Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – circa 1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil’s Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto “Nothing matters”, and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work, all earned him the nickname “Bitter Bierce”.

Despite his reputation as a searing critic, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including the poets George Sterling and Herman George Scheffauer and the fiction writer W. C. Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially in his stories. His style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, impossible events, and the theme of war.

In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He was rumored to be traveling with rebel troops, and was not seen again.

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Jim Bihyeh is the author of a story collection called Coyote Tales, several of which have been featured on Pseudopod. He is a non-fiction writer for publications like The Navajo Times, Arizona Highways, and High Country News. Jim grew up on the Navajo reservation, and returns there regularly to do work as an oral historian.

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Seán Padraic Birnie is a writer and photographer from Brighton, England. His debut collection of short stories, I WOULD HAUNT YOU IF I COULD, was published by Undertow Publications in 2021. His fiction has appeared in venues such as Black Static, Litro, BFS Horizons, and Shadows & Tall Trees, and his scholarly articles on photography, writing and ghosts have featured in journals such as Photographies and Critical Studies. His research concerns writing, photographic communications technology and its offshoots, and horror. For more info, see seanbirnie.com and @seanbirnie on Twitter.

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Peter Bishop is a British national and a native Londoner. He’s lived in New York (Long Island) since the mid-90’s. He is able to record your project in his own professional studio, or if required, he can easily travel to a designated studio in the New York metropolitan area.

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Her work centers around creating compelling stories though photography and fiction. As a photographer for Philadelphia Weekly, J.R. regularly attends events around the Philadelphia area. In 2013, she documented 24 hours in the city, staying awake for that time and capturing photos from around the city, including dawn over the Ben Franklin Bridge, the aftermath of a concert on South Street and a burning parking kiosk. She has photographed authors, dancers, politicians, drag queens and monsters. J.R. has produced the covers to the novels Playing for Keeps, The Case of the Singing Sword, The Case of the Pitchers Pendant. Her photography ranges from the journalistic to the fantastical, but all of her images aim to tell stories to the viewer.

At the age of 24, J.R. founded 365 Tomorrows, a group flash fiction website dedicated to producing a new piece of science fiction daily. It continues that mandate to this day.  J.R. wrote the zombie survival game called Shelter In Place, which won a Judge’s Choice ENnie award in 2012.  Her essay “Evidence of a Baker” was published in the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in March 2006. Her stories have been published by Escape Pod Magazine, Aoife’s Kiss, Kaleidotrope, Bewildering Stories, Static Movement Magazine, EMG Magazine, HeavyGlow Magazine and in the first Podiobook anthology “Voices: New Media Fiction”.  Her board game, Velociraptor! Cannibalism!, raised over $43,000 on Kickstarter and is published by Game Salute. J.R. was a founder of the Voices of Tomorrow podcast, along with Jared Axelrod.

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Laura Blackwell is a Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer of speculative fiction that usually turns out to be horror. Her stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Nightmare, CatsCast, Chiral Mad 5, and Shirley Jackson Award-winner Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic. She is copy editor for The Deadlands, and she and Daniel Marcus cohost the online reading series Story Hour.

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Lisa Blackwell-Dickinson is a mother, artist and hugger of trees and creatures, based in Essex in the UK. Lisa specialises in pyrography, that is, burning designs into wood. She makes all kinds of things from the purely decorative to perfectly practical boxes. Look her up under the name Unseen Crafts in various places.

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ALGERNON HENRY BLACKWOOD, CBE (1869–1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. He was born in Shooter’s Hill, Kent, England and, after schooling in Europe, Blackwood’s father sent him to Canada in 1887 on business. (more…)

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