Jennifer Weigel
Multi-disciplinary mixed media conceptual artist Jennifer Weigel lives in Kansas, USA. Weigel’s favorite foods are unagi don or broiled calamari steak and frosting with or without cake. Weigel was previously a staff writer for Haunted MTL and is now involved with Nat 1 Publishing. Author of Witch Hayzelle’s Recipes for Disaster trilogy and a myriad of short stories, poems, art discourse, and more drifting around the Interwebs. Learn more on her website here: https://jenniferweigelart.com/
Jane Nightshade
Jane Nightshade was always “that kid” who wanted to tell spooky stories at childhood sleepovers. She is a former corporate communications manager turned horror writer. Her fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, and has been dramatized by NoSleep Podcast and Octoberpod. She’s been described on Goodreads as “a gifted horror writer who can scare you shitless.”
She is the author or editor of four published story collections: The Drowning Game, independently published in digital form on Amazon; A Scream Full of Ghosts, from Dark Ink Publishing; Jane Nightshade’s Serial Encounters from HellBound Books; and Ghosts Never Leave from Baynam Books Publishing. She is also the co-editor of Hellbound Highway: Anthology of Traveling Terror, released in December 2025. Her non-fiction writing has been published by several major horror sites. Online, Jane mostly hangs out on X at @JaneNightshade, or on Instagram @janenightshade639.
Monica Carroll
Monica Carroll is an Australian writer and researcher with practises in horror, art, and poetry. Her recent books include Page to Pulse: A Guide to Mass Hysteria for Writers (Dark Cave Press, 2025), and a collaboration with Kaaron Warren and Ellen Datlow on Spirit Level: Strange Tools & Story (Dark Cave Press, 2025).
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
Dewey L. Yeatts
Dewey L. Yeatts lives and works in Pennsylvania. He is married, and a proud “dog dad.” He has had stories published by ThreeRavens Publishing, Hellbound Books, Whitaker-Lyon, Divine Feminine, among others. He published his first collection of short stories, From a Whisper to Extreme, available on Amazon. He likes to cook, but stays away from homemade pasta. https://www.facebook.com/dewey.yeatts
C.A. Verstraete
Christine (C.A.) Verstraete enjoys writing about monsters to mysteries. She’s had short stories published in various anthologies including, Behind the Shadows III: Dark Secrets, Noncorporeal III: Nightfall, (I Just) Died in Your Arms: Crime Fiction Inspired by One-Hit Wonders, and others. She is the author of the Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter series. Learn more at her blog, http://girlzombieauthors.blogspot.com and website, https://www.cverstraete.com.
Nick Swain
Nick Swain is a writer of horror and crime fiction whose work can be found in HellBound Books anthologies such as Shopping List 1, 2, and 3, as well as the Crime Pays collection. He has also had a weird western featured in the Weirdbook Annual: Zombies! collection. Primarily a writer of short stories, he is in the thick of drafting his first novel. When he’s not writing, he enjoys reading the sordid yarns of similarly depraved minds.”
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Ben Matthews
Ben Matthews is a workplace rehabilitation consultant. Having always had a passion
for reading and writing, he completed a Master of Writing through Swinburne University in
2021. Whilst completing this course he became addicted to reading Creepypastas and Urban
Legends, and his writing is heavily influenced by contemporary mythologies. He won the
Australian Aurealis Award in 2024 for the Best Short Horror Story for his short story Flesh of my Flesh.
He is a contributor to the Killer Creatures: Horror Stories with Bite Horror Anthology,
Spawn 2: More Weird Stories about Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies. He has had stories
published online at Tales from the Crosstimbers and adapted into audio format for the
NoSleep Podcast.
When he is not writing, he is drawing or riding his unicycle. He lives in Perth with his
daughter and amazing wife who thinks horror stories are silly. You can find him on
Twitter:@benmattwriter or at bjcmatthews.wixsite.com/ben-matthews-author
Norman Goodman
Nenad Mitrović is a Serbian writer, author of four novels and one short story collection published in Serbia. Born and raised in the eastern part of the country, a region marked by rugged landscapes, fading industrial towns, and a rich substratum of folklore, Mitrović’s prose often draws from local myths, oral traditions, and deeply personal memory. His writing inhabits the space where the intimate and the uncanny meet, where everyday life slowly erodes into something darker, stranger, and more revealing.
Over the past year, Mitrović has increasingly turned toward writing and publishing in English. Under his own name, as well as the pseudonym Norman Goodman, his work has appeared in numerous international magazines and print publications dedicated to horror, speculative fiction, and the fantastic. Among the more notable appearances is his contribution to a pandemic-themed horror anthology published by Hellbound Books (Texas), a project that further solidified his engagement with contemporary global horror discourse.
A lifelong admirer of science fiction, from classic works to modern titles such as Annihilation, Mitrović is equally influenced by SF-horror cinema, where existential dread, isolation, and transformation often replace conventional monsters. These influences converge in his novel The Island of Happiness, a work that blends speculative fiction with psychological and cosmic horror, using genre not as an escape from reality but as a lens through which reality’s fractures become visible.
At the heart of Mitrović’s writing lies a persistent preoccupation with alienation, identity, and the slow violence of modern life. His characters are often wanderers, observers, or quiet outsiders, caught between inner collapse and an indifferent world. Violence, when it appears, is rarely gratuitous; it emerges as an inevitable consequence of pressure, fear, and unresolved longing.
Mitrović’s prose is marked by a lyrical sensibility and an elegiac tone, shaped by landscapes of transition—between rural and urban, past and present, human and inhuman. Whether writing in Serbian or English, his work seeks to evoke atmosphere before explanation, dread before revelation, and emotional truth before narrative comfort.
More information about his work can be found at
Jen Poteet
Jen Poteet has been romanticizing monsters since the 80’s when she started watching the Double Creature Feature after her Saturday morning cartoons. She’s never been afraid of the dark, instead has found herself more curious of what lurks there. She currently dwells in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains with her family, her home is practically an unofficial pet rescue and spends most of her time creating. Jen Poteet currently has four published works, has appeared in multiple anthologies and a few online journals that are all in no specific genre because she just loves words.
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 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, Iron Faerie Publishing, and Weirdbook Magazine, with more stories in the works. 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/rcmulhare
Tamara Kaye Sellman
Tamara Kaye Sellman is co-author of Rain Shadows (2025; BTRS Books) and author of Cul de Sac Stories (2024; Aqueduct Press) and Intention Tremor (2021; MoonPath Press). Gnashing Teeth Publishing will release her experimental novelette, Trust Fall, in September 2026. Sellman’s speculative fiction is forthcoming in two anthologies: The Big Book of Quantum Fiction; and Life, Death, and Transmutation. Other upcoming projects for 2026 include guest editing for the Crypticon III contest anthology (May 2026), a new zine series on creative resistance, launch of the “American Mirror” column for The Altruist, and completion of her third poetry film, A Word After A Word After A Word… .
LINKS
· Rhymes With Camera Substack: https://substack.com/@rhymeswithcamera
· Seattle Chapter of the Horror Writers Association: HWASeattle.com
· Dread Writers Society: https://authortunities-hub.mn.co/spaces/21600801/about
· Beneath the Rain Shadow podcast: https://www.rainshadowstories.com/btrspod
· BTRS Books: https://www.rainshadowstories.com/about-btrs-books
· Authors Against Book Bans: https://www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/
P. Mattern
USA TODAY Bestselling and Award winning Author P.Mattern was
born and bred in Virginia and currently lives in the Midwest where
there are no amazing geographical features above ground. A lifelong
fan of vampires she is the author of over 170 published novels,
novellas and horror/chiller shorts including her flagship Full Moon
Series, Midnight Magnolias Series and the Vampire Princess Saga.
She is currently involved with one of her characters (*”It’s
complicated”!)
Ian Klink
As a filmmaker, writer, and artist, Ian Klink’s work includes the feature film Anybody’s Blues, the novel Lucky from New Fangle Press, and short stories for Weren’t Another Way to Be: Outlaw Fiction Inspired by Waylon Jennings, The Beauty in Darkness: Illustrated Poetry Anthology, Negative Creep: A Nirvana-Inspired Anthology, A-Z of Horror: U is for Unexplained, Hellbound Books Anthology of Flash Fiction, Let the Right One Simmer, Volume I, Space Opera Stories: Alien Invasions, Beautiful Tragedies 4 – Hellbound Book’ Anthology of Dark Poetry, The Creeps, Vampiress Carmilla, The Siren’s Call, and Chilling Tales For Dark Nights. Born and raised in Iowa, Klink now resides in Pennsylvania, where he teaches multimedia studies