H.J. Dutton is a 25-year-old Pennsylvania resident and recent graduate of University College Cork’s Creative Writing MA program. His interest in the horror genre began when he picked up a copy of Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures at the elementary school library. Since then, that interest has bloomed into an obsession. When not planning, writing, editing, or submitting drafts, he reads short story collections or goes on hikes. His biggest influences include MR James, Algernon Blackwood, Ramsey Campbell, and Brian Evenson. His first published short story will be featured in Exhibit 3 of the Horror Scribes archive.  He joined the team in 2025.

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Dan has been a professional television writer on a number of shows, plus producing Criminal Minds.

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Sean Eads is a writer living in Denver, CO. Originally from Kentucky, he works as a reference librarian.

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Alex Ebenstein is a maker of maps by day, writer of horror fiction by night. He lives with his family in Michigan. His published novellas include Curse Corvus (2023), Melon Head Mayhem (Shortwave Publishing, 2023), and Reanimated Rex (2024). He is also the editor of the SPLIT SCREAM series, published by Tenebrous Press. Find him on social media @AlexEbenstein

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Bob Eccles is a Parking Enforcement Officer with the University of Michigan Police Department. He served in the U.S. Army Military Police, and is a 30-year radio broadcasting veteran. Bob has previously appeared on our sister podcast, PodCastle.  Bob has also written a few short horror stories of his own. He’s a member of the Horror Writers Association, the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers, and The Fictioneers.

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Clifford Martin Eddy Jr. (1896-1967) wrote for a broad range of pulp fiction magazines such as Weird Tales, Munsey’s Magazine, and Snappy Stories.  Clifford and Howie were introduced by Eddy’s and Lovecraft’s mothers,who were both active in the women’s suffrage movement. They became friends and collaborators and both authors were also investigators for Harry Houdini and served the magician as ghostwriters. Eddy was also a theatrical booking agent for 25 years, and later was a proofreader for Oxford Press.

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Scott Edelman has published more than 85 short stories in magazines such as Analog, The Twilight Zone, Postscripts, Absolute Magnitude, Science Fiction Review and Fantasy Book, and in anthologies such as You, Human, The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Crossroads, MetaHorror, Once Upon a Galaxy, Moon Shots, Mars Probes, Forbidden Planets. His poetry has appeared in Asimov’s, Amazing, Dreams and Nightmares, and others.

What Will Come After, a collection of his zombie fiction, and What We Still Talk About, a collection of his science fiction stories, were both published in 2010. He has been a Stoker Award finalist seven times, in the categories of both Short Story and Long Fiction. Additionally, What Will Come After was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award.

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Your reader – Branan Edgens — is a filmmaker living in New York City. He’s currently producing a documentary on Hmong (pronounced Mong) folk-singing and gearing up for his first feature film, SALAX (pronounced Say-lax) a horror/drama in the vampire genre. When not working he can be found somewhere in the woods building a cabin, if you can find him. You can’t. Check out Genetic Films.

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