Craig got interested in writing in middle school. He met up with a guy who introduced him to RPG's, fantasy and science fiction, and most importantly, the idea of writing stories. Studying writing all through high school and college, he continued creating stories.

His first publication came with a gaming company called Palladium Books, creating an index for their role playing game, Rifts. The success of the first led to a second. After he concentrated on fiction, and in 2008 he connected with a group called the Wolf Pirate Project who taught him all about writing and editing.

More recently, he's gotten hooked on writing short stories and has published ten to date with various small presses and magazines.

You can find out more about him and his stories at his website.

Michael Subjack loves to write, as long as it's not a biography about himself. He lives in Pasadena, but you can also find him on Twitter (MSubjack).

C.W. Blackwell is an American author from the Central Coast of California. His recent work has appeared with Down and Out Books, Shotgun Honey, Tough Magazine, and Reckon Review. He is a 2021 Derringer award winner and 2022 Derringer finalist. His folk horror novella Song of the Red Squire was published in 2022 from Nosetouch Press. His crime fiction novella Hard Mountain Clay was published in January 2023 from Shotgun Honey Books.

Grant Hinton is a horror fiction author from London, England, but who now resides in Perth, Western Australia. Counting Corpses is the first instalment of his debut serial killer thriller collection. Grant also has a collection of short stories, Unread, that was published in 2019. And a collection of reimagined dark fairy tales titled: ScaryTales that was published in 2020.

You can follow Grant and his works on his Amazon author page or his Facebook Page. Grant has also written short stories for multiple anthologies published on Amazon. You can find the full collection at his Amazon author home page. Grant is currently working on finishing The Harry Cross Thriller Serial. His influences vary from Barker to King, from Pratchett to Poe, and he has a particular interest in exploring the depravities of man.

Born in the usual way, I started roleplaying Dungeons and Dragons at the age of 8. I stopped playing it for awhile but soon plunged back into this world of fantasy and magic once more. I discovered a world of imagination and loved the myriad of possibilities that it offered. For years I designed worlds and cities, even races, and just as quickly I brought them tumbling down in ruin. I could create pantheons of Gods, and heroes to battle against their evil plots. I also started reading avidly, thanks to a teacher in high school, and this opened up more worlds for me to peruse and dissect for my own purposes. For the last 30+ years I have been coming up with whole functioning societies......but what was next?

Well I was already writing short bio's for characters in our game, and elaborate back stories for interesting people that we would interact with, so how was that very different than writing a book? So in 2011 I started putting my brain to use on developing a new world, except this time I would have to fill in everything. Lythinall was born. I published The Darkness Returns (A Lythinall Novel) Book 1 in June 2017, and The Darkness Within (A Lythinall Novel) Book 2 in 2018. Then it happened. A publisher read my story and wanted me. In 2018 I was signed by Kyanite Publishing! i put out a lot of short stories with them but sadly they closed their doors in 2019...but Skullgate Media wanted to sign me! My complete trilogy is now out as well as an anthology of tales all based in Lythinall. Other than all of this I still play the game that started it all, and I still design places, people and items when I'm not hanging out with my family or working my ass off at my day job

G. Allen Wilbanks, an internationally best-selling author on Amazon, is a retired police officer living in Northern California. For twenty-five years he wrote collision and crime reports to pay the bills while writing short fiction at nights to keep himself sane. In 2016, he retired from real life to focus on fantasy full time.

He is a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) and has had over 200 short stories published in Deep Magic, Daily Science Fiction, Mythic, The Colored Lens, as well as many other magazines, e-zines and anthologies from all over the world.

He has published two short story collections of his own as well as multiple novels.

His novels include, When Darkness Comes, published in 2017, and A Life of Adventure which debuted as one of Amazon's Hot New Releases in July, 2020.

For more information about the author and his current writing projects, please visit www.gallenwilbanks.com.

Mark Towse is an Englishman living in Australia. He would sell his soul to the devil or anyone buying if it meant he could write full-time. Alas, he left it very late to begin this journey, penning his first story since primary school at the ripe old age of 45. Since then, he's been published in the likes of Flash Fiction Magazine, Cosmic Horror, Suspense Magazine, ParABnormal, Raconteur, and his work has also appeared three times on The No Sleep Podcast and on many other excellent productions such as The Grey Rooms. His first collection, ‘Face the Music,’ has just been released by All Things That Matter Press and is available via Amazon, Dymocks, B&N, etc.

Look out for his story, 'Devil's Ink' in Midnight in the Pentagram from Silver Shamrock.

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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!

Michelle hails from Ontario, Canada where she is lives with her wonderful husband, fearless daughter and newborn son. A lover of hot black coffee and everything dark and terrifying, she spends her nights writing, publishing and dreaming about all things that go bump in the night. To her husband's dismay, she thrives on multiple projects, tight deadlines and revels in the chaos around her.

She runs Eerie River Publishing, focusing on promoting indie authors and publishing high-quality dark fiction anthologies, novels and novellas.

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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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Elizabeth Nettleton grew up in Queensland, Australia, and now lives in Oxfordshire, England, with her family. Her short stories and drabbles have been included in The Sirens Call eZine, Trembling with Fear, Short Fiction Break, and several anthologies by Eerie River Publishing. Her horror novel, "The Price of Gold," and middle-grade fantasy novel, "Solum's Landing," are available on Amazon.

Emma K. Leadley (they/she) is a UK-based speculative fiction writer and a queer, creative geek. They’ve had over 30 pieces of flash fiction and short stories published by independent presses, including Eerie River Publishing, Bag of Bones Press and Fox Spirit Books, and their debut science-fiction novella, Telling the Bees, is forthcoming in 2023 from NewCon Press. Publishers Weekly once described one of their stories as ‘standout’ and they were a 2019 Grindstone Literary Microfiction Winner. Emma lives in Nottingham and regularly argues with their rescue greyhound for space on the sofa. They can be found online at autoerraticism.com.

Thomas was born into the harsh winters in the Nordic Finland. Tempered by the shamanic winds, thousand lakes with a thousand stories, the whispers of the birch filled forests, he fell in love with horror at the tender age of 6 when he saw Re-Animator. That led him to search for the source story and that was it. Cosmic horror wrapped it’s nebulous tentacles around his imagination and it has been feeding it ever since.

Consuming book after book, he realized his dream; to be a writer. And that dream has guided him his entire life.

A true New England born soul, Matthew lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and three cats. A long time seeker and lover of the strange and unusual led him to the darker corners of his mind where he discovered a trove of disturbing tales waiting to be told. In addition to writing, Matthew is a musician and magician, having performed his music and magic on the East Coast for over 20 years in dank dark pubs where only locals dare tread.

S. Brian Duncan is husband, father and author writing in (and about) Florida. He is a fan of the horror/suspense genre and generally rolls his eyes when the monster doesn't have to fight too hard to get their prey. He has worked as a freelance artist, journalist, ghostwriter, construction worker, retail manager, and mail room team lead. He refers to his history as being a "jack of all trades". Currently he is writing short stories about things that go bump in the night, a novel about objects that disappear in the night, and the occasional poem that should only be read at night (with the lights off). His short story, The Long Way Home will be re-released on the Amazon marketplace soon. He appreciates fan mail in the form of limericks and hate mail in the form of cash.

Holley Cornetto is a writer, librarian, professor, book reviewer, and transplanted southerner who now calls New Jersey home. Her debut novella, WE HAUNT THESE WOODS, is available from Bleeding Edge Books. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Daily Science Fiction, Flame Tree Press Newsletter, Dark Recesses Press, and anthologies from Cemetery Gates Media, Eerie River Publishing, Dark Ink, and several others. In 2020, she was awarded a grant from the Ladies of Horror Fiction. In addition to writing The Horror Tree’s weekly newsletter, she regularly reviews for Booklist, Ginger Nuts of Horror, and The Horror Tree. She teaches creative writing in the online MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. Find her on Twitter @HLCornetto.

More than anything, I am a lover of stories. To tell them, to be told, to listen to, to watch, to play, to read, to write, there are so many ways for stories to be conveyed and I have yet to find a medium I don't enjoy. Stories are a huge part of my life, and being a nerd has exposed me to some of the best. Whether it's Asimov, King, Bradbury, Jacques, Tolkien, Crichton, Adams, Abnett, Ross, or any of the other uncountable storytellers I've been so lucky to witness, I am inspired and awed by those who have come before me.

I live in southern Iowa with my wife, our two dogs, and a herd of four cats.