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.

T. Fox Dunham is an American writer and author of three novels: The Street Martyr, Mercy and Destroying the Tangible Illusion of Reality, or Searching for Andy Kaufman. He’s a cancer survivor, editor and host/producer of What Are You Afraid Of? Horror & Paranormal Show.

At the age of 17, oncologists at the University of the Hospital of Pennsylvania diagnosed Fox with a rare type of blood cancer: composite lymphoma. He was treated with an aggressive regiment of chemotherapy and radiation. The treatment crippled him for life, and the constant pain plus the violation of the treatment inspired his horror medical thriller, Mercy.

"Dunham has channeled his many brushes with the other side into the exquisitely rendered, lyrical supernatural hospital thriller MERCY. 3.5 out of 4 Skulls." - FANGORIA

Fox is creator, producer & co-host of What Are You Afraid Of? Horror & Paranormal Show—a dark audio magazine in its fifth season on PARA-X Radio with 200,000 direct downloads on most major podcast services. The show plays narrated ghost stories, dark fiction, and Fox interviews such guests as Travel Channel’s Katrina Weidman, Heather Taddy, authors like Joe R Lansdale and filmmakers like Lloyd Kaufman. Find every episode and more at www.whatareyouafraidofpodcast.com.

Fox is the author of three novels and many published short stories featured in magazines and anthologies. Throughline Films is developing his first book The Street Martyr into a series.

Fox is an accomplished baker, cook, gardener, herbalist and angler. He’s editing a new charity anthology, Coming Through in Wave, based on the music of Pink Floyd for Gutter Books. Proceeds will be donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Matt Kurtz is a former feature film director and screenwriter turned novelist. His novels include KINFOLK (2018) and THE ROTTING WITHIN (2020), both published by Grindhouse Press.

He also has a three-volume collection of short stories entitled MONKEY'S BOX OF HORRORS, MONKEY'S BUCKET OF HORRORS, and (the even more ridiculously titled) MONKEY'S BUTCHER BLOCK OF HORRORS.

To read more about him and his work, visit www.MattKurtzWrites.com or @MattKurtzWrites

Max Booth III is the Editor-in-Chief of Perpetual Motion Machine, the Managing Editor of Dark Moon Digest, and the host of two podcasts: Ghoulish and Castle Rock Radio. He's the author of many novels and frequently contributes articles to LitReactor, CrimeReads, the San Antonio Current, Fangoria, and Film-14. Follow him on Twitter @GiveMeYourTeeth or visit him at www.TalesFromTheBooth.com. He lives in Texas.

My name Mandy J. De Geit.

I dropped the "J" and smashed the De Geit together after my first story was published and I realized more words in my name meant the longer my autograph would be... Chalk it up to either time management or laziness, they're both pretty much the same.

I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I've lived here since 1999 I think, it's been awhile anyways. Home for me was originally Timmins, Ontario, it's a little town up four hours north of North Bay. *(I'm hoping to be the next big thing from Timmins, put it on the map for something else other than that Shania girl.)

I chose to make Ottawa my home, for the last... 13 years or so. I'm kinda gypsy-like/nomadic and I don't like staying put for too long, but aside from travelling around Canada and the US, I haven't strayed too far from Ottawa... yet.

I have a few things under my writing belt now, but it all started with She Makes Me Smile, in May 2012.

*(I should add here that a lot has happened regarding my short story She Makes Me Smile. It went from published to pulled to self-published and well... It'll be easier if you just see my blog for more information. Otherwise, SMMS can be found here on Amazon, along with a few of my other stories.)

You can find a full list of publications here. http://mandydegeit.wordpress.com/publications/

At the moment, I call myself an author of creepy fiction as I'm not sure how else to explain what I write. I try to write about things that just might happen. I write more about the darkness that resides inside people around us, the secrets our friends might carry or the things that people close to us think about and are capable of. There's really no category for that yet so creepy fiction works for me for now. I see myself heading off into other genres, such as bizarro and comedy, but I'll always come back to horror.

Thanks stopping by, happy reading!

MDG

Nica Berry is owned by two cats and a Lipizzan mare named Carrma. She's a graduate of the Clarion SF/F Workshop, the Taos Toolbox SF/F Workshop, has an MA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and was a fellow at the Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices.

Nica also writes M/M Paranormal Romance as Evey Brett.