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.

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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.

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Andrew is one of the founders and proprietors of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and has produced and appeared in films, radio dramas, games, music and audiobook projects based on or inspired by Lovecraft’s work, most notably the motion picture of “The Call of Cthulhu” and the Dark Adventure Radio Theatre series. He is an occasional guest reader on The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast and is the co-host of the podcast “Voluminous: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft.”

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Elise is a writer, freelance book publicist, and exhausted retail worker based in Portland, Oregon. Their fiction and poetry has appeared in several publications, including UCLA’s Westwind, Nymeria Publishing’s Descendants of Medusa Anthology, and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Pwatem Journal. You can find Elise on Instagram @e.sages.

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Sam Lesek is friends with your sleep paralysis demon. She still plans her supernatural hang-outs using a flip phone that she refuses to let die until the year 2030. Thankfully, dark entities don’t mind SMS.

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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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