DARREN O. GODFREY hails from southeast Idaho. His stories have appeared in, among other things, THE MUSEUM OF HORRORS, BORDERLANDS 2, BORDERLANDS 5, Gorezone Magazine (the old sister publication of Fangoria), Black October Magazine, and QUIETLY NOW: An Anthology in Tribute to Charles L. Grant. His story “Recess” has been selected for Mort Castle’s ALL-AMERICAN HORROR OF THE 21ST CENTURY: THE 1ST DECADE. Meanwhile, he’s finishing up a novel he started 20 years ago.
Ken Goldman, former teacher of English and Film Studies at Philadelphia’s George Washington High School, is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association. He has homes on the Main Line in Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore depending upon his mood and the track of the sun. His stories appear in over 620 independent press publications in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia with over twenty due for publication in 2012. Since 1993 Ken’s tales have received seven honorable mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. He has written two books : his book of short stories, “You Had Me At ARRGH!! : Five Uneasy Pieces by Ken Goldman” (Sam’s Dot Publishers), and “a novella, “Desiree” (Damnation books, available in downloadable eBook; print and Kindle editions are available at Amazon.com). Ken would be famous except for the fact nobody seems to know who he is, but he looks forward to the day when he and Stephen King are called to the dais and someone asks “Who is that guy standing next to Ken Goldman?”
Cynthia Gómez writes horror and other types of speculative fiction, set primarily in Oakland, where she makes her home. She has a particular love for themes of revenge, retribution, and resistance to oppression, and she loves to write dark and frightening things while cuddling with her shadow, aka her adorable little dog. Her work has appeared or will appear in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Luna Station Quarterly, Nightmare Magazine, and numerous anthologies. The Nightmare Box and Other Stories, her first collection, was released from Cursed Morsels Press in July 2024. You can find more of her work at cynthiasaysboo.wordpress.com.
Your reader – Robert A.K. Gonyo – is a voiceover artist residing in Queens, New York; when he’s not at the mic, he’s directing, acting, or playing music in New York’s off-off-Broadway theatre community. He produces and hosts a podcast on off-off-Broadway, Go See a Show!, available on the web and on iTunes. You can follow his work, and contact him for voiceover gigs, at ROBERT GONYO.com.
Pine Gonzalez is a Puerto Rican/Chinese American writer and voice actor from the Chicagoland area. They are the creator of the podcasts Tales from the Fringes of Reality and Forged Bonds, both of which also feature their voice. When not writing or working at a bookstore they can be found listening to as many audio dramas as they are able to and playing with their dog Athena.
In 2025, Ian’s recordings of two Robert E. Howard stories were nominated for an artistic achievement award courtesy of the Robert E. Howard Foundation.
Sam Gorenstein is a writer, journalist, and comic from the Albany, New York area. He’s a member of the improvisational theater company MopCo, and a regular at the Lark Tavern Comedy Open Mic, Mondays at 8 PM in Albany.