The author of more than 100 books on Amazon, Mosiman is a thriller, suspense, and horror novelist, a short fiction writer, and a lover of words. In a diary when she was thirteen years old she wrote, "I want to grow up to be a writer." Her books have been published since 1984 and two of them received an Edgar Award Nomination for best novel and a Bram Stoker Award Nomination for the most superior novel. In 2014 THE GREY MATTER received a Nomination for the Kindle Book Award. In 2016 she was nominated for a Stoker Award for Anthology, FRIGHT MARE-WOMEN WRITE HORROR. She has been a regular contributor to a myriad of anthologies and magazines, with more than 200-300 short stories published. Her work has been in such diverse publications as Horror Show Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Zippered Flesh 3, and Simple Things an anthology edited by Franklin Wales. She taught writing for Writer's Digest and for AOL online and gave writing workshops locally in Texas. She was an assistant editor at a Houston literary magazine and co-edited several trade paperback anthologies with Martin Greenberg. Her latest work in paperback and Kindle digital is THE SORROWS, a story collection, and LOSTNESS, a novel. In 2015 her anthology FRIGHT MARE-WOMEN WRITE HORROR debuted with 20 chilling tales. Her latest novel is LOSTNESS, the sequel to BANISHED, a tale of a fallen angel in the human form of a little girl.

Recently she sold short fiction to JAMAIS VU, the premier magazine, and the anthologies BETTER WEIRD edited by Paul F. Olson from Cemetery Dance, a story to SPECTRAL Volume 8, WORLD HORROR anthology, ALLEGORIES OF THE TAROT edited by Annetta Ribken, FRESH FEAR edited by William Cook, WRAPPED IN RED edited by Jennifer Greene, and SOMEONE WICKED and INSIDIOUS ASSASSINS edited by Weldon Burge, plus two more. Her latest suspense novel, THE GREY MATTER, will be reprinted in a new edition in 2018.

Mosiman was born in Alabama and lives now in Texas on a lake.

Her work has been predominately suspense thrillers, with her short fiction being more speculative and horror. Her latest work was a collection titled THE SORROWS and a novel, LOSTNESS.

She says of her hobbies, "I love to read (especially on my Kindle), watch old movies, take photographs, and travel."

News of her e-book publications can be found at: http://peculiarwriter.blogspot.com/

Her Facebook page is: http://www.facebook.com/billie.s.mosiman

Find her on Twitter @billiemosiman

Loren Rhoads is the author 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die and Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel. Her newest book is a death-positive memoir called This Morbid Life.

In addition to her nonfiction, Loren is the co-author (with Brian Thomas) of the novels Lost Angels and Angelus Rose, about a succubus who falls in love with an angel. On her own, she's author of a story collection called Unsafe Words and The Dangerous Type, Kill By Numbers, and No More Heroes, a space opera trilogy set after a galactic war wiped out much of humanity.

You won't be surprised to know that she likes long walks in the moonlight and old graveyards.

Amy Grech has sold over 100 stories to various anthologies and magazines including:

A New York State of Fright, Apex Magazine, Even in the Grave, Gorefest, Hell’s Heart, Hell’s Highway, Hell’s Mall, Microverses, Needle Magazine, Punk Noir Magazine, Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, Tales from The Lake Vol. 3, The One That Got Away, Under Her Skin, Yellow Mama, and many others.

Amy is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers who lives in New York. You can connect with her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amy_grech or visit her website: https://www.crimsonscreams.com.

Kristal Stittle was born and raised in Toronto, where she continues to live for most of the year. During the summer, she can be found around the woods and lakes of Muskoka, a favoured place by both her and her cat. She writes in all genres, and while she focuses on novels and short stories most of the time, she also dabbles with film scripts on occasion. A graduate of Humber College, trained as a 3D artist, she still enjoys painting as well as photography. Before actualizing her dream as an author, Kristal worked at both Blockbuster and Ubisoft, which appealed to her film and video game loving sides. You can frequently find her on Twitter, her current favourite social site.

'Raven Dane;

Vampirism at a deliciously literary level, dark fantasy at its best!'

(G.Power)

‘Raven Dane presents uncommon alternative history woven with a dark sensibility, and told with unbridled imagination.’

Stan Nicholls, internationally acclaimed fantasy author.

Raven is the winner of the inaugural VSS Steampunk Novel of 2011 with Cyrus Darian and the Technomicron.

Raven Dane is a UK based author of dark fantasy, horror, alternative history and steampunk novels. Her first books were the critically acclaimed Legacy of the Dark Kind series, Blood Tears, Blood Lament and Blood Alliance. These were followed by a High Fantasy spoof, The Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire.

Her steampunk novels so far are Cyrus Darian and the Technomicron, winner of the prestigious Victorian Steampunk Society's Best Novel award in 2012 and the sequel Cyrus Darian and the Ghastly Horde. The third in the series, Cyrus Darian and The Wicked Wraith was published in July, 2019. All the Cyrus Darian books are now with Telos Publishing.

Raven has had a great many short stories published, including one in a celebration of forty years of the British Fantasy Society and in international horror anthologies including Dean Drinkel's trilogy Tres Librorum Prohibitorum, Tales from the Lake 2 published by Crystal Lake and an anthology of woman horror writers, edited by Billie Sue Mosiman entitled Fright Mare...Women Write Horror.This anthology was shortlisted for a Stoker award in 2017. Raven is a regular contributor to Phantasmagoria Magazine and to the Gruesome Grotesques anthologies edited by Trevor Kennedy.

She was signed up by Telos to be the first author published in their new Moonrise imprint with her collection of macabre Victorian and Steampunk short stories, entitled Absinthe and Arsenic, published in autumn 2013.

Death's Dark Wings, an alternative history/ supernatural novel set in 1066 was published by Telos in spring 2015.

As an obsessive Dr Who fangirl since the very first episode, Raven was delighted to have collaborated on the script of a new film released on DVD, The Daemons of Devil's End. She was excited to get an acting role in the film which stars Damaris Hayden. Raven also worked on the novelisation of the film.

Raven has appeared on two lists of top women horror writers , published to celebrate February's Women in Horror Month, 2013.

Raven's spooky novella, The Bane of Bailgate was published in August 2018. She is currently working on a dark fantasy novel, The Arcane.

She has a new novella set in a chaotic, dystopian future published in November 2019. The House of Wrax is with Demain Publishing.

Sarah Doebereiner is a short story author, novelist, and poet. She graduated from Wright State University in 2010 with her BA in English. Sarah lives in central Ohio with her husband and two children. She enjoys writing short stories including: micro-fiction, flash fiction, and novella length works.

Macabre themes fascinate her because of their tendency to stay with readers long after the book has been closed, but the joy in short fiction is the opportunity to try out all kinds of genres. Good writing is good writing, after all, no matter what clothes it wears. Sarah loves to read anthologies. She is obsessed with all things nerdy: Sherlock, Doctor Who, Harry Potter.

Find out more at: sarahadoebereiner.com or https://www.facebook.com/sarahadoebereiner

Rose Blackthorn writes speculative fiction from the high mountain desert of eastern Utah.

Her short stories have appeared in such places as Stupefying Stories, Necon E-books, Interstellar Fiction, BuzzyMag, Siren’s Call and Massacre Magazine. She has also appeared in many anthologies including The Ghost IS the Machine and Fear the Abyss by Post Mortem Press, Eulogies II: Tales from the Cellar by HorrorWorld, Equilibrium Overturned and Dread by Grey Matter Press, Wrapped in Black by Sekhmet Press, and Twice Upon a Time by The Bearded Scribe Press.

Her poetry has appeared in Jamais Vu, 3 volumes of the HWA Horror Poetry Showcase, Widowmakers, and Chiral Mad 3. She has also released a poetry collection Thorns, Hearts and Thistles through Eldritch Press. More information can be found at:

http://www.facebook.com/RoseBlackthorn.Author

http://roseblackthorn.wordpress.com

https://twitter.com/rose_blackthorn

KC Grifant is a New England-to-SoCal transplant who writes internationally published horror, fantasy, science fiction and weird western stories for collectible card games, podcasts, anthologies and magazines. Her writings have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Aurealis Magazine, Unnerving Magazine, Frozen Wavelets, Tales to Terrify, The Macabre Museum and Colp Magazine. Her short stories have haunted dozens of collections, including We Shall Be Monsters, Beyond the Infinite: Tales from the Outer Reaches, Shadowy Natures, Six Guns Straight From Hell, and the Stoker-nominated Fright Mare: Women Write Horror.

In addition, she is the co-founder of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) San Diego chapter, an organization that helps to connect writers and fans of horror literature.

Fast-paced action and smart, stylish writing are the hallmarks of K.L. Nappier's speculative thrillers, mysteries and dark fiction. Some call her style eclectic, some call it cross-over. Moving between genres may keep her books out of the mainstream, but once you've discovered her, you'll understand what thousands of readers already know and why critics think she is one of the best authors writing independent fiction.

Since her emergence on the online scene, Kathy’s readership has grown exponentially. Her work has taken prizes and honors in the Dream Realm Awards, the Draco Awards, the EPPIES, the Kay Snow Awards and the New Century Awards among others.

Her novels have been reviewed by the Gothic Journal as “stunning” and “fresh” with suspense that “is razor sharp.” The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Website calls her work “totally addictive.” Tampa Book Buzz says she “pulls you in from the first sentence” and DredTales.com calls her a “stand out in the world of independent fiction.”

For more information about K.L. Nappier's novels and books, visit Kathy’s website at www.klnappier.com

Morgan Griffith was born in California. After small success as a dark fantasy poet and artist in the 1980's, with work appearing in Eldritch Tales; The Arkham Sampler; Grue; Supernatural Poetry; The Horror Show; Etchings and Odysseys and Leilah Wendell's Necromance, her focus turned to fiction. Favorite pets and companions are rats.

A tribute poem to Clark Ashton Smith can be found online at The Eldritch Dark here:

http://www.eldritchdark.com/tributes/poetry/231/emanations-and-whisperings