Paula R. C. Readman was born in Essex and has family roots in Whitby, North Yorkshire. She's married. After leaving school with no qualifications, she worked in low-paying jobs until redundancy changed the direction of her life. Encouraged by her husband, she taught herself how to write from books purchased from eBay.

In 2010 her first short story was published by English Heritage in an anthology. In 2012, she was the overall winner in the Writing Magazine/Harrogate Crime Festival Short Story competition. Since then she has had over other a hundred short stories and flash fiction published in various anthologies and online.

Paula writes mainly about the darker side of life in her gothic crime tales. Her first gothic crime novella is The Funeral Birds published by Demain Publishing and a collection of short dark tales published by Bridge House called Days Pass Like A Shadow. Her first full-length gothic crime novel, Stone Angels was published by Darkstroke Books in August 2020 and they also published her second gothic crime novel, Seeking the Dark in May 2021 and The Phoenix Hour in 2022.

Paula is busy writing a follow-on novel to The Funeral Birds called, As The Crow Flies. two graves and one body.

You can catch up with all her latest news at https://paularcreadmanauthor.blog/or join her on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Goodreads, YouTube, BookBub

Bernardo is primarily a filmmaker. His formal filmmaking education was received at Fairleigh-Dickinson University as well as Long Island University - C.W. Post. His first film, "Suffer the Little Children," has won 4 awards and has been officially selected by 13 festivals worldwide (www.sufferproductions.com). Bernardo has also directed and edited seven short films, spanning many genres, at Stonestreet Studios an affiliate studio of NYU. He was selected to direct a staged reading of a screenplay for the HotINK reading series and has directed staged readings of feature-length screenplays and plays he has written.

Bernardo's experience includes feature film and short film editing, and well as television commercial copy-writing, direction and editing.

Bernardo has also branched out into the world of theatre, including a stage adaptation of "Peter and the Wolf" he authored, which premiered as part of the Pillow Play series, while another children's play he wrote, "The Walled City," premiered in the same series. He has also written two other short plays one "Dementia Unlimited" participated in the Chrysalis One-Act Festival winning 4 awards and "The Grasshopper Child," which was selected for the First Draft Playwright's Circle.

Bernardo most recently wrote and directed the award-winning short film "The Watermelon Wagon Killer," and published his premier novella, "The Isle of Helyr." Bernardo is currently in pre-production on the original horror feature "All Hallows' Eve."

He has a few more fiction and non-fiction offerings in the works.

You can follow Bernardo on:

Twitter: @bernardovillela

Youtube: www.youtube.com/bernardoproductions

and read his movie blog at: http://www.themovierat.com

or visit his production company's page:

www.miller-villela.com

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.

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.

J.W. Garrett is a multi–award winning author and has been writing in one form or another since she was a teenager. Her love of the Fantasy genre goes all the way back to elementary school when she read The Hobbit for the first time - she's been hooked ever since. Her works include novels and poetry as well as short stories.

When she's not hanging out with her characters, her favorite activities are reading, running and spending time with family.

Check out Remeon's Quest, the latest book in her fantasy scifi series, Realms of Chaos.

Visit her website at www.jwgarrett.com to subscribe to her newsletter and find out the latest updates regarding new releases and works in progress.

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SHAWN M. KLIMEK is the award-winning poet and author of more than 200 published poems and short stories in several genres, including the illustrated, poetic fantasy tale, “Hungry Thing”. He travels the globe with his military nurse wife and their Maltese. Follow him on Facebook @shawnmklimekauthor, on Twitter @shawnmklimek, or via his blog, https://blog.jotinthedark.com/.

Hari Navarro has for many years now been locked in his neighbours cellar. He survives due to an intravenous feed of puréed extreme horror and Absinthe infused sticky-spiced unicorn wings.

His anguished cries for help can be found via Black Hare Press, Raven & Drake Publishing, Black Ink Press, Hellbound Books, 365 Tomorrows, Breachzine, AntipodeanSF and Horror Without Borders.

Hari was the Winner of the Australasian Horror Writers’ Association [AHWA] Flash Fiction Award 2018 and has, also, succeeded in being a New Zealander who now lives in Northern Italy with no cats.

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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.

Joel is a writer, librarian, ex-teacher and part-time human from the UK. He is constantly planning stories, novels and screenplays, a very small number of which actually get written. His genres of choice are horror and sci-fi, although the odd bit of sentiment does manage to sneak in between the freakishness and disturbing twists.

To date, Joel's stories have found their way into anthologies such as the Multispecies Cities (World Weaver Press), With Blood and Ash (Eerie River Publishing), and the Dark Drabbles series (Black Hare press), as well as featured on sites including EveryDayFiction.com, RuneBear.com and CreepyPasta.com.

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J. M. Meyer ( Jacqueline Moran Meyer )is a writer, artist and small business owner living in New York, where she received her master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. Jacqueline loves to read short stories, especially by O. Henry, Alice Munro, and Ray Bradbury. She also enjoys time with her family, hiking with her dog, and watching scary movies.

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

My name is Andrew Kurtz and I am a horror author.

I have not published any novels as of yet, but am in numerous anthologies, which you can view by going to my author link.

As a child I have loved horror, whether it was watching a horror film or reading horror literature.

I am a comic book collector and have an extensive library of book, mainly horror and science fiction.

If you ask me what my favorite horror film is, I can not answer because there are so many that I love.

Jason Voorhees murders at CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE, Michael Myers slaughters in HADDONFIELD, Freddy Kruger causes nightmares on ELM STREET, and I write horror short stories.

My vampires do not drink blood, they devour it. The werewolves in my stories do not resemble four legged dogs, but bipedal monstrosities that have an undying bloodlust during the full moon.

If you are looking for happy endings then do not read my stories because will be disappointed.

My characters die in the most gory manner possible and whether the are new born infants or 90 year old does not matter.

We all love dogs and cats. In my stories they are torn to pieces while still alive.

My human monsters are not who they seem to be because my tales of terror are full of twists and turns.

SIMON CLARKE lives and writes in Norfolk, United Kingdom. His first published story, ‘Loss’, appeared on Black Hare Press Press. He enjoys writing fiction and poetry and has been published by Hedgehog Press, Black Hare Press and Fifty Word Stories. He regularly submits to UK and international publications as well as reading short pieces and poetry at open mic events. He is currently working on his first novel. https://www.facebook.com/sclarkenp

The main influences for his writing reflect the authors he enjoyed reading as a young teenager: J.R.R. Tolkien, Ian Fleming, Peter O'Donnell, H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Graham Masterton. He loves Gothic literature and all things mystical and mysterious.

Bibliography

The Hedgehog - Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2018

Dream, and I’ll Come to You - Fifty Word Story, 2019

Loss - ANGELS, Black Hare Press, 2019

I Seek Ancient Truths - ANGELS, Black Hare Press, 2019

This Wild Water - APOCALYPSE, Black Hare Press, 2019

Wingbone - MONSTERS, Black Hare Press, 2019

Jean Macbeth - UNRAVEL, Black Hare Press, 2019

Blood Ritual - WHAT IF? Black Hare Press, 2019

The Lost Shoes of Paris - LOVE IS LOVE, Breaking Rules Publishing, 2020

Chris lives in the beautiful garden of England and in the odd moment he’s not walking the dog he pursues his passion for writing fiction. Specialising in horror, fantasy, and science-fiction Chris has stories in print with several publishers. To keep up with future stories be sure to follow @ https://mused.blog

Nikki DeKeuster invites you to sit with her around the fire as she weaves you dark tales of mischief, mayhem, and mad love. Stories that stick to your ribs long after the lights have been doused and your head hits the pillow.

She enjoys crunching leaves underfoot while exploring the bluffs of Lake Michigan with her daughter and husband.

Stalk her at NikkiDeKeuster.com

Jodi Jensen, author of time travel romances and speculative fiction short stories, grew up moving from California, to Massachusetts, and a few other places in between, before finally settling in Utah at the ripe old age of nine. The nomadic life fed her sense of adventure as a child and the wanderlust continues to this day. With a passion for old cemeteries, historical buildings and sweeping sagas of days gone by, it was only natural she’d dream of time traveling to all the places that sparked her imagination.

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.

Evan Baughfman works in a very scary place: a middle school! (He’s a teacher.) He writes all genres, but horror is where he’s most comfortable. His horror fiction has been published in numerous anthologies, including titles from Improbable Press, 4 Horsemen Publications, No Bad Books Press, and Grinning Skull Press. Evan has penned a collection of 13 short scary stories titled THE EMACIATED MAN AND OTHER TERRIFYING TALES FROM POE MIDDLE SCHOOL, published by Thurston Howl Publications. His spooky novella, VANISHING OF THE 7TH GRADE, is now available from D&T Publishing. D&T will publish Evan's first full-length novel, BAD FOR YOUR TEETH, in April 2023.

Evan has also adapted a number of his short prose works into screenplays, of which "The Tell-Tale Art," “A Perfect Circle,” and “The Creaky Door” have won awards in various film festival competitions.

Additionally, much of Evan's writing success has been as a playwright. He’s had many different plays produced across the globe. His children's play, “R.O.M.3.O. and Julia” (Romeo and Juliet with robots) has been published in PLAYS Magazine. His play for young adults, “Lipstick and Heroics,” is available through YouthPLAYS, as is Evan's all-ages script, "Sprout Wants Out". In addition, his middle grade play, "Percy Pangolin Wants to Go Viral," is published by Heuer Publishing. Heuer has also published Evan's play, "A Taste of Amontillado"(an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado") and his script, "Untragically Ever After". Next Stage Press has published Evan's horror-plays-for teens, "Fear Pressure" and "The Dodo Challenge".

Online theater education resource, Drama Notebook, has added many of Evan’s children’s plays to its catalog. His plays can also be found at New Play Exchange.

Abi Marie Palmer is a speculative fiction writer from the UK.

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.

Paul J. Scribbans always wanted to write, but due to a busy working and family life didn't seriously start until his early forties. He lives in the Lake District, UK, which he finds a huge inspiration for his work. His primary writing genre is speculative fiction, adopting strong environmental and survival themes.

His day job is in Information Technology, and apart from writing, he enjoys reading and exploring the local countryside with hobbies such as trail running and hiking.

Michelle Brett is a New Zealand based author, writing horror, thriller, and speculative fiction.

Her short stories have been published by Black Hare Press, in Australian newspapers and she is currently working on her first novel.

In her free time, she likes to question the choices of horror movie characters and report on historic crimes for a local paper.

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Constantine E. Kiousis spends most of his time wandering through the worlds he has created, exploring every nook and cranny and constantly discovering new places and stories that need to be told. He is in the company of his fictional characters more often than he likes to admit, sharing in their ordeals and time of joy, and has had some very interesting conversations, as well as legendary arguments, with may of them.

He currently resides in Athens, Greece, plotting ways to unleash the terrifying stories hiding in his mind upon the rest of the world, one word at a time.

Patrick Winters is a graduate of Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. As a student, he was a two-time co-editor in chief of the college's literary and art magazine, Forte, and is a member of the international English honors society, Sigma Tau Delta.

Winters is now a proud member of the Horror Writers Association. His works have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines and have been featured on various web-based offerings, including the Horror Tree, the Sirens Call, Deadman's Tome, Fantasia Divinity Magazine, Sanitarium Magazine, and many more. While appreciating an array of genres, his favorite to both read and write in is Horror, because he's just plain weird like that!

Winters is an avid listener of all things hard-rock and heavy-metal, a compendium of comic-book knowledge, can (and will) do a perplexing array of voice impersonations, and can bend his thumbs further back than any person should have the right/capability of doing. It is all quite odd . . .

A full list of his publications can be found at: http://wintersauthor.azurewebsites.net/Publications/List