Philip Fracassi is the author of the story collections Beneath a Pale Sky (named “Best Collection of the Year” by Rue Morgue Magazine and a finalist for the Bram Stoker award) and Behold the Void (named “Best Collection of the Year” by This Is Horror). He is also the author of several novellas, including Sacculina, Shiloh, and Commodore.

His novels include Don't Let Them Get You Down, A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, and Boys in the Valley.

Philip’s books have been translated into multiple languages and his stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, Southwest Review, and Interzone.

The New York Times calls his work “terrifically scary.”

You can follow Philip on Facebook, Instagram (pfracassi), and Twitter (@philipfracassi), or at his official website at www.pfracassi.com.

Five years ago when my wife shamed me into picking up my pen again, one of the first things I started writing was a mash up novel of Lovecraftian characters, and I really wanted Herbert West to be part of that team. Unfortunately, I'm a stickler for established chronologies, and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't tell the story I wanted to tell with West in it.

Enter Dr. Stuart Hartwell.

He was the perfect solution, he had all of West's skills, but his timeline was mine to play with. But, I didn't know who he was, or what motivated him. So I wrote a story about him, and another, and then another. Quickly the mash up novel was set aside and all my time was spent focused on Hartwell. Those stories became the novel Reanimators.

Now, just a year later that mash up novel I wanted to work on. The one that was called at various times The League of Lovecraftian Gentlemen, The Miskatonic Club, The Miskatonic Men's Aide Society, The Arkham Oddfellowes - well that became The Weird Company and that hits the streets in September.

Hartwell is back, but this time he's not alone, he and his cohort have been recruited by . . .

Well you'll just have to read the book now won't you.

This is the book I wanted to write from the start, and if you liked Reanimators, you will adore The Weird Company.

Ashley began writing at the age of 12. Upon discovering the macabre work of Edgar Allan Poe, she took a borderline obsessive interest in writing horror and dark fantasy poetry and even a few fantasy novels. Her favorite authors of horror and fantasy at that time were Stephen King, Dean Koontz, J.R.R. Tolkien, Piers Anthony, and Brian Jacques who also influenced her work.

She wrote up until her senior year of high school and then took a break before starting up again after college in 2011. With a nudge from a new friend, she discovered a new kind of horror, dark fantasy, and weird work from authors such as Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, George Sterling, Donald Sidney-Fryer, and David Park Barnitz.

With this new treasure trove of horror and weird authors, she began to broaden her writing.

Aside from writing, her other passion is martial arts. When she was 12 she started practicing a shotokan Japanese karate mix (called 'American' karate) and Judo at Red Dragon until she reached 3rd class brown belt at 15. At 18 she started practicing Soo Bahk Do, a Korean karate, where she stayed for four years, getting her black belt and taught as an instructor for a brief period of time before leaving.

Born from an egg on a mountain top, Russell has spent the past 40 something years doing stuff and things. After spending a decade travelling around the world he has now settled down in a small town in England by the North Sea. He lives with his lovely family, some rats, some fish and a very wayward cat. The cat most definitely knows far more than he should. Luckily he's not telling.

Nathan Carson is a musician, writer, and Moth StorySlam Champion from Portland, OR. He is widely known as co-founder and drummer of the internationally touring doom metal band Witch Mountain, host of the FM radio show The Heavy Metal Sewïng Cïrcle, and the owner of the boutique music booking agency, Nanotear.

Carson's byline can be found on hundreds of music and film-related articles in outlets such as the Willamette Week, Rue Morgue, Nightmare Magazine, The Oregonian, SF Weekly, Orbitz, Noisey, Terrorizer, Metal Edge, etc.

In recent years, Carson has turned his sights toward weird fiction, earning immediate accolades and publication. He is frequently a panelist and reader on the convention circuit.

Starr Creek is Carson's first standalone novella.

More info can be found on www.nathancarson.rocks

Jill Hand is a member of International Thriller Writers. Her Southern Gothic novels, White Oaks, and Black Willows, are available on Amazon and from the publisher, Black Rose Writing.

Advance readers called White Oaks a fast-paced, hilarious account of three siblings who are competing for their father's forty-billion-dollar fortune while trying to prevent the destruction of Planet Earth.

Diane Donovan, senior reviewer from Midwest Book Review praised White Oaks, calling it, "an unusually multifaceted tale that holds the ability to prompt laughter from thriller-style tension."

A sequel to White Oaks, Black Willows, follows the adventures of the squabbling, dysfunctional Trapnell family. Red Pines, third in the series of Trapnell family thrillers, will be released in April 2024.

John Claude Smith has had three collections (The Dark is Light Enough for Me, Autumn in the Abyss, and Occasional Beasts: Tales), three limited edition chapbooks (Dandelions, Vox Terrae, The Anti-Everything), and one regular chapbook (The Wrath of Concrete and Steel) published. His debut novel, Riding the Centipede, was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. His second novel, The Wilderness Within, was published by Trepidatio/JournalStone October 6, 2017. His latest collection, Occasional Beasts: Tales, was published by Omnium Gatherum in September of 2018.

He splits his time between the East Bay of northern California, across from San Francisco, and Rome, Italy, where his heart resides always.

Words Matter!

His blog, The Wilderness Within, deals with writing (of course), music, art--whatever strikes his fancy. http://thewildernesswithinbyjohnclaudesmith.blogspot.com/

Stephen Mark Rainey is author of numerous novels, including BALAK, THE LEBO COVEN, DARK SHADOWS: DREAMS OF THE DARK (with Elizabeth Massie), BLUE DEVIL ISLAND, THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER, THE MONARCHS, and others. He has also written several novels for Elizabeth Massie's Ameri-Scares series for young readers, with five entries currently in print and several more on the publication schedule. In addition, Mark's work includes six short fiction collections; approximately 200 published short stories; and the scripts to several DARK SHADOWS audio productions (from Big Finish), which feature members of the original ABC-TV series cast. For ten years, he edited the multi-award-winning DEATHREALM magazine. He has also edited the anthologies DEATHREALMS (Delirium Press), SONG OF CTHULHU (Chaosium), EVERMORE (with James Robert Smith, Arkham House), and the brand-new DEATHREALM: SPIRITS (Shortwave Publishing). Mark lives in Martinsville, VA, with his wife, Kimberly. and a passel of precocious house cats. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association.

Adam Bolivar is a poet of mythic and folkloric fantasy, a weird fiction writer and a playwright for marionettes with a particular interest in alliterative verse, balladry and “Jack” tales. The author of numerous books of poetry and fiction, he is also a marionette-maker, and has written multiple original puppet-plays which have been performed in a wide variety of peculiar venues.

S. L. Edwards enjoys dark fiction, dark poetry and darker beer. He is a Texan currently residing in California, specializing in weird fiction and poetry.

Most of my written work is speculative fiction of one kind or another, often horror-adjacent, often satirical, periodically humorous. I also write traditional horror, noir, and am a practicing journalist. Occasionally I come down with poetry and once in a great while I make what I call art. I've given up on publishing other people but still edit things from time to time.

Am a cat-daddy, dog-daddy, herbal enthusiast, musician, foodie, grump. You can find me on twitter and facebook if you like, if they're still there, and on Mastodon,

My daily baseball things are at Bleed Cubbie Blue. My political writings are classifiable. My pronouns are he/him. hey you.

Sarah Walker is a Speculative Fiction writer, artist, and Anthropology teacher living in the Pacific Northwest. She has been published by Lovecraft Ezine Press, Test Patterns Publishing, Oxygenman Publishing, Audient Void, Antimony and Old Lace, Shoggoth.net, Ladies and Gentlemen of Horror, The Lovecraft Lunatic Asylum, and more. She has stories coming out in 2021 in many anthologies - A Nightmare in Yellow, a Joseph Pulver Anthology by Oxygenman Publishing, the soon to be released The Black Stone: Stories for Lovecraftian Summonings edited by Raffaele Pazella, in The Big Book of Little Deaths by William Tea which is a charity anthology, and "The Dissapeared" which will appear in Vasterian, the literary Horror journal edited by Jon Padgett. She also has just finished her first work as a co-editor of the book A Walk in a Darker Wood with Duane Pesice and Gordon White.

She is currently finishing her first short story collection coming out Winter of 2021 as well as her first novel set in the semi- fictional coastal city of New Lebanon and is working on putting together a book of urban legends to be published Fall 2021.

More weirdness soon to follow!

A writer of Weird fiction and poetry, in the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and related writers.

When William Tea was a boy, he thought monsters lived in the dark. So when the lights were out, he snarled and spat and twisted his hands into claws, trying to blend in with the things that went bump in the night.

He’s been friends with the monsters ever since.

Today, William Tea lives in the Northeastern Pennsylvania Coal Region. His work has been featured in anthologies published by Muzzleland Press, Wildside Press, Planet X Publications, StrangeHouse Books, and CLASH Books.

Find him online at WilliamTea.com.