Michael J. DeLuca attended the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2005, helps run the indie ebook site Weightless Books, has volunteered at Small Beer Press for longer than he cares to admit, and is a member of the Homeless Moon writers’ cabal. His short stories have appeared in Interfictions, Apex, Clockwork Phoenix and The Future Fire. If you like this story, you might try his series of centaur westerns, which are similarly Classics-infused and brutal, and can be found in the archives (some in audio form) at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Also check out Literary Beer at the Small Beer website and his profile at Writertopia for a list of previous work.

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Kristi DeMeester is the author of Beneath, a novel published by Word Horde Publications, and Everything That’s Underneath, a short fiction collection from Apex Books. Her short fiction has appeared in approximately forty magazines, including Ellen Datlow’s The Year’s Best Horror Volume 9 and 11, Stephen Jones’ Best New Horror, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volumes 1, 3, and 5 in addition to publications such as Pseudopod, Black Static, Fairy Tale Review, and several others. In her spare time, she alternates between telling people how to pronounce her last name and how to spell her first. Find her online at www.kristidemeester.com.

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S.L. Dennis was an English writer active in the early 20th century who is best known for The Second Awakening of a Magician, which was also published in the 1931 anthology, ‘Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, 2nd Series,’ edited by famous writer of detective fiction, Dorothy L. Sayers.

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August William Derleth was born in 1909 in Sauk City, Wisconsin, where he spent most of his life. He sold his first story to Weird Tales at the age of seventeen, in 1926, and contributed prolifically to that pulp magazine for much of its run. Also in 1926, he came into contact with H. P. Lovecraft, whose influence upon his work would be decisive. Corresponding prolifically with Lovecraft, he became acquainted with many of Lovecraft’s colleagues, including Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. After Lovecraft’s death in 1937, Derleth and Wandrei established the publishing firm of Arkham House to issue Lovecraft’s tales in hardcover; Arkham House would become the most prestigious small-press publisher of supernatural fiction in the United States. (more…)

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PAUL DesCOMBAZ lives in Saint Paul, MN. “Passing Grade” is his second sale.

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Gabriel Diani  wrote and starred in the award-winning supernatural comedy feature film THE SELLING and created THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN [Robotic Edition]. He is currently prepping a Kickstarter campaign for his second feature film called DIANI & DEVINE MEET THE APOCALYPSE.

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H.B. Diaz is a gothic mystery and horror writer whose short stories have appeared in publications from Flame Tree Press, Ghost Orchid Press, Horror Tree, and others. She is the author of Nocturne: A Collection of Dark Tales, and her gothic romance novel, The Ghost of Ravenswood Hall, is forthcoming from publisher Literary Wanderlust. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association, and lives with her family in a historic (and likely haunted) town on America’s eastern coast.

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