Leeman Kessler is a Nigerian-born American actor who, since 2010, has been performing as HP Lovecraft on stage, film, and in his popular web-series advice show, Ask Lovecraft. In between being a dad and village mayor, he can be heard regularly on his pop culture podcast Geekually Yoked and on his scifi drama Moonbase Theta Out. To find out more, go to www.leemankessler.com
Frank Key is a British writer, blogger and broadcaster best known for his self-published short-story collections and his long-running radio series Hooting Yard on the Air, which has been broadcast weekly on Resonance FM since April 2004. Key co-founded the Malice Aforethought Press with Max Décharné and published the fiction of Ellis Sharp.
He died on 13 September 2019. In March 2020 a retrospective exhibition of his graphic work and writing, crowd-funded by friends and fans and curated by Pansy Cradledew, was held at the Menier Galley in Southwark.
Rajan Khanna is a fiction writer, blogger, reviewer and narrator. His first novel, Falling Sky, a post-apocalyptic adventure with airships, was released in October 2014 from Pyr. A sequel, Rising Tide, came out in October 2015. His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, and several anthologies. His articles and reviews have appeared at Tor.com and LitReactor.com and his podcast narrations can be heard at Podcastle, Escape Pod, PseudoPod, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Lightspeed Magazine. Rajan lives in New York where he’s a member of the Altered Fluid writing group. He is represented by Barry Goldblatt of the Barry Goldblatt Agency.
Cassandra Khaw is the business developer for Singaporean video games publisher Ysbryd Games. She also writes for Ars Technica UK whenever possible. When not doing either of those things, she practices muay thai, tries to find time to dance, and reads voraciously. She also writes a variety of fiction, and has a novella entitled Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef out with Abaddon Books.
Jenny Kiefer (KEY-fur) is a horror author living in Louisville, Kentucky. Her debut novel, This Wretched Valley, is forthcoming from Quirk Books in 2024. She is the co-owner of Butcher Cabin Books, a small horror bookstore [ed note: go follow them on instagram – you will not be disappointed]. Her words have appeared in Howls from the Dark Ages, Miracle Monocle, Louisville Magazine, and Whisky Advocate. Twitter: @_jennykiefer, Website: www.jennykiefer.com, TikTok: @jlkiefer
Peter King is an author who has been published in Ophelion, The Dark Crypt, and Quantum Muse.
Susan King was born in Merseyside and now lives in County Durham. She has won numerous awards, including the Women Writers’ Network Award, the London Writers’ Competition and the
Southampton Writers’ Conference Prize. She was one of 12 finalists in the London Independent Story Prize in 2022, shortlisted for the New Writing North Finchale Award in 2024 and recently
shortlisted in the New2totheScene Flash Fiction 2025 competition. She is currently on the shortlist for the Bridport Short Story Competition 2025. Her short stories have been published online, in women’s magazines, and featured in two anthologies by The Women’s Press. She has a master’s degree in creative writing from Newcastle University, graduating in 2023 with a distinction. Her debut YA Fantasy novel is doing the rounds of agents and publishers. At present, she is working on a crime novel set in the North East of England.
Gillian King-Cargile earned her BA in film production and an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University. She has worked with schools, libraries, universities, and national labs to create exciting stories, games, events, and even stand-up comedy routines that spark a love of reading and learning.
A member of the Horror Writers Association and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Gillian has published picture books, middle-grade nonfiction books, and longer work for readers of all ages. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendencies, Carve Magazine, Everyday Fiction, River Styx, 3 Elements, Hello Horror, and other publications. She is the 2022 winner of the Horror Writers Association’s Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for Non-Fiction.
Learn more at gilliankingcargile.com and follow her on Twitter @gkingcargile