Chris McAuley specializes in the horror, science fiction, fantasy, western and crime genres. He is the co-creator of the popular StokerVerse, along with Bram Stoker’s great-grandnephew, Dacre Stoker. He also co-created a science fiction and fantasy franchise with Babylon 5’s Claudia Christian called Dark Legacies. He is the lead writer on the latest Astroboy animated TV show, and is also currently working on The Terminator film and game series, as well as the Star Trek and the Doctor Who franchise. He is the executive producer for the upcoming sci-fi-horror film, The Tower Protocol. Chris’s work can be seen at www.dark-universes.com and www.stokerverse.com.

Claudia Christian began her career on stage as a child in Connecticut. She booked her first television job as a teenager in the hugely popular series, Dallas, and never stopped working, appearing in dozens of films and hundreds of hours of TV. She became a sci-fi icon with her portrayal of Susan Ivanova in the Hugo and Emmy Award-winning series, Babylon 5, and has worked with legends such as Morgan Freeman, Michael Keaton, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Faye Dunaway, Bob Hope, Don Ameche, George Clooney, Nicolas Cage, Sharon Stone and more in her thirty-five-plus year career. She lends her distinctive voice to dozens of the world’s most popular games and is a published author of nonfiction and fiction. Claudia runs C Three Foundation and is a TEDx speaker. In 2014 she produced the award winning documentary, One Little Pill, and is a passionate activist. Along with co-writer Chris McAuley she has created the popular Dark Legacies Universe and has co-authored a popular RPG universe called Musketeers vs. Cthulhu, also with McAuley. Claudia resides in Los Angeles and London.

Lee Culloty likes to explore the dark side of fiction in his writing. Having taken a great deal of inspiration from John Everson and Jack Ketchum, he tries to weave stories with dark threads running through them. He lives in England.

Aisling Campbell is a writer of horror and fantasy from a small seaside town in England, with dodgy genes and murderer’s thumbs. She graduated from the University of East Anglia with a degree in English with creative writing, and spent the next four years trying not to die. In 2020 her short story, Pigpen, was published in the anthology C is for Cannibals from Red Cape Publishing. Since then, she has published a variety of short stories in anthologies and webzines.

Daniel R. Robichaud lives and writes in Humble, Texas. His fiction has been collected in Hauntings & Happenstances: Autumn Stories as well as Gathered Flowers, Stones, and Bones: Fabulist Tales. He writes weekly reviews of film and fiction at the Considering Stories website. Keep up with him on Twitter @DarkTowhead or facebook.com/daniel.r.robichaud.

Basile Lebret is French and lives south of Paris where the cities meet the trees. His work has been published in SlicedUp Press' Monstroddities, Atonic Vision Press' Strange Weeds, Bag of Bones' Step Into the Light, Off Topic Publishing's Home and in France in Lufthunger Club's Les Feux de la Révolte. Find him on Twitter: @evoripclaw or Medium: https://basile-lebret.medium.com/

Amanda Worthington has been telling stories since before she could write them down. She has a flair for the dramatic and can often be found reading her characters’ lines aloud in their distinct voices. Her favorite subgenres are cosmic, feminist, and psychological, and she sometimes finds a way to combine them all in a single work. Her novel-in-progress is a strange tale of cosmic overlords, mob brutality, socioeconomic mayhem, and addiction. Amanda is a sucker for antiheroes and her work is littered with them. Her work has been included in publications like Space and Time, Sirens Call, and the inaugural issue of Carnage House. Her strange cosmic novella-in-verse, No Quarter, was nominated for an Elgin Award, and her poem, Post-apocalyptic Love Story, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Amanda lives in Kansas City with her two furry overlords, Apollo and Artemis.

Alejandro Gonzales is a lover of fiction, from Jay and Silent Bob to Ulysses to the most refined and innovative horror novels to ones plucked straight from the grocery store shelf. Bentley Little served as his greatest initial influence and still leaves a residual energy all on his stories. His work appears in Brilliant Flash Fiction, Trembling With Fear, Bag of Bones Press, and elsewhere.

JNC is a writer and artist who has lived and worked in Thailand and India, but now dwells in his home state of Oklahoma. A graduate of UNLV’s creative writing program, he reflects his love of mythology and nature in his art, and his horror fiction deals with what he hates the most—bullies and bully culture.

Michael Errol Swaim is a horror and fantasy author and proud Cherokee citizen. He picked up a pencil and started writing stories before he was even born, and once ate a dictionary and later crapped out a novella. Due to several mishaps, including a liver and kidney transplant, he stopped writing for a time, and now, after a twenty-five-year hiatus, he has returned to doing what he loves most. Michael focuses on horror, but he occasionally dabbles in fantasy and poetry. In addition to Carnage House, he has work in several upcoming anthologies. He also writes film and book reviews for the Weird Wide Web blog. Michael was dropped off by his parents when he was born somewhere in the forests of Green Country, and he eventually made it to civilization and currently resides in Colcord, Oklahoma, with his wife, Mandy, his three kids, and his special princess, Wolfgirl the Cat.

Kasey Hill has lived in Franklin County, Virginia, for most of her life. Spending two years in journalism in high school, and with a few articles published in the Franklin News Post, she built much of her young adult life around reading and writing. She has several horror novels published as well as a Christian fantasy series, and many more stories circulating for anthologies as she pushes her passions forth into the writing community. As a nonfiction author, she is both a poet and the historical archivist for Trinitarian Wicca with an upcoming historical account of the shift from polytheism to monotheism in Abrahamic religion.

C. C. Rossi, who also writes under the name Edward R. Rosick, lives in the urban wilds of Michigan. He has published numerous tales of speculative fiction in magazines and anthologies including Pulphouse, DOA, and Monstrous Tales, Volumes 2 and 3. His short story, “Dead Air,” received honorable mention in the 15th annual Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthology, edited by Ellen Datlow. His horror novel, Deep Roots, was published in 2022.

Valerie B. Williams has short fiction published in Flame Tree Press, Dark Recesses Press, Grendel Press, Death Knell Press, and the Sirens Call e-zine, among others. Her short story, “Red Lipstick,” will appear in the Dastardly Damsels anthology from Crystal Lake Publishing on Halloween 2024, and her debut novel, a supernatural thriller titled The Vanishing Twin, drops from Crossroad Press in late summer or early fall 2024. Valerie spins twisty tales from her home in central Virginia, which she shares with her very patient husband and equally patient golden retriever. When not writing, she can be found reading and drinking either tea or wine, depending on the time of day.

Ken Hueler teaches Kung Fu in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he also co-chairs the local Horror Writers Association chapter. His work has appeared in Weirdbook, The Sirens Call, Space & Time, Weekly Mystery Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways, and anthologies such as The Cozy Cosmic and Tales for the Camp Fire. With Frances Lu Pai Ippolito, he is co-editor of the game fiction anthology, Winding Paths: A Playable Reading Experience. Learn more about Ken at kenhueler.wordpress.com.

Katharine “Kay” Hanifen was born on Friday the 13th and once lived for three months in a haunted castle. So, obviously, she had to become a horror writer. Her work has appeared in over fifty anthologies and magazines. When she’s not consuming pop culture with the voraciousness of a vampire at a twenty-four-hour blood bank, you can usually find her with her two black cats or at kayhanifenauthor.wordpress.com.

Jon Carroll Thomas is a dark fiction writer, event coordinator, and corporate grocery store peon. He lives in a little log house in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his beautiful wife, charming son, and six spoiled rescue cats. He leads the Quails From The Crypt book club through Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, and is a founding member of the North Carolina chapter of the Horror Writers Association. He enjoys vintage cartoons and old movies that take place in creepy, old houses. His recent stories appear in Whetstone: Amateur Magazine of Pulp Sword and Sorcery, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and on the Creepy Podcast.

Benjamin Kardos is a writer and musician from Washington state. His stories have been published by Wicked Shadow Press, The Sirens Call, Psychotoxin Press, CultureCult Press, Otherwise Engaged Literature and Arts Journal and others. He hosts the YouTube channel Reading Monstrosities dedicated to the review and discussion of transgressive and horror literature. He also works as a cemetery groundskeeper, doing his part to put the fun in funeral.

Lindsey B. Goddard lives in Missouri but wishes she didn’t. Her first novella, Ashes of Another Life, was released through Omnium Gatherum Media in 2016 and is slated for release as a full-length novel in 2024. Her fiction has been published by Dark Moon Books, The Sinister Horror Company, and ZBF Books, and also appears in the July 2024 issue of Gamut Magazine. Her work has been performed on popular podcasts like CreepyPod and Chilling Tales For Dark Nights, and she is the author of four short story collections and a book of poems. When not writing, Lindsey runs WeirdWideWeb.org. Learn more about her at LindseyBethGoddard.com.

Holly Nicholls has been writing since she could hold a pencil. She lives in the U.K., England, with her husband-to-be, is a mother of one, and has way too many stories in her head that need to escape. She enjoys writing in a variety of genres, from children’s books (Curious King Fox), to stomach-churning horror, to poetry. And she will continue to be diverse in what she writes.

J. Rocky Colavito (aka Dr. Damned) writes horror of many types as he transitions into retired life after forty-plus years of college teaching. In addition to short stories appearing in collections and magazines—Grindhouse Resurrection, The Sirens Call, Madame Gray’s Poe-Pourri of Terror, The Horror Zine, the inaugural issue of Carnage House, and a host of others—he is the creator of Buck Neighkyd, former porn star turned occult investigator. Buck’s adventures can be followed in serial form in Caveman Magazine, and his origin story, Creative Control, is available from Quest Omnimedia/The Caveman Adventure Library.

Nora B. Peevy is a cat trapped in a human’s body. Please send help or tuna. She is an Olympic champion sleeper and toils away for JournalStone/Trepidatio Publishing as a submission reader and reviewer for Hellnotes, and is reading scripts for The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival for the second year. She recently took on a position for The Weird Wide Web writing nonfiction articles. Her quirky tales are published in Eighth Tower Press, Weird Fiction Quarterly, The Wicked Library Podcast, Sudden Fictions Podcast, and other places. For the Sake of Brigid, her first novelette, just came out in May 2024, and her first novel will debut later in 2024.

Corinne Pollard is a disabled U.K.-based horror and fantasy writer, published with Black Hare Press, Three Cousins Publishing, the Stygian Lepus, the Ravens Quoth Press, A Coup of Owls, and Raven Tale Publishing. With a degree in English literature and creative writing, Corinne enjoys metal music, visiting graveyards, and shopping for books to read. Follow her dark world on X (Twitter), Threads, and Instagram: @CorinnePWriter.