I beseech Nothoth Yamon, denizen of abyssal pylons
Lift upon wings of fire the Worm to an invisible throne in the sky
Usher forth the age of Xethogga
Uuah! Uuah-Xethogga!
It is done!
C. Deskin Rink has appeared on Pseudopod with episode #186 – Ankor Sabat. A sequel to it, “The High Priest”, appeared as episode #35 of the Cast Macabre podcast. He has a story, “Kingdom of Sorrow,” in the Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations anthology.
Julia Rios (they/them) is a queer, Latinx writer, editor, podcaster, and narrator whose fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in Latin American Literature Today, Lightspeed, and Goblin Fruit, among other places. Their editing work has won multiple awards including the Hugo Award. They’ve narrated stories for Escape Pod, Podcastle, Pseudopod, and Cast of Wonders. Find them at juliarios.com or on Instagram as @zomgjulia
Jason Rizos is a novelist, short story writer and avid homebrewer residing in Portland, Oregon. His first novel, Supercenter, is a social satire about a future hyper-materialistic consumer world where children are raised within sealed retail Megastores and groomed as soldiers via video game training.
Tod Robbins (pen name of Clarence Aaron Robbins (1888–1949)) authored two short story collections and several novels. His work often contains bizarre and frightening plots, sometimes influenced by writers like Oscar Wilde & Robert W. Chambers. His novel The Unholy Three (1917) was twice adapted for the screen, and this story, “Spurs”, was used by Tod Browning as the basis for the film Freaks (1932). Robbins emigrated to the French Riviera from New York City and refused to leave during the Nazi occupation of France. He spent the war in a concentration camp and died in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in 1949.
Ciaran lives in the not-so-wilds of Yorkshire with a very yappy dog. She works as a professional zombie wrangler/producer for a video game company, which is hilarious because she is deathly afraid of zombies. In her free time, she plays video games, embarks on various creative projects (look, she will totally finish a project eventually), and writes fiction. Likes decorating cakes to look like things from whatever piece of media she’s into at the moment.
Morley Roberts (1857 – 1942) was an English novelist and short story writer, best known for The Private Life of Henry Maitland (based on the life of novelist George Gissing). In his youth he traveled extensively and worked in the British war office and other government departments. His first novel, The Western Avernus, was released in 1887, followed by many more, and he also wrote essays, biography, drama and verse, as well as work in biology.
PHILIP M. ROBERTS lives in Nashua, New Hampshire and has been published in a variety of publications, such as the Epitaphs anthology, Midnight Echo, and The Horrorzine. A full anthology of Philip’s short stories entitled PASSING THROUGH can be found on the Amazon kindle store. More information on his works can be found at The Writing Of Philip M. Roberts.
But his parents moved him at a young and tender age to Texas. Tragedy averted, he was now free to delve the dark, twisted canyons of the human heart without feeling the need to apologize for what he found there.