J.B. Harris-Burland
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).
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Ariel Marken Jack
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
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…)
Allie James
Allie James is a small-town girl who lives in east Texas, narrating and voice acting in audiobooks, short films, podcasts, and much more. After graduating with her degree in radio-television, Allie fell into the world of voice acting, with her first projects being audiobooks and entertainment news. Now, her passion is working on her horror podcast When the Night Comes Out, which you can find on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. You can also find her other work at alliejamesvoiceactor.wordpress.com.
M.R. James
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.”
Trent Jamieson
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.
Paul S. Jenkins
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.
Alex Jennings
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.