R.E. Sargent is the author of three novels, four novelettes, and many short stories in the genres of suspense, supernatural, and horror. He is also an editor and a publisher. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, the Alliance of Independent Authors, and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. His short story, “Lucy,” was featured in the 2021 Splatterpunk Award–nominated anthology If I Die Before I Wake Volume 3 – Tales of Deadly Women and Retribution.

R.E. lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and their Chocolate Lab. And the rain. Lots and lots of rain. He is thankful that writing is an indoor activity.

Find out more about R.E. at www.resargent.com.

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.

Once an operating room registered nurse, Bridgett Nelson so enjoyed playing with human organs, she decided to turn her macabre interest into a horror writing career. She loves bubble baths (because nothing says spooooky writer like orange-scented bubbles), hates not knowing what’s swimming in the water with her, lives for Halloween season (but loathes chainsaw-wielding dudes in haunted houses), adores her West Virginia University Mountaineers, is very pro-Oxford comma, and thinks bananas are absolutely disgusting.

Bridgett has contributed to multiple anthologies, including COUNTING BODIES LIKE SHEEP, edited by K Trap Jones. Her debut collection, A BOUQUET OF VISCERA, is available now!

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HWA: WV Chapter co-chair. Editor. Audiobook proofer. Bookworm. Dog lover. Tarantula whisperer. Bra avoider. ENJF. Amaretto Sour obsessor.

Check out her website for more info.

www.bridgettnelson.com

An audiobook version of BALLAD OF JASMINE WILLS narrated by Clare Radix is now available. Lee is the author of nonfiction books ZOMBIESCAPES & PHANTOM ZONES and ECOSUBLIME. He has published short stories in COSMIC HORROR MONTHLY, SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, HellBound Books' ANTHOLOGY OF BIZARRO, Dark Ink Books' SHADOWY NATURES, IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE vol. 3, and the SCARE YOU TO SLEEP podcast. Learn more at leerozelle.com.

Steven Pajak is the author of novels, such as the U.S. Marshal Jack Monroe series, the Mad Swine trilogy, as well as short stories and novellas. When not writing, Steven works as an administrator at a university and COO, Managing Editor and Creative Director for Sinister Smile Press.

He continues to be an avid reader of Stephen King and Dean Koontz, John Saul, Richard Matheson, and many other favorite authors in the horror, suspense, thriller and general fiction areas.

Steven lives in the Chicagoland area with his wife and two teens.

Renee M.P.T. Kray grew up in Michigan with eight siblings and a small army of cats. Her love of reading and writing went into maximum overdrive when she read The Lord of the Rings at age 10 and since then she’s spent her time obsessively scribbling story ideas into notebooks. After being homeschooled all through elementary and high school, she earned her BA in Literature from Ave Maria University and her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University. She has self-published two collections of short stories: Think Again: A Captivating Compendium and Restless: A Year of Ghost Stories. However, none of these pursuits have been as challenging as trying to get her pug, Potato, to stop eating dirt.

Spencer Richard is a multi-disciplined artist from Canada. He is better known as a rap artist and producer under the alias, SRVENT, who has so far produced an album, two EPs, and over 15 music videos currently available online (www.srvent.com), as well as having several producing credits for other artists. But while he is better known for rap and performance, his first love has always been fiction. Even his fans have noticed a signature developing across his catalogue, which is something best characterized by the crafting of strong narratives throughout his lyrics. He aspires to publish many novels and many more short stories over the years.

Spencer is also host of the podcast, ‘Creative InSanity’, where he speaks to highly creative people to help fuel himself and his listeners to stay in the zone of creativity.

Finally, he lives in Edson, Alberta, with his smart wife and three rascally daughters. His main employment is videography, livestream, and production work as a freelancing creative, working mostly from his home studio. He also has a dog named Frodo who carries a replica of The One Ring around his dog collar, so that’s pretty cool.

J.H. Moncrieff's City of Ghosts won the 2018 Kindle Book Review Award for best Horror/Suspense.

Reviewers have described her work as early Gillian Flynn with a little Ray Bradbury and Stephen King thrown in for good measure.

She won Harlequin's search for “the next Gillian Flynn” in 2016. Her first published novella, The Bear Who Wouldn’t Leave, was featured in Samhain’s Childhood Fears collection and stayed on its horror bestsellers list for over a year.

When not writing, she loves exploring the world's most haunted places, advocating for animal rights, and summoning her inner ninja in muay thai class.

To get free ebooks and a new spooky story every week, go to http://bit.ly/MoncrieffLibrary.

Natalie Sierra (she/they) is a first generation Latinx poet & author. Natalie studied journalism at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, CA. Their work has been featured online and in print, in the Sinister Smile Press horror anthologies, Her Heart Poetry, Fine Print Paper, Ink and Nebula, Quail Bell Magazine, South Broadway Ghost Society, Westwind Magazine, a Journal for the Arts UCLA, and the Los Angeles Times.

Natalie marks her professional debut with a volume of poetry, 'Medusa' (Fall, 2020), with DSTL Arts. She is also the author of three volumes of poetry and short stories, 'Nadine: Love Songs for Demented Housewives', 'Temblors', and 'Strangelove: Tales of Love and Lust'.

Natalie Sierra lives in Pomona, CA. For daily poetry, book reviews, and updates, please follow her at:

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Red Lagoe grew up on 80s horror and carried her paranoia of slashers and sewer creatures into adulthood.

When she’s not spewing her horror-ridden mind onto the page, or substituting at the elementary school like a normal upstanding citizen, Red enjoys amateur astronomy, and can be found lingering in the inky shadows among beasts for a better view of the stars.

Red's short story collection Lucid Screams released in February 2020. She is a staff writer for Crystal Lake Publishing's Still Water Bay series. Her stories have appeared in Dark Moon Digest, Sinister Smile Press's If I Die Before I Wake, volumes 1, 2, & 3, Crystal Lake Publishing’s Shallow Waters Volumes 1,2, 3&4, Trembling with Fear’s Year Two anthology, Owl Hollow Press’ Under the Full Moon’s Light anthology, and more. Her viral apocalypse novel Fair Haven released in 2017.

Cara Fox is an English author, editor and freelance journalist trying to write her way out of the dark. Inspired by authors such as Mary Shelley, Daphne du Maurier, Bram Stoker and Jules Verne, and also her Eastern European heritage, she favours steampunk, horror and Gothic romance, but you can find her anywhere that the stories sink their claws into you and the wine flows freely. Her work has been featured in the Tales To Terrify podcast and in anthologies from Lycan Valley Press, Fluky Fiction, Left Hand Publishers, all the sins and Horror Addicts, and she is currently working on her debut novel, The Strange Case of Doctor Magorian.

When not writing, Cara can be found spending time with her two daughters, studying towards her English Literature degree or getting involved with British politics. In what little free time remains, she enjoys heavy metal and rock music, watching obscure horror movies with her husband and curating a collection of antique poetry.

Cara has limited mobility as the result of a highly thrilling incident involving firefighters, forgotten keys and a misplaced hero complex, which is a tale for another time. This influences her work with themes of mortality and pain often running throughout the twisted tales she writes, but she refuses to allow it to hold her back.

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For a young Scott Harper growing up in 1970’s Southern California, the world was just a tad dull and unimaginative. He found a creative outlet in the world of Marvel Comics, fervidly devouring the monthly adventures of Iron Man, Hulk, and Captain America. Later, his tastes turned toward the Marvel black and white magazines’ more esoteric horror province, faithfully following titles such as Dracula Lives! and Tales of the Zombie. Influenced by these works and such great authors as Bram Stoker, John Steakley, and Marv Wolfman, Scott’s unique writing style combines horror and fantasy elements with superhero-style action. When not writing, Scott spends his time either reading, working out at the gym, adding to his model collection, or walking his two dogs. He lives in California with his wife and son.

Check out his web site at https://www.scottharpermacabremaestro.com/

Sinister Smile Press is a publisher dedicated to the publication of anthologies and collaborative novels focusing on themes of horror, supernatural, karma and vengeance. Creating nightmares is our business...and business is good!

Visit us at www.sinistersmilepress.com

I live in the Midwest at the bottom of a rye whiskey bottle that's also an Airbnb. I write genre. Follow me on Twitter @the_rye_stuff and/or @movie_shuffle, a companion account for film buffery.