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.
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.
Shannon Celebi: writer, mother and superhero extraordinaire. Shannon has the power to alter time, create new realities, turn water into wine, and bring peace to warring nations…all while cooking dinner, cleaning the house, and receiving accolades as “Mother of the Year” from her mostly-grateful 17 year old son.
Shannon is a magnificent multi-tasker; while working on the sequel to her novel, Everywhere That Mary Went, she acts as Chief Editor and Marketing Director for an online publishing firm in Ashland, Oregon.
Jonathan M. Chaffin is the designer and writer behind the Cthulhu tiki mug and other horror-themed barware collections from Horror In Clay; each object has a backstory and contributes to a narrative for the collection. He also co-owns Mug Crate, the quarterly tiki mug subscription box, has narrated and designed for Pseudopod, and frequently speaks on all things tiki, horror, crowdfunding, and pop culture at events like DragonCon and Anachrocon. He also writes horror movie reviews for The Collinsport Historical Society from time to time.
Jonathan also designed the original identity work for Pseudopod.org and Escape Artists as well as several t-shirts and ads. With his wife Allison he briefly managed PodDisk.
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS (1865 – 1933) was an American artist and writer. He studied art in Paris and sold illustrations to “Life”, “Truth”, and “Vogue” magazine. His first novel, IN THE QUARTER (1887) was influenced by the Decadent writers and in 1895 he published THE KING IN YELLOW, a collection of Art Nouveau short stories. This included several famous weird short stories which are connected by the theme of a fictitious drama, “The King in Yellow”, which drives those who read it insane. E. F. Bleiler described THE KING IN YELLOW as one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction and it was also strongly admired by H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. A later story, “The Maker of Moons” from 1896, features a U.S. Government department dedicated to battling the titular supernatural menace and presages much of the action and Yellow Peril threats of the later pulp magazines. Chambers eventually moved into a successful – and more remunerative – career writing romance fiction.
The King in Yellow and In Search of the Unknown are available at Gutenberg for free download.
For more related stories inspired by his work, follow these tags: Robert W. Chambers; King in Yellow
Selena Chambers’ fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a variety of venues including Clarkesworld, The Non-Binary Review, Tor.com, Literary Hub, and Luna Luna Magazine. Her work has been nominated for Pushcart, Best of the Net, the Hugo, two World Fantasy awards, as well as a Colorado Book Award for Mechanical Animals, which she co-edited with Jason Heller for Hex Publishing. “Dr. Lambshead’s Dark Room” can be found in her debut story collection, Calls for Submission (Pelekinesis). To learn more about Selena, you can find her either on Twitter and IG as @BasBleuZombie, via her Tinyletter or on her website.
Eliza Chan is a writer and occasional narrator of speculative fiction. It amuses her endlessly that people find her Scottish accent soothing. Her #1 Sunday Times bestselling debut novel FATHOMFOLK and sequel TIDEBORN— inspired by mythology, East and Southeast Asian cities and diaspora feels — are out now from Orbit. Her short fiction has been published in The Dark, Podcastle, Fantasy Magazine and The Best of British Fantasy. When not working on her current novel or reading, Eliza can be found boardgaming, watching anime, toddler wrangling and dabbling in crafts.
Find her on instagram @elizachanwrites or on her website www.elizachan.co.uk.
DIXON CHANCE is the “just for the joy of it” pseudonym of David Ellis Dickerson, a regular contributor to “This American Life” and other public radio shows, and the author of the memoir HOUSE OF CARDS (Riverhead 2009) about my career as a writer at Hallmark. My work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Gettysburg Review, and Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.