Despite his Bachelor’s Degree and evident visual skills, no one wanted to hire Felice Picano as an artist or even art director after college. Instead he was roped into a series of moderately entertaining, barely paid, and minimally creative editorial and writing jobs. These led nowhere important and Picano ended up alternately book selling, hanging around on the outskirts of the Warhol Factory, and at minimal pay occupations too embarrassing to recount. Somehow one or other of these led to Rizzoli Bookstore where eventually someone on staff thought him too pretentious for even that high falutin’ store. They found him a literary agent who was beginning her own agency and was desperate for anyone knowing the rudiments of the English language to flog to corporate-publishers who should have known better. That madness led to repeated publication, a prestigious award nomination, book club and foreign language sales and eventually best sellers. Everything since has been –and it wasn’t far to go—downhill.

Nicole M. Wolverton was raised in the rural hinterlands of Pennsylvania and now lives in the Philadelphia area. Her short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in a variety of magazines (such as Saturday Evening Post and Hungry Ghost) and anthologies (from Dark Ink Books and Ghost Orchid Press, among others), as well as on the Nighty Night with Rabia Chaudry podcast. She is also the author of The Trajectory of Dreams (Bitingduck Press) and editor of Bodies Full of Burning (Sliced Up Press).

Victoria Dalpe is a writer and visual artist based out of Providence, RI where she lives with her husband and their son. From the attic window they can see the spot where HP Lovecraft's ancestral home once stood... alas, it's now a Starbucks. Victoria loves horror movies, reads too much, and has a soft spot for painting animal skulls.

According to Stoker Award-winning author, Tim Waggoner, Douglas Ford "wields language like a sinister surgeon with a night-black scalpel." Ford’s collection of weird fiction, Ape in the Ring and Other Tales of the Macabre and Uncanny, was published by Madness Heart Press in 2020, earning praise from Owl Goingback, who called it “a must have collection for every horror library.” Ford followed this collection with The Beasts of Vissaria County, a novel released by D&T Publishing in 2021. His novella, The Reattachment, appeared in 2019 courtesy of Madness Heart Press, and that same press released Little Lugosi (A Love Story) in 2022.

I am a former research biologist, a college professor turned writer with forty short stories published. Most recently my stories have appeared in Lost Souls, Surprising Stories, Morpheus Tales Magazine, UC Berkeley’s Imaginirarium, Black Heart Magazine, Tracers, Infernal Ink and 365 Tomorrows,

I also have stories in these anthologies: Fat Zombies, Creature Stew, Gumshoe Mysteries, Future Visions Vol. 3, Nightmares, Delusions and Waking Dreams, and The Devils You Know.

January through March 2019, my sci fi adventure Novella, The Last Dung Beetle appeared in www.serialpulp.com. It was rated 4.5 on Goodreads.

I am the editor and content provider for the web site www.ahickshope.com

Luciano Marano is a Seattle-based journalist, photographer and author. His fiction has been featured in a number of anthologies, as well as the podcasts Pseudopod, Horror Hill and also Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

His award-winning reporting, both written and photographic, has appeared in numerous national and regional publications and he was named a 2018 and 2020 Feature Writer of the Year by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association.

Luciano grew up in rural, Western Pennsylvania and moved to Pensacola, Florida after high school where he joined the Navy as a mass communication specialist (photographer/ journalist). His time in service consisted of tours of duty in Hawaii and Everett, Washington, including one Western Pacific deployment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.

After opting out of reenlistment, Luciano earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in commercial photography at the Art Institute of Seattle.

He likes movies (especially horror and documentary films), jogging, craft beer, reading, oldies music, and traveling to new places. If he could have any superpower, he would choose Wolverine-style regenerative abilities (or maybe just the ability to grow Wolverine-style sideburns).

When not practicing or teaching Kung Fu or Tai Chi, T. M. is reading or watching horror, thrillers, or sci-fi movies.

B-movies? The cheesier the better. Classics? The butler did it. But it was his twin taking his place you saw for two minutes, in shadows, at the beginning with the pair of scissors shown for two seconds in the middle of the movie. See?

T. M. prefers writing in the horror, science fiction, post-apocalyptic and, occasionally, romance genre.

T. M.’s favorite authors include Clive Barker, Patricia Briggs, Dean Koontz, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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Rebecca Rowland grew up in Western Massachusetts but spent her early adult life in the Boston area, and most of her fiction is set in those locations. She is the author of The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, Pieces, Shagging the Boss, Optic Nerve, and White Trash & Recycled Nightmares and the curator of seven horror anthologies, including the bestseller Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction. Her short fiction, guest essays, and book reviews regularly appear in a variety of publications and horror websites. She is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association and a reticent member of the Horror Authors Guild and Whip City Wordsmiths, and her writing genres of choice are psychological, transgressive, and satirical horror heavily influenced by Joyce Carol Oates, A.M. Homes, and Chuck Palahniuk. Find her on Instagram @Rebecca_Rowland_books.

Robert P. Ottone is the author of the horror collection HER INFERNAL NAME & OTHER NIGHTMARES (an honorable mention in THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOLUME 13) as well as the young adult dystopian-cosmic horror trilogy THE RISE.

His short stories have appeared in various anthologies as well as online. He’s also the publisher and owner of Spooky House Press.

Robert is also an English as a New Language teacher, as well as a teacher of English Language Arts. He can be found online at SpookyHousePress.com or on Twitter/Instagram (@RobertOttone). He delights in the creepy and views bagels solely as a cream cheese delivery device.

Mark Towse is an Englishman living in Australia. He would sell his soul to the devil or anyone buying if it meant he could write full-time. Alas, he left it very late to begin this journey, penning his first story since primary school at the ripe old age of 45. Since then, he's been published in the likes of Flash Fiction Magazine, Cosmic Horror, Suspense Magazine, ParABnormal, Raconteur, and his work has also appeared three times on The No Sleep Podcast and on many other excellent productions such as The Grey Rooms. His first collection, ‘Face the Music,’ has just been released by All Things That Matter Press and is available via Amazon, Dymocks, B&N, etc.

Look out for his story, 'Devil's Ink' in Midnight in the Pentagram from Silver Shamrock.

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https://www.instagram.com/towseywrites/

Scotty Milder is a writer, filmmaker, and film educator living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his MFA in Screenwriting from Boston University, and his award-winning short films have screened at festivals all over the world, including Cinequest, the Dead By Dawn Festival of Horror, HollyShorts, and the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon. His independent feature film "Dead Billy" is available to stream on Amazon.com and Google Play.

His short fiction has appeared or will appear in Dark Moon Digest, KZine, Lovecraftiana magazine, as well as anthologies from Dark Peninsula Press, Sinister Smile Press, Dark Ink Books, and others.

He teaches screenwriting and film production at Santa Fe Community College, Sol Acting Studios, and the Seattle Film Institute. He is also the co-host of "The Weirdest Thing" history podcast with actor/theatre artist Amelia Ampuero.

You can find him online at scottymilder.com or www.facebook.com/scottymilderwrites.

Elin Olausson is a fan of the weird and the unsettling. She is the author of the short story collection "Growth" and has had stories featured in The Ghastling, Luna Station Quarterly, Nightscript, and many other publications.

Elin’s rural childhood made her love and fear the woods, and she firmly believes that a cat is your best companion in life. She lives in Sweden.

Originally from Cincinnati, Lamont Turner now resides in the swamps just outside of New Orleans where he collects all manner of occult and arcane lore, and performs forbidden and blasphemous experiments. When not busy communing with the damned, he tells scary stories to the four little demons who claim to be his children.

Holley Cornetto is a writer, librarian, professor, book reviewer, and transplanted southerner who now calls New Jersey home. Her debut novella, WE HAUNT THESE WOODS, is available from Bleeding Edge Books. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Daily Science Fiction, Flame Tree Press Newsletter, Dark Recesses Press, and anthologies from Cemetery Gates Media, Eerie River Publishing, Dark Ink, and several others. In 2020, she was awarded a grant from the Ladies of Horror Fiction. In addition to writing The Horror Tree’s weekly newsletter, she regularly reviews for Booklist, Ginger Nuts of Horror, and The Horror Tree. She teaches creative writing in the online MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. Find her on Twitter @HLCornetto.

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