I love words. I always have. I remember being five years old at Christmas and my parents gave me a crazy set of "Children's Classics." Black Beauty, Water Babies, The Man in the Iron Mask. I couldn't read any of them, but the potential was heady. By 8th grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. I had landed in honour's english class, which was all about words. I learned about Shakespeare and wrote my own Greek myth. And I never looked back.

If you let me, I'll share that love with you, in ways you may not have explored before. We'll go on journeys into dark, forbidden places. We'll sigh and smile and turn the page and hold our breaths. I promise to bring you safely home.

R.A. Goli is an Australian reader, writer, gamer and sometime hiker. She writes horror, fantasy, speculative fiction and erotic horror. Hobbies include bugging her pets and husband.

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Patrick Winters is a graduate of Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. As a student, he was a two-time co-editor in chief of the college's literary and art magazine, Forte, and is a member of the international English honors society, Sigma Tau Delta.

Winters is now a proud member of the Horror Writers Association. His works have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines and have been featured on various web-based offerings, including the Horror Tree, the Sirens Call, Deadman's Tome, Fantasia Divinity Magazine, Sanitarium Magazine, and many more. While appreciating an array of genres, his favorite to both read and write in is Horror, because he's just plain weird like that!

Winters is an avid listener of all things hard-rock and heavy-metal, a compendium of comic-book knowledge, can (and will) do a perplexing array of voice impersonations, and can bend his thumbs further back than any person should have the right/capability of doing. It is all quite odd . . .

A full list of his publications can be found at: http://wintersauthor.azurewebsites.net/Publications/List

Chris lives in the beautiful garden of England and in the odd moment he’s not walking the dog he pursues his passion for writing fiction. Specialising in horror, fantasy, and science-fiction Chris has stories in print with several publishers. To keep up with future stories be sure to follow @ https://mused.blog

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Warren Benedetto writes short fiction about horrible people doing horrible things.

He is a full member of the SFWA and has published dozens of stories in publications such as Dark Matter Magazine and The Dread Machine; on podcasts such as The NoSleep Podcast, Tales to Terrify, The Creepy Podcast, and Scare You To Sleep; and in anthologies from Apex Magazine, Scare Street, Eerie River Publishing, and more.

He studied Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and has a Master’s degree in Film/TV Writing from the University of Southern California. When he’s not writing, he works as Director of Global Product Strategy at PlayStation, where he holds 30+ patents for various types of gaming technology.

He is also the developer of StayFocusd, the world’s most popular anti-procrastination app for writers. He built it while procrastinating.

For more information, follow @warrenbenedetto on Twitter.

J.W. Garrett is a multi–award winning author and has been writing in one form or another since she was a teenager. Her love of the Fantasy genre goes all the way back to elementary school when she read The Hobbit for the first time - she's been hooked ever since. Her works include novels and poetry as well as short stories.

When she's not hanging out with her characters, her favorite activities are reading, running and spending time with family.

Check out Remeon's Quest, the latest book in her fantasy scifi series, Realms of Chaos.

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Peter got locked in a bookstore as a child and has been reading his way to freedom ever since.

His first tales developed from Dungeons & Dragons campaigns that never got played, and watching Babylon 5 on repeat. After having several dozen short stories published through various publishers, Peter has switched to longer forms of writing.

The science fiction “Consensus” novels depict one family’s struggle in the face of alien invasion, and the “Vol’kris Chronicles” are a series of standalone tales that explore humanity’s misadventures in a world ruled by insects.

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Find Helen M. Merrick at www.authorhelenmerrick.wordpress.com

Helen M. Merrick lives in the UK Midlands with her family. Care Support Worker by day, she spends her free time scribbling short speculative fiction spawned from an overactive imagination.

When she’s not working, Helen likes to sit in her garden and watch the world go by. She loves the sun on her skin and the scents of summer, the colours of autumn and the freshness of spring. She hibernates in winter.

Eric Butler was born in 1975 to a military family in Germany. He spent the majority of his formative years bouncing around Europe, the United States, and Central America before settling down in Texas. He is a fan of the horror genre but enjoys reading all kinds of fiction. He plans on mixing many of his favorite genres together in future works. He lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas with his wife, son, and a stable of dogs and cats. He publishes under the Naked Cat Press brand, inspired by his sphynx Isis.

Beneath Darlene’s sweet exterior lies a darkness that fans the flames of her horrific tales. Darlene’s love for the macabre stems from authors whose stories filled her childhood, from the twisted mind of Edgar Allan Poe to the terrifying brilliance of Stephen King. Darlene is a writer, editor, and educator with an MA in English and Creative Writing. She currently resides in Murrieta, California, where she enjoys reading and writing horror stories while spending time with her husband and cats. Prepare to be scared with her contributions to Eerie River Publishing’s Dark Magic drabble collection, Red Cape Publishing’s A - Z of Horror: J is for Jack-O’-Lantern, and Black Hare Press’ 666 Dark Drabbles anthology.

Kate Campbell is a writer with a particular passion for horror and fantasy. Her debut fantasy novel 'The Whisper of Calaresp' has been picked up by Wallace Publishing and is due to be published this year. She's had several short stories published in anthologies and has more due out this year.