William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the macabre and horror genres. Among his best-known stories are the powerful precognition tale “August Heat” (1910), and “The Beast with Five Fingers” (adapted for film in 1946 with Peter Lorre). In World War I he initially joined the Friends’ Ambulance Unit, but later served as a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and received the Albert Medal for Lifesaving. He received lung damage during a rescue operation, damage which troubled him for the rest of his life. He wrote his memoir, We Were Seven, in 1936. From the late 1920s to the early 1930s he lived in Switzerland with his wife, but nostalgia for his home country caused his return to England, dying in Letchworth in 1937 at the age of 52.

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Maria Haskins (she/her) is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She grew up in Sweden and debuted as a writer there and currently lives just outside Vancouver with her family, including several noisy birds, a snake, and a large black dog. Maria’s short fiction is available in her short story collections SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN and WOLVES AND GIRLS. Maria’s work has also appeared in The Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare, Lightspeed, The Deadlands, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cast of Wonders, PseudoPod, Escape Pod, Podcastle, and elsewhere. Find out more on her website mariahaskins.com.

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“Ice” came to me from a lot of places.

I was rifling through the school library one day and I came across a little leaflet published by August Derleth that was basically the transcription of a panel discussion he’d moderated at some convention back in the 60’s. It was a bunch of fantasy/sci-fi authors talking about Lovecraft’s work, how it had influenced them, what they’d thought of playing around in his world, and so forth. The only author whose name I remember was Fritz Leiber.  (more…)

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Barry Haworth holds a Masters degree in Statistics and works as a statistician. Outside of work he is a keen reader of science fiction and enjoys choral singing and taking part in amateur theatricals, having performed such roles as Prospero in The Tempest, Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, and Ebenezer Scrooge and Marley’s Ghost in two different versions of A Christmas Carol.

Barry has narrated episodes of Cast of Wonders, Escape Pod, Pod Castle and also the Cheap Astronomy podcast. He lives in Brisbane, Australia with his wife Sylvia, those of his children who haven’t left home yet, and whatever the current quota of pets is.

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J.C. Hay is an SFR Galaxy Award-winning author of Science Fiction Romance, a proud member of Romance Writers of America; the Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal genre chapter; and the SFR Brigade (for fans and writers of Science Fiction Romance). He lives, writes, and knits in an outpost on the edge of habitable space, also known as the Northwest, and is a proud defender of the Oxford comma.

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For Kevin M. Hayes, involvement in science fiction, fantasy and horror began at a very young age as an insatiable reader.  Eventually he grew from passive reader to active participation as a writer. He became involved with Parsec, the SF/F/H organization in Western Pennsylvania and had his first story, “Rumpled Bedfellows” published in a fan produced anthology called “Six from Parsec.” (it’s still available if you ask nicely) Then his story, “The Thithshtach Diner” won the Parsec Short Story Contest in 2001 He went on to sell it to an e-zine called “Speculon.” He’s been published in Parsec INK’s first two Triangulation anthologies in 2003 and 2004 and even had clean limericks in a chap book. He’s had stories in “The Realm Beyond” and “TV Gods” both from Fortress Publishing and also a story in WorD Publishing’s first anthology: “Knee Deep in Little Devils.”  He’s working on another anthology for WorD called “Beer, Because Your Friends Aren’t That Interesting” and he has co-moderated the WorD writing and critique group for over ten years. He is deeply involved with Parsec and the Pittsburgh science fiction community on many levels. It isn’t clear how Kevin became involved with PseudoPod, EscapePod, PodCastle and Cast of Wonders, but when he found them, he knew he wanted to narrate stories, as well as write, and has had the good fortune to have done it for over eight years. 

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Rosemary Hayes is an Australian writer who has had over 550 short stories published in magazines around the world including Australia, the UK, America, South Africa, Sweden and Norway. Her first horror/supernatural thriller ebook Evil Lives is available at your favorite booksellers under the byline R.M. Hayes. She loves writing stories of all genres including thriller, crime, mystery and supernatural. Most of these could be classed as ‘tame’ but occasionally stories that are darker and grittier find their way to the page, such as “The Boy Who Killed His Mother.”

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Matt Haynes is the artistic director of The Pulp Stage Theatre company in Portland, Oregon. This January, the company will be premiering BOX: A Live Science Fiction Trilogy co-authored by Matt and acclaimed speculative fiction writer Tina Connolly. You can learn more about the show and its current fundraising campaign at The Pulp Stage.

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