I love words. I always have. I remember being five years old at Christmas and my parents gave me a crazy set of "Children's Classics." Black Beauty, Water Babies, The Man in the Iron Mask. I couldn't read any of them, but the potential was heady. By 8th grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. I had landed in honour's english class, which was all about words. I learned about Shakespeare and wrote my own Greek myth. And I never looked back.

If you let me, I'll share that love with you, in ways you may not have explored before. We'll go on journeys into dark, forbidden places. We'll sigh and smile and turn the page and hold our breaths. I promise to bring you safely home.

Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband Red, two small dogs, and a cat. She has discovered her love of telling a good story can be written. Dawn also writes under the pen name of Garrison McKnight. Along with the books on these pages, Dawn has been published in many online magazines. She was one of the Falling Star Magazine's 2019 Pushcart nominees, has a song published in the House of Harmony, International Habitat for Humanity Song Book and, was a finalist in the "Great American Song Writing Contest." in 2016

Trey Stone is the author of the psychological thriller At The Gate, the Columbus Archives crime thriller series, and a variety of shorter fiction.

He lives in Norway with his wife, where he works as and archaeologist and when he's not writing thrillers, or working on other projects, he enjoys traveling, playing the guitar, and reading. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, and https://treystone.wordpress.com/

Joshua D Taylor is an author who started writing a few years ago when he realized he was too old to play make-believe. He lives in southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and a one-eared cat. He enjoys gardening, comic books, ska-punk music, Disney World, and traveling with his wife. Raised during weirdness that was the late 20th century Josh’s eclectic interests produce eclectic works. He loves to mix-n-match things from different genres and story elements to achieve a madcap hodgepodge of the truly unexpected.

Patrick Winters is a graduate of Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. As a student, he was a two-time co-editor in chief of the college's literary and art magazine, Forte, and is a member of the international English honors society, Sigma Tau Delta.

Winters is now a proud member of the Horror Writers Association. His works have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines and have been featured on various web-based offerings, including the Horror Tree, the Sirens Call, Deadman's Tome, Fantasia Divinity Magazine, Sanitarium Magazine, and many more. While appreciating an array of genres, his favorite to both read and write in is Horror, because he's just plain weird like that!

Winters is an avid listener of all things hard-rock and heavy-metal, a compendium of comic-book knowledge, can (and will) do a perplexing array of voice impersonations, and can bend his thumbs further back than any person should have the right/capability of doing. It is all quite odd . . .

A full list of his publications can be found at: http://wintersauthor.azurewebsites.net/Publications/List

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Callum Pearce is a Dutch storyteller, originally from Liverpool.

Lover of the magical as well as the macabre. He lives in a foggy old fishing town in the Netherlands with his husband and a couple of cat shaped sprites.

Starting to appear in all of the best short story and drabble collections. Much more to come.

You can follow and see what's coming up in these places:

https://m.facebook.com/calmpeace13

https://mobile.twitter.com/Aladdinsane79

Eric Butler was born in 1975 to a military family in Germany. He spent the majority of his formative years bouncing around Europe, the United States, and Central America before settling down in Texas. He is a fan of the horror genre but enjoys reading all kinds of fiction. He plans on mixing many of his favorite genres together in future works. He lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas with his wife, son, and a stable of dogs and cats. He publishes under the Naked Cat Press brand, inspired by his sphynx Isis.

Lance Dale was born and raised in Wisconsin and began writing in 2020. His first short story was published in the Books of Horror: Community Anthology, and he has been included in several anthologies since. He is an avid fan of extreme metal music, horror movies, and books of all genres. Although he loves writing, he enjoys spending most of his time hanging out with his amazing wife and two children in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Chris lives in the beautiful garden of England and in the odd moment he’s not walking the dog he pursues his passion for writing fiction. Specialising in horror, fantasy, and science-fiction Chris has stories in print with several publishers. To keep up with future stories be sure to follow @ https://mused.blog

Ransom Wall is young writer who was first published at the age of 15. Since then he has had multiple publications in numerous magazines and anthologies in paperback, hardcover, and digital format, with more to come as well as a possible novel in the future.

Michelle Brett is a New Zealand based author, writing horror, thriller, and speculative fiction.

Her short stories have been published by Black Hare Press, in Australian newspapers and she is currently working on her first novel.

In her free time, she likes to question the choices of horror movie characters and report on historic crimes for a local paper.

Find Helen M. Merrick at www.authorhelenmerrick.wordpress.com

Helen M. Merrick lives in the UK Midlands with her family. Care Support Worker by day, she spends her free time scribbling short speculative fiction spawned from an overactive imagination.

When she’s not working, Helen likes to sit in her garden and watch the world go by. She loves the sun on her skin and the scents of summer, the colours of autumn and the freshness of spring. She hibernates in winter.

Ian Fortey wrote this biography in the third person. He also writes horror stories, comedy articles, and can cook a ham like a champ.

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