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.
I’m partial to horror that takes place in worlds where weirdness is not something that reveals itself slowly, but instead is an everyday occurrence. But, I also love small, character driven pieces.
Kara Grace is a green witch who lives in Michigan. She adores the Escape Artists, and has been honored to read for them many times over the last decade. She is always open to new adventures or projects. During the day she makes maps, but the rest of the time you are most likely to find her deep in the woods admiring and making friends with bugs and other wildlife, or underwater watching the sunlight filter through the surface. She is an avid gardener and is enamored with herbs and poisonous plants. She enjoys moon rituals, creating herbal medicine, and playing with fire.
Jocelyn Henry Clive ‘Harry’ Graham (1874–1936) was a successful journalist and later, after distinguished military service, a leading lyricist for operettas and musical comedies He is now best remembered as a writer of humorous verse in a style of grotesquerie and black humour.
Brea Grant has written comic books, short films, features and a show on Netflix. She has directed a feature, multiple short films and a series for Instagram. Her work includes directing and co-writing the apocalyptic feature, Best Friends Forever, which was shot in Marfa, Texas on 16 mm film and premiered at Slamdance. She also directed the award-winning and very funny short, Feminist Campfire Stories. She also created and wrote the Nerdist series, The Real Housewives of Horror. Her comic books include We Will Bury You and the Suicide Girls comic.
She hosts the Reading Glasses podcast with Mallory O’Meara.
John Grant is author of some seventy books, of which about twenty-five are fiction, including novels like The World, The Hundredfold Problem, The Far-Enough Window and most recently (2008) The Dragons of Manhattan and Leaving Fortusa. His “book-length fiction” Dragonhenge, illustrated by Bob Eggleton, was shortlisted for a Hugo Award in 2003; its successor was The Stardragons. His first story collection, Take No Prisoners, appeared in 2004. His anthology New Writings in the Fantastic was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award. His novellas The City in These Pages and The Lonely Hunter have recently appeared from PS Publishing. (more…)