Matt Cardin is a writer, editor, musician, and college professor and administrator living in North Texas. With a Ph.D. in leadership and a master’s degree in religious studies, he focuses frequently on the intersection of religion, horror, art, and creativity. His books include the weird and cosmic horror fiction collections To Rouse Leviathan (2019), described by Thomas Ligotti as “a breviary of gruesome mysteries” that is “a worthy descendant of a distinguished line of supernatural horror”; Dark Awakenings (2010), which Publishers Weekly praised as a “thinking-man’s book of the macabre” with “unusual philosophic depth”; and Divinations of the Deep (2002), which launched the New Century Macabre fiction imprint for Ash-Tree Press. He also wrote the free ebook A Course in Demonic Creativity (2011).  His editorial projects include Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest Fears (2017), Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies (2015), and Mummies around the World: An Encyclopedia of Mummies in Religion, History, and Popular Culture (2014). In 2015 he received a World Fantasy Award nomination for editing Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti. He is also co-editor of the literary horror journal Vastarien. (more…)

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Jeff Carlson was born on the day of the first manned moon landing and narrowly escaped being named Apollo, Armstrong or Rocket.  His father worked for NASA Ames at the time.  His granddad on his mother’s side was a sci fi fan whose library included autographed copies of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy.  Both men were strong, early influences — and in the high tech 21st Century, it’s easy to stand with one foot in reality and the other in thriller novels.

Jeff is the international bestselling author of Plague Year, Interrupt and The Frozen Sky, hailed by Publishers Weekly as “Pulse pounding.”

To date, his writing has sold in seventeen languages worldwide.  Jeff’s novels have been translated into Czech, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian and Turkish.  His short stories and nonfiction have also appeared in most of those languages as well as Esperanto, Estonian, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish and Portuguese.

He lives with his wife and sons in California.

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Siobhan Carroll is a Canadian author whose short stories have appeared in venues like Lightspeed and Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year anthologies. A scholar as well as a writer of speculative fiction, she typically uses the fantastic to explore dark histories of empire and the environment. Her novelette “For He Can Creep” was recently adapted as an episode of SO4 of Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots. You can read more on her website at http://voncarr-siobhan-carroll.blogspot.com/ .

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Chris Lewis Carter is an award-winning screenwriter and author who has been featured in dozens of publications, ranging from high school Language Arts textbooks to Stoker-nominated fiction collections. His horror short film, House Hunting, was named an Official Selection at both the 2015 Hollyshorts and Sunscreen Film Festivals.

He lives in Newfoundland, Canada, with his wife, three cats, a stubborn Shar-Pei, and a lazy Greyhound.

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Scott William Carter’s first novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, was hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “touching and impressive debut” and won an Oregon Book Award. Since then, he has published many books and short stories, his fiction spanning a wide variety of genres and styles. His book for younger readers, Wooden Bones, chronicles the untold story of Pinocchio and was singled out for praise by the Junior Library Guild. He is also the author of the popular Garrison Gage mystery seriesset on the Oregon coast, as well as the provocative Myron Vale Investigations, about the private investigator in Portland, Oregon who works for both the living and the dead.  (more…)

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Jay Caselberg is an Australian science fiction writer. He has also used the name ‘James Hartley’ for some of his short fiction. His four novels to date are the Jack Stein series, comprising Wyrmhole, Metal Sky, The Star Tablet and Wall of Mirrors, published 2003-2006 by Roc Books. Subsequent works appeared mostly in the small press comprising “Empties”, “The Jackal Dreaming” as J.A Caselberg, “The Memory Box” and “Breath” as Jackson Creed. His short fiction continues to appear in many anthologies and magazines.

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Rachel grew up running wild on horseback in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. As a result, she can’t ride a bicycle to save her life. She likes airplanes, cave diving, and technology.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pseudopod, Dark Moon Digest, The Molotov Cocktail (Pushcart nominated), and others.

She currently lives on Salt Spring Island, B.C., with two yellow dogs of questionable provenance.

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Mort Castle has three times been Guest of Honor at the World Horror Convention, has had multiple nominations for the Bram Stoker Award and the Pushcart Prize, and was cited as one of “21 Leaders in the Arts for the 21st Century in Chicago” by the Star/Sun-Times Newspaper Group. He won the Readers’ Choice Black Quill Award for Best Non-Fiction Work for editing ON WRITING HORROR (2007) and the collection, Ksicyc na Wodzie (MOON ON THE WATER) was considered one of the “Best Books Published in Poland” in 2008. The hardbound edition of J. N. Williamson’s MASQUES, Mort Castle Editorial Director, presenting horror stories in comics format, is available from Checker Book Publishing Group.

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