Jessica McHugh is a novelist, a 2x Bram Stoker Award-nominated poet, & an internationally-produced playwright running amok in the fields of horror, sci-fi, young adult, and wherever else her peculiar mind leads. She’s had twenty-seven books published in fourteen years, including her bizarro romp, “The Green Kangaroos,” her YA series, “The Darla Decker Diaries,” and her Elgin Award nominated blackout poetry collection, “A Complex Accident of Life. ” For more info about publications and blackout poetry commissions, please visit McHughniverse.com.

G.G. Silverman is an award-winning author of speculative and literary short fiction and poetry who lives just north of Seattle. Her short fiction has appeared in the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Women in Horror anthology "Not All Monsters" from StrangeHouse Books, and was a finalist for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, among other honors.

Her work has also appeared in Cemetery Gates Media’s "A Woman Built by Man," Psychopomp, Speculative City, Corvid Queen, So To Speak, The Iron Horse Literary Review, ellipsis, The Seventh Wave, Molotov Cocktail, and more. Her short story, “I’m sorry, I tried, I love you,” was optioned by writer/director Goldie Jones for short film adaptation, and will have its world premiere in Hollywood at the DWF:LA Film Festival in June of 2022. Also in 2022, two of her short works appeared in anthologies listed on Tor Nightfire’s "All the Horror Books We’re Excited About in 2022."

Find G.G. online!

• Website and blog: www.ggsilverman.com

• Twitter: www.twitter.com/GG_Silverman

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/GGSilvermanAuthor

Sam Fleming is a Scottish writer of speculative fiction, originally from Fife, now based in Aberdeenshire. They have a BSc (Hons) in Marine Science from Southampton University and a Masters in Environmental Diagnostics from Cranfield University. Their career has included stints as an archaeologist, which mostly involved cleaning Roman skeletons, and as head warden for a well-known stone circle in Oxfordshire. Sam leads Orbit 6 for the British Science Fiction Association and is a founder member of the Altered Symmetry horror crit group.

Christa Carmen's debut collection, Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked won the 2018 Indie Horror Book Award for Best Debut Collection, and additional work has been published in places such as Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Fireside, Rooster Republic’s Not All Monsters, Muzzleland Press’ Behold the Undead of Dracula, The Wicked Library, and Tales to Terrify.

These days when she's not writing, she keeps chickens, reads books like Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein and The Gashlycrumb Tinies to her daughter, forgets to pull a daily tarot card, and tinkers with a dog food recipe concocted to make her beagle live forever.

Most of her work comes from gazing upon the ghosts of the past or else into the dark corners of nature, those places where whorls of bark become owl eyes and deer step through tunnels of hanging leaves and creeping briars only to disappear.

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.

Sara Tantlinger is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes, and the Stoker-nominated works To Be Devoured, Cradleland of Parasites, and Not All Monsters. Along with being a mentor for the HWA Mentorship Program, she is also a co-organizer for the HWA Pittsburgh Chapter. She embraces all things macabre and can be found lurking in graveyards or on Twitter @SaraTantlinger, at saratantlinger.com and on Instagram @inkychaotics

J.C. Raye's stories are also found in anthologies with Belanger Books, C.M. Muller, Scary Dairy, Devil's Party Press, Books & Boos, Franklin/Kerr, and Gravelight Press to name a few. More stories in 2020 with Rooster Republic/Strangehouse Books, Transmundane, DBND, and Gravelight Press. Yeah, she writes more than she vacuums, that's for sure.

Stories about?

Hmmm...potato chip bag creatures in Cape May, possessed monkey bridges in Vietnam, inept Inuit shamans in Alaska, crime sprees with cockroaches in the deep south, Pennsylvania tea bugs, witch addictions in Salem, and dust storm bunnies in Kansas. Yep. She is all over the damn place and clearly has some issues. Suffice to say, her tales will bother you long after you donate the paperback to goodwill.

Why horror & sci-fi, you ask?

For 20 years, she's been a professor at a small community college teaching the most feared course on the planet: Public Speaking. Witnessing grown people openly weep, beg, scream, freak out and pass out is just another delightful day on the job for her. And it is not just the students she upsets. For the last four years, she’s led a college-wide campaign to assist her colleagues in locating free, current, credible text resources and break the hold of expensive corporate publishers. Right, so those companies and even some of the faculty are mad at her now. She’s just particularly good at getting under the skin.

Of course, we're also got to throw a little blame her parents way too. As early as ten years of age, they were sitting her down in front of the same movies they were watching. Ahh, the days of one shared screen for the whole family. Her clearest, youngest memories include, The Poseidon Adventure, Night of the Living Dead, The Shining, Baron Blood and Suspiria. Sorry there, Disney. But you can see why she is like this.

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K.P. Kulski is the author of the novel, Fairest Flesh. Her short fiction has appeared in Unnerving Magazine, anthologies Not All Monsters and Typhon Vol. 2. She is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and Air Force. When she’s not writing, she teaches history at a small college in Northeast Ohio.

Leslie Wibberley lives in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada with her amazing family and an overly enthusiastic cocker spaniel. She writes across multiple genres and age categories but has a passion for dark, speculative fiction. Her award-winning short stories and creative non-fiction is published in multiple print and online venues.

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Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. A Shirley Jackson Award finalist and author of THE WINGSPAN OF SEVERED HANDS, THE COUVADE, and CONVULSIVE, they've had over 80 stories published in places like Vastarien, Year's Best Hardcore Horror, and The Queer Book of Saints. Formerly published as Joanna Koch. He/They. Find Joe at horrosong.blog and on Twitter @horrorsong.

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, No Gods for Drowning, The Worm and His Kings, Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Benny Rose the Cannibal King, and The Possession of Natalie Glasgow. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Assocation, with dozens of short stories appearing in Pseudopod, Vastarien, Dark Matter Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and other publications. An avid reader and lifelong Godzilla fangirl, she lives with her wife in Maryland conducting secret mad science experiments.

Find Hailey at www.haileypiper.com or follow her on Twitter via @HaileyPiperSays.

Briana Una McGuckin writes Gothic Romance/Romantic Suspense and fabulist fiction. Her work appears in the Stoker-nominated Not All Monsters, an anthology of women’s horror (Rooster Republic), as well as The Arcanist, Breath & Shadow, and Hides the Dark Tower (Pole-to-Pole Publishing). She has an MFA from Western Connecticut State University. She also has cerebral palsy. Find her on Twitter @BrianaUna, or check out her blog: http://brianaunamcguckin.com

Jennifer Loring’s short fiction has been published widely, appearing in anthologies such as Nightscript IV, Not All Monsters, Would but Time Await: An Anthology of New England Folk Horror, and Arterial Bloom, as well as online in The Literary Hatchet and City. River. Tree., among many others. Longer work includes four novels and several novellas. She holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction with a concentration in horror fiction. Jenn lives in Philadelphia, PA, where she and her husband are owned by a turtle and two basset hounds.

Annie Neugebauer (@AnnieNeugebauer) is a novelist, short story author, and award-winning poet. She has work appearing in over seventy publications, including magazines such as Black Static, Apex, and Cemetery Dance, as well as anthologies such as Bram Stoker Award finalist The Beauty of Death and #1 Amazon bestseller Killing It Softly. She's an active member of the Horror Writers Association, webmaster for the Poetry Society of Texas, and a columnist for LitReactor and Writer Unboxed. You can visit her at www.AnnieNeugebauer.com for blogs, creative works, free organizational tools for writers, and more.

Juliana Spink Mills was born in England but grew up in Brazil. Now she lives in Connecticut and writes science fiction and fantasy. She is the author of the Blade Hunt Chronicles YA fantasy series. Her short stories have appeared in online publications and anthologies, including the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Not All Monsters. Besides writing, Juliana works as a Portuguese/English translator, and as a library assistant.