Sean Logan lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his lovely wife and a skinny dog that is part piranha. At night he writes unpleasant stories, and in his marketing day job he also writes about scary subjects—like banking software. His stories have appeared in about two dozen publications, including ONE BUCK HORROR, the anthologies VILE THINGS and SICK THINGS, and multiple visits to Pseudopod.
Kirsty Logan is a writer of fiction and journalism. Her books are The Gracekeepers and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales. She is a writer, book reviewer, and writing mentor for WoMentoring and the Scottish Book Trust. She also writes a column on the X-Files for The Female Gaze.
Her short fiction and poetry has been published in print and online, recorded for radio and podcasts, and exhibited in galleries. Her debut novel, The Gracekeepers, is out now! It’s about a circus boat in a flooded world.
She lives in Glasgow, where she mostly hangs out with her fiancée Annie and her rescue dog Rosie, reads ghost stories, drinks coffee, crochets things, listens to riot grrrl, & dreams of the sea.
JACK LONDON (1876-1916) was an American writer best known for outdoor adventures like THE CALL OF THE WILD, many of them permeated with a sense of terror and the sublime. As a young man, London dropped out of the University of California to tramp the country, sail the seas, and brave the hardships of Alaska’s Klondike gold rush. Much of his fiction celebrates a brawny life force; his heroes triumph over the extremes of physical adversity through raw strength and will, or else they succumb, in the end, to the pitiless forces of nature. London eventually became a convert to socialism and, in THE IRON HEEL (1907), depicted a 1930s America ruled by a fascist dictatorship. Yet unquestionably his most fiendish villains are the shadowy revolutionary cult in THE MINIONS OF MIDAS (1901), who, preaching an extreme form of Social Darwinism, attempt to extort millions of dollars from the nation’s industrialists by the random murder of scores of ordinary citizens. Mankind, in London’s fiction, can be every bit as pitiless as nature..
Samantha Loney is a Métis filmmaker and podcast producer from the Laronde-Sauvage, and McGregor-Riel families. A graduate of the Vancouver Film School, Samantha’s films have screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Weengushk International Film Festival, and Maoriland in New Zealand to name a few.
Samantha’s podcast work has been featured on Canadaland, at the Victoria Arts Council’s Levelling Up, Breaking Down Exhibit for International Women’s Day, and on the Indigenous 150+ Podcast. Her current podcast Travelling Métis can be found wherever you listen to your podcasts.
When not making podcasts or films, Samantha is a journalist for Simcoe Community Media covering Metis news stories as well as other issues concerning Indigenous communities across Turtle Island.
Amelia Reynolds Long (1904 – 1978) was an American detective fiction writer, novelist, and a pioneer woman writer for the early science fiction magazines of the 1930s. A resident of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, she was the author of a number of science fiction stories, and her Weird Tales story, “The Thought-Monster”, was made into the 1958 British film Fiend Without a Face. She wrote under the pseudonyms Peter Reynolds & A. R. Long.
Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1901 – January 3, 1994) was an American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos. During his life, Long received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 World Fantasy Convention), the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (in 1987, from the Horror Writers Association), and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977).
Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts – the heart of H. P. Lovecraft country – DAVID LONGSHORE holds degrees from Amherst College and the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the author of the Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones, as well as other non-fiction narratives. Previous examples of his horror and dark fiction have appeared in “The Horror Zine,” “SNM Horror,” and various anthologies.
Catherine Lord was born in Poona, East Indies in 1845 to British parents. After the death of her father when she was five years old, Catherine moved to England with her mother under the care of her grandfather Sir Thomas Joshua Platt (1788-1862). Catherine started writing under the pen name ‘Lucy Hardy’ in 1892 and her stories were published in Argosy, Belgravia, and The Sketch. She died within a decade of becoming a professional writer and died in 1901 of exhaustion. Her short stories were never collected in her lifetime and she vanished into obscurity until Johnny Mains discovered her work in 2017 and published her first collection of short stories, Our Lady of Hate (Noose & Gibbet, 2020