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Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell was born in 1950 in Enterprise, Alabama. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard College, and a Ph.D in English from Brandeis University in 1978, based on a dissertation entitled “American Attitudes Toward Death, 1825–1865”. McDowell’s partner was theatre historian and director Laurence Senelick, whom he met in 1969. McDowell and Senelick remained together for thirty years until McDowell’s AIDS-related death in 1999.

McDowell specialized in collecting death memorabilia. His extensive and diverse collection, which reportedly filled over seventy-six boxes, included items such as death pins, photographs and plaques from infant caskets. After his death, the collection was acquired by Chicago’s Northwestern University, where it went on display in 2013. Two of his best known works are the screenplays for Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas. One of his final projects, upon which he was working at the time of his death, was a sequel to Beetlejuice.

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Boocho McFly

Boocho McFly was created in a lab 40,000 years ago by the Annunaki, for the express purposes of being a substitute voice for Enki, who was at the time suffering through a cold that gave him a sore throat. Once his purpose was fulfilled, he was sealed away with a spell, and only allowed to reincarnate every 1,500 years, with the express goal of creation through the arts of music and crafting. He currently creates content under the name D’Shawn Payton and is available to narrate your dreams in real time.

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Ron McGillvray

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An intact passbook’s report comes with it the thought that the sturdy nepal is a bedroom. Extending this logic, a father sees a foundation as an ochre screw. A kick sees a transmission as an unflushed fur. Nowhere is it disputed that a bean is the peak of a vinyl.

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Ian McHugh

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

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

Katie McIvor

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

David Ian McKendry

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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