"Bringer of Nightmares and Storms"

Willow Croft currently writes horror from the high desert, though she is keen to relocate near the ocean.

When not writing, she cares for three recently rescued stray cats. (Please, adopt don't shop!).

Visit her at her website, https://willowcroft.blog, to check out her fun "Five Things Friday" author interviews.

She's had short stories, essays, articles, reviews, and poems appear in in a number of anthologies and journals (search Willow Croft) and also writes spooky horoscopes over at the Horror Tree (https://horrortree.com/) and Haunt Jaunts (https://www.hauntjaunts.net/), as well as tarot card readings for writerly inspiration at Horror Tree as well.

Eddie D. Moore travels hundreds of hours a year, and he fills that time by listening to audiobooks. When he isn’t playing with his grandchildren, he writes his own stories. His stories have been published by Kzine, Alien Dimensions, Black Hare Press, Nomadic Delirium Press, Fantasia Divinity Publishing and by dozens of online publishers. You can find a list of his publications on his blog, eddiedmoore.wordpress.com. Be sure to pick up a copy of his mini-anthology Misfits & Oddities.

Told by a high school teacher that he had writing talent, Steve Carr’s career as a writer began right after graduation. He spent three years in the Army as a military journalist, writing articles for newspapers all over Florida, and followed that up with four years in the Navy where he taught in the Psychiatric Technician Program at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, training Hospital Corpsmen how to provide care and support in an inpatient setting for young men with psychiatric disorders. He then finished college, majoring in English/Theater and then spent the next 13 years working in non-profit health care development and management, mostly in rural communities, during which time several of his plays that he wrote in his spare time were produced in several states. He gave up the steady income to pursue his dream of writing/producing/directing his own plays and began a theatrical production company in Arizona. He retired early and in June 2016 began writing short stories. Since then he has had over 550 short stories published internationally in over 280 different print and online magazines, literary journals and anthologies. Collections of his short stories, Sand, Rain, The Tales of Talker Knocks, and the hardback edition The Very Best of Steve Carr: 52 stories, was published by Clarendon House Publications. His collection of short stories, Heat, was published by Czykmate Productions. His self-published debut novel, Redbird, was released in November, 2019. He independently published LGBTQ: 33 Stories, which was released in January, 2020. In May of 2020 his short story collection The Theory of Existence: 50 short stories, was released. His guidebook Getting Your Short Stories Published was also published by Clarendon House. He has over 130 publications and books that contain his short stories listed on his Amazon bibliography. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. In 2019, he was on the cover of the Inner Circle Writers’ Magazine inaugural issue and dubbed “The King of Short Stories.” He’s a native of Cincinnati but has traveled extensively in the United States and abroad. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia where when he’s not writing he frets about his writing peers not getting the attention they deserve. He is the founder of Sweetycat Press, a Facebook Group, that produces publications as promotion tools for emerging writers

Austin is a Australian writer of speculative fiction, a lover of language, literature and ’90s TV.

Armed with a psychology degree, he went out into the world to study humanity, and now prefers the company of his wife and their greyhounds.

He grew up in Victoria’s high country, and despite living in Melbourne for the past decade, feels more at home amongst the mountains. You’ll often find mountains in his stories, whether sci-fi, fantasy or alternative history.

Amber M. Simpson is a dark speculative fiction writer from Northern Kentucky with a penchant for horror and fantasy. Her fiction has been featured in multiple themed anthologies as well as online. She has acted as Assistant Editor for Fantasia Divinity Magazine since 2017, where she's gotten to work with many talented authors from all over the world.

While she loves to create dark worlds and diverse characters, her greatest creations of all are her sons, Maxamus and Liam, who keep her feet on the ground even while her head is in the clouds.

To learn more, visit: https://ambermsimpson.com.

Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband Red, two small dogs, and a cat. She has discovered her love of telling a good story can be written. Dawn also writes under the pen name of Garrison McKnight. Along with the books on these pages, Dawn has been published in many online magazines. She was one of the Falling Star Magazine's 2019 Pushcart nominees, has a song published in the House of Harmony, International Habitat for Humanity Song Book and, was a finalist in the "Great American Song Writing Contest." in 2016

Holly Rae Garcia is the author of Parachute, The Easton Falls Massacre: Bigfoot's Revenge, and Come Join the Murder. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Dancing in the Shadows: A Tribute to Anne Rice, Slash-Her, Generation X-ed, Trembling With Fear, Sirens Call, The Call of the Wyld, and more. Her short stories have also been published in The Bookends Review, Emerge Literary Journal, Malarkey, Rue Scribe, and others.

More information can be found at www.HollyRaeGarcia.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.

Chanelle Loftness is a Seattleite who transplanted to San Francisco in the late aughts and now lives in Chicago. She enjoys casting spells by Lake Michigan and spending time with her birds and cats. Chanelle writes horror, dark fantasy, spiritual realism, and speculative fiction.

To find more of Chanelle's writing, visit her website @ https://www.chanelleloftness.com

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Ann Bell Feinstein is a writer of thriller and suspense stories. The proud U.S. Army wife has been surrounded by those in the military for over a decade, so it only makes sense that her stories would be filled with military and political intrigue.

She is a member of the Atlanta Writers Club and various other online groups. She has been the NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison for her local region since 2014. When she isn’t writing, she’s volunteering for her local branch of the Family Readiness Group and other charities that support members of the military and their families.

You can find out more about her various projects on her website (annbellfeinstein.com)

Roni Rae Stinger lives in Vancouver, Washington. When she’s not churning out words on her laptop, she’s wandering the streets, forests, and beaches in search of shiny objects and creative sparks. You can find her online at ronistinger.com.

As a writer from Ontario, Canada, Brianna Witte has a passion for spinning tales of sci-fi, horror and fantasy. She enjoys taking readers on a ride through the realm of fiction by weaving twisted, futuristic and magical stories that materialise from her wildly creative dreams and vivid imagination. Brianna has had her first novel, “Witches and Vampires”, published in December 2019. To date she has had a number of short stories and drabbles published, as well as her short story, ‘The Hunt’ commended for the 2019 Author of Tomorrow award.