M. L. Humphreys appears to be one of the many obscure writers who worked briefly in the pulps. Or perhaps the name is a pseudonym, used once and discarded. Nothing could be found about this author beyond the fact that this story, the only one with this byline, was selected by H. P. Lovecraft in 1929 and 1930, when he compiled a list of significant horror stories, incorporating both literary fiction and popular stories. The list was published as H. P. Lovecraft’s Favorite Weird Tales: The Roots of Modern Horror, and the criterion for being included was that the stories must have “the greatest amount of truly cosmic horror and macabre convincingness.”

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Kurt Hunt was formed in the swamps and abandoned gravel pits of post-industrial Michigan. His short fiction has been published at Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, PodCastle, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, Kaleidotrope, and more. He is also a co-author of Archipelago, a collaborative serial fantasy adventure.

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was born in Notasulga, Alabama. Many hear her name and think of her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), but she was also a sociologist and a folklorist. In 1926, a group of young black writers including Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, calling themselves the Niggerati, produced a literary magazine called Fire!! that featured many of the young artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance. It should be noted that the literary magazine Fire!! is the inspiration for the name for the literary magazine FIYAH. Hurston spent most of her written words portraying the struggles of African Americans living in a racist society.

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Robin lives in Nottingham, UK, and is a PhD student researching how humans and animals interact. She fits her studies in around her job at an animal shelter, and writes stories in her spare time to relax.

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J.C. Hutchins crafts award-winning transmedia narratives, screenplays and novels for companies such as 20th Century Fox, A&E, Cinemax, Discovery, FOX Broadcasting, Infiniti, Macmillan Publishers and Harebrained Schemes. He has been profiled by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR’s Weekend Edition, ABC Radio and the BBC. His latest creative endeavor is The 33, a monthly episodic ebook series. (more…)

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Jaki Idler lives outside Philadelphia where she writes, teaches and – despite any literary evidence to the contrary – raises two wonderful boys. Her day job is bringing other’s stories to life. You can follow her writing at Idle Truths. She just narrated her own story “Terminal” for Wicked Women Writers 2012 at HorrorAddicts.net. She’s also thrilled to read Crystal Connor’s “Spores” on podiobooks.com (pending).

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Somto Ihezue (He/Him) is a Nigerian–Igbo writer, editor, and filmmaker. He is a Creative Writing MFA student at the University of Maryland, and an alumnus of Clarion West, Tin House, Voodoonauts, and Milford SF workshops. He is a recipient of the Mandela Institute’s AYNM Fiction Prize, and the Horror Writers Association Grant. His work was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award (Sydney J. Bounds Awards), the Nommo Awards, the Afritondo Short Story Prize, the Utopia Awards, and has equally been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the British Science Fiction Award. His works have appeared/forthcoming in Tor: Africa Risen, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, NIGHTMARE, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fireside Magazine, Podcastle, Escape Pod, PseudoPod, POETRY Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Flame Tree Press, Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, and others. 

He is the assistant editor of the Publishing Taught Me Anthology (SFWA & National Endowment for the Arts), and co-editor of the WTBAP Anthology. Visit his website at https://somtoihezue.com/

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Danielle Imara is a London-based live artist, author and music maker.

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