Five years ago when my wife shamed me into picking up my pen again, one of the first things I started writing was a mash up novel of Lovecraftian characters, and I really wanted Herbert West to be part of that team. Unfortunately, I'm a stickler for established chronologies, and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't tell the story I wanted to tell with West in it.

Enter Dr. Stuart Hartwell.

He was the perfect solution, he had all of West's skills, but his timeline was mine to play with. But, I didn't know who he was, or what motivated him. So I wrote a story about him, and another, and then another. Quickly the mash up novel was set aside and all my time was spent focused on Hartwell. Those stories became the novel Reanimators.

Now, just a year later that mash up novel I wanted to work on. The one that was called at various times The League of Lovecraftian Gentlemen, The Miskatonic Club, The Miskatonic Men's Aide Society, The Arkham Oddfellowes - well that became The Weird Company and that hits the streets in September.

Hartwell is back, but this time he's not alone, he and his cohort have been recruited by . . .

Well you'll just have to read the book now won't you.

This is the book I wanted to write from the start, and if you liked Reanimators, you will adore The Weird Company.

Logan Noble is a horror and science fiction writer who lives in Ohio with his wife and his two dogs. His short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines, including Pickman’s Gallery, Miskatonic Dreams, Déraciné Magazine, and Sanitarium Magazine. He is also the writer of the horror slasher screenplay Hunter.

Follow along his daily adventures on Twitter from his profile: @logan_noble, or on his website, www.logannobleauthor.com. Join his e-mail list for giveaways and more free content!

John Linwood Grant lives in Yorkshire with a pack of lurchers and a beard. He may also have a family. When he's not chronicling the adventures of Mr Bubbles, the slightly psychotic pony, he writes a range of supernatural, horror and speculative tales, some of which are actually published. You can find him every week on greydogtales.com, often with his dogs.

Glynn Owen Barrass lives in the North East of England and has been writing since late 2006. He has written over two hundred short stories, novellas, and role-playing game supplements, the majority of which have been published in France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Portugal, the UK, and the USA.

To date he has edited ten anthologies including Anno Klarkash-Ton, Atomic Age Cthulhu, The Children of Gla’aki, Eldritch Chrome, In the Court of the Yellow King, Murder Mystery Madness and Mythos, Steampunk Cthulhu, The Summer of Lovecraft, Through a Mythos Darkly, and World War Cthulhu.

He has received two Ennies awards for his gaming work.

Micah S. Harris is an award-winning author whose work has been published in the United States, France, and Italy.

With comics artist Michael Gaydos (Marvel's Jessica Jones) he created the graphic novel Heaven’s War.

His prose fiction Ravenwood, the Stepson of Mystery: Return of the Dugpa won the Pulp Ark Award for best novel of 2016.

His Agents of the Rune Stone Ring Trilogy consists of The World Queen Awakens, The Dark Lord Lurking, and Royals, Rogues and Dragons Arise!

Witty banter, relatable characters, court intrigue, supernatural threats, and forbidden love characterize this epic fantasy set in a small Scandinavian kingdom with a glacier that spans other worlds and times.

"Paul StJohn Mackintosh is one of those writers who just seems to quietly get on with the business of producing great fiction." - Paul Michaels, This is Horror

Paul StJohn Mackintosh is a Scottish poet, writer of weird and dark fiction and roleplaying games, translator and journalist. Born in 1961, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, has lived and worked in Asia and Central Europe, and currently divides his time between Geneva and other locations.

Paul's first collection of dark/weird/transgressive fiction, Black Propaganda, appeared from H. Harksen Productions in May 2016. His second story collection, The Echo of The Sea & other Strange War Stories, was published by Egaeus Press in October 2017. His novella The Three Books was published by Black Shuck Books in March 2018. Paul's dark, fantastic and Lovecraftian fiction has appeared in numerous formats and journals worldwide, including Weirdbook, Ghosts & Scholars, and a number of anthologies. His roleplaying game based on the great ghost story tradition of M.R. James, Casting the Runes, was published in 2021 by The Design Mechanism.

Paul's short story 'The People of the Island,' in Eldritch Horrors: Dark Tales, from H. Harksen Productions, received an Honorable Mention from Ellen Datlow in her 'Best Horror of the Year Volume Two' list for 2009, and his story 'The First Circus of the New Year' received the same in 2016. His acclaimed first poetry collection, The Golden Age, was published by Bellew Publishing in 1997, and reissued on Kindle in 2013, and his second poetry collection, The Musical Box of Wonders, was published by H. Harksen Productions in 2011. His co-translations from the Japanese, done with Maki Sugiyama, include The Poems of Nakahara Chuya (1993) and Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1995) by the 1994 Nobel Prize-winner Kenzaburo Oe, which won a Japan Festival Award. He translated the poems for the Japanese photo-travelogue and exhibition catalogue Utamakura (Asuka Historical Museum, 1998). He also co-translated Superstrings (2007) by Dinu Flamand from Romanian with Olga Dunca.

Paul is an Associate Editor for the US books, publishing and literary website Teleread.org, writing regularly on cultural and publishing matters, and has been rated #1 of "The 12 Publishing Shakers You Should Be Following" by The Independent Publishing Magazine. He writes and reviews regularly for outlets including the Occult Detective Magazine, Strange Horizons, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Weirdbook, the Lovecraft eZine, See the Elephant, Ginger Nuts of Horror, and elsewhere. He has co-produced award-winning short films with his ex-wife, the Hungarian filmmaker Lilla Bán. He is an active member of the BDSM community and an occasional contributor to Skin Two. He is also official clan poet of Clan Mackintosh.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulStJohnMackintosh

Twitter: @pstjmack

Award-winning author Jon Black was raised in a university town north of Dallas, lived in Egypt for several years, bounced to various locations around the world, and ultimately landed in Austin.

His short story, “Bel Nemeton,” a blend of Arthurian historical fantasy and progressive pulp, is being expanded into an eight-book series with the first release scheduled for 2017. Also look for his upcoming supernaturally-tinged 1920s mystery novel "Gabriel's Trumpet" and the music-themed western Gothic short story "So Lonesome I Could Die."

Jon's other writing includes music journalism, ghostwriting, speechwriting, and roleplaying games.

Jon’s previous jobs include archaeological excavator, Benjamin Franklin impersonator, embassy worker, graduate assistant, newspaper reporter, pizza jockey, political speechwriter, small business owner, substitute teacher, and summer camp counselor…not always in the order one might expect.

He waited until he was 43 before writing fiction … and wishes he had started a lot sooner.