
Meet the authors of Rotting Upright, Volume 1
Shawn Putnam
Shawn Putnam is a man on the short south side of fifty who has been writing since high school, married for almost thirty years with a twenty-one-year-old son and two puppies. Only recently has he felt secure enough to submit his works for publication, and he is somewhat gratified that persons other than his family have found a kernel of worth in his humble stories.
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, and Weirdbook Magazine, with more stories in the works. She shares her home with her family, a vintage music-loving baby 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
Josiah Santos
Josiah Santos works as a Supply Chain Asst. Manager, but found that his passion lies in entertaining others through writing. Although he grew up afraid of anything creepy and watching horror movies from behind a pillow, he grew to appreciate how the horror genre could be used to confront fears and explore where they come from. Through encouragement from his amazing wife, he embraces the uncomfortable and the painful moments in life through writing, and although some of his works may be dark at times, they never come from a dark place.
Mark Mackey

Mark Mackey is a long-time resident of Chicago, Illinois, with no plans to relocate elsewhere, either city or state and 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/B0054