Born in Brazil in 1967, Julian Bane arrived in the United States at the age of 11. His love for the arts started at an early age: first with comics and drawing superheroes for his school paper to shooting Star Wars action figures and styrofoam planets with a Super 8 camera, all the while building miniature sets and props. As a young man, Bane admired, leading characters in shows such as Doctor Who and Star Trek. These characters later influenced Bane to become an actor.

“Their impact on my mind was strong, The Doctor, Captain Kirk and Sherlock Holmes were some of the best characters ever created.”

After three years in the Air Force pursuing a career as a jet fighter, Bane came to turning point in his life and decided to return to his original passion: the arts and more specifically, acting.

Bane traveled to Los Angeles and over the last decade has dedicated his life to perfecting his craft: acting, writing and directing. His has performed in plays such as The Tempest, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Wuthering Heights and leading the cast as The Traveler in Hollywood’s first production of H. G Wells The Time Machine. He has also branched out to the small and big screens, appearing in multiple TV shows,music videos, documentaries and films.

Along with doing audio characters such as The Doctor in the Doctor Who Legacy series, Brahms on Starship Excelsior and Leviathan on Darker Projects… Bane has branched out into narrating Jack Reacher and Doctor Who short stories on YouTube.

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Robbie Banfitch is an American filmmaker, writer, and musician. He graduated from School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and currently resides in Los Angeles.

His debut feature The Outwaters was released theatrically in 2023 and his new film, Tinsman Road is expected to premiere in 2025. His first published short story, “Summer Night” is available in Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror.

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Richard Farren Barber was born in Nottingham in July 1970. After studying in London he returned to the East Midlands. He lives with his wife and son and works as a manager for a local university. He has over 50 short stories in publications including: Alt-Dead, Alt-Zombie, DarkFuse, ePocalypse – Tales from the End, Fever Dreams, Horror D’Oeuvres, Murky Depths, Midnight Echo, Midnight Street, Morpheus Tales, Night Terrors II & III, Siblings, The House of Horror, Trembles, When Red Snow Melts, and broadcast on Tales to Terrify, Pseudopod (#390!), and The Wicked Library. His first novella “The Power of Nothing” was published in September 2013. His second novella “The Sleeping Dead” was published by DarkFuse in August 2014. His third novella “Odette” is due to be published early in 2016. His website is www.richardfarrenbarber.co.uk.

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Laird Barron, an ex-pat Alaskan, is the author of several books, including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories; Swift to Chase; and Blood Standard. Currently, Barron lives in the Rondout Valley of New York State and is at work on tales about the evil that men do.

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Yaroslav Barsukov is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, and everything in between. He’s best known for his science fantasy noir novella Tower of Mud and Straw, which became an Amazon bestseller, was shortlisted for the prestigious Nebula Award as well as the SCKA Award, and received a Kirkus Star, eventually landing on Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books of 2021” list. He’s a full member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and combines his writing duties with volunteer work, serving as chair of SFWA’s Information Systems Committee.

His new novel Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory is forthcoming from CAEZIK SF & Fantasy on October 15.

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Matthew M. Bartlett is the author of Gateways to Abomination and other books of supernatural horror. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals, including Forbidden Futures, Vastarien, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3, and Ashes & Entropy. He has recorded two albums for Cadabra Records, Mr. White Noise and Call Me Corey, both with backing music by Black Mountain Transmitter. Two of his stories, Ginny Greenteeth and The Mill River Revenant are also on Cadabra Records, read by actor Laurence Harvey and Anthony D.P. Mann, respectively. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife Katie Saulnier and their cats Peachpie and Larry.

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BYRON BARTON received a PhD from the University of Vermont and currently lives and works in Aruba.

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