Juleigh Howard-Hobson is most widely known for her modern poetry. Which is written in form. Working under the principle that taboos --even literary ones-- must always be challenged, she also writes fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews and articles. In various genres. From literary to pulp horror.

Recognition for her poetry spans decades, from the1980 ANZAC Day Award (in Australia) to nominations for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, the Rhysling Award and the Elgin Award.

Her first chapbook, Sommer and Other Poems (RavensHalla Arts Pub. March 2007), sold out its premier edition. The illustrious Red Salon Press brought out Our Otherworld, her Elgin Award nominated collection of formal numinous poems. Her most recent book is Curses, Black Spells and Hexes: A Grimoire Sonnetica (Alien Buddha Press, July 2021).

Individual poems have appeared in scores of venues, across the globe, including 34 Orchard, Mooky Chick, Midnight Echo. Silver Blade, Capsule Stories, Faerie Magazine, Enchanted Conversation, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Polu Texni, Illumen, Riddled with Arrows, Verse Wisconsin, The Lyric, Able Muse, Mezzo Cammin, The Raintown Review, Hip Mama Magazine, Mobius, 14 by 14, The Barefoot Muse, Umbrella, Poemeleon, Mandragora (Scarlet Imprint), Caduceus: The Poets at Art Place Vol 8 (Yale University), Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions (Marion Street Press), Five Minutes at Hotel StormCove (Atthis Arts), Weaving the Terrain (Dos Gatos), Lift Every Voice (Kissing Dynamite) along with many other places.

Her fiction, though lesser known than her poetry, has appeared in such varied places as the Liars League, The New Southern Fugitives, The First Line, Her Story, Key Hole Magazine, Going Down Swinging, The Cantibrigian, History is Dead (Permuted Press), The Knitters Gift (Adams Media), and Alien Days (Castrum Press).

A firm believer in throwing literary breadcrumbs in any path that may hold them, her wide-faring non-fiction appears in many guises, from arcane journals such as Witch Way Magazine, Northern Traditions, and The Journal of Contemporary Heathen Thought all the way to the traditional/maternal/personal such as The Tishman Review, Devolution Z, Got Milk? (Demeter), Chick Ink (Simon and Schuster), and Ex-Pat (Seal Press).

Born in the south of England, raised in both the US and Australia, she currently lives in the rainy grey US Pacific Northwest, right beside a dark deep forest. Off grid, dropped out, and quite happy in her defiant otherworld. There are ghosts. And magic.

Dan Allen is Canadian and enjoys spending time in Northern Ontario. You can find his short stories in numerous magazines, anthologies, and podcasts. Visit www.danallenhorror.com to see a presentation of his published work.

His terrifying look at Alzheimer’s, “Above the Ceiling,” is featured in Bards and Sages collection of the Best Indie Speculative Fiction Vol. 2.

A personal favorite, “Sympathy for the Zingara,” can be found in the March 2019 edition of ParAbnormal Magazine.

His terrifying story, “The Basement” (edited by Horror Zine’s Jeani Rector), was published by Hellbound Books in July 2020.

You can visit Dan at www.danallenhorror.com and follow him on Facebook and Twitter at

@danallenhorror. You can write to Dan at contact@danallenhorror.com

Short-fiction author, and poet, Nerisha Kemraj, hails from Durban, South Africa. She is the mother of procrastination, and two beautiful girls.

Alanna Robertson-Webb is a rising star among short story writers, and one of the anthologies she is featured in (Monsters, by Black Hare Press) has been nominated for a 2019 Bram Stoker Award. Additionally, the novella she co-wrote (Storming Area 51: Horror at the Gates) reached the #1 spot in Amazon's sci-fi books in October of 2019.

Her stories are often infused with hair-raising horror, and her paranormal tales in particular add just the right amount of darkness to keep her readers intrigued.

For Alanna the spooky side of writing is a riviting journey through the human psyche, so whether you are looking for some of her wholesome horror (Monstronomicon by Haunted House Publishing) or wish to be transported into one of her grimmer worlds (Death and Butterflies by Suicide House Publishing) then grab a book and embark on a thrilling read!

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.

Chris Bannor is an LGBTQIA+ speculative fiction writer who lives in Southern California. Chris learned her love of genre stories from her mother at an early age and has never veered far from that path. You can find her serial novels on Kindle Vella. Chris has also been published in over 50 anthologies. Her stories range from horror and science fiction, to romance, fantasy, and steampunk.

When Chris isn’t writing, she enjoys movie marathons, binge-watching TV shows, musical theater, and road trips with her family. Otherwise, she is a general homebody who lives with her two teenagers, a cat, and two dogs. You can follow Chris on Facebook @chrisbannorauthor or at her homepage at www.ChrisBannor.com

Tim Mendees is a rather odd chap. He's a horror writer from Macclesfield in the North-West of England that specialises in cosmic horror and weird fiction. A lifelong fan of classic weird tales, Tim set out to bring the pulp horror of yesteryear into the 21st Century and give it a distinctly British flavour. His work has been described as the love-child of H.P. Lovecraft and P.G. Wodehouse and is often peppered with a wry sense of humour that acts as a counterpoint to the unnerving, and often disturbing, narratives.

Tim is the author of over one hundred published short stories and novelettes, seven novellas, and two short story collections. He has also curated and edited several cosmic horror-themed anthologies.

When he is not arguing with the spellchecker, Tim is a goth DJ with a weekly radio show on The Feelgood Station, and the co-presenter of the Innsmouth Book Club Podcast & Strange Shadows: The Clark Ashton Smith Podcast. He currently lives in Brighton & Hove with his pet crab, Gerald, and an ever-increasing army of stuffed octopods.

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Originally from Cincinnati, Lamont Turner now resides in the swamps just outside of New Orleans where he collects all manner of occult and arcane lore, and performs forbidden and blasphemous experiments. When not busy communing with the damned, he tells scary stories to the four little demons who claim to be his children.

Author of twisted horror tales as well as innovative science fiction and epic fantasy stories. Chisto is a genre author with an unstoppable imagination who writes 7 days a week and tries to write at least one story or chapter every single day. It's his biggest passion. The only thing that means as much as his writing is being a dad to his awesome kids. He also dabbles in art and music and being an interesting person. His fiance refers to his dog as his other girlfriend. His baby refers to him as urrrrghhaaaa. People that know him share the opinion that he's a little crazy and he doesn't necessarily disagree with them. It makes for good art. He loves hearing from people that enjoy his work. He loves networking and connecting with authors, artists, publishers, agents, and readers. He is living his dream and recommends that you go live yours and be your best self. It's the key to happiness.

R.C. Mulhare has the distinction of reading a translation of the famous cursed play "The King in Yellow" without going mad,once successfully defended her day-job workplace from zombies, through some judicious use of clearance-rack garden tools, and fought off a group of Yog-Sothoth cultists in the hallway of a hotel in Providence, Rhode Island...

In actuality, R.C. Mulhare was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and grew up in one of the surrounding towns, in a hundred year old house up the street from a centuries-old cemetery. Her interest in the dark and mysterious started when she was quite young, when her mother read the faery tales of the Brothers Grimm and quoted the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe to her, while her Irish storyteller father infused her with a fondness for strange characters and quirky situations. When she isn't writing, she moonlights in grocery retail, and given the cross-section of people you see in grocery stores, this gives her a lot of ideas for characters in her stories. A two-time Amazon best-selling author, contributor to the Hugo Award Winning Archive of Our Own, and member of the New England Horror Writers, her work previously appeared with Atlantean Publishing, Macabre Maine, and FunDead Publications, Deadman's Tome, and Weirdbook Magazine, with four more stories already slated for release in 2019. She shares her home with her family, two small parrots, about fifteen hundred books and an unknown number of eldritch things that rattle in the walls when she's writing late in the night....

I grew up in the Barossa Valley, an area of South Australia predominantly settled by German immigrants. As a dark-haired, tanned little English girl (remember Britain was at one stage occupied by the Romans), I was very different and mercilessly teased.

I remember the struggle to learn to read – painfully stringing three letter words together – there was Sam and Pam and a ball. Sometimes there was a fat cat on a mat or dog with a ball. Reading was a slow process until one birthday, I sat down with my gift, a Famous Five book by Enid Blyton. The mystery story was so exciting, I finished it in one session and I was a fast reader from that moment onwards. I loved Enid Blyton, her Wishing Chair stories, Magic Faraway Tree stories, fairy-land and toy-land stories as well as the mysteries.

A couple of years later, I discovered The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. It was so amazing, I read it seven times in a row! Eventually, I discovered there was a whole series… I survived on this sort of fair until I was sixteen and read The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. That gave me a taste for mature fantasy. In search of more riveting reading, I discovered Stephen King and James Herbert. Stephen King’s Danse Macabre led me to H.P. Lovecraft, on whom I completed a Master’s project.

My Thesis entitled: THE LITERARY MANIFESTO OF H.P. LOVECRAFT: A WRITER IN SEARCH OF A THEORY (1993-1994) was completed as a reseach project which replaced several subjects in my Master of Arts through the Univeristy of New South Wales. The last chapter was considered to have the most appeal to fans of Lovecraft's work and was extracted and published as “Symbolism of Style in `The Strange High House in the Mist'", Lovecraft Studies 31, edited by S.T. Joshi, pp.11-15. (Published under the name of Cecelia Drewer).

In 1988, I wrote my first full length fictional manuscript, often scribbling on the train as I travelled from Newcastle to Sydney to attend post graduate study at university. In the year 2000, I brought my second full length manuscript into being and 2004 saw my third full length manuscript. All are very different genres and all are waiting for readers! I have always been clever at creating dialogue and in 2010, a Nativity Play I wrote was produced by a local church.

In 2016 I wrote an online course on “Poetry Appreciation and Analysis Skills” on Open Learning. The course can be found at: https://www.openlearning.com/courses/poetry-appreciation-and-analysis-skills

I also write for Weekend Notes (an online magazine) and Hubpages. My Poetry can be found on Poetry Soup at: https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/best/85098/cecelia_hopkins-drewer

Books by Cecelia Hopkins Drewer include:

Silver Springtime (The Silver Springs University Series #1) by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer - 2017

Faith and Love (The Silver Springs University Series, #2) by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer - 2018

All For Love: on the charity dating show by Cecelia Hopkins - 2018

Mystic Evermore (The Nevermore Parables, #1) by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer - 2018

Saints and Sinners (The Nevermore Parables, #2) by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer - 2018

Autumn Secrets (The Nevermore Parables, #3) by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer - 2018

Eric is a Philadelphia native and self-styled horror hunter who's a fan of all things weird. A graduate of Temple University, Eric has spent years studying the inner workings of the macabre in both fiction and nonfiction. Influenced heavily by the works of Lovecraft, Koontz, Preston, King, and others, Eric's works seek to provide new perspectives on and approaches to the finer, darker things in life.

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Nicholas Rud is a horror author from Bellingham, Washington. When he isn't at his desk, he can be found wandering about in the rain or tinkering with some small project.

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

Ellie A.Goss lives and works nestled between the Tarkine Forest and the Cradle Mountain National Park. She first published in 2016, the folkore children's story,The Bunyip's Bath. Ellie has since contributed in magazines, e-zines & anthologies across genres, with an increasing number of books credited to her pens; Ellie A and Elias Ag. Join her on FB@EllieAGoss

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.

Thomas Sturgeon Jr was born in March 14th, 1986 to his parents. His birthplace is in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He is 34 and just had his first book published called , "Red Carnival". During his teen years he found out that he had mental health issues which made it harder for him to achieve what he wanted out of life itself. He arrived to finally achieve his dreams. He has been published in 23 anthologies. Some teachers said that he never would achieve success in the writing field. He had a few teachers rooting for him to do his best. He was a very early reader and started writing at the age of 13. His favorite authors are R.L. Stine and Stephen King.

He's a very intelligent person despite his disabilities with a kind and loving heart. He cares about people. He was once even told a few year's before he got his book published that his work was good and saw that people really enjoyed listening to his poetry at Ziggy's Underground Music Bar in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He made great friends with a singer and now has a poetry album cd called "Master of Storms". Thomas also writes lyrics to song's. He longs to have his own place again. He also loves horror movie's and video games. His favorite horror director is George A. Romero and the living dead series. His favorite video game series is "Resident Evil". He is currently at work on a second short story collection.

Destiny Eve Pifer is a published writer whose work has appeared in numerous anthologies by Black Hare Press, Black Ink Fiction, Nordic Press, Macabre Ladies Publishing, Crow's Feet Journal, Raven and Drake Publications, Nocturnal Sirens, Zimbell Publishing, Fun Dead Publications and Temptation Press. Her work has also appeared in FATE Magazine, The World of Myth Magazine, Sirens Call Magazine, Reader's Digest, Country Magazine, Autism Parenting Magazine, Spotlight on Recovery and True Confessions. She recently had a story on mental health published on The Mental Health Foundation site. Her horror story Deep in the Forest was featured on The Morbid Forest Podcast. She currently resides in a small rural Pennsylvania town with her son Dartanyan.

Shannon Grant is an indie horror author and adventurer living in the strange land of upstate New York. In her writing, she takes the world around us and twists it into a bizarre landscape filled with girls who turn into bugs, scary fairies, and creepy toys. She would like to write a novel one day, but for now, she's enjoying where short stories take her.

Nicole Henning is a book-a-holic who lives in a big-little town in Wisconsin. She surrounds herself with all things scary and bizarre and enjoys creating unique art. When she isn’t writing she enjoys playing video games and spends a lot of time snuggling with her dog Allie aka Princess Prissy Pants. Reading, writing, and horror are her biggest passions in life.