Chris McAuley
Crossing Boundaries
An Invocation of the Season...
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.
Basile Lebret
You'd Date a Guy
Some moments change you.
Basile Lebret is French and lives south of Paris where the cities meet the trees. His work has been published in SlicedUp Press’s Monstroddities, Atonic Vision Press’s Strange Weeds, Bag of Bones’s Step Into the Light, Off Topic Publishing\'s Home, Underland Press’s Even Cozier Cosmic, and in France in Lufthunger Club\'s Les Feux de la Révolte. Find him on Twitter: @evoripclaw or Medium: https://basile-lebret.medium.com/.
Tamika Thompson
Stiletto Girls
When the giggling, stiletto-wearing ladies arrive uninvited to Richie’s party, he soon discovers their blood-red shoes might be hiding deadly intentions.
Tamika Thompson is a writer, producer, and journalist. She is author of Unshod, Cackling, and Naked (Unnerving Books), which is the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards winner for Horror, and which Publishers Weekly calls “powerful,” “unsettling,” and “terrifying,” as well as author of Salamander Justice (Madness Heart Press). She is co-creator of the artist collective POC United and fiction editor for the group’s Foreword INDIES Award-winning anthology, Graffiti. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Interzone, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, Penumbric, the Creepy Podcast, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Her long fiction tale, Bridget Has Disappeared, is in translation at Independent Legions’ Italian-language Molotov Magazine. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she hosts her own newsletter and blog, Tamika Talks Terror. Find her online at tamikathompson.com.
Shannon Lawrence
Hork
Sometimes it’s safer not to investigate that telltale sound in the next room.
A fan of all things fantastical and frightening, Shannon Lawrence writes primarily horror and fantasy. Her short stories can be found in over sixty anthologies and magazines in addition to her collections. Her nonfiction title, The Business of Short Stories, and debut urban fantasy novel, Myth Stalker: Wendigo Nights, are available now. You can also get to know her as a co-host of the Mysteries, Monsters, & Mayhem podcast. When not writing, she’s hiking through the wilds of Colorado and photographing her magnificent surroundings, where, coincidentally, there’s always a place to hide a body or birth a monster. Find her at www.thewarriormuse.com.
Chris W. McGuinness
Into the Skin, a Shadow Slips
A recovering addict gets more than he bargained for after adding a new item to his macabre home collection.
Chris W. McGuinness is a horror writer whose work has appeared in Lovecraftiana Magazine, Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Carnage House, Friday Cat Quarterly, and many other magazines and anthologies. He is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association and lives with his wife Rebecca and their dog, Buddy, on California’s Central Coast. Learn more about his writing at chriswmcguinness.wordpress.com.
Ken Hueler
Your Child Could Grow Up to be Anything
Not all virgin births are to be celebrated...
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, Weekly Mystery Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways, and anthologies such as The Cozy Cosmic and Tales for the Camp Fire. He is an assistant editor at Space & Time magazine and, with Frances Lu Pai Ippolito, co-edited the game fiction anthology, Winding Paths: A Playable Reading Experience. learn more at kenhueler.wordpress.com.