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Brandon Barrows is the author of several novels, most recently 3rd LAW: Mixed Magical Arts, a YA urban fantasy.

He has published over eighty stories, selected of which are collected in the books THE ALTAR IN THE HILLS and THE CASTLE-TOWN TRAGEDY.

He is an active member of Mystery Writers of America, Private Eye Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers.

He was a 2021 Mustang Award finalist and is a 2022 Derringer Award nominee.

On Twitter @brandonbarrows and online at www.brandonbarrowscomics.com

Adrian Ludens is the author of the new short story collections The Tension of a Coming Storm (Dark Owl Publishing) and Bottled Spirits (Lycan Valley Press). He has contributed stories to the anthologies Blood Lite III: Aftertaste, The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, Gothic Fantasy Science Fiction Short Stories, Shadows Over Main Street, The Beauty of Death, and many others.

Recent anthology appearances include Generation X-ed (Dark Ink), Something Wicked This Way Rides (Dark Owl Publishing), The Lost Librarian's Grave (Redwood Press), and the Bram Stoker nominated anthology Under Twin Suns (Hippocampus Press).

He lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota where he stays busy as a library associate and the public address announcer for a AAA hockey team. Adrian is a fan of hockey, dark fiction, all kinds of music, and exploring abandoned buildings and remote places.

Mary Jo Rabe grew up on a farm between Sabula and Miles in Eastern Iowa. She earned a B.A. in German and Mathematics from Michigan State University, completing her junior year in Freiburg, Germany, where she met her future husband Franz. She then completed her MLS at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, encountering and falling in love with science fiction for the first time. Mary Jo and Franz returned to Germany in 1976 and live in a small town in the Black Forest. Mary Jo has worked in a small special library in Freiburg, Germany, since August 1976. In Blue Sunset she combines her love of science fiction with her even older (since junior year in high school) love of Spoon River Anthology.

Pedro Iniguez is a horror and science-fiction writer from Los Angeles, California. He is a Rhysling Award finalist and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Award for his speculative poetry.

His work has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Shortwave Magazine, Worlds of Possibility, Tiny Nightmares, Star*Line, Space and Time Magazine, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, Savage Realms Monthly, and Infinite Constellations, among others.

He has also been a sensitivity reader and has ghostwritten for award-winning apps and online clients.

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.

David Rose (1983-) is a hybrid author and former dilettante. Lover of the dark, his works include No Joy, From Sand and Time, Amden Bog, and The Scrolls of Sin. One of which won an award.

Cheryl Zaidan is a full-time marketer and Pushcart Prize-nominated author who writes about awful people doing terrible things. Follow her at www.cherylzwrites.com

Matthew McKiernan was born in Cranford New Jersey in 1990 and moved to Yardley Pennsylvania in 1994. He graduated from LaSalle University in 2013 with a BA in English and History. He received his MFA in Creative writing at Rosemont College in May 2016.

His first short story, "A Leap of Faith" was published in "Skive Magazine" in November 2013. He has since published over eighteen short stories in various genres, most of which are available on Amazon. His latest short story, "They Never Left" was published in the Anthology, "The Lost Librarians Grave." He is currently editing his Science Fiction Novel, "Human" which he hopes to publish in the near future.

Carol Gyzander was a prolific reader of classic science fiction and Agatha Christie mysteries in her early days. Now that her kids have flown the coop, she writes and edits horror, dark fiction, and sci-fi stories set in various time periods from her couch, with a Velcro cat firmly attached to her side.

Carol has short stories in over a dozen anthologies. Her most recent story, "The Yellow Crown" in UNDER TWIN SUNS: ALTERNATE HISTORIES OF THE YELLOW SIGN, gives a new take on Robert W. Chambers’s classic work of weird fiction, The King in Yellow (1895). Edited by James Chambers, it is being released by Hippocampus Press on June 29. She's honored to have her story among great authors such as Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Lisa Morton, John Langan, Sarah Read, Darrell Schweitzer, Greg Chapman, JG Faherty, Todd Keisling, Linda Addison, Tim Waggoner, and a dozen other awesome authors.

Carol is honored to have a dark fantasy story in the alternative Beatles anthology, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: TALES OF ALTERNATIVE BEATLES, with some astounding authors such as Spider Robinson, Gregory Benford, David Gerrold, Pat Cadigan, Jody Lynn Nye, Gregory Frost, Cat Rambo, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Gordon Linzner, and Sally Wiener Grotta.

Other recent anthologies include STORIES WE TELL AFTER MIDNIGHT, CAT LADIES OF THE APOCALYPSE, HELL'S HIGHWAYS, THE DEVIL'S DUE, and HELL'S MALLS. Carol also has a number of short stories and poems in charity-based anthologies supporting breast cancer and Alzheimer's research.

She’s the Editor of Writerpunk Press, which creates anthologies of various genres of ’punk stories based upon classics.

Carol is quite busy with the Horror Writers Association as Chapter Program Co-Coordinator, Co-Coordinator of the NY Chapter, and co-host of Galactic Terrors, the monthly online reading series every second Thursday. See HWANY.org for more info!

See what else Carol is working on at www.CarolGyzander.com, or follow her on Twitter @CarolGyzander or Instagram @carolgyzander

Pauline Yates (she/her) is the Australian author of Memories Don’t Lie; a fast-paced science fiction novel inspired by her love for dark and dangerous action and adventure.

An Australian Shadows Awards finalist, her short-form horror, dark fiction, and poetry appear in publications including Black Hare Press, IFWG Publishing Australia, Redwood Press, Midnight Echo, PseudoPod, Aurealis, Tales To Terrify, Black Hart Publishing, Metaphorosis, plus others, and her AHWA winning short story, “The Best Medicine,” was translated in the Mondi Incantati series produced by Riflessi di Lunare (RiLL), Italy.

She’s a member of the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA), and the Horror Writers Association (HWA), and helps to judge the Australia Shadows Awards in various categories.

On the social scene, she goes by @midnightmuser1 because she loves writing at midnight when her muse is the most volatile. She shares her writing space with her aged cat, who is determined to break the world’s oldest feline record, and a dog who is terrified of the cat. She enjoys taking photos of the sunrise—if she wakes up in time—and loves to encourage native wildlife and birds into her garden. https://paulineyates.com/

Adele Gardner (www.gardnercastle.com) is a cat-loving cataloging librarian and the award-winning creator of over 450 published poems, stories, illustrations, songs, and essays who's a professional member of writing and art organizations that include SCBWI, SFWA, HWA, SFPA, Sisters in Crime, and the Hampton Arts League. With master's degrees in English literature and library science, Gardner's a professional editor and librarian, as well as literary executor for father and mentor Dr. Delbert R. Gardner. Adele's works have also appeared under bylines Lyn C. A. Gardner, C. A. Gardner, and more.

Leoson is a Pushcart Nominee and Affiliate Member of the Horror Writers Association who specializes in literary horror fiction. Her writing has been featured in the The Lost Librarian's Grave Anthology, Free Spirit Historic Tales Anthology, HWA's Of Horror and Hope Anthology, Castabout's Halloween Anthology, and various literary magazines such as Coffin Bell Journal, Untoward Magazine, and Underwood Press' Horror Journal, Black Works. Leoson holds an MFA in Fiction, an MA in English, and an MS in Psychology. When she's not writing about ghosts, she teaches psychology, literature, film, creative writing, and composition at the college level and in the community. You can learn more at www.maryleoson.com

Small press publisher of speculative fiction. Our debut horror anthology, The Lost LIbrarian's Grave ebook, is now available on Amazon.

Our next dark anthology, Superstition, is due out in the fall of 2022.

Briana Una McGuckin writes Gothic Romance/Romantic Suspense and fabulist fiction. Her work appears in the Stoker-nominated Not All Monsters, an anthology of women’s horror (Rooster Republic), as well as The Arcanist, Breath & Shadow, and Hides the Dark Tower (Pole-to-Pole Publishing). She has an MFA from Western Connecticut State University. She also has cerebral palsy. Find her on Twitter @BrianaUna, or check out her blog: http://brianaunamcguckin.com

J.V. Gachs is a Spanish classicist, and writer, currently working as a Latin teacher. Writing in English and Spanish her work has been featured in magazines such as Luna Station Quarterly or Mordedor, and anthologies like Scott J. Moses' What One Wouldn't Do and Cursed Morsels’ Antifa Splatterpunk. Her first novel, Epiphany, will be released next year by Off Limits Press. Obsessed with sudden death, ghosts, and female villains, she always writes with a cat (or two) in her lap.