Patrick Lacey was born and raised in a haunted house. He currently spends his nights and weekends writing about things that make the general public uncomfortable. He lives in Massachusetts, in a hopefully non-haunted house, with his wife, daughter, and over-sized cat. Follow him on Twitter (@patlacey), find him on Facebook, or visit his website at https://patrickclacey.wordpress.com/.

Kyle Rader is the author of 'My BFF Satan', 'Kegger' and 'Four Bullets'.

His short fiction has appeared in over twenty publications and anthologies including ‘Masks’, ‘Beneath the Cracks’, and ‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion: Tales of the Titanic’. His short story ‘The Countess and the Bard’ was the recipient of the ‘Readers’ Choice’ award on Fiction Vortex.

He lives in New England, and is currently hard at work at multiple novels of varying genres.

Kyle can be found online at http://kylerader.net/ and @youroldpalkile on Twitter.

Shannon Grant is an indie horror author and adventurer living in the strange land of upstate New York. In her writing, she takes the world around us and twists it into a bizarre landscape filled with girls who turn into bugs, scary fairies, and creepy toys. She would like to write a novel one day, but for now, she's enjoying where short stories take her.

M.J. Preston is a contemporary Canadian author known for his gripping storytelling and intricate plots. His work primarily focuses on thriller and suspense genres, where he blends realistic character development with intense, suspenseful narratives. Preston's background includes, soldier, ice road trucker, graphic art, and photography. He adds a unique visual element to his writing, painting vivid pictures in the minds of his readers.

With a talent for creating immersive worlds, he has garnered a dedicated following among fans of these genres.

E. G. Smith is a graduate of the University of Washington's creative writing program, with a lifelong passion for horror fiction and film. He lives on a small farm in rural Southwest Idaho with his wife, son, dogs, horses, chickens and flies. When he's not knee-deep in manure, he's reading, writing, or reading about writing. Visit his website: www.ericgsmith.com

Coopersmith Black is an emerging author specializing in horror, fantasy and children’s fiction. A former musician and stage actor, his works fuse lyrical prose with unique genre-blending narratives. Following the publication of The Snow Lion in 2017, he has expanded his writing to include the satirical post-apocalyptic web series Wastelandia, USA, set to air in late 2018.

A recipient of several young adult writing awards throughout his teen years, he officially returned to the art in 2016. Since then he has focused on revitalizing short fiction horror, an undertaking best represented by his short story Necronomicode. Written as a love letter to all things Lovecraftian—the amalgamation of historical fact, comedy and vile monstrosities evince Black’s departure from the norm.

In 2019, Coopersmith Black hopes to release the first of his series The Erraven Embers, a sprawling young adult fantasy-horror ten years in the making. Along the way he plans to complete A Girl and Her Grackmoss Goblin, a novel based on a lullaby written for his twin daughters and their fascination for all things “squishy.”

www.coopersmithblack.com

Kristi Petersen Schoonover's short fiction has appeared in Carpe Articulum, The Adirondack Review, Barbaric Yawp, The Illuminata, Morpheus Tales, New Witch Magazine, Toasted Cheese, The Smoking Poet, The Battered Suitcase, and a host of others, including several anthologies. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, is the recipient of three Norman Mailer Writers Colony Winter Residencies, and is the founding editor of 34 Orchard (www.34orchard.com). She is co-host of the Dark Discussions horror film podcast and served as editor for Ink Stains Volume 7: Decay.

Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole: Tales from Haunted Disney World (Admit One Literary Theme Park Press, 2010), her collection of ghost stories set in Disney Parks, has been called “spooky alchemy at its finest” by Famous Monsters of Filmland‘s Peter Schwotzer; her Pushcart-nominated novel Bad Apple (Vagabondage Press Books, 2012) was noted “deeply disturbing in the best way possible” by SciFi Saturday Night. Her novella, This Poisoned Ground, was published by Dark Alley Press in 2014.

Books and Boos Press published her collection The Shadows Behind in 2019.

She lives in the Connecticut woods with her housemate, Charles, and her husband, Nathan.

She has a passion for ghost stories, marine life, and Tarot cards and still occasionally sleeps with the lights on.

Her website is www.kristipetersenschoonover.com.

Dan Szczesny is a long-time journalist, author and speaker living in New Hampshire.

He’s written several books of travel memoir (The Adventures of Buffalo and Tough Cookie, Mosquito Rain), fiction (Sing and Other Stories) and poetry (Invincible One, Poems).

His book, The Nepal Chronicles, about a month long trek to Everest Base Camp and marriage in Kathmandu, won the 2016 New Hampshire state library award for Outstanding Work of Non-Fiction.

Dan is also the Editor of Murder Ink, a series of New England-based Pulp Fiction anthologies set in or around the newsroom.

His short story, “White Like Marble” was a finalist in the 2017 Ernest Hemingway Foundation Short Shorts Contest, out of the Hemingway Birthplace in Oak Park, Ill.

Dan’s book, The White Mountain: Rediscovering Mount Washington’s Hidden Culture, is a year long exploration of the Northeast’s tallest peak. Mt. Washington – home of the world’s worst weather – is more than just a Rock Pile, it’s the cultural and natural soul of climbers and tourists from around the world. From car races to bird watching, from bikes to motorcycles, from the railroad to the stars to a century old observatory, Mount Washington speaks to the adventurer in all of us, and Dan turned his veteran journalist’s eye toward capturing it all in his new book.

The White Mountain won the 2019 New Hampshire Writer’s Project award for outstanding work of non-fiction, and won the People’s Choice award for non-fiction that year as well.

His newest book, U & Me: Reflections from the Fatherhood Frontier, is a collection of essays exploring parenting and fatherhood.

Dan began his career in Buffalo, New York. Since then, he has written for a wide variety of regional and national publications, including the Main Line Times, Philadelphia Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Princeton Packet, Pennsylvania Magazine, Appalachia Journal, New Hampshire Magazine, AMC Outdoors, Yahoo! Parenting and Huffington Post.

In 2000, he moved to New Hampshire to cover the Presidential Election. In 2001, Dan became Associate Publisher of The Hippo, now the state’s largest Arts and Entertainment journal.

He’s a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s 4,000-footer club and has written extensively about the outdoors and hiking. He has camped in the Grand Canyon, hiked England’s Coast to Coast Trail and trekked to Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Dan was a hiking guide and naturalist for Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center in Milton, Mass.

Dan is available for interviews at danszczesny@gmail.com

More at www.danszczesny.com

I am an English graduate with an MA in English: Creative Writing and an MFA in Writing. By day, I teach English at the collegiate level. My first publication came in 2000 through the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for my flash fiction “The Evil Deed” that received their highest honor: the American Voices Award.

That first taste of my name in print gave me the writing bug, which I have never been able to escape. I have since gone on to write many more pieces, including the ones available here, some via online literary magazines, and the ones yet to come (as they are still in the editing and revising phases).

When I'm not teaching, grading, tending to students, or laying about with either a book in hand or pen and paper scribbling down ideas, I am spending time with my loving husband and my beautiful son or honoring my dearly departed daughter, all of whom are miraculous parts of my life by their own rights.