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.

Josh Reynolds is a professional freelance writer. In addition to his own work, he has written for several tie-in franchises, including Gold Eagle's Executioner line and Black Library's Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40K lines. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles and reviews.

A complete list of his published works can be found at http://joshuamreynolds.wordpress.com/

The wait is almost over! Nicky's next thriler novel, The Brother, will hit shelves July 2023!

Ten years ago, Nicky discovered the anthology market and it wasn’t long before her first short story was published. With over 30 stories in horror, thriller and paranormal anthologies for publishers all over the world, including stories in the Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper and a Women in Horror Anthology, she’s no stranger to the dark side. After writing 5 YA supernatural novellas, she turned her hand to an adult thriller - and her debut novel, Little Bones, was born, then pubished under her pen name N V Peacock by Harper Collins.

Now represented by literary agents David Highham Associates, she has just signed a two book deal with Hera Books.

About her writing, Nicky says, ‘Entertaining readers is the best feeling in the world. Times are tough at the moment, so to be able to transport readers into someone else’s life and take them on a twisty journey makes all the time and effort I put into my books worthwhile.’

Nicky appreciates every review she receives and thanks all her readers in advance for taking the time to put fingers to keyboard and share their thoughts with other readers.

Nicky Peacock also writes as N V Peacock. Find her on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/N-V-Peacock/e/B08DR522DV%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

https://nvpeacockthrillers.wordpress.com/

Alvaro is a Hugo and Locus award finalist who has published some forty stories and over one hundred reviews, essays and interviews in venues like Clarkesworld, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Tor.com, Locus, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, Strange Horizons, Galaxy's Edge, Lackington's, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and anthologies such as The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016, Cyber World, Humanity 2.0, This Way to the End Times, 18 Wheels of Science Fiction, Shades Within Us, The Unquiet Dreamer, and Nox Pareidolia

K.G. Anderson writes short-form speculative fiction focusing on families, secrets, and transformations. A graduate of the Viable Paradise writers workshop and Taos Toolbox, she's worked as a journalist, a book reviewer, and a writer/editor with Apple's iTunes Music Store.

Her short fiction appears in the anthologies Second Contacts, Triangulation: Beneath the Surface, The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, Triangulation: Appetites, Welcome to Dystopia, Reading 5 x 5, Space Opera Libretti, Pioneers and Pathfinders, Two Hour Transport 2019, Terra! Tara! Terror!, and Infinite Lives; and in magazines such as Galaxy's Edge, Weirdbook, Allegory, The Colored Lens, and Space and Time.

She's a proud member of the B Cubed Press writers group with stories in Alternative Truths, More Alternative Truths, After the Orange, Alternative Truths: Endgame, and Alternative Deathiness, The Protest Diaries, and Post Roe Alternatives: Fighting Back.

You can find her work online at Metaphorosis, The Drabble, Every Day Fiction, Factor Four Magazine, and Luna Station Quarterly; and on podcasts such as Far Fetched Fables, Luna Station Quarterly, and The Overcast.

KEITH MORAY is the crime writing pen-name of Keith Souter, part-time doctor, medical journalist and novelist. He is a member of the Crime Writer's Association, International Thriller Writers, the Society of Authors and the Medical Journalists Association. His crime novels published by Sapere Books are set on the Scottish island of West Uist, featuring Inspector Torquil McKinnon. He also writes the Sandal Castle Medieval Thrillers series and soon a series set in ancient Egypt. He also writes medical books and general non-fiction and is a prolific award-winning short story writer.

https://keithmorayauthor.com

He is represented by Isabel Atherton at Creative Authors. write@creativeauthors.co.uk

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Hello, there! I’m Nick Sweet. Look out for the first of my new series set in Spain, MURDER IN SEVILLE, which has just been published by Sharpe Books.

If you enjoyed Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano series, then give MURDER IN SEVILLE a try. You might just find you get hooked.

Follow Inspector Velázquez's footsteps as he tries to find the violent killer.

I'm from Bristol originally, but I immediately fell in love with Seville when I moved there some ten years ago.

Years passed before i felt I knew enough about Andalucían culture to write a book set in this part of the world.

As well as Seville, I've also written about a fictional town on the Costa del Sol, which I've called Bardino.

If you sit back and read my books, they will take you off the track most tourists usually tread.

Bardino is a great place to read about, but you really wouldn't want to live there.

And even a brief visit could prove hair-raising.

The same is true of certain parts of Seville.

I work hard to bring the Spanish settings in my books to life, so that the reader can breathe in the atmosphere and practically taste the tinto wine.

My books are a satisfying blend of mystery and suspense, with strong characters that will make you care about them.

Enter my world of pure entertainment.

PRAISE SO FAR FOR MURDER IN SEVILLE:

'The author builds both tension and intrigue... A must read for fans of intelligent crime fiction.' Thomas Waugh

PRAISE FOR NICK'S PREVIOUS BOOKS:

'The Long Siesta is a slice of the darkest noir transported to the sunny climate of Seville - a great character and a great book.' Mason Cross

'Nick Sweet's Inspector Velazquez is one of the most original and intriguing creations in crime fiction; a top Spanish cop with a very dark secret. THE LONG SIESTA offers an authentic slice of nineties Seville with murder as its backdrop. You can almost taste the albondigas and Fino!' Howard Linskey

'Sweet handles his twisting plot with all the panache of the Matador.' Caro Ramsay

'The Long Siesta is a full-blooded neo-noir, as gritty as any 1970s Hollywood thriller, and as colourful as the latest Mexican telenovela.' Nicholas Blincoe

'...highly readable... Recommended.' Paul Johnston

'If the second (in the series) was coming out tomorrow I'd say Hasta Mañana.' Douglas Skelton

'...an enthralling glimpse into an unfamiliar world. Confident and sharp, Inspector Velázquez is a complex man who knows what makes his beat in Seville tick.' Nick Quantrill

'...the fast-paced plot suggests Sweet's text would suit a big-screen makeover.' Matthew Hirtes in the Huffington Post

'Those who love a fast paced crime thriller with a flawed leading policeman will enjoy THE LONG SIESTA.' Linda's Book Bag

'This is an intelligent read which leaves the reader not knowing which way the characters are going to turn next as you're never 100 per cent sure who the good guys are.' The Hazardous Hippo blogspot

'One might have thought that Spanish-set crime was territory sewed up by the likes of Robert Wilson, but Nick Sweet proves to have the measure of the genre with THE LONG SIESTA. This concise novel is set in 1998 Seville. An elderly priest has been gruesomely killed, and Nick Sweet's protagonist Inspector Velázquez quickly finds himself with a slew of trouble involving Russian gangsters and further ecclesiastical murders. Velázquez proves to be an intriguing and idiosyncratic protagonist, and Sweet evokes his sultry locale with maximum vividness.' Barry Forshaw in Crime Time (an edited version of this review also appeared later in the year, in Barry Forshaw's guide to the best of British crime writing, Brit Noir).

Reviews for Nick's crime thriller, FLOWERS AT MIDNIGHT:

'A startling and intriguing crime story.' Quentin Bates

'...a can't put down page-turner. Nick Sweet is a rising star in crime fiction.' Gary C. King

'The tone is pure Elmore Leonard, with dimbulb villains, some honest coppers, a complex but still intelligible plot and a satisfying ending. This is not a book that prompts loud guffaws, but rather a series of continual smiles. Nick Sweet, we want more.' Professor Richard B. Schwartz (Writer & Professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia)

'...a blistering pace with a firecracker plot and machine gun dialogue. If you like your crime fiction fast and furious, this is the one for you.' Rod Madocks

'Kinky sex, blackmail, murder, three million pounds and a gay psychoanalyst...this fast-paced London caper will have readers turning pages as Nick Sweet delivers FLOWERS AT MIDNIGHT.' Vince Lardo

Author Kenna McKinnon on Nick's crime thriller, BAD IN BARDINO:

'Fast paced and humorous yet dark, this book is a rival for Raymond Chandler's 'The Long Goodbye'...I couldn't find a single cliche in the story...this fast-paced thriller held my interest well into the night as I flipped the pages of my Kindle...'

Critical responses to my historical/literary novel, GEMINI GAMES:

'A novel that's both serious and funny. A mordant look at the state of Britain today.' D.M. Thomas

'I very much enjoyed the London-ness of GEMINI GAMES... Good stuff...there are too few accurate London novels.' Andrew O'Hagan

'I was impressed by the sympathy and integrity of the writing.' D.J. Taylor

Critic and novelist D.J. Taylor on Nick's historical novel, YOUNG HEARTS:

'I like Nick Sweet's writing, which is always deeply engaged with the subjects he chooses, intelligent in its approach and seriously interested in the difficulties of ordinary people trying to live their lives in the shadow of great events.'

A critical response to my short story, THE WOMAN OF HIS HEART, which I contributed to the anthology SUNSHINE NOIR :

'...And Nick Sweet's entry, so help me, with its straight-to-the-point storytelling and its wit, reminds me of nothing so much as Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op stories.' Peter Rozovsky in his introduction to the collection of stories entitled Sunshine Noir

Nick's short stories have appeared in two of collections edited by Maxim Jakubowski, The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Mango, 2021) and The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories (Robinson, 2015). Another of his short stories appeared in the collection, Sunshine Noir (White Sun Press, 2016). Nick's stories have also appeared in a number of small magazines, including the Evergreen Review.

Vanessa de Sade been writing fiction about the forbidden side of women’s sexuality for the last ten years, and her stories and poems have appeared in a multitude of outlets ranging from feminist & literary magazines to glossy compendiums.

One of her poems was recently shortlisted by the Glasgow Women’s Library for their Bold Types award and she has contributed short stories to countless anthologies including this year’s Best Lesbian Erotica and four Mammoth Books for Constable and Robinson, plus she is the author of the novels "Jane" and "Maid for Milking" and the solo story collections "Love Handles"; "Sheila Hagen’s Room"; "Venus & Sappho Walk Into a Bar..."; "Fur"; "In the Forests of the Night"; "Black & White Movies"; "Nude Shots" and "Tales from a Tangled Bush".

She has also published a volume of sapphic poetry - "Exposing Myself in Public".

John Moralee was born in England, where his crime, horror and science-fiction stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, Crimewave and the British Fantasy Society’s official magazine.

His published novels include the mystery thriller Acting Dead, the zombie apocalypse story Journal of the Living, and the humorous fantasy tale Crowning Achievements: The Legend of King Arthur.

C L Raven are identical twins and mistresses of the macabre. They're horror writers because 'bringers of nightmares' isn't a recognised job title. They write novels, short stories, comics and film scripts. Their work has been published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA and Australia. A story of theirs was published in The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper, which makes their fascination with him seem less creepy. They’ve worked on several indie horror films as crew and reluctant actors and have somehow ended up with lead roles in the forthcoming indie horror film School Hall Slaughter. In their spare time, they hunt ghosts, host a horror radio show, look after their animal army, and try to look impressive with polefit. Their attempts at gymnastics should never be spoken about.

http://clraven.wordpress.com

https://twitter.com/clraven

https://www.facebook.com/pages/CL-Raven-Fanclub/117592995008142

Instagram - clraven666

Calamityville Horror fan page - https://www.facebook.com/CatsTalesOfTerror

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Erin is a speculative fiction author of several short stories. She studied at Texas A&M and continues to owe them money to this day. You can find her elbow deep in the dirt outside on off days, either gardening or burying another body. If you want on her good side, bring hummus and veggies.

Her philosophy on writing is to charge forward, before you talk yourself out of it. Censorship, even by oneself, is the death of art. Her latest short story is available in the Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper, published by Constable and Robinson.