Margaret Irwin (1889–1967) was an English historical novelist who also wrote a factual biography of Sir Walter Raleigh. Her novels were esteemed for the accuracy of their historical research, and she became a noted authority on the Elizabethan and early Stuart eras. Irwin wrote several ghost stories (including “The Book” and “The Earlier Service”), as well as two fantasy novels: “Still She Wished for Company,” about a magical time slip, and “These Mortals,” an adult fairy tale about a wizard’s daughter.

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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.

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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 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. They also curate the #sfstoryoftheday. Find their work at arielmarkenjack.com.

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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…)

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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.

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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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