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.”

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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.

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Paul S. Jenkins could be described as a podcast pioneer, hosting the long-since pod-faded Rev Up Review from 2005. Since then he has narrated for Escape Pod, PodCastle, and PseudoPod, has written and published a number of short stories, and is currently settling in to his new status as “gentleman of leisure”. If you feel so inclined you can listen to his debut novel, The Plitone Revisionist, for free, at Scribl.com.

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Alex Jennings is lifelong fan and creator of SFF who lives in New Orleans. His writing has appeared in PodCastle, The Peauxdunque Review, Obsidian Lit, the Locus-Award-winning Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler, and in numerous anthologies including New Suns: Speculative Fiction by People of Color, New Suns 2, and Africa Risen. His speculative poetry review column, “Chapter and Verse” appears regularly in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He is a graduate of Clarion West (2003) and the University of New Orleans. He received the inaugural Imagination Unbound Fellowship to the Under the Volcano guided writing retreat in 2022. Jennings served as MC and co-producer of the popular literary readings series, Dogfish from 2014 until 2020. He was born in Wiesbaden (Germany) and raised in Gaborone (Botswana), Paramaribo (Surinam), and Tunis (Tunisia) as well as the Columbia, MD. He is also an instructor of fiction and popular fiction at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. His debut novel, The Ballad of Perilous Graves is available wherever books are sold.

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JEROME K. JEROME (1859–1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). He wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of his father when Jerome was 13 and of his mother when he was 15 forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself. He was employed at the London and North Western Railway, was a stage actor, school teacher, a packer, and a solicitor’s clerk. Having some success with comic essays and memoirs, his most famous work was inspired by his honeymoon, spent in a boat on the Thames. He was  chosen to edit The Idler magazine over Rudyard Kipling. Amongst his varied works are a scattering of weird tales and comical ghost stories.

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Paul Jessup is a critically acclaimed/award-winning author of strange and slippery fiction. With a career spanning over ten years in the field, he’s had works published in so many magazines he’s lost count and three or four books published in the small press.

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Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, a Nebula-, Locus-, Ignyte Award finalist, and an immigrant from Fujian currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. She is a member of HWA and SFWA. Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, Uncanny, among others. She is the recipient of Odyssey Workshop’s 2022 Fresh Voices Scholarship and the author of Linghun and I AM AI. Find her on Twitter (@AiJiang_) and online (http://aijiang.ca).

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Celebrating the West Indian now while designing our survival of the future, Arielle approaches poetry and theatre performance as medicine for Atlantic peoples, their resilient cultures, and the land (and sea) they occupy. Her devotion to community-building work centres on transformative justice, sustainable living and the healing arts, working within the Caribbean and its diaspora.

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