William Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; as well as his As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). His short story “A Rose for Emily” was his first story published in a major magazine, the Forum, in 1930.

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Kurt Fawver is a Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer of horror, weird fiction, and literature that oozes through the cracks of genre. His stories have been previously published in venues such as Nightmare, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Vastarien, Best New Horror, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. His short story collections include Forever, in Pieces, The Dissolution of Small Worlds, and the forthcoming We are Happy, We are Doomed. He lives in northeast Ohio and teaches college courses in writing.

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Mark is a writer living in the DFW Metroplex of Texas. He was born with a congenital mood defect, but neurolinguistic shamans from Zeta Tau taught him special writing techniques to help compensate for his hideous deformities of character.

He is rumored to be owned by the goddess of spring from a particularly disreputable pantheon and two cats, with pretensions of godhood.

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Edward “Ed” Ferrara is an American former professional wrestling booker, writer and agent for the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling, often co-working alongside Vince Russo.

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Sam Ferree lives in the Twin Cities where he writes grants for a small nonprofit by day and stories and plays by night. He co-produces Story Club Minneapolis and encourages performance story tellers to come check out the show and share.

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Dan Fields is a writer and musician from Houston, Texas. He has published over two dozen stories with the likes of Hellbound Books, Novel Noctule, Sanitarium, Nocturnal Transmissions and more.  He has released his first full-length story collection, Under Worlds, After Lives and is available at all fine book sellers. 

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Though she was born in London, England, Gemma Files is a Canadian citizen, and has lived in Toronto, Ontario for her entire life (thus far). She is the daughter of two actors, Gary Files and Elva Mai Hoover. Files graduated from Ryerson University with a B.A.A. in Magazine Journalism, then spent roughly eight years as a film critic, primarily writing for local alt-culture journal eye Weekly. By 1998, she was also teaching screenwriting, short screenplay writing, television series development, film history and Canadian film history, first at the Trebas Institute, then the Toronto Film School. After leaving eye, she taught full-time,  while also publishing two collections of short stories (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart, both from Prime Books) and two chapbooks of poetry (Bent Under Night, a Sinnersphere Production, and Dust Radio, from Kelp Queen Press). In 2002, she married fellow author Stephen J. Barringer. In 2008, the Toronto Film School closed down and Files’ son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. She became a stay-at-home Mom, finally beginning serious work on her long-planned first novel. A Book of Tongues: Volume One in the Hexslinger Series was released in April, 2010, and will be followed by two sequels, A Rope of Thorns (2011) and A Tree of Bones (2012). After being a Stoker finalist twice, she won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Collection for the 2021 book In That Endlessness, Our End (Grimscribe Press).

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PAUL FINCH is a former police officer and journalist turned full-time author. He first cut his professional teeth writing scripts for the British TV cop show, The Bill, but has since branched out into horror, fantasy and thrillers. He has penned numerous short stories and novellas across the genre spectrum. Several of his Dr Who audio scripts have gone to full audio production, two of his screenplays have been made into movies and his last two novels were official best-sellers during 2013. Paul is currently writing the fourth novel in his new cop thriller series from Avon Books (HarperCollins). The first two attained official best seller status in 2013, while the third, THE KILLING CLUB, will be published both in paperback and as an ebook on May 22 this year. Paul is also busy editing the TERROR TALES anthology series from Gray Friar Press, which includes creepy fiction and non-fiction from all corners of the UK – the next two titles due this year are TERROR TALES OF WALES, due for publication in April, and TERROR TALES OF YORKSHIRE, due in September. Full details of these and all other projects can be found on Paul’s official webpageWALKING IN THE DARK.

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