IAN MCHUGH is a writer whose first success was winning the short story competition at his local science fiction convention in Canberra, Australia in 2004. Since then, he’s sold more than 40 stories to publications around the world, and his first story collection, Angel Dust, was published in 2014. You can find his full bibliography, with links to read stories that are available free online, including his past publications at Pseudopod, Escape Pod and Podcastle, at ianmchugh.wordpress.com.

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Maura McHugh is a prose and comic book writer living in Ireland. Her short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the USA and Europe, and she’s had two collections published in the USA:Twisted Fairy Tales and Twisted Myths.

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Katie McIvor is a Scottish writer. She studied at the University of Cambridge and now lives in the Scottish Borders with her husband and baby daughter. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines including The Deadlands, The Dark, and PodCastle. You can find her on Bluesky @mckatie.bsky.social, Twitter @_McKatie_ or on her website at katiemcivor.com.

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David Ian McKendry is an award-winning screenwriter, as well as a writer for Fangoria Magazine and Blumhouse.com. He also wrote several stories for Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Anthology Series. Has directed several music videos for heavy metal bands such as GWAR and Municipal Waste, as well as produced the series Blood and Guts with Scott Ian for the Nerdist. He also collects vintage typewriters and phones.

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Rebekah McKendry, PhD is an award-winning film and television director with a strong focus in the horror and science fiction genres. She is the co-host of the popular Blumhouse Production’s podcast Shock Waves, as well as being a film professor at the University of Southern California. Rebekah previously has worked as the Editor-in-chief at Blumhouse Productions and as the Director of Marketing for Fangoria Entertainment. She has a doctorate focused in Media Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Ben McKenzie is a performer, writer and game designer based in Melbourne, Australia. He’s best known for the time travel radio comedy Night Terrace, and the monthly Terry Pratchett book club podcast Pratchat. Ben also teaches creative and comedy writing to students of all ages, wrote the award-winning VR game Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown, and creates all kinds of other games, from tabletop RPGs to escape rooms and weird street sports. His favourite dinosaur is Stegosaurus, and his favourite element is helium. Find him online via benmckenzie.com.au.

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Robert McKinney is a sometimes writer and former Pinkerton from South Texas. He likes running, donuts, and dogs that look like tiny demon space wolves.

He writes a lot of things, with some stories leaning towards urban fantasy, and others towards techno-thriller. It’s a weird mix, but it works for him.

When not writing books, he makes audio-dramas at https://www.patreon.com/cityofsmokeandiron and elsewhere.

You can find him on twitter at www.twitter.com/mckinneycant , where he sometimes runs DnD campaigns using the polls.

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Your narrator is Devin McLaughlin. Devin is a man from South-western Ontario who has a harder-than-normal time of writing about himself from the third-person perspective. This seemingly simple task utterly baffles him. Also, he sometimes narrates things. Devin has a few narrations upcoming on the podcast Tales to Terrify. Should you be interested, you can follow his narration work by carefully peering into his bedroom window at night. Devin just asks that you please keep it down, as people inside are trying to sleep.

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