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Born in the Year of the Dragon, Vonnie Winslow Crist is author of award-winning short stories, poems, and books. An active member of the Horror Writers Association, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, Society of Children's Book Writers & illustrators, and National League of American Pen Women - she taught creative writing for the Maryland State Arts Council for 10 years.

"Beneath Raven's Wing" is winner of The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival's Saturday Visiter Award and a Finalist for the Imadjinn Award. "The Enchanted Dagger" is a Compton Crook Award Finalist and Maryland Writers Association Book Award Winner. Both "Owl Light" and "The Greener Forest" are eFestival of Words Short Story Collection Award Winners. "The Greener Forest," "The Enchanted Dagger," and "Owl Light" were voted among the Top Ten books for Young Adults in the P&E Reader's Poll.

As an illustrator, she's had over 1,000 illustrations published in books, magazines, and calendars.

She is an avid JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis fan, and a firm believer in the magical world that surrounds us! A clover-hand who has found so many 4-leafed clovers she keeps them in jars, Vonnie is quite fond of Harry Potter & Hogwarts, The Hunger Games, A Song of Ice & Fire, Star Wars, Star Trek, and everything Faerie!

Tony Newton is a UK based writer, filmmaker, film producer and an avid VHS collector,

writer of the macabre and dark poet.

Author of Video Nasty Poetry, Chasing the Devil, Horror Movie Poetry, Terror Rhymes, Splatter Video, The Zombie Rule book: A Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide, #I'm Zombie: A Zombie Mosaic Novel and Producer of the films VHS Lives: A Schlockumentary, VHS Lives 2:Undead Format, VHS Lives 3: VHS NASTY, Virus of the Dead, 60 Seconds to Die trilogy and Troma's Grindsploitation films

Jeremy Thompson is the indie horror fictionist whose mind and fingers united to birth The Phantom Cabinet, Let's Destroy Investutech, Silent Minority, The Land of Broken Sky, Toby Chalmers Commits "Career" Suicide, Toby Chalmers Hits a New Low, The Forever Big Top, and Outréverse. His stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies such as Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 2 and 4, Into the Darkness Volume 1, DarkFuse, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Young Mag, This Book Ain’t Nuttin to Fuck With, and Brewtality, and been collected in Sweet Chuckling Morbidity and A Carcass of Genre. A San Diego State University graduate, Jeremy resides in Oceanside, California.

His six Necro Publications ebooks are currently free to download: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/21780278-free-books-for-october

Kevin J. Kennedy is a horror author, editor, and anthologist. He is also the owner of KJK Publishing.

He lives in the heart of Scotland with his wife and his three cats, Carlito, Ariel and Luna. He can be found on Facebook most days if you want to chat with him.

In 1994 Pauly Hart began his adult writing journey in St. Petersburg, Russia. Part of a youthful drama production, he began to explore his emotions and feelings through the written word. This was a paradigm shift for him. Up until that time, he had stifled his emotions, placing them away into small boxes inside of his heart. One by one, they were opened up. Now, over twenty years later, he's realized certain things about life.

He is unique. His vision is his. He was created to be Pauly Hart and no one else, so he'd best get about being the best Pauly that he can be. His voice has a story to tell. The strange and mind-bending life that he had lived thus far could only be the beginning of a lifetime of parables, silliness, wisdom, and other bric a brac. He needed to write. Not only to soothe the untamed beast lurking within his mind, but, as Walt Whitman said once: "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." - That was the reason that he continued writing.

But he never took it as a life choice. It was something that just was. There wasn't any reason to it, there wasn't any realization that smacked him in the face unbidden with the dream of becoming a "writer" - no it was at the behest of his soul that his hand took to the pen and keyboard. That change would happen in 2010.

"Artists never make any money. Be a businessman." His mother had told him. The power of those words pushed him into being a businessman, and he succeeded, in his fashion. Owning a small magazine, music promotion business, a bar, and a coffeeshop were the largest of his endeavors. Also, having gone to seminary, he also pastored at two churches.

He kept getting into trouble for being a maverick and a renegade. It frightened the old ladies at the first church he pastored. They had a meeting about him. Sure, his programs were an overnight success, but were they "permitted?" Alas, no. And so a steering committee was formed to "help" him in his efforts. By the time all was said and done, Pauly had moved states and found work elsewhere. No one has patience for renegades these days, it seems.

It wasn't really until 2003 that he felt that it was "alright with God" for him to be an artist. He tried and had mild success with abstract paintings, live poetry performances, music creation, saponification, acting in, and directing a play, game creation, and a couple more that were just horrible excuses for a writer to be involved with.

But then, in a flash, he decided to publish a book of poetry. Like that, he was hooked. "Stupid Mind Tricks" was his first adventure in really getting into the professional side of things. After that, he wrote his first novel: "By the Gates of the Garden of Eden" and it's been a roller-coaster after that.

Since 2010, he's published 20 works, along with one co-authorship with his wife. There doesn't seem to be any law against writing a zillion books, and, in the end, that's probably what Pauly Hart will end up doing.

Follow his antics and strangeness at PaulyHart.com

The stars align, eldritch monstrosities awaken and somewhere in England, K.T.Tate is struck with feverish creativity. Inspired to write weird fiction, dark tales and strange stories, she commits them to paper in the hopes of enthralling her readers. Or at least appeasing her abominable muses and having a nice cup of tea.

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

Nicole Henning is a book-a-holic who lives in a big-little town in Wisconsin. She surrounds herself with all things scary and bizarre and enjoys creating unique art. When she isn’t writing she enjoys playing video games and spends a lot of time snuggling with her dog Allie aka Princess Prissy Pants. Reading, writing, and horror are her biggest passions in life.

Amber M. Simpson is a dark speculative fiction writer from Northern Kentucky with a penchant for horror and fantasy. Her fiction has been featured in multiple themed anthologies as well as online. She has acted as Assistant Editor for Fantasia Divinity Magazine since 2017, where she's gotten to work with many talented authors from all over the world.

While she loves to create dark worlds and diverse characters, her greatest creations of all are her sons, Maxamus and Liam, who keep her feet on the ground even while her head is in the clouds.

To learn more, visit: https://ambermsimpson.com.

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My name is Andrew Kurtz and I am a horror author.

I have not published any novels as of yet, but am in numerous anthologies, which you can view by going to my author link.

As a child I have loved horror, whether it was watching a horror film or reading horror literature.

I am a comic book collector and have an extensive library of book, mainly horror and science fiction.

If you ask me what my favorite horror film is, I can not answer because there are so many that I love.

Jason Voorhees murders at CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE, Michael Myers slaughters in HADDONFIELD, Freddy Kruger causes nightmares on ELM STREET, and I write horror short stories.

My vampires do not drink blood, they devour it. The werewolves in my stories do not resemble four legged dogs, but bipedal monstrosities that have an undying bloodlust during the full moon.

If you are looking for happy endings then do not read my stories because will be disappointed.

My characters die in the most gory manner possible and whether the are new born infants or 90 year old does not matter.

We all love dogs and cats. In my stories they are torn to pieces while still alive.

My human monsters are not who they seem to be because my tales of terror are full of twists and turns.

Thomas Sturgeon Jr was born in March 14th, 1986 to his parents. His birthplace is in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He is 34 and just had his first book published called , "Red Carnival". During his teen years he found out that he had mental health issues which made it harder for him to achieve what he wanted out of life itself. He arrived to finally achieve his dreams. He has been published in 23 anthologies. Some teachers said that he never would achieve success in the writing field. He had a few teachers rooting for him to do his best. He was a very early reader and started writing at the age of 13. His favorite authors are R.L. Stine and Stephen King.

He's a very intelligent person despite his disabilities with a kind and loving heart. He cares about people. He was once even told a few year's before he got his book published that his work was good and saw that people really enjoyed listening to his poetry at Ziggy's Underground Music Bar in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He made great friends with a singer and now has a poetry album cd called "Master of Storms". Thomas also writes lyrics to song's. He longs to have his own place again. He also loves horror movie's and video games. His favorite horror director is George A. Romero and the living dead series. His favorite video game series is "Resident Evil". He is currently at work on a second short story collection.

Award-Winning Director Reyna Young resides in San Francisco, California with her husband, musician John Gillette and son Logan. Together they both run Last Doorway Productions, an independent film company. She is also known as TV Horror Hostess Miss Misery of Miss Misery's Movie Massacre, author of the books Dislocated Thoughts and her Monsters book series which includes The Creature of Stowe Cabin, Mr. Torture and Horror Lullabies published by Black Bed Sheet Books. She also continues to publish horror comics through Scattered Comics.

Nic Brady studied professional writing at the Glasgow college of nautical studies where she gained HNC in writing followed by a degree in writing and film & TV studies at Manchester metropolitan university. She has been published in a plethora of literary journals and has now eased into the modern world of literary anthologies with the aim to publish a collection of novellas by the end of the year. She currently lives with her daughter, Keira and two familiars Sookie & Darcy in a little town in Scotland.

Sheldon Woodbury is an award winning writer (books, short stories, poems, screenplays, and plays) who writes mostly in the dark fantasy and horror field.

Short-fiction author, and poet, Nerisha Kemraj, hails from Durban, South Africa. She is the mother of procrastination, and two beautiful girls.