Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937) was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories which used the supernatural and the bizarre and excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. He was an obsessive reader of Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant, and was attracted to topics covering the most intriguing aspects of nature, often tinged with horror, disease, insanity and human suffering. Many of his stories belong to this movement, embodied in his work Tales of Love, Madness and Death. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar. He committed suicide, due to the extreme pain of advanced prostate cancer, by drinking cyanide in 1937.

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R.J. Gerard is a sci-fi writer and journalist who was born in Virginia. He currently lives in Taiwan with his wife, two cats, and a very overworked coffee machine.

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Dan Rabarts is the author of the grimdark-steampunk-madcap fantasy novel Brothers of the Knife, first in the Children of Bane series, and co-authors the supernatural tech-noir crime thriller series The Path of Ra with Lee Murray. He narrates stories for Tales to Terrify and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and hides on the web at dan.rabarts.com.

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Dom is an artist living in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is the creator of Dom’s Sketch Cast, a show that runs on YouTube. DSC features interviews with creative individuals, animations, and other experimental art videos: youtube.com/generaldom.

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Kaitie Radel is a music education student and aspiring voice actress, has been voice acting as a hobby for two years. She has participated as both a VA and administrator in several fan projects such as The Homestuck Musical Project and Ava’s Melodies. She can be contacted at kaitlynradel at mail.usf.edu.

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Michael M. Rader is an electrical engineer and busy father who writes horror and science fiction stories in the slivers of time found between those responsibilities. His other works can be found in Fiction Vortex magazine and World Weaver Press’ Corvidae anthology.

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Taylor Rae is a recently-reformed mountain troll who is trying out city living. She holds her Bachelor’s degrees in psychology and English literature from the University of Idaho. Her work has appeared in Flash Fiction Online, Press 53, and the anthology Upon a Twice Time.

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Cat Rambo writes and edits in the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent book is NEAR + FAR, science fiction stories, from Hydra House. Listeners are invited to check out THE WORLD REMAINS MYSTERIOUS.

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