Tiffani Angus, PhD, is co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Her debut novel, the historical fantasy Threading the Labyrinth, was a finalist for the British Science Fiction Association and British Fantasy Society Best Novel awards. A Clarion 2009 graduate and a former academic who spent a decade teaching writing at universities in the US and UK, she's also published short fiction in a variety of genres. She's a freelance editor and educator, the co-director of the Underhill Academy of SFF Writers, and lives in Bury St Edmunds with her partner.

Abra Staffin-Wiebe loves dark science fiction, cheerful horror, and futuristic fairy tales. Dozens of her short stories have appeared at publications including Tor.com, Escape Pod, Odyssey Magazine, and numerous anthologies. She lives in Minneapolis, where she wrangles her children, pets, and the mad scientist she keeps in the attic. When not writing or wrangling, she collects folk tales and photographs whatever stands still long enough to allow it. Discover more of her fiction at her website, http://www.aswiebe.com.

James Pyne is a Nova Scotia based author of mostly epic dark fantasy, though he sometimes strays into other literary realms. The last few years he has seen his work in over a hundred magazines and anthologies. A blue-collar worker his entire adult life, he tends to keep to himself but on occasion he will visit other countries and get himself into some misad-ventures— Japan, Argentina, Spain will never be the same. Add him on any of the social media platforms listed below and shoot him a message. He loves hearing from the fans so don’t be shy!

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Stephen Coghlan is a burgeoning author who hails from the oft-frozen national capital of Canada. When not attempting to create worlds and describe characters, he can be found constructing buildings, entertaining his children, or annoying his long-suffering wife.

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had nearly two hundred poems and stories published so far, and three books. His collected fairy and folk tales, The Witch Made Me Do It, a novella, The Witches’ Bane, and his collected fantasy stories, Capricious Visions. He works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of five review editors.

J.C. Raye's stories are also found in anthologies with Belanger Books, C.M. Muller, Scary Dairy, Devil's Party Press, Books & Boos, Franklin/Kerr, and Gravelight Press to name a few. More stories in 2020 with Rooster Republic/Strangehouse Books, Transmundane, DBND, and Gravelight Press. Yeah, she writes more than she vacuums, that's for sure.

Stories about?

Hmmm...potato chip bag creatures in Cape May, possessed monkey bridges in Vietnam, inept Inuit shamans in Alaska, crime sprees with cockroaches in the deep south, Pennsylvania tea bugs, witch addictions in Salem, and dust storm bunnies in Kansas. Yep. She is all over the damn place and clearly has some issues. Suffice to say, her tales will bother you long after you donate the paperback to goodwill.

Why horror & sci-fi, you ask?

For 20 years, she's been a professor at a small community college teaching the most feared course on the planet: Public Speaking. Witnessing grown people openly weep, beg, scream, freak out and pass out is just another delightful day on the job for her. And it is not just the students she upsets. For the last four years, she’s led a college-wide campaign to assist her colleagues in locating free, current, credible text resources and break the hold of expensive corporate publishers. Right, so those companies and even some of the faculty are mad at her now. She’s just particularly good at getting under the skin.

Of course, we're also got to throw a little blame her parents way too. As early as ten years of age, they were sitting her down in front of the same movies they were watching. Ahh, the days of one shared screen for the whole family. Her clearest, youngest memories include, The Poseidon Adventure, Night of the Living Dead, The Shining, Baron Blood and Suspiria. Sorry there, Disney. But you can see why she is like this.

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.

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had nearly two hundred poems and stories published so far, and three books. His collected fairy and folk tales, The Witch Made Me Do It, a novella, The Witches’ Bane, and his collected fantasy stories, Capricious Visions. He works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of five review editors.

Lisa Timpf spent her early years living next to a farm on the outskirts of Simcoe, Ontario. Though the family moved into town when Timpf was nine years old, this early experience sparked a life-long interest in nature, especially birds and butterflies.

Timpf received a Bachelor of Physical Education degree at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, then went on to study Sport History at the Master's level at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During that time, she worked part-time as a sports writer at the Halifax Daily News.

After returning to her home province of Ontario, Timpf secured a job at Honda of Canada Mfg. in Alliston, Ontario, where she worked in a variety of roles including Human Resources and Communications, before retiring in February of 2014.

Timpf's writing credits include several columns written for the Creemore Echo, in an independent newspaper in Creemore, Ontario, as well as appearances in six Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies, and pieces written for Small Farm Canada. She has also self-published a collection of creative non-fiction and poetry entitled A Trail that Twines: Reflections on Life and Nature, and a non-fiction book, St. George's Lawn Tennis Club: The First Hundred Years.

Star Trek (The Original Series) and authors such as Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton sparked an interest in science fiction in Timpf's teenage years. After her retirement, Timpf tried her hand at writing sci-fi short stories, poetry, and book reviews. Her sci-fi writing has appeared in anthologies such as Future Days, Dogs of War, From a Cat's View, Enter the Rebirth, and Mother's Revenge, and magazines and online zines such as Bards and Sages Quarterly, New Myths, Star*Line, Liminality, and Apparition Lit. Her collection of speculative haibun poetry, In Days to Come, is available from Hiraeth Publishing.

In her younger years, Timpf was an avid athlete, participating in softball, field hockey, ball hockey, ice hockey, basketball, broomball, volleyball, badminton and track and field at various points in her life. Now confined to less strenuous pursuits, she enjoys organic gardening, cycling, and bird-watching.

J.D. Blackrose loves all things storytelling and celebrates great writing by posting about it on her website, www.slipperywords.com. She’s fearful that so-called normal people will discover exactly how often she thinks about wicked fairies, nasty wizards, homicidal elevators, treacherous forests, and the odd murder, even when she is supposed to be having coffee with a friend or paying something called "bills." As a survival tactic, she has mastered the art of looking interested.

She would like to thank her parents for teaching her to ask questions, and in lieu of facts, how to make things up.

Catrin is an Associate Professor, she teaches, lives and researches science. She has authored both non-fiction and fiction books and publications. Her fiction pieces explore the world beyond what is (presently) possible, known, proven or in existence. Writing allows Catrin to explore these ideas and to understand society and the world around us.

Chad Stroup is a writer and editor from San Diego, California. His dark short stories and poetry have been featured in various publications. Secrets of the Weird is his first novel.

Stroup received his MFA in Fiction from San Diego State University. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the San Diego Horror Professionals, and he dearly misses playing music.

Visit his blog at http://subvertbia.blogspot.com/, or drop by his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ChadStroupWriter.

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Award-winning author, Jeff Dosser is an ex-Tulsa cop and current software developer living in the wilds of central Oklahoma. Jeff’s short stories can be found in magazines such as The Literary Hatchet, Tales to Terrify, Shotgun Honey, and Iridium Zine, to name a few. He's also been published in the Deadman’s Tome, Mother’s Revenge and Hindered Souls anthologies.

Jeff’s novels, Shattered and Neverland, were the 2019 & 2018 Oklahoma Writer's Federation winners for best new horror. His sci-fi short ‘The Late Dawn of a Solar Knight’ was an L.R Hubbard Writers of the Future Honorable Mention.

When not writing, Jeff can be found prowling the woods behind his rural home communing with the denizens of the night.

Find out what Jeff's been up to on his website. jeffdosser.com

or follow him on Twitter @JeffDosser

Querus Abuttu (Dr. Q.): Dr. Q. hunts ghosts and unnatural creatures in the backcountry by the James River but has yet to catch one. On stormy nights when the train rolls by and the river roars on Iron Shores, she crafts dark tales. And sometimes, those tales follow her into her dreams.

One of the leading authors of dark fantasy and science fiction from India, Soumya Sundar Mukherjee often walks through the rarely visited realm of words where the monsters of the mind silently wait to emerge from the unconscious. A High School English teacher, he writes about stuff strange dreams are made of. His works have appeared in Galaxy's Edge, Reckoning Magazine, Mother of Invention Anthology and a few other places.

Currently he is working on an epic adventure fantasy novel which deals with love and sacrifice in the time of war.

Born and raised where the Rust Belt collides with Appalachia, Dan Fiore is a Pittsburgh-based multimedia storyteller working in fiction, film, and advertising. Published by the likes of Mystery Tribune, Thuglit, and Hot Metal Bridge, his work has been awarded grand prize in the 82nd Annual Writers Digest Writing Competition as well as Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ First Works Grant. Brands such as GNC, American Eagle, Under Armour, ASICS, and Netflix have enlisted Dan’s help with strategy-led, story-obsessed creative. He holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and a BA in English Writing & Film Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.