DAVIN IRELAND was born and raised in the south of England, but currently resides in the Netherlands. His fiction credits include stories published in over sixty print magazines and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic, including Aeon, Underworlds, The Horror Express, Zahir, Comets & Criminals, Rogue Worlds, Storyteller Magazine and Something Wicked. He blogs at Davin Ireland.
Autumn Ivy is a voice actor, model, cosplayer, twitch streamer, and jack of all trades. PseudoPod fans may be interested in listening to the stories she’s narrated for The Bone Collector. Go follow the links in the show notes for more of her work.
J.B. Harris-Burland wrote numerous novels, including the “Lost Race” fantasy-adventure The Princess Thora (1904) and tales of black magic and the weird, as in The Gold-Worshippers (1906).
Ariel Marken Jack lives in Kespukwitk. Their fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Bikes in Space, Canthius, Dark Matter Magazine, Strange Horizons, The Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, and more. Their nonfiction writing on speculative literature appears in Fusion Fragment, Interzone Digital, and Psychopomp.com. T
Hugo Jackson is a nonbinary fantasy author, with the third novel of their Resonance Tetralogy series being released in April this year by Inspired Quill, and most of the time is also a big grumpy leftist furry. (more…)
One of the masters of ghost story writing – he codified the subgenre of “the antiquarian ghost story”. Almost all of his works are now in the public domain. This tale was written in 1927 to be read ’round the campfire to Scouts at their summer camp.
“Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo.… Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with their surroundings; and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage. Another requisite, in my opinion, is that the ghost should be malevolent or odious: amiable and helpful apparitions are all very well in fairy tales or in local legends, but I have no use for them in a fictitious ghost story.”
SF writer and Silent Motion Picture Actor, Trent Jamieson should be 106 years old, but is only 36 on account of TEMPORAL RADIATION. He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Diana. He is currently writing a series of novels called Death Works, due to be published by Orbit in 2010-2011. They’re about Death.