Dr. Marie Lestrange is an artist, musician, and author with a particular interest in historical Horror. As the author of T IS FOR TORTURE and S is for Serial Killers, she has created unique and chilling parodies of classic ABC “children’s” books that are certainly not for children. In addition to writing, Dr. Lestrange co hosts and produces the Moths to the Flame podcast, drawing inspiration from her research into the macabre, true crime, and occultish practices. Her debut novel, CRIMSON COBBLESTONES is coming from Crimson Cult Media Fall 2024. She and her writer husband also love traveling with their little Hobbit outside of the East Tennessee mountains they call home.
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Jess is a trans non-binary and pansexual writer, designer, and voice actor who hails from the hollers of Western North Carolina. They currently live in the deep South, where they explore futures of liberation and how to get there.

When they’re not imagining weird queer cli-fi utopias, designing future tech, or facilitating capacity-building workshops, they’re organizing programming with their local queer community and The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird. Their work has appeared in a range of publications, including Solarpunk Magazine, HyphenPunk, and Kaleidotrope.

You can visit their website at https://www.quarefutures.com and follow them on Instagram @merrynoontide

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Brian Lieberman has been many things at the Escape Artists Foundation, first finding his footing back in 2007 as a moderator for the newly minted forums. These days, he’s a Solutions Engineer, helping to manage some of the back-end technologies that help keep the wheels spinning and the stories coming. When he’s not doing all of that, he’s fighting various evils with his friends or cuddling up with his wife and two corgis.

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THOMAS LIGOTTI is one of the foremost contemporary authors of supernatural horror literature. His works been honored with several awards, including the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker award for the collection THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY (1996) and the novella MY WORK IS NOT YET DONE (2002). Revised, definitive editions of his first three story collections — SONGS OF A DEAD DREAMER, GRIMSCRIBE, and NOCTUARY — were published in 2010, 2011, and 2012, respectively. Revised editions of his collections THE AGONIZING RESURRECTION OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN AND OTHER GOTHIC TALES and DEATH POEMS were issued in 2013. Ligotti has also published THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE (2010), a nonfiction work that explores the intersection of the darker byways of literature, philosophy, and psychology. Forthcoming titles by Ligotti include a collection of interviews and a chapbook consisting of two newly written stories. The web site Thomas Ligotti Online was founded as a forum for discussions of and media related to Ligotti’s writings as well as those of wide range of authors, artists, and musicians whose work is associated with the horror genre, among other areas of interest to devotees of unconventional art and thought.

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Dave Liloia is a nerd who builds Gundam models, 3D printing as many dragons as his partner will allow, getting tattoos, and playing Dungeons and Dragons. He is a huge fan of spoken word science fiction and fantasy. He has narrated several pieces of fiction including Some Demon (Audible), Oh Give Me a Home (Glittership), and managed the audio engineering of the Pseudopod story Granite Requires.  He resides in Southern California with his family and two cats who should be paying rent.

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Kelly Link is the author of the collections Get in Trouble, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including Monstrous Affections and Steampunk!. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Tin House, A Public Space,McSweeney’s, One Story, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. Link was born in Miami, Florida. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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E Lynn Linton was the author of over 20 novels. She was born in Keswick, England, in 1822, the youngest of the twelve children, and was largely self-educated after the death of her mother when she was just five months old. In 1845, she left home to earn her living as a writer in London, promoted by Theodosia Monson, who was a champion of women’s rights. She finished her first novel, Azeth, the Egyptian, in 1846, and also began working as a journalist, joining the staff of the Morning Chronicle in 1849 – the first woman to be paid a salary as a journalist. She later moved to Paris where she became a correspondent for The Leader, and was a regular contributor to Charles Dickens’s Household Words, the Daily News, and other leading newspapers. She became one of the best-known women periodical contributors of her time.

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Ken Liu is the author of The Grace of Kings, a silkpunk epic fantasy, and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, a collection. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker.

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