Mat Weller is the servant to a lovely family in eastern Pennsylvania. After his wife and kids go to sleep at night, he sometimes re-watches old episodes of X-Files on Netflix and other times retires to his basement booth where he records noises that get played on the Internet. Rumor has it he also makes delightful chocolate chip cookies.

Oh, and in October 2014, he beat Metroid II for the first time since 1991.

Mat had the honor of producing for Escape Pod from 2010 to 2016. He is also a graphic designer, an amateur voice actor, an amateur father, and he narrates a growing catalog of books for ACX

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Heather Welliver is an Emmy Award nominated narrator and voice actress whose past credits include A.D.D.Cast and Grailwolf’s Geek Life.

She has been part of the Escape Artists family of narrators since 2007.

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Manly Wade Wellman’s science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown and Strange Stories, Wellman is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary Weird Tales, and for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, which draw on the native folklore of that region. Karl Edward Wagner referred to him as “the dean of fantasy writers.” Wellman also wrote in a wide variety of other genres, including historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction.

Wellman was a long-time resident of North Carolina. He received many awards, including the World Fantasy Award and Edgar Allan Poe Award. In 2013, the North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation inaugurated an award named after him to honor other North Carolina authors of science fiction and fantasy.

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Amy Catherine “Jane” Wells (née Robbins) (1872-1927) was a versatile artist and writer. Her husband, H.G. Wells, collected her fiction into THE BOOK OF CATHERINE WELLS in 1928, following her untimely death at age 55 the year before. She is known to have written at least two genre works, this story another called “Fear.”

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Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, the Ile-Rien series, The Murderbot Diaries series, and other fantasy novels, most recently Witch King (Tordotcom, 2023). She has also written media tie-in fiction for Star Wars, Stargate: Atlantis, and Magic: the Gathering, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and non-fiction. She has won Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, an Alex Award, and a Dragon Award, and her work has appeared on the World Fantasy Award ballot, the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the BSFA Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, the Sunday Times Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. She is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and her books have been published in thirty languages.She is also a consulting producer on the Murderbot series for Apple TV+.

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Thomas Welsh lives in Glasgow, Scotland and has written fiction for two years now. His first novel Anna Undreaming – the first part of the Metiks Fade fantasy trilogy – will be released in January 2018. You can find out more about his published short fiction and prize winning short stories on his website, CalmDownTom.com.

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Alex’s work has appeared in The Toronto Star, Rue Morgue, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and Shock Till You Drop. Her writing has also been published in The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro: Critical Essays, Art of the Title and Offscreen Film Journal.  She has lectured on theatre and film in schools in Ontario, Québec and Cambridge, Massachusetts, including two lectures as part of The Black Museum lecture series: “Ghosts in the Machine: The Evolution of Found Footage Horror“ (2013) and “Quelle Horreur: The Films of New French Extremity“ (2014).

Alexandra’s first book, Films of New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity, is available through McFarland. Her upcoming book The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and New Hollywood Formula is also available via McFarland for pre-order.

Alex is co-host and marketing maven for The Faculty of Horror, keeping our followers up to speed through our social media outlets. You can find her on Twitter.

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B.J. West is a writer, filmmaker and graphic artist, and has worked on some of the best-selling computer games of all time including The Sims, SimCity 3000, The Sims Online and The Sims 2.

He was the editor of “Fog City Nocturne,” an anthology of original detective fiction (Apocryphile Press), as well as contributing two novella length stories to the book.

He has written numerous screenplays, including his adaptation of Keoni Chavez’s short story “The Smiling Man,” which he produced and directed as a short film in 2007.

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