Misty Dawn describes herself as part warrior and part pacifist, owing to her Comanche and Cherokee heritage. She credits her mother with encouraging her two greatest loves: music and horror, and H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King with teaching her to embrace the darkest corners of her imagination, and to coax those things living within to come out and play.

She hopes to create a YouTube channel and is working on redesigning her blog, Deadtime Musings, from Dusk to Misty Dawn, to include short stories of horror, both real and imagined as well as poetry and lyrics, also of a dark nature. A Navy brat who grew up abroad, she settled in San Francisco, attending UC Berkeley, where she received a BA in Drama/Communications.

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From her website:

I’ve been writing professionally for 24 years, with over 7,000 articles, poems, and short stories published, and 15 nonfiction books in print. Over the years, I’ve been in contact with some young and beginning writers that seem to believe that they’d already screwed themselves out of becoming “real” writers because of some of the choices that they’ve made. Hence, the impetus for this blog: to showcase all my own stupid mistakes that still somehow led me to being the professional writer, educator, wife and mother I am today. It’s not about connections, or education, or who your family happens to be–all you really need to be a writer is bloody-knuckled persistence. Oh, yeah, and the Armageddon blog is about all the stupid little things I do when I’m not writing.

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Julie C. Day is an author and both publisher and editor-in-chief at Essential Dreams Press. As an editor and publisher in the last few years she has released the anthologies Weird Dream Society and Dreams for a Broken World. Right now she is hard at work on what is very much another passion project, Storyteller: A Tanith Lee tribute anthology which is currently live on Kickstarter.

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Sarah Day lives in the SF Bay Area with her cat and a large collection of LED lights. Her interests include creature films, festival culture, and doing things on purpose.  Find her online at sarahday.org or @scribblingfox.

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EMILE DAYNE started writing in 2010, started getting published with indie presses in 2011. His two pen-names from that period are Harry Kane and Edward Keller. The books are SOUND OF THE DISTANT OCEANS, BRAIN STORM, SHUDDER, PLANETFALL ON ALBAID, and AUTUMN MAGIC PLAYGROUND SKY. His short fiction has been published by the likes of Phantasmacore, Gothic City Press and Encounters Magazine.

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Walter John de la Mare OM CH (/?d?l??m??r/; 25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was a British poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem “The Listeners”, and for a highly acclaimed selection of subtle psychological horror stories, amongst them “Seaton’s Aunt” and “All Hallows”.

His 1921 novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children’s books.

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Dirck de Lint lives in Saskatchewan with his wife, his son, and a dwindling supply of cats. In addition to writing and dealing with demands of a low-level office job, he is a hemi-demi-professional repairer of vintage fountain pens. He spent most of 2017 battering away at Impossible Bodies, a supernatural detective novel (with no vampires or werewolves in it), which may well be done before the sun swells into a red giant. Dirck’s writing has appeared previously online in issue seven of Trigger Warning: Short Fiction with Pictures, and can be found in plenty at his own site, dirckwrites.wordpress.com.

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