Michael Arnzen (http://gorelets.com) is an award-winning author of horror and dark suspense fiction, a poet, and an English professor. His trophy case includes four Bram Stoker Awards and an International Horror Guild Award for his often funny, always disturbing stories. The best of these appear in the Bram Stoker Award-winning career-length retrospective, Proverbs for Monsters, which Dread Central called "a guided tour of insanity and the macabre, with a few moments of touching grace combined with repulsive terror...[which] serves to document the evolution of a great writer."

Arnzen holds a PhD in English from the University of Oregon (where he researched his non-fiction book, The Popular Uncanny) and he is presently a Professor at Seton Hill University, where he teaches horror and suspense fiction in the country's only graduate program in Writing Popular Fiction (http://fiction.setonhill.edu).

Arnzen resides near Pittsburgh, PA.

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"In a little over a decade, Michael A. Arnzen has achieved what few writers manage in a lifetime. He has become the master of a brand of literature that is uniquely his own, and I do not doubt that his approach to horror will soon (if it has not already) be referred to as 'Arnzenian.' When you begin an Arnzen story, you embark on a journey where the old maps do not apply. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory, barreling through landscapes more fascinating and twisted than any previously encountered. Be assured, you will be amazed, startled, amused, and creeped out along the way, but whatever the road has in store, you will not be able to stop reading until the story ends. Horrifying, captivating, ironic -- Arnzenian! -- the works of Michael A. Arnzen are in a class all their own. Fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride!" -- Lawrence C. Connolly, author of Veins

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Joseph Pinto is the author of the poetry collections 'From My Front Steps' (2021), 'Scotch and Scars' (2020) and 'A Distilled Spirit' (2018); the poignant novella 'Dusk and Summer' (2014) and the horror novel 'Flowers for Evelene' (2005) - as well numerous dark fiction tales; his unique voice has been showcased in a multitude of anthologies and magazines as well as individually published short stories.

He is known as the barflypoet – and yes, he really writes poetry from inside bars.

Indulge in Joseph’s work at www.josephpinto.com

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Alex S. Johnson is an author of Bizarro, erotica, horror and science fiction works. A sometime English professor, he currently resides in Central California.

Lucy A. Snyder is the five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of 14 books:

* Sister, Maiden, Monster

* Halloween Season

* Exposed Nerves

* Garden of Eldritch Delights

* While the Black Stars Burn

* Spellbent

* Shotgun Sorceress

* Switchblade Goddess

* Soft Apocalypses

* Orchid Carousals

* Sparks and Shadows

* Chimeric Machines

* Installing Linux on a Dead Badger

* Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide

Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5.

She has an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and lives in Ohio. You can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder.

You can learn more at her website: www.lucysnyder.com

Michael H. Hanson is the Creator of the Sha'Daa shared-world, horror/fantasy anthology series (currently consisting of "Sha'Daa: TALES OF THE APOCALYPSE," "Sha'Daa: LAST CALL," "Sha'Daa: PAWNS," "Sha'Daa: FACETS," "Sha'Daa: INKED," "Sha'Daa: TOYS," and "SHA'DAA: ZOMBIE PARK") all published by Moondream Press (an imprint of Copper Dog Publishing LLC). Two new Sha'Daa Novella Anthologies ("SHA'DAA" WAR" & "SHA'DAA: SALESMAN") and a new Novel (SHA'DAA: AERONAUTS") are all currently being written.

Michael has written and sold six collections of poetry to date: "Autumn Blush" and "Jubilant Whispers", both from Racket River Press, "DARK PARCHMENTS: Midnight Curses and Verses" and "WHEN THE NIGHT OWL SCREAMS", both from Moondream Press, and "ANDROID GIRL And Other Sentient Publications" and "QUARANTINE WORLD" from Three Ravens Publishing LLC.

In the upcoming year Michael will be finalizing and locking down the shared-world anthology he Created and is Editing, "NOT TO YIELD," an epic, multi-character science fiction adventure inspired by Homer's The Odyssey, and co-written by an incredibly imaginative and talented team of authors.

Michael is also one of the current authors appearing in Janet Morris's recently resurrected Heroes-in-Hell shared-world series, and has had short stories published in the anthologies: "Lawyers in Hell," "Dreamers in Hell," "Rogues in Hell," "Poets in Hell," "Doctors in Hell," "Pirates in Hell," "Lovers in Hell," and the soon to be published "Mystics in Hell."

Howdy there. Welcome to my Amazon home. It's creepy, but I like it. If you aren't in the know, I'm a writer type that used to act, do stand up comedy and sometimes wrestle professionally. I teach college as well, so be afraid for the future. David Hayes Online (davidchayes.com) is where all the updates, news and other fun stuff will be as well as a virtual resume with photos, posters, trailers and more. Click around. Have a good time; try not to leave a mess.

"Hayes is fast establishing himself as the new top-drawer of hardcore horror!" - Edward Lee

Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Shimanchu-American and award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years of experience as a professional writer in nonfiction. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), a two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and HWA Mentor of the Year for 2020, find her at angelaysmith.com.

Leigh M. Lane has been writing dark sci-fi and horror for over twenty-five years. Although most of her works carry elements of dystopian and psychological horror, she's not averse to delving into the gritty and the extreme. Her biggest influences are Serling, Matheson, Vonnegut, Orwell, Wells, Bradbury, Poe, King, Rice, and Dahl.

Richard Groller is an author of fiction and non-fiction. His non-fiction book credits include co-author of The Warrior's Edge (with Janet Morris and COL John Alexander)and Chief Researcher and contributing author to The American Warrior (Janet and Chris Morris, Eds.). Nominated for Military Intelligence Professional Writer of the Year in 1986, he has published numerous historical and technical articles in such venues as Military Intelligence, The Field Artillery Journal, Guns and Ammo, and the Journal of Electronic Defense, and has been cited as the primary source for sections of several textbooks on Electronic Warfare. A member of SFWA, HWA and SFPA, Rich is a contributor to the Heroes in Hell series, and has to date been published in 6 volumes of the shared universe anthology (Prophets in Hell, Lawyers in Hell, Rogues in Hell, Dreamers in Hell, Poets in Hell, and Doctors in Hell) by Baen Books and Perseid Press. He is published in 4 volumes of the Sha'Daa: Tales of the Apocalypse series - Sha'Daa: Pawns, Sha'Daa: Facets, Sha'Daa: Inked and Sha'Daa: Toys (created by Michael H. Hanson and published by Moondream Press). He has been published by Iron Clad Press in 2 volumes of John Manning's Night Chills horror anthologies: Terror by Gaslight and Dark Corners and by Perseid Press in John Manning's horror anthology What Scares the Boogeyman?. He has been published in the Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase, Volumes III and IV, both Amazon Poetry Anthology Best Sellers. He is Editor of the The Book of Night, an illustrated book of macabre poetry, also published by Moondream Press.

Peter Adam Salomon’s second and third novels, ALL THOSE BROKEN ANGELS and EIGHT MINUTES, THIRTY-TWO SECONDS, were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Young Adult fiction. His first two novels were named a ‘Book All Young Georgians Should Read’ by The Georgia Center for The Book.

He founded both National Dark Poetry Day (Oct. 7) and the annual international Horror Poetry Showcase for the Horror Writers Association.

His poem ‘Electricity and Language and Me’ was performed by The Radiophonic Workshop on BBC Radio 6. Two of his poetry collections were nominated for the Elgin Award. In addition, he was the Editor for the first books of poetry released by the Horror Writers Association: Horror Poetry Showcase Volumes I and II.

He is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, the Science Fiction Poetry Association, the International Thriller Writers, and The Authors Guild.

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

G. O. Clark was born in Norfolk, MA in 1945. His writing has been published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog, Talebones Magazine, Strange Horizons, Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, A Sea Of Alone: Poems For Alfred Hitchcock, Tales Of The Talisman, Space & Time, Daily SF, and many other publications. He's the author of 15 poetry collections, including, "White Shift", 2012, from Sam's Dot Publishing. A fiction collection, "The Saucer Under My Bed & Other Stories", was also published by Sam's Dot Publishing in 2011.

He won the Asimov's Readers Award for poetry in 2001, and was a Stoker Award finalist for poetry in 2012. He retired from the University of California, Davis in 2008, where he worked in the library for many years. He currently lives in Davis, CA in a not-so-mobile home with lots of books, cds, and collectable clutter.

His latest speculative poetry collection is titled, "Easy Travel To The Stars", 2020, from Alban Lake Publshing, and latest fiction collection, "Twists & Turns", 2016, also from Alban Lake Publishing. Review of the later;

TWISTS & TURNS by G. O. Clark

"Always delightful and surprising, author G. O. Clark’s newest short fiction collection is aptly named. In seventeen clever, strange, and utterly enjoyable tales, the author writes of attractive young zombies, space creatures, a shape changer, a most oddly haunted house, a real Tom Thumb, a grieving widow, a space abductees, and so much more. Mr. Clark turns the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres on their respective heads, producing stories that make you wonder whether to laugh or shriek—or both! TWISTS & TURNS is a serpentine adventure into weirdness most grand. Enjoy!"

Reviewed by J. Comeau online at Creature Features Tomb Of Horror, 5/20/18

For photos and more details about G. O. Clark's life and work, go to -

http://goclarkpoet.weebly.com/

Annie Neugebauer (@AnnieNeugebauer) is a novelist, short story author, and award-winning poet. She has work appearing in over seventy publications, including magazines such as Black Static, Apex, and Cemetery Dance, as well as anthologies such as Bram Stoker Award finalist The Beauty of Death and #1 Amazon bestseller Killing It Softly. She's an active member of the Horror Writers Association, webmaster for the Poetry Society of Texas, and a columnist for LitReactor and Writer Unboxed. You can visit her at www.AnnieNeugebauer.com for blogs, creative works, free organizational tools for writers, and more.

Cecilia Dockins lives just a bucket kick from Nashville, Tennessee. She spends most of her time wrangling words, kids, and pets. She doesn't like to bake and has a healthy mistrust of ribbon dancers. She does enjoy hoarding books and butchering flowers, which she describes as "gardening."

She earned her B.A. in English from Middle Tennessee State University in 2010. She is a writer of horror and urban fantasy. Currently, she is penning her first novel.

You can visit her at www.ceciliadockins.com

Or befriend her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccdockins

Don Gillette has been writing since he asked for (and received) one of the original "Tom Thumb" typewriters for his 6th birthday.

He is the author of three novels, a dozen volumes of poetry, hundreds of short stories and newspaper articles, a complete collection of his political humor pages from the now-defunct weekly newspaper, The Wilson County Advocate, a book of short fiction (Old Leather), and most recently a mixed-media collaboration, Fallen Angels.

As a contributing author, his work has also appeared in several anthologies including the HWA Poetry Showcase III.

Don has B.S. and M.A. degrees in English. He spent 25 years in the Tennessee Army National Guard and served on active duty during Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield. He retired in 1996 as a Chief Warrant Officer Four and subsequently spent 20 years as the VP of Military Operations for Reese Group, Inc.

Don is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and the Academy of American Poets.

He currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Sim Yoon and is at work on a 4th novel, Dark Voices, scheduled for publication in early 2019.

Ashley began writing at the age of 12. Upon discovering the macabre work of Edgar Allan Poe, she took a borderline obsessive interest in writing horror and dark fantasy poetry and even a few fantasy novels. Her favorite authors of horror and fantasy at that time were Stephen King, Dean Koontz, J.R.R. Tolkien, Piers Anthony, and Brian Jacques who also influenced her work.

She wrote up until her senior year of high school and then took a break before starting up again after college in 2011. With a nudge from a new friend, she discovered a new kind of horror, dark fantasy, and weird work from authors such as Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, George Sterling, Donald Sidney-Fryer, and David Park Barnitz.

With this new treasure trove of horror and weird authors, she began to broaden her writing.

Aside from writing, her other passion is martial arts. When she was 12 she started practicing a shotokan Japanese karate mix (called 'American' karate) and Judo at Red Dragon until she reached 3rd class brown belt at 15. At 18 she started practicing Soo Bahk Do, a Korean karate, where she stayed for four years, getting her black belt and taught as an instructor for a brief period of time before leaving.

Janice Leach bakes pies with local ingredients; volunteers at a long term garden project in youth detention; loves and defends those around her; and writes about it all in poems, grants, and blogs. She is editor and publisher of four volumes of Quick Shivers from Dailynightmare.com, and blogs including the Dailynightmare.com and 20minutegarden.com along with her partner, James Frederick Leach. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, she received a Hopwood Award for poetry. She tends a rollicking kitchen garden filled with heirloom vegetables and fruit trees. Her future plans include more life, more love, more magic, and more poetry.

Chad Stroup is a writer and editor from San Diego, California. His dark short stories and poetry have been featured in various publications. Secrets of the Weird is his first novel.

Stroup received his MFA in Fiction from San Diego State University. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the San Diego Horror Professionals, and he dearly misses playing music.

Visit his blog at http://subvertbia.blogspot.com/, or drop by his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ChadStroupWriter.

Jillian Rossi or J. Rossi is an American Author of horror, supernatural fiction, science fiction and fantasy. She is a full time Mom, RN and Writer.

She often moonlights as a paranormal investigator who more often than not brings home things she shouldn't and that require more salt than should ever be reasonably explained in the grocery line to exterminate said "hey mom but it followed me home" moments.

Her school of life background includes driving the Bat-mobile,pulling the pants off Batman , being paid to blow things up (pyrotechnics) , teaching tiny humans to ski, teaching grown humans how to use a computer, plan other humans travel by land, sea and air and a small but eventful run in stand up comedy.

After the birth of her own tiny human she felt the need to explore other passions that encompassed caring for humans, eating, and not living in a two story cardboard box. Finally achieving a formal education in Nursing and Behavioral Sciences Jillian now works as a night ICU RN and writes while raising said tiny human.

Jillian loves Star Wars, shiny objects, sporks, books, Writing, Nursing and her Mini Me. She won't chase a man; but for a kilt she might just power walk.

Tausha Johnson is a writer of dark speculative fiction and poetry. Her works have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Apex's Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts and More, UnCommon Minds, The Horror Zine, Folk Horror Revival: Corpse Roads, HWA Poetry Showcase 2 & 3, Danse Macabre and The Best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal, among others. She currently lives in the countryside of Spain, but sometimes surfaces as the program director for The Horror Writers Workshop in Transylvania.

Lori R. Lopez wears many hats as an award-winning author and poet of Horror, Speculative and Literary Fiction, Fantasy and more. She is also an artist, musician, songwriter, actress, filmmaker, tree-hugger, activist, vegan, and animal-lover. Lori roamed graveyards as a kid and conducted funerals for dead birds, squirrels, insects and spiders. Her offbeat books include The Dark Mister Snark, Leery Lane, An Ill Wind Blows, Darkverse:  The Shadow Hours, Odds & Ends, The Strange Tail Of Oddzilla, The Fairy Fly, the Poetic Reflections Book Series, and The Witchhunt.

A member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA), and Lewis Carroll Society Of North America (LCSNA), Lori has been nominated for an Elgin Award, a Finalist in the Kindle Book Awards, and received multiple top honors from other competitions including the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards and San Diego Book Awards for prose, poetry, and artwork. Her poems "Crop Circles" and "Nocturnal Embers" were nominated for the Rhysling Award in 2020, "Social Graces" and "The Whistle Stop" in 2021, and "Biting Sarcasm" in 2022.

Stories and verse have appeared in The Sirens Call, Weirdbook, The Horror Zine, Space & Time Magazine, Spectral Realms, JOURN-E, Bewildering Stories, Oddball Magazine, Impspired, Terror Tract, Altered Reality Magazine, Aphelion, Hellnotes, Servante Of Darkness, and anthologies such as California Screamin' (the Foreword Poem), HWA Poetry Showcase Volumes (II, III, V, VI, and IX), Journals Of Horror, Grey Matter Monsters, Dead Harvest, Fearful Fathoms I, Terror Train I and II, Cellar Door III: Animals (Editor's Choice Award winner), Trickster's Treats #3, Speculations III (Weird Poets Society), Undead Legacy, Bones II, Ghosts: Revenge, Mirages: Tales From Authors Of The Macabre, Darlings Of Decay, Masters Of Horror: Damned If You Don't, and In Darkness We Play.

Visit fairyflyentertainment.com, a website Lori shares with her two talented sons. They have a Folk Band called The Fairyflies. You can view Author Readings, Music Videos and more at the Fairy Fly Entertainment YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@FairyFly

THE PORTABLE NINE: The Kirkus Review

A reinvigorated gang of nine fearless yet curiously likable villains springs into action.

Mesling’s rousing thriller features a clever hit man named Davenport, known in underworld arenas as the “Mad Marksman of Malta.” Readers first meet Davenport in Florence, Italy, hard at work discreetly vanquishing international cargo negotiator Max Brindle. But this time, a rare mechanical malfunction occurs, and the hit on Brindle is botched, which sets in motion a series of deadly revenge plots. Meanwhile, crime syndicate figurehead Black Phantom, believing Brindle to be slaughtered, makes Davenport his target in a retaliation scheme that threatens the hit man’s family and ignites a vicious battle between the two men. In order to arm himself to the fullest extent, Davenport contacts a bevy of slick, vicious evildoers who are part of a group known as “The Portable Nine.” All of them exhibit unique monikers and lethal specialties. With the formation of this team of lawless underdogs, the author’s multifaceted story shifts into high gear. Chapter by chapter, Davenport’s deadly band is individually unveiled, each with distinctive details and personality quirks that keep the action popping and readers turning pages; there is nary a dull moment in this novel. These warriors, though most “likely to be out of shape and out of practice,” are urgently summoned after years apart and recruited back into action from the comfort of hiding places ranging from Los Angeles and the Midwest to the Australian Outback.

In this top-notch tale, Mesling takes great care to ensure the group is comprised of a formidable lot: not the average “workaday thug and cookie-cutter hit man” but a posse of “outcasts, criminals, egotists, and lunatics” sharing a unifying code of ethics. When gathered together, they form “a country unto themselves.” Alongside kingpin Davenport, the Nine include the hatchet-brandishing Butcher; fidgety Twitch Markham; the intimidating, business-minded Robin Varnesse; and brutal Chicagoan Miranda Gissing, a fierce fighter. They are joined by cunning former porn actress Lovinia Dulcet, who brandishes two Japanese steel skewers as her “Twin Delights” weapons of choice; Australian motorcyclist and macho man Abel Hazard, who surgically removed the fear center from his brain in order to become an audacious killer; and sightless Mr. Bonnet and his integral psychiatrist sidekick, Dr. Intaglio, who are sketchy spies for the Black Phantom and rejoin the others to infiltrate and leak intelligence. All fearless and mercilessly primed, the group is assembled by Davenport to help him put an end to the Black Phantom’s revenge plot to capture and exterminate the Nine (and a larger, associated terrorist scheme as well). Electronic trackers, blow darts, and a desert showdown provide the riveting conclusion while leaving the door ajar for further adventures now that the team has regrouped and dusted off its talents. The author keeps all his characters spinning, though some naturally dominate, right through the rather rushed but satisfying ending.

A creatively conceived, over-the-top thriller with plenty of room for more delicious treachery.

Pete Mesling has published two novels (The Portable Nine for adults and The Maker-Man of Merryville for children); two short-story collections (Jagged Edges & Moving Parts and The Wages of Crime); and a volume of poetry (Imperfect Lodgings). He has had fiction appear in such publications as Independent Legions Publishing’s All-American Horror of the 21st Century, the First Decade: 2000 - 2010 and Shallow Waters, Vol. 3, from Crystal Lake Publishing. He also had the pleasure of working directly with the late Richard Matheson on an online retrospective of his career in film and television.

Mesling is the official Clive Barker proofreader for Gauntlet Press.

J.P. Rosen is a speculative fiction writer and poet who lives in the Pacific Northwest. He explores the darkness in the world through his writing. He writes dark poetry, short fiction, and an occasional novel.

David E. Cowen is the Bram Stoker Award Nominated of author of Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press 2018) and three other books of poetry, Sixth and Adams (PW Press 2001), The Madness of Empty Spaces (Weasel Press 2014) and The Seven Yards of Sorrow (Weasel Press 2016), and Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press 2018). Madness and Seven Yards were also short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award in their respective years of publication. David has published poetry, fiction and non-fiction in journals in the United States, Great Britain and Australia. David was also the editor of the Amazon Kindle Best Selling Horror Writer Association’s Poetry Showcase Volumes III and IV. David's Essay Hope Dished Out in Plenty was featured by Thisibelieve.org in a Thanksgiving feature in 2008. The Canadian Radio Company's Outfront series included a poem by David in their 9/11 tribute. David is currently editor of the HWA Poetry Blog.

David is a past juried poet of the Houston Poetry Fest, Austin Poetry Festival and Waco Wordfest and has been given awards in multiple poetry competitions. David is a practicing attorney originally from Brownsville, Texas and who now resides in Houston, Texas.

David's Poetry Blog for the HWA appears at http://horror.org/category/poetry2/.

A crafted reporter on cultural extremes in music and art, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author Chad Hensley saw several years of his writing on underground subjects as EsoTerra: The Journal of Extreme Culture, through Creation Books in 2011 and a French-language version in 2014 through Camion Noir.

In May of 2014, Raw Dog Screaming Press published his poetry book Embrace the Hideous Immaculate.

Hensley's work has appeared in such praised publications as Rue Morgue, Weirdbook, Spectral Realms published by Hippocampus Press, Terrorizer, Spin, Hustler, Juxtapoz, and Super7 Magazine (where he was also contributing editor) as well as the books Apocalypse Culture 2, The Darker Side: Generations of Horror, The Fenris Wolf 8, and Weird Fiction Review #7, #8, #9, #10, and #11.

Both his fiction and poetry have received honorable mentions in various volumes of Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. His poetry has been nominated for the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Rhysling Award and his poetry collection What the Cacodaemon Whispered was a Finalist for the 2001 Bram Stoker Award.

Mark Kirkbride lives in Shepperton, England. He is the author of The Plot Against Heaven, Game Changers of the Apocalypse and Satan’s Fan Club, originally published by Omnium Gatherum and re-released by Crossroad Press. Game Changers of the Apocalypse was a semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Awards 2019. His stories have appeared in Under the Bed, Sci Phi Journal, Disclaimer Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Titanic Terastructures and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Poetry credits include Neon, the London Reader, the Big Issue, the Daily Mirror, Sein und Werden and Horror Writers Association chapbooks. He was shortlisted in the AONB Landscape category of the Ginkgo Prize 2021.

https://markkirkbride.com/

Elsa M. Carruthers is a speculative fiction writer, academic, and poet. She lives in California with her family. She earned an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. Since graduating, Elsa's work has been published in several anthologies, magazines, and e-zines.

When she isn't writing fiction or poetry, she is busy studying and writing about monsters. She has a soft spot for chupacabras and werewolves.

Clay F. Johnson is a writer, poet, essayist, amateur pianist, devoted animal lover, and incorrigible reader of Gothic literature & Romantic-era poetry. His writing has been published widely, nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Rhysling Award, and received Honorable Mention in The Best Horror of the Year. Clay is the author of A Ride Through Faerie & Other Poems (2021), an illustrated collection of poetry published by Gothic Keats Press in honor of John Keats on the bicentennial year of his tragic death in 1821. His collection’s eponymous poem, “A Ride Through Faerie”, was recently presented at a university conference in England that discussed the darker side of faeries in literature.

You can find out more by visiting his website at https://www.clayfjohnson.com/ and by following him on Twitter @ClayFJohnson.

Richard Geyer is an academic librarian in Michigan. He edited the poetry journal Contemporary Rhyme from 2004 to 2008. Geyer's poetry collections are included in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays at Brown University, the Poetry Collection at SUNY Buffalo, and the Saison Poetry Library in London, England. For a complete list of his publications, visit his website at http://www.richardgeyer.com.

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A writer of Weird fiction and poetry, in the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and related writers.