The best-known supernatural works of Margery Lawrence include Number Seven, Queer Street, a collection that collects the case histories of an occult detective, Dr Miles Pennoyer, as related by his assistant Jerome Latimer. Lawrence stated that this series was inspired by Algernon Blackwood’s John Silence stories and Dion Fortune’s Dr. Taverner series. Like May Sinclair before her, Lawrence became a confirmed spiritualist and believer in reincarnation in later years. According to the author, “My interest in it dates actually from the moment when I saw a near relation three nights after he died, when he gave me specific instructions about the finding of a box containing important papers. They were found precisely where he said–and from that moment I became deeply interested in what…I have called the “Other Side.” Somewhere that man was obviously still alive! Somewhere he was thinking of us, anxious to help, caring what happened; in a word, he was still alive somewhere, and I was determined to find out where.“

Find more by Margery Lawrence

An active member of the HWA, Moaner T. Lawrence comes from Long Island, New York and has been listening to Pseudopod since 2007. He has been the face of Rue Morgue Magazine’s German branch since 2011, and has also been a regular contributor to Germany’s largest horror magazine, Virus, since 2014. In 2015, Moaner became Assistant Editor at Pseudopod, and now helps with media relations. The pod’s resident ‘man-child of the night’ also has two tales on Pseudopod: “Bad Newes from New England,” a colorful re-imagining of the first American Thanksgiving; and “The Great American Nightmare,” a Lovecraftian yarn where C’thulhu is inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States of America.  You can find lots of Moaner’s old interviews with actors and artists on TheHorrorInBlog, and read his rants (Now available in 140-word bursts!) on Twitter.

Find more by Moaner T. Lawrence

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as “absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories”. Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla, and The House by the Churchyard.

Find more by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Michele Lee lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her long time partner, their two kids and three crazy dogs. Or maybe the kids are crazy. She enjoys writing (particularly about shape shifters and zombies with souls), reviews for MonsterLibrarian.com, and makes a little money on the side by working as a vet tech. She fakes a web presence at michelelee.net and spends too much time on Facebook.

Find more by Michele Lee

Nathaniel Lee (aka Nathan Lee) puts words in various orders and intermittently receives money in return. His fiction can be found in dozens of venues online and off. A full bibliography can be found at his writing blog, mirrorshards.org

Find more by Nathaniel Lee

Wen-yi Lee likes writing about girls with bite, feral nature, and ghosts, and her forthcoming debut novel The Dark We Know (2024) has a bit of all three. A Clarion West alum from Singapore, her shorter work has appeared in Nightmare, Strange Horizons and Uncanny, among others. She can be found on social media at @wenyilee_ and otherwise at wenyileewrites.com.

Find more by Wen-yi Lee

FRITZ REUTER LEIBER JR. (1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having in fact created the term. Leiber was heavily influenced by H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Graves in the first two decades of his career. Beginning in the late 1950s, he was increasingly influenced by the works of Carl Jung, particularly by the concepts of the anima and the shadow. From the mid-1960s onwards, he began incorporating elements of Joseph Campbell’s THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES into his work.

Find more by Fritz Leiber

Megan Leigh is co-host of the feminist speculative fiction podcast Breaking the Glass Slipper. Her writing has appeared on Pop Verse, SFWA, SFF World, Pornokitsch, and Writers’ Workshop.

Find more by Megan Leigh