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Addison Smith is an author and laborer living in upstate New York. His fiction can be found in Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Daily Science Fiction and others. He has recently discovered the joys of brewing coffee in numerous ways, and will gladly talk your ear off @AddisonCSmith.

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.

S. C. Morgan lives outside of Toronto, Ontario with his wife, three kids and a dog, and spends the daylight working for a big bank’s Marketing Dept and the night time putting pen to paper. His short story Watch Your Step appeared in the Unleashed: Monsters Vs Zombies Anthology and will have three stories appear in the Forgotten Ones: Drabbles of Myth and Legend, along with a further four stories appearing in the Phantoms in the Moonlight Halloween Anthology. For more information about S. C. Morgan’s stories and reviews, you can follow him on Twitter at @SCMorganAuthor and #SCMorganReviews.

Karen Thrower was born and raised in Oklahoma. She graduated with a degree in Deaf Education from The University of Tulsa in 2005 and has been working at Channel 6, the local CBS affiliate since 2005. She married her husband in 2011 at the Tulsa Zoo and in 2013 they welcomed their daughter. She has been writing for herself for a long time but finally decided to make the plunge and submit her works in 2017. Her first sale was to Broadswords and Blasters, a fledgling pulp magazine that is gaining ground with every issue. She has been a member of Oklahoma Science Fiction Writers for four years and is the current President. She is also their Facebook 'Wizard' which she thinks has something to do with her young age.

She writes horror, fantasy, romance, urban fantasy and gives sci-fi a shot every so often.

To read more of her works check out The Sirens Call eZine #36 and 37 for some zombies and horror by the ladies. She also has a short on Lonesome October Lit

You can see her very first interview as an author on Everyday Fangirl in Sept of 2017 https://everydayfangirl.wordpress.com/

You can follow her on Twitter https://twitter.com/Maisery9

Pauline Yates (she/her) is the Australian author of Memories Don’t Lie; a fast-paced science fiction novel inspired by her love for dark and dangerous action and adventure.

An Australian Shadows Awards finalist, her short-form horror, dark fiction, and poetry appear in publications including Black Hare Press, IFWG Publishing Australia, Redwood Press, Midnight Echo, PseudoPod, Aurealis, Tales To Terrify, Black Hart Publishing, Metaphorosis, plus others, and her AHWA winning short story, “The Best Medicine,” was translated in the Mondi Incantati series produced by Riflessi di Lunare (RiLL), Italy.

She’s a member of the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA), and the Horror Writers Association (HWA), and helps to judge the Australia Shadows Awards in various categories.

On the social scene, she goes by @midnightmuser1 because she loves writing at midnight when her muse is the most volatile. She shares her writing space with her aged cat, who is determined to break the world’s oldest feline record, and a dog who is terrified of the cat. She enjoys taking photos of the sunrise—if she wakes up in time—and loves to encourage native wildlife and birds into her garden. https://paulineyates.com/

Andrew was born and raised in Bathgate, Scotland, in the last millennium. He is a full-time civil servant writing flash fiction and short stories, alternating between general fiction, crime, sci-fi and fantasy themes.

His most recently published work can be found in Selcouth Station Press, Five Minute Lit, The Drabble, and Glittery Literary.

@soorploom

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

Matt Scott grew up in central Indiana. Working outdoors most of his adult life, Matt always had a knack for finding the humor in the mundane, the weird in the everyday, the wonders of everything around us. Making a change in his late thirties, he began to take his interest in horror and writing seriously, graduating with his BA in creative writing and publishing several short stories in various anthologies. His first collection, Darkness Calling, was published in 2019 by Deadman's Tome. He and his wife, Heather, now live, work, and play in beautiful, colorful, Colorado.

Warren Benedetto writes dark fiction about horrible people, horrible places, and horrible things. He is an award-winning author and a full member of the SFWA. His stories have appeared in publications such as Dark Matter Magazine, The Dread Machine, and Haven Spec; on podcasts such as The NoSleep Podcast, Tales to Terrify, and The Creepy Podcast; and in anthologies from Apex Magazine, Scare Street, Eerie River Publishing, and more. His hobbies include sleeping, hitting snooze, sleeping some more, and naps. For more information, visit www.warrenbenedetto.com and follow @warrenbenedetto on Twitter. For more information, follow @warrenbenedetto on Twitter.

Maggie D Brace, a life-long denizen of Maryland, teacher, gardener, basketball player and author attended St. Mary's College, where she met her soulmate, and Loyola University, Maryland. She has written 'Tis Himself: The Tale of Finn MacCool and Grammy's Glasses, and has multiple short works and poems in various anthologies. She remains a humble scrivener and avid reader.

Josh is a writer, bookseller, and graphic designer. He graduated with an art degree from Colorado State University-Pueblo. Josh is actively involved with Pikes Peak Writers, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and was the former Speakers Coordinator for Pueblo West Writers. His fiction has appeared in Pikes Peak Writers: Fresh Starts Anthology, Nom Nom from Black Hare Press and received a Silver Honorable Mention in Q4 of the 2020 Writers of the Future Contest.

Writer of short stories in the fantasy and horror genres.

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.

Nancy Pica Renken, a member of RMFW and a former teacher who writes about dark fairies, creepy pasta sauce, spooky characters from folklore, and flash fiction, resides in Boulder, Colorado, a promised land flowing with microbreweries and honey. When she is not lost in thought on a magical, open space trail or grooming her brush-junkie cat, she can be found @NPRenken on Twitter.

Lindsay Mansfield is a writer, content creator and indie developer from Tasmania, Australia. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Media at UTAS, and has recently completed a Diploma of Information Technology, specialising in Game Art & Design.

Lindsay writes horror and speculative fiction – or whatever has captured her attention for the month. When she is not writing, she can be found yelling (loudly) at video games.

Eric A. Clayton is the deputy director of communications at the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. He lives in Baltimore, MD, with his wife and children. Learn more at ericclaytonwrites.com.

Ria Rees writes from her cosy cottage in Wales, praying that her creations will never become sentient. Her first loves in fiction were Horror and Sci-Fi, and she leaps at any chance she gets to combine the two.

Her work is published or forthcoming in Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine, Reaper Press and Martian Magazine.

Kai Delmas loves creating worlds and magic systems. He is a winner of the monthly Apex Microfiction Contest and his fiction can be found in Martian, Tree and Stone and several Shacklebound Books' anthologies. Connect with him on Twitter @KaiDelmas.

Corinne Pollard is a disabled writer of Horror, Fantasy and Sci-fi. She graduated with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing and lives in Yorkshire, UK where she enjoys wandering graveyards and bookshops. Music is her haven, especially metal, which she listens to while writing, and sometimes she even sings along.

Join her dark world on twitter: @CorinnePWriter

Tim (Timothy) Law, is a proud librarian from a little town in Southern Australia called Murray Bridge.

He only recently discovered the world of online publishing in late 2019 and hasn’t stopped submitting stories since.

His stories have appeared in Black Ink Fiction, Black Hare Press, The World of Myth Magazine, Inner Circle Writer’s Magazine, Spillwords, Short Story Avenue, Sweetycat Press, Short Story Town, Pure Slush, Academy of the Heart and Mind and narrated in The Poet’s Lounge—a channel on YouTube.

Tim has a host of stories and poems published in anthologies of various genres, his favorite being fantasy. He was awarded June 2021 Spillwords author of the month and was included in “Who's Who of Emerging Writers 2021.” His stories are inspired by everything and anything. For more about Tim you can check out his blog at https://somecallmetimmy.blogspot.com

Michael J. Stiehl has had a lifelong passion for fiction, in particular horror, comics, adventure and science fiction, and is thrilled to finally be writing some of his own. Michael lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife, two kids and his very silly poodle Jack. When not writing fiction, Michael spends his time riding bikes, camping, reading books, obsessively listening to music and playing D&D with his friends. In short, he hasn’t changed a bit since junior high.

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K. J. Watson's flash fiction and short stories have appeared on the radio; in comics, magazines and anthologies; and online. He also writes as Kevin Watson.

Jameson Grey's work has been published in magazines (Dark Recesses Press, Dark Dispatch, Medusa Tales, Polar Borealis), online (Dark Moments, The Birdseed, Trembling with Fear) and in anthologies from Ghost Orchid Press, Black Hare Press, Black Ink Fiction, Nordic Press, Hellbound Books, Shacklebound Books, Heads Dance Press and Love Letters to Poe.