Andrew K. Clark is a writer from Western North Carolina where his people settled before the Revolutionary War. His debut novel, Where Dark Things Grow (Cowboy Jamboree Press) was a finalist for the Manly Wade Wellman Award, shortlisted for the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award, and winner of an IPPY from the Independent Book Publishers Awards. The sequel, Where Dark Things Rise, was published by Quill & Crow Publishing House. His forthcoming Appalachian folk horror novel, Hollow Folk, will be published by Quill & Crow in December of 2026. Connect with him at andrewkclark.com. 

John Collins has spent his life convinced that the voice coming from the closet is very real. Raised on a steady of late night horror films, paperback nightmares, and loud music, he is the author of The Leeds Point Horror and the collection Altars in Abandoned Houses. He lives in Long Island and is currently working on his next book.

J.K. Divia is an indie author renowned for their unique blend of dark fantasy, contemporary paranormal themes, and mythological horror. With a focus on emotionally resonant storytelling, J.K. creates narratives that captivate readers, inviting them into worlds filled with depth and lyrical beauty.

C.J. DOTSON possesses the statistically average number of body parts for a human being to have. She and her husband, stepson, and children (all of whom also appear human) share a cabin in the woods with more bugs than she would ever like to see. In her limited spare time she enjoys reading, roguelite video games, painting (with…questionable success), and petting her dog and six cats. Visit her at cjdotsonauthor.com or say hi at https://www.instagram.com/cj_dots/

JONATHAN EDWARD DURHAM was born outside of Philadelphia where he read voraciously throughout his youth and beyond. After attending William and Mary, where he received a degree in neuroscience while also studying literature, Jonathan waded into the professional world before deciding he was better suited for more artistic pursuits.

He still lives in Pennsylvania with his husband and a house full of animals. There, he writes novels that bridge the wonder of his favorite childhood stories with the thrilling pop sensibilities of his early adult obsessions. He's also occasionally funny on social media, and the second edition of his debut novel, Winterset Hollow, is coming from Hachette/Union Square this October!

S.K. Ehra is an author of fantasy, horror, and all that lies between. When not reading or writing, she can be found wandering the woods and, while skittish, is friendly when approached.

PHILIP FRACASSI is the USA Today bestselling, Bram Stoker

and British Fantasy Award nominated author of eight novels,

including Sarafina, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home

Massacre, Gothic, Boys in the Valley, The Third Rule of Time

Travel, and A Child Alone with Strangers.

His award-winning story collections include Behold the Void,

Beneath a Pale Sky, and No One is Safe! 

His work has been published in numerous languages, and his

short fiction has been featured in dozens of magazines and

anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare

Magazine, Southwest Review, and Interzone.

You can follow Philip on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky, or

visit his website at pfracassi.com.

Alex Gonzalez is a genre author and WGA screenwriter. His short stories have appeared in Death's Head Press & Catapult Mag. He's taught writing for Catapult, Write or Die, WritersWorkshop, and the Long Island University MFA program. His debut novel "Rekt" was published in 2025 via Erewhon Press. His second novel will come out in September 2026.

Rikki lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she owns a tattoo and piercing studio with her husband. She scares people every day as a professional body piercer, so it’s only natural she’s also an author of horror. She’s constantly bringing home potentially haunted home decor, but alas, there’s no ghosts in the house, just two very bad dogs.

Ryan La Sala is a bestselling and award winning author, who writes about surreal things happening to queer people. His debut horror novel, THE HONEYS, is in development to become a major motion picture. He is the author of BEHOLDER, REVERIE, and BE DAZZLED, and THE DEAD OF SUMMER duology.

Ronald Malfi is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of horror novels and thrillers. He is the recipient of two Independent Publisher Book Awards, the Beverly Hills Book Award, the Vincent Preis Horror Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction, and his novel Floating Staircase was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. In 2024, the Maryland Library Association presented Malfi with the prestigious William G. Wilson Award for Adult Fiction. Most recognized for his haunting, literary style and memorable characters, Malfi’s dark fiction has gained acceptance among readers of all genres. When he’s not writing, he’s fronting the rock band VEER.

Lucas is a dark fiction author and host of The Suspense is Killing Me Podcast. He is the author of The Haunting of the Whispering House series, including titles Bury the Child, Burn the Girls, Bless the Mother, and Banish the Dead as well as the post-apocalyptic survival thriller series Only Darkness Remains. He is also cofounder of Sobelo Books publishing company, and owner of the Spineless Reads indie bookstore in Williamsburg, VA. Lucas is a retired veteran of the US Coast Guard and earned his Doctor of Engineering degree from The George Washington University. He now lives in a pile of trees in Virginia.

Allison Mick (she/they) is a Los Angeles-based horror/comedy writer and the author of HUMBOLDT CUT (Erewhon Books), an eco-gothic horror novel about a suicidal psych nurse’s return to her hometown in the redwoods, and DIVE (Tenebrous Press), a speculative horror collection centered around a legendary punk bar and its clientele of musicians, comedians, fans, and vampires. Mick’s humor writing appears in Trailer Park Boys: Big A$$ Comic Collection (Devil’s Due Comics) and The Hard Times: The First 40 Years (Mariner Books).

Mo Moshaty is an award-winning horror writer, screenwriter, lecturer, and producer whose work interrogates women's trauma, transformation, cultural identity, and the architectures of power within the genre. She is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of NightTide Magazine, a platform dedicated to amplifying marginalized voices in horror, and the founder of Mourning Manor Media. Her works include Love the Sinner: Eight Stories Bound in Sin from Brigids Gate Press, Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment from Tenebrous Press; work in anthologies: 206 Word Stories (BagOBones Press), A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales (Brigids Gate Press), Legends and Lore (Encyclopocalypse Publications), Latin American Shared Stories (Flame Tree Press), SoulScream Antholozine; Fear and Loathing (Seamus and Nunzio Productions, LLC), and non-fiction such as The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (Palgrave), Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre (1428 Publishing Ltd.), Toxic Nostaglia on Screen: Undead Memory in the Twenty-First Century (Lexington Books), and Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge)

With Nyx Horror Collective, A Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Provider, she co-produced the short films 13 Minutes of Horror: Folklore and 13 Minutes of Horror: Sci-Fi Horror; the latter garnering a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Short Film in 2022. As a nonfiction writer and cultural critic, Mo's work explores the intersections of gender, body politics, folklore, and the Gothic tradition. She has lectured internationally across the US, UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Canada, and has spoken at institutions including the British Film Institute, University of Sheffield, Prairie View, Texas A&M University, and the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. Her scholarship and public lectures examine horror as a site of inheritance, resistance nad re-authorship.

Mo has provided audio commentary for Vinegar Syndrome and written print commentary for re-releases with Second Sight Films. She is featured in 160 Black Women in Horror. Through her fiction, criticism, and curatorial work, she committed to reshaping horror into a space where marginalized voices lead the narrative and the genre's most haunted structures are finally named, challenged, and rebuilt. 

Robert P. Ottone is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winning author from Long Island. He is the author of the novels Amityville Awakens, The Vile Thing We Created, The Triangle, There’s Something Sinister in Centerfield and the collections Tear Me Open: Fears Unwrapped and Her Infernal Name & Other Nightmares.

He lives in upstate New York with his wife, where he enjoys cigars, video games, film and a good cocktail.

Chris writes fun, scary novels, and strange short stories. He's also an artist and illustrator! Lives on Earth.

Tanya Pell is a professional dream chaser. After spending a decade as a high school teacher, she left the classroom to write and edit academic pieces on everything from fairy tales to video games. At some point, she joined the circus and spent some time as an aerial arts instructor. Now, she writes stories filled with trauma, hope, and puns. And maybe magic and monsters…

Tanya lives just across the South Carolina border from the city of Charlotte where you can catch her performing aerial or emceeing from time to time. A clinically tired narcoleptic, Tanya drinks bougie coffee, loves video games, and her favorite punctuation is the interrobang. When she isn’t writing, collecting odd bones, or hanging from her lyra or contortion loops, she is focused on her family.

Sam Rebelein writes and teaches in Poughkeepsie, NY. His short fiction has appeared in PseudoPod, The Deadlands, Press Pause Press, Ellen Datlow's prestigious Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. His first three books (THE POORLY MADE AND OTHER THINGS, GALLOWAY'S GOSPEL, and the Bram Stoker award-nominated novel EDENVILLE) are all set in upstate New York, in fictional Renfield County. For more about Sam's work, and pictures of his scruffy pooch Frodo, follow him on Instagram @rebelsam94.

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Meg Ripley was born in Ontario and raised in Newfoundland, Canada, surrounded by whales and icebergs. After an MFA in illustration from SVA, NYC, she worked as an illustrator for a decade before realizing her love of writing fiction could no longer be ignored. Her first novel, Necrology, was a Foreword INDIES Award Winner. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Rebecca Rowland is a Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author and editor whose third fiction collection, Unsettled Score: A Mixtape of Arthouse Horror, released from Lethe Press this summer. Cemetery Dance states that her work “reeks of The Twilight Zone in all the best ways” and that she is “one of the best short story writers today.” Stalk her at RowlandBooks.com.

Saratoga Schaefer (they/them) is the author of Serial Killer Support Group, Trad Wife, The Last Time We Drowned, and A Thousand Monstrous Forms. Their debut Serial Killer Support Group was a “Best Pick of the Month” by Barnes & Noble and Amazon and was named one of 2025's biggest thrillers by Goodreads. Originally from Brooklyn, Saratoga now lives upstate with several needy animals and a haunted clown table.

Chuck Wendig is the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers, The Book of Accidents, Wayward, Black River Orchard, and more than two dozen other books for adults and young adults. A finalist for the Astounding Award and an alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, he has also written for comics, games, film, and television. He’s known for his popular blog, terribleminds, and books about writing such as Damn Fine Story. He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his family.

Emily Zinnikas is the author of an upcoming 2026 horror debut with St. Martin's Press. She has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and lives in New York. Emily loves all things spooky – and considers a ghost tour the highlight of any vacation.