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T.E. Whitehill

T.E. Whitehill was born and raised on the plains of Nebraska where she once again resides into involuntary adulthood. She’s been writing stories since she was old enough to pick up a pencil. When she’s not busy checking cows and riding horses, she’s writing stories about the spooky and ooky and the poor people who befall the misfortune of being characters in said stories.
Instagram:
@t.e.whitehill
Substack:
https://substack.com/@tewhitehill

R.C. Mulhare

R.C. Mulhare once successfully defended her day-job workplace from zombies, through some judicious use of clearance-rack garden tools and survived a fight with Yog-Sothoth cultists in a hallway of a hotel in Providence; she’s also picked up extra work editing the product blog of Umbrella Corporation…In actuality, R.C. Mulhare was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and grew up in a nearby town, in a hundred year old house up the street from an old cemetery. Her interest in the dark and mysterious started when she was quite young, when her mother read the faery tales of the Brothers Grimm and quoted the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe to her, while her Irish storyteller father infused her with a fondness for strange characters and quirky situations. Between writing projects, she moonlights in grocery retail. She’s also fond of hiking in the woods of the White Mountains of New Hampshire and browsing the antiques shops one finds all over New England. A two-time Amazon best-selling author, contributor to the Hugo Award Winning Archive of Our Own, and member of the New England Horror Writers, she has one hundred twenty stories in print through dozens of independent publishers including Iron Faerie Publishing, Atlantean Publishing, Macabre Maine, DBND Publishing, Hellbound Books, Nocturnal Sirens Publishing, FunDead Publications, Deadman’s Tome, NEHW Press, Lovecraftiana Magazine, Tales of Wonder and Dread, and Weirdbook Magazine, with more stories in the works. She was also one of the authors in “After Dark, Volume 2.” She shares her home with her family, a vintage music-loving parakeet, about fifteen hundred books and an unknown number of eldritch things that rattle in the walls when she’s writing late in the night. She’s happy to have visitors through her page at: ⁦https://linktr.ee/rcmulhare⁩linktr.e

Susan Shwartz returned from a long sabbatical on Wall Street to her first love, writing fantasy and science fiction. She is a five-time nominee for the Nebula, a two-time nominee for the Hugo, with nominations for the World Fantasy Award, the Philip K. Dick, and the Edgar. In 1993, San Francisco chronicle cited her work for Best Novelette, and in 1996, best Novella with the late Mike Resnick for “Bibi,” a 1995 winner of the HOMer award.
Susan has published around thirty books, including anthologies, science fiction, historical fantasy, STAR TREK, and job hunting. She has also published more than 100 short stories, novelettes and novellas and published nonfiction in THE NEW YORK TIMES, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, AMAZING, ASIMOV’S, and ANALOG. Moving into work based on art collecting, she is about to publish an article on The Butler Institute for American Art for JOURNEY PLANET. Recent stories include subjects as diverse as the Soviet Space Program, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Himalayan-level climbing, the Battle of the Bulge, Neolithic Malta, Frankenstein’s monster on ice, and Barbie. She maintains a SubStack column in which she writes about polemics, semantics, and pop psychology just because.
Susan holds a Ph.D. in English from Harvard and a B.A. from Mount Holyoke. She has also studied at Dartmouth College and Oxford University. With her partner (who studied at Yale and Dartmouth), she collects SF art, Asian rugs, and paperweights. They also love the opera, the theatre, and travel.

Mark Mackey

Mark Mackey is a long-time resident of Chicago, Illinois, with no plans to relocate elsewhere, either city or state. Has written tales included in various anthologies and co-written the Soulless, a harrowing horror novel commencing on an ocean liner and concluding on a mysterious island.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mark-Mackey/author/B0054EB7PY

Nathan Poole Shannon is an emerging writer of the strange and macabre. Creepy and weird stories, whether they be modern or historically set, are his specialty. From crawling shadows to cryptic specters, he is only beginning to share with the world. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his spouse and a small menagerie of pets who are decidedly not creepy- but from time to time, inspire something that is.

Macy Harrison

Macy Harrison is a horror and dark fantasy writer based in Dallas, TX, and her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. When not writing, she teaches college literature classes. Find out more on her website: macyharrison1.wordpress.com

Clifford Holt

Clifford Holt is a UK-based writer, editor, and publishing professional whose career spans both the creative and scholarly sides of literature. His debut work of fiction, a novella, appears in After Dark: Volume 2. Before turning to fiction, he published a work of literary criticism Romantic Science & Radicalism, 1790-1820, (Amazon) and built a career in academic publishing, where he manages a portfolio of leading scientific journals.

He studied English Literature and Creative Writing as an undergraduate and also holds an MA in English Literature — a background that informs both his critical and creative work.

His fiction blends the realism of human struggle with the lyrical and hallucinatory, exploring the point where decay gives rise to transformation and where hopelessness yields to awakening.

Clifford lives in Cheshire with his wife, three sons, and a bullmastiff named Saxon.

https://www.amazon.com/author/cliffholt

Gryphon Alastare is a weird fiction writer known primarily for their Bizarre Happening series on Reddit. They first got their start on r/Nosleep with their series Cursed Tapes and How to Avoid Them, before moving over to the subreddit r/OddDirections to continue the series. They were active until early 2023, taking a step back to pursue other projects, and have now come back to pursue writing again. More of their work can be found on r/GryphonAlastare.

Lawrence Dagstine

Lawrence Dagstine is a native New Yorker and speculative fiction writer of 30 years. He has placed over 500+ short stories in online and print periodicals during that period of time. He has been published by houses such as Damnation Books, Steampunk Tales, Wicked Shadow Press, Black Beacon Books, Farthest Star Publishing, Calliope Interactive, and Dark Owl Publishing. Some of his recent small press book releases include The Paraplegic, Small Favors, and The Nightmare Cycle. Visit his website, for publication history past and present, at: www.lawrencedagstine.com