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Paul Tremblay
Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie: A Novel, Another, The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film “Knock at the Cabin.” His next novel, Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep, will be published in summer 2026.
His essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and numerous “year’s best” anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts and has a master’s degree in Mathematics.
Brian Trent
Brian Trent’s science-fiction and dark fantasy has appeared in Escape Pod, ANALOG, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nature, COSMOS, Daily Science Fiction, Galaxy’s Edge, and much more. He blogs at www.briantrent.com. His new dark fantasy series, “Rahotep,” is available for Kindle.
John Trevillian
John is an award-winning British author of the dystopian A-Men trilogy – The A-Men, The A-Men Return and Forever A-Men start with a classic mix of Mad Max and The Matrix – and this is a future with it’s fair share of urban undead and nightmarish storylines. It also contains a pitch for a movie called Nighties of the Living Dead… so there’s much here for the modern horror reader! Available in print, audiobook and ebook formats, the first novel is also downloadable as a free dramatized podcast. Trevillian’s work is informed as much by the roles of magazine editor, technology writer and IT journalist as his training in the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and Native American shamanism. Check out his blog.
He’s also founder of the Talliston House & Gardens project – basically the transformation of an ordinary house into thirteen unique rooms from different times and places in history. Medieval Watchtower living room? Check. Cambodia bamboo treehouse attic? Check. Art Nouveau Scottish haunted bedroom? Check! Take a look for yourself at Talliston House & Gardens.
Eugenia Triantafyllou
Eugenia Triantafyllou is a Greek author and artist. She writes ghost stories. She currently lives in Northern Sweden with a boy and a dog. Her short fiction has appeared in Apex, Strange Horizons, Black Static and other venues. You can find her on Twitter @FoxesandRoses or her website https://eugeniatriantafyllou.wordpress.com.
James Trimarco
You might never realize, if you were not trying to record the audio to a story of about eleven thousand words that takes about an hour and fifteen minutes to read even without mistakes (and oh boy are there plenty!) how constantly dogs are barking in a place like, say, St. Petersburg, Florida. If you want an idea, well, check out next week’s story on podcastle. Or, I’m not sure if it’s going up next week. But if you listen carefully to the one I recorded, you occasionally hear dogs barking.
That reminds me of this story about a guy named Carl Weismann who was out recording bird songs for Danish State Radio. On every tape, he found himself chopping out the barking dogs. (Hmm, is that because stupid dogs are always barking, Carl?). Anyway, at the end he had this bowl of tape fragments big enough to be make-believe chips at a big party. So he started checking the pitch of each bark. Soon he found that he could arrange the individual barks to form a song. And thus, the immortal barking dogs “Pop Goes the Weasel” was born. Click here to hear them sing what appears to be “Reading and Writing and ‘Rythmatic.”
I would do that. But I’d have the dogs sing “Tainted Love” and the St. Pete dogs don’t really sing on key.
Mary A. Turzillo
After a career as a professor of English at Kent State University, Dr. Mary A. Turzillo is now a full-time writer. In 2000, her story “Mars Is No Place for Children” won SFWA’s Nebula award for best novelette. Her novel An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl was serialized in Analog in July-Nov 2004. These two works have been selected as recreational reading on the International Space Station.
Mary’s Pushcart-nominated collection of poetry, Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, appeared from VanZeno Press in 2007. Her collaborative book of poetry/art, Dragon Soup, written with Marge Simon, appears from VanZeno in 2008.
Mary’s collection Lovers & Killers, in addition to winning the Elgin Award, was also on the Stoker ballot and contains “The Hidden,” second place winner in the Dwarf Stars award for 2012, plus two Rhysling nominees “Tohuko Tsunami,” “Galatea.”
Joshua Tuttle
Josh is an academic who studies “Spooky literature,” considered broadly. He primarily studies 18th-century Gothic fiction, but has heard that there was good work published after 1800 too—one day his reading will catch up and he’ll find out. (Currently he’s somewhere in 1788, but is gaining rapidly in 1790.) He has a few creative publication credits and has worked for several little magazines, but these days he primarily writes academic essays and academic book reviews, which makes being within tentacle-reach of Pseudopod Towers very important to him. His most recent book review was of Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange, a 2017 monograph by Adam Scovell (review published in Gothic Studies Journal 22.3). His most recent essay (in press) is titled “Dancing in the Ruins: Toward an Affect Narratology of the Spooky.” He’ll tell you where it’s forthcoming once it’s in print.
Josh is also the founder and current eternal Chairman of The Spooky Society. Sometimes he posts meeting notes, Spooky Things he finds interesting, reviews, or generic musings on the Society’s website (www.spookyscarysociety.com). Josh joined the team in 2020, so it must all be his fault. Sorry, guys.