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Joel Arnold
Joel Arnold is the author of several novels. His short stories and articles have appeared in dozens of publications, including WEIRD TALES, CHIZINE, AMERICAN ROAD MAGAZINE and Cemetery Dance’s anthology SHIVERS VII. In 2010 he received both a MN Artists Initiative Grant as well as the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Gulliver Travel & Research Grant. (more…)
Matt Arnold
Matt Arnold’s podcasts are The UNSONG Audiobook at unsong.libsyn.com, and Fluidity Audiobooks at fluidity.libsyn.com. He narrates fiction and nonfiction which take problems of meaning-making, typically considered spiritual, and turn them into practical problems, which are more tractable. For 20 years, Matt ran Penguicon, a combination science fiction convention and open source software conference. He now runs the annual Fluidity Forum, which can be found at fluidityforum.org. He is a previous staff member for Escape Artists Inc, having shipped the PodDisc archive CDs from 2008 through 2010.”
J.S. Arquin
J.S. Arquin is an author of Science Fiction and Fantasy as well as a very busy audiobook narrator. He has had the pleasure of narrating over 75 titles and has been a finalist for several awards, including a 2021 Independent Audiobook Award. You can find out more about his writing at arquinworlds.com, or learn more about his narrations at arquinaudiobooks.com.
Robert A. Arthur, Jr.
ROBERT A. ARTHUR, JR. (1909-1969) was born in 1909 at Fort Mills, Corregidor Island, Phillipines and passed away in 1969 in Philadelphia, PA. During his very productive life he was offered scholarships to both West Point and Annapolis, but turned them down to become a writer, his first works appearing in almost all of the pulp magazines being published at the time including “Black Mask” and “The Shadow”. He then moved on to radio scripting with David Kogan and wrote over 500 shows, including creating the program THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER, all while continuing to write short fiction. He wrote for THE TWILIGHT ZONE and was script editor for ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, later becoming the editor of the Alfred Hitchcock paperback series (both the adult and children’s lines). From 1964-1968 he wrote the first ten of the ALFRED HITCHCOCK & THE THREE INVESTIGATORS books about the adventures of a trio of intrepid mystery solvers – a series still popular worldwide. THE THREE INVESTIGATORS series was one of the seminal youthful reading experiences of your editor, Shawn Garrett, who will eternally thank Mr. Arthur for the creation of Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, Bob Andrews and all the residents of Rocky Beach, California and who is extremely proud to be able to present this story to you through the auspices of Mr. Arthur’s daughter, Elizabeth Arthur, who followed in the footsteps of her father and is an author herself.
Samantha Arthurs
Horror author and podcast host Samantha Arthurs grew up in the hills and hollers of Eastern Kentucky, nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. All her life she was interested in the strange, the unusual, and the macabre and, lucky for her, this area has all three in spades. From Waverly Hills to Point Pleasant, she hasn’t let a Kentucky haunt or Appalachian cryptid go undiscovered.
As a child she loved horror, and dreamed of being an author. As she got older, the marriage of these two things seemed quite obvious. She penned her first true horror novel, Autumn Boys, in 2019 and it went on to be published through Cat & Key Books. It is the first in a series called Dreadful Seasons, with book two due by the end of 2023. She has also published Murder Mittens, My First Exorcism, and Bayou Blue independently.
In addition to Autumn Boys she has written a number of short horror stories, which have been featured in various publications and on her website (sarthurs.com), as well as two stories that were featured on the No Sleep Podcast. When she isn’t penning novels or short stories, she is diligently working on her own podcast, the Appalachian Spooky Hour. New episodes are released every Wednesday, and feature folklore, ghost stories, and other tidbits from the Appalachian region.
You can find her online at:
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Clark Ashton-Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, Nora May French, and remembered as “The Last of the Great Romantics” and “The Bard of Auburn”. (more…)
Gertrude Atherton
GERTRUDE ATHERTON (1857-1948), a protege of Ambrose Bierce, was an American novelist, primarily of social romances, who also wrote popular histories, biographies and the occasional supernatural or dark fiction tale. Her first publication was “The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance,” serialized in The Argonaut in March 1882 under the pseudonym Asmodeus. When she revealed to her family that she was the author, it caused her to be ostracized. She had a satirical (and sometimes harshly acerbic) wit and was an advocate for social reform and women’s rights. Her novels often feature strong heroines who pursue independent lives and she is best remembered for her California Series, several novels and short stories dealing with the social history of California. Her few contributions to the weird genre – which include “The Striding Place” (rejected by The Yellow Book as “too gruesome”) and “The Bell In The Fog” – are invariably well crafted and display a strong sense of the dramatic and a debt to Henry James. She also composed tales of psychological horror, of which this episode is one.