ELLIOTT O’DONNELL (1872-1965) preceded, in the popular consciousness, the more familiar Harry Price as one of the most widely read figures purporting to be a ghost-hunter and investigator into the unknown. Born in Bristol, O’Donnell claimed an encounter at age 5 with an “elemental spirit”, as well as his family line being cursed by a Banshee, as prerequisites for his lifelong interest in the paranormal. On graduating The Queen’s Service Academy (where he claimed to have wrestled a spectral strangler), he went to America, where he lived as a rancher in Oregon, worked as a policeman in Chicago during the great railroad strikes and also claimed to have been a journalist in San Francisco and New York, all while collecting tales of ghosts in the New World, finally returning to England in 1900 to work as a schoolmaster and traveling actor. (more…)

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Mallory is an author, screenwriter and a film producer for Dark Dunes Productions.

Along with freelance screenwriting and film projects, her latest production is the feature film Yamasong – March of the Hollows, in theaters February 2019.

Whether it’s for the screen or the page, Mallory seeks creative projects filled with horror and monsters. She lives in Los Angeles.

Mallory hosts the literary podcast Reading Glasses alongside filmmaker and actress Brea Grant. The weekly show is hosted by Maximum Fun and focuses on book culture and reader life.

Her first book, The Lady From The Black Lagoon, the chronicle of Mallory’s search for and a biography of Milicent Patrick, is being published by Hanover Square Press on March 5th, 2019. Mallory is represented by Brady McReynolds at JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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Xander M. Odell lives in Washington state with their husband, sons, and an Albanian miniature moose disguised as a dog. Their work has appeared in such venues as Crossed Genres, Daily Science Fiction, PseudoPod, Cast of Wonders, and PodCastle. They are a Clarion West 2010 graduate, and an active member of the SFWA.

Their collection of speculative fiction holiday stories, THE TWELVE WAYS OF CHRISTMAS, and debut short story collection GODFALL & OTHER STORIES are available from Hydra House Books.

Support them on Patreon at: http://patreon.com/writerodell

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Ms. L’Erin Ogle is a writer, mother, and ER nurse living in Lawrence, Kansas. She has recent stories at Daily Science Fiction, Metaphorosis, and Syntax & Salt. Her website is lerinogle.com.

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Opie is a lover of interesting stories. When she’s not reading, she’s usually looking for other ways to satisfy her artistic cravings.

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Tobi Ogundiran is a British Science Fiction Association, Shirley Jackson, and Nommo award nominated author whose dark and fantastical tales have appeared in venues such as Lightspeed, Podcastle, The Dark, Tor.com amongst others. Find him at tobiogundiran.com and @tobi_thedreamer on Twitter.

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Anthony Oliveira is a National Magazine, Reads Rainbow, and GLAAD award-winning author, film programmer, pop culture critic, and PhD living in Toronto. His first novel, Dayspring, is forthcoming from Strange Light Press in 2023. He can be found on Twitter at @meakoopa, where he tweets about the arts, politics, and LGBT culture, or on his podcast, The Devil’s Party, as he reads through the classics of Christian literature through a queer scholarly lens.

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REGGIE OLIVER is an actor playwright and theater director, as well as being the author of two novels, a biography and six volumes of “strange” stories, of which the latest is FLOWERS OF THE SEA. His fifth collection, MRS. MIDNIGHT, won the Children of the Night Award 2012 for “best work of supernatural fiction”. Four of Reggie’s collections, all illustrated by the him, are available from Tartarus Press.

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