and Elinor Phantom, a Shih Tzu moonlighting as his editorial assistant.

Visit Ross online at http://www.haresrocklots.com

Justin Steele spends his days counseling high school students and his nights reading as much dark fiction as he can. He is a resident of Delaware, where he also obtained a Bachelor’s in English Literature and a Master’s in School Counseling.

In 2012 Steele started his blog, The Arkham Digest, where he writes about horror and weird fiction. When he’s not working with students or reading he can usually be found playing with his dogs, Watson and Bella, or cheering on the Baltimore Ravens. The Children of Old Leech is Steele’s first published anthology.

Orrin Grey is a skeleton who likes monsters. He was born on the night before Halloween, and he's been in love with the macabre and the supernatural ever since. When asked, he claims to mostly write oubliettes.