I am an autistic writer and neurodiversity advocate. I write horror, comedy, and bizarro, and I'm the creator of Divergent Realms, an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories about neurodivergence by neurodivergent authors. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife Jamie and our two pet children. Our daughter is Sadie, a dog, and our son is Newton, a rabbit.

Christopher maxim began his writing career in 2013, delving deep into the world of online horror. He developed a passion for weird fiction and soon found popularity on the NoSleep forum where his stories have garnered thousands of reads. Over the years, his works have been adapted into audio dramas featured on various YouTube channels and the NoSleep Podcast. Many of his tales contain common threads and themes, hinting at an overarching, connected multiverse where strange happenings are a daily occurrence. To learn more about these connections and stay up to date on the author's writings, feel free to peruse his official subreddit (reddit.com/r/ChristopherMaxim). There, you can join the discussion and offer up your own theories about his fictional world. And please, stay away from Room 371.

L.P. Hernandez is an author of horror and speculative fiction. His stories have been featured in anthologies from Cemetery Dance, Dark Matter Ink, and the Howl Society among others. He is a regular contributor to The NoSleep Podcast and has released two short story collections. His third collection titled No Gods, Only Chaos will be published by Cemetery Dance in 2024. His novella, Stargazers, kicked off the My Dark Library line of novellas curated by Sadie “Mother Horror” Hartmann and published through Cemetery Gates Media. L.P. also hosts Dog-eared Nightmares, a podcast about well-loved horror. When not writing, L.P. serves as a medical administrator in the U.S. Air Force. He is a husband, father, and a dedicated metalhead.

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Joe Sullivan is a writer of horror tales (Corpse Cold: New American Folklore; Tales from Valleyview Cemetery; At the Cemetery Gates Series), editor of best-selling anthologies (Other Voices, Other Tombs; Campfire Macabre; Places We Fear to Tread), and co-founder of Cemetery Gates Media.

Follow Brhel & Sullivan projects at:

cemeterygatesmedia.com

twitter: CemeteryGatesM

Adrian J. Johnson is an American author of dark fiction. Most of his work has appeared in numerous anthologies, available in print, eBook, and audio formats. He is also the owner of Red Masque Media, a freelance graphic design company specializing in multimedia designs for dark-themed genres. He lives in Ohio with his family.

You can follow Adrian J. Johnson and Red Masque Media on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Tara A. Devlin spent the first two-thirds of her life living in Australia, the next third living in Japan, and now finally resides in Europe. When she's not procrastinating on the internet or looking after her two cats she enjoys horror and pew pew movies. You can find her collection of horror and fantasy writings at taraadevlin.com.

Born in Pennsylvania, Michael is a horror author and filmmaker who's work has appeared in a number of anthologies and podcasts. His passion for storytelling and visual arts has led him into the world of filmmaking, where he aims to bring a fresh and dark vision to audiences.

"Blair Daniels never disappoints me. Her stories are short, sharp, and devious."

Blair Daniels has written almost 300 horror stories. Her stories have been translated to French, Italian, Chinese, Tagalog, and more, racking up millions of reads around the world. Every collection of horror stories she's released has hit #1 Horror Anthology on Amazon. Two of her stories have been made into short films, and two more are in production. Her story “My Husband’s Painting” is in the top 30 stories of all time on NoSleep, a horror forum on Reddit with 18 million subscribers.

She's always been a big fan of horror; her childhood was marked by sleepovers with spooky stories, tons of Goosebumps books, and ghost-hunting with her best friend. She lives with her husband and sons in a rural part of the US, where they lead a simple life growing vegetables, playing video games, and hanging out at Costco.

-raison d'etre-

when I hear you speak, it's the God's Honest Truth

as I open my mouth, it's rednecked and buck-toothed

your dear words, your sweet messages, your marvelous inflections

they conjure old senses, bring back blessed recollections

and when I dare write, no, what I dare say

I bring but shock and fright, no merry tales to end the day

so I often doubt myself, well after the fact

I just write the way I speak, and I just speak the way I act

so I sit, and I listen, and I hear, and I feel

your words, when they reach me, perhaps, they can heal

you write of shared promise, I write of shared pain

you sing the arias of being human, I pour hydrochloric acid rain

your words reach out to my chin, hold me so warmly, so gently, so tightly

When I cradle my head in my hands, my fingers fit PERFECTLY into the holes in my psyche

and we, all, like to share

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Ever since seeing the opening scene of 1953's House of Wax, Kelly has been fascinated by the things that frighten us. She specializes in flash and long-form horror fiction and currently resides in the Midwest.

Jeff Speziale is an American horror author and aspiring filmmaker. He is known for his "creepypastas" written under the username 'Rha3gar.' You can find his work on Reddit /r/NoSleep, YouTube, Creepy and The NoSleep Podcast.

He can be contacted at jspezialewriting@gmail.com

Nick Botic is an author and publisher from Milwaukee, WI. Following a stay in a rehabilitation facility in order to rid himself of a years-long heroin addiction, Nick began writing after discovering the Reddit community r/NoSleep. His first series, an 8-part saga about a hotel worker, received rave reviews, and prompted him to continue writing.

Since then, he has written over 100 short stories and series, including the viral, award-winning hit “Daughter’s Drawings“. His stories consistently find their way to the top 5 spots on the 13 million-plus member Reddit community, often receiving awards. His work has been published in over 10 collections, including his own anthologies “The Things We Fear” and “An Ode To Terror” and his novella “A Halloween In Glarus“.

Towards the end of 2018, Nick ventured into the world of publishing. His first release, the erotic horror anthology “Goregasm“, reached the top 10 in the new releases category on Amazon, while David Feuling’s “The American Demon Waltz” has been met with overwhelmingly positive reviews.

In 2019, Nick has secured adaptation deals, with several of his stories in various stages of production. His next release, the 25-author anthology “Sirens at Midnight” is due July 1st, and has already been met with positive reception.

Nick plans to continue balancing the responsibilities as publisher while also writing new material to keep his fans happy and horrified.

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P. F. McGrail is a thirty-something writer who lives and plays in Los Angeles. Please note that all stories are inappropriate for children and adults alike.

Kitty 'The Odd Cat Lady' Olsen is a young writer currently living in Illinois, but her heart always remains in Michigan. She's been writing since she was young and over the past couple years has developed a knack for writing horror. She has a small following on social media and has gotten attention for her short stories such as The Cat Lady and The Walls Sweat, available on her tumblr and reddit accounts for all to read. During her free time, she likes going on hikes in the local forest, daydreaming, cuddling her cats, and playing far too many video games.

Candice Azalea Greene writes fantasy novels and short horror stories. Her work has appeared on all seasons of The Grey Rooms Podcast, including contest-winning "I Didn't Have Arachnophobia, Exactly." Her debut novel DAUGHTER OF BLOOD AND ICE is out now on Kindle Unlimited.

Candice may have a day job that keeps her from writing her tales about powerful magical women overcoming their dark pasts as often as she likes, but her mind is always wandering to her fantasy worlds and what new horrors she can put her characters through.

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I am a horror, scifi and spec-fic author based in Loveland, OH. I often write with themes of witches, ghosts and body horror.

Adam Davies writes thinking person’s horror to free his imagination, If he didn’t, all those crazy thoughts would stay trapped and who knows what would happen? Adam has six short stories published across four anthologies and is currently working on his first novel. Adam is an active part of the indie online horror community and founded the NoSleep Writers Guild in 2017 to help improve relationships between internet horror writers and YouTube horror narrators and combat IP theft. His published works can be found in:

A Cure for Chaos; Horrors from Hosiptals and Psyche Wards.

Monstronomicon.

Goregasm; Seductively Scary Stories.

Sirens at Midnight; Terrifying Tales from First Responders.

Scott Savino lives on Florida's Gulf Coast with his best friend, Max, who is a dog, and his other best friends: a fleet of human murdering robots from the future. His hobbies include long tresspassive walks, wandering in the woods after dark, reading, and jumping fearfully from non-aggressive shadows (mostly his own shadow.) You can find more of his work on Amazon.

Keith McDuffee is a technology professional living in Worcester County, Massachusetts, with various domestic animals, not including his lovely wife and son. Besides participating in several horror anthologies, he has had several stories appear on "The NoSleep Podcast." Don't worry, parents, grandparents, and kids: "Toggs" is a complete departure from the horror genre.

R.C. Bowman is an Amazon-bestselling horror writer. She is a featured author on Curious Fictions and a contributor to the world-famous Nosleep Podcast. Her story, "Nothing But a Dog," won the 2018 Best Story of the Year in Reddit's Nosleep community. She frequently posts stories to Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr under the handle Dopabeane.

Penny Tailsup is an Alaskan author who writes, narrates and illustrates horror stories. Penny is often found lurking around the Nosleep subreddit, and also runs a small Youtube narration channel where she narrates some of her own work.

P. Oxford writes short horror stories about the woods, Norwegian folklore, and other scary stuff. Find my work in anthologies, and follow me on facebook for free first drafts of new stories: https://www.facebook.com/pocketoxfordwrites

K.A. Johnson has a BA in English/Journalism with a minor in Classics from The University of New Hampshire. He covered the news in the small New Hampshire college town of Durham for The New Hampshire before ditching the snow and moving south to Richmond, Virginia, where he lives with his wife Jennifer and his two furry writing partners Sparta Jesus Vernal-Johnson and Kolby Catmatix Domitian Johnson.

A. S. Lowe is a horror author from Phoenix, Arizona best known for his original short stories on Reddits NoSleep forum. He has worked, in no particular order, as a script editor, audio editor, and amplifier and musical instrument technician. He currently resides in Mesa, Arizona with his wife and two ferrets Gypsy and Pearl.

Charlie Davenport is a staff editor and content manager for The Simply Scary Podcast, as well as amateur writer of his own dark stories. In addition to be a lifelong fan of horror fiction, Davenport is an Army veteran and holds a Master’s degree in criminal psychology and uses his life experience to bring color to the traditional world of horror.

Davenport discovered the power of storytelling early on, listening to his own mother terrifying neighborhood children on Halloween night, recounting classic folks tales like The Golden Arm.

Davenport believes that it is always scarier to find the unknown in your everyday life. He believes that the horrors that are around every corner or at the edge of the light on a dark night are where we learned to be scared of the dark in the first place.

Nick Kanov writes stories that could be construed as eerie. Sometimes it's posted on /r/nosleep under ExitiumElements, sometimes it's put into a book. Here's a quote, "He sat alone in the darkness, gazing at the dying fire, and seeing faces in it. The last face was so horrible and so simian that he gazed at it in amazement. It got so vivid that, with a little uneasy laugh, he felt on the table for a glass containing a little water to throw over it. His hand grasped the monkey's paw, and with a little shiver he wiped his hand on his coat and went up to bed." - The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

Samantha Mayotte was born in a small town in Vermont, but she calls New York home, even though she currently lives in Maine. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and English Studies from Southern Vermont College and lives with her significant other. When she's not writing, she can usually be found watching The Food Network (or any cooking show, really), reading, crocheting, or working on a needlepoint.

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!

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Derek T. Hawke loves old school science fiction, cheerful horror, and dark fairy tales. You can find dozen of his stories on YouTube under his writer’s tag KillaHawke1. He lives outside of Austin Texas, where he does whatever it takes to keep cool, evade the biggest mosquitoes ever to have flapped their wings on God’s green Earth (they love him because apparently he’s delicious), and be a menace to the closed-minded. When he is not experimenting in terror, he spends his spare time writing, creating graphic arts for various projects, and providing narrations for various YouTube channels.

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Edyth Pax-Boyr is an eldritch horror and half-elf living in the Pacific Northwest with five dogs, a cat that thinks it's a dog, and her beautiful fiancée who shall remain nameless. She writes predominantly horror with a healthy portion of science fiction on the side. Her favorite authors include H.P. Lovecraft, Rachele Bee, Dean Koontz, and Neil Gaiman, and you can find several of her stories free on r/nosleep.

If you would like early access to exclusive stories you'll never find anywhere else, please consider becoming one of her well-rewarded and beloved patrons at patreon.com/deathbyproxy today, where you can see into the creative process, keep up with project announcements, read tons of creepy stuff every month, and feel great knowing you're supporting an artist doing her art thing and that she personally loves you for it.

Want some fun facts? Here they are!

Fun Fact #1: Edyth is allergic to sunlight, and she finds this "definitely super entertaining and not at all inconvenient, even if never seeing the sun is completely thematic for a horror writer".

Fun Fact #2: Edyth was once "accused" of being a vampire by her optometrist when she was fifteen, because she didn't need eyedrops to dilate her pupils, she was pale as the dickens, and stayed up all hours of the night, preferring to sleep during the day. She could not prove him wrong given his evidence.

Want to read more? Good news!

She is the author of several popular short stories, including the creepypasta "Why Sarah Never Sleeps", "Triskaidekaphobia", "The Witness", "The Fourth Night of Christmas is Full of Regret", and "The Tomb Raider Challenge", and you can find her work in several anthologies, such as "The Monstronomicon", "Horror Stories to Ruin Christmas: Serenity Falls Forever", and the upcoming LGBTQIA+ horror anthology "Black Rainbow".

Bonus Fun Facts:

Bonus Fact #1: Edyth is NOT three raccoons living in "that nice family from Florida".

Bonus Fact #2: Edyth has dyscalculia and once forgot what the number "0" was.

Bonus Fact #3: Edyth is a vegan. A dirty, dirty vegan.

(WARNING: One or more of these facts may not be true.)

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James Marie Parker III (1985 - ) is an author of micro and flash fiction, generally of the horror genre. Getting his start on Reddit, he has been published in several anthologies. His first personal anthology, I Will Reach For The Sun, will release on November 14th, 2019.

When James is not writing, he can be found playing different Trading Card Games, and reading a good story on Reddit.

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