Lucy A. Snyder is the five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of 14 books:

* Sister, Maiden, Monster

* Halloween Season

* Exposed Nerves

* Garden of Eldritch Delights

* While the Black Stars Burn

* Spellbent

* Shotgun Sorceress

* Switchblade Goddess

* Soft Apocalypses

* Orchid Carousals

* Sparks and Shadows

* Chimeric Machines

* Installing Linux on a Dead Badger

* Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide

Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5.

She has an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and lives in Ohio. You can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder.

You can learn more at her website: www.lucysnyder.com

Trisha J. Wooldridge writes short stories, novellas, novels, articles, and poetry about bad-ass faeries, carnivorous horses, social justice witches, vengeful spirits—and mundane stuff like food, hay-eating horses, social justice debates, writer advice, and alcoholic spirits. Her recent work includes stories and poems in Gothic Fantasy Supernatural Horror, Dark Luminous Wings, Wicked Haunted, Darkling’s Beasts and Brews, Nothing’s Sacred Volume 4, and the HWA Poetry Showcase Volume 5. She’s a freelance editor of over sixty novels and three anthologies. As child-friendly T.J. Wooldridge, she’s published poetry and three spooky children’s novels. She spends rare moments of mystical “free time” with a very patient Husband-of-Awesome, a calico horse, and a bratty tabby cat. Join her adventures at www.anovelfriend.com.

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In Oliver Smith’s stories you'll find a mermaid smoking French cigarettes in the bath and demanding a holiday, pickled brains plotting in the pantry while Father tangos the night away under the eye of the most honest spy in all Argentina. There’s Talos and Medea, Witches’ skulls, Caliban, Gawain, evil scientists, Anglo-Saxon poetry, and Frankenstein’s Niece. In the story ‘The Sulphur Remedy’ there’s a giant flea sat where the flatmate used to be and, let’s face it, he’s an improvement. In ‘Basilisk Soup’ a green man has lost his head and isn't going to take it lying down. There are surprise visits from dead girlfriends and Christmas with the nicest cannibal in town. There’s Saxon magic colliding catastrophically with Rock and Roll at sea, and in the pleasant valley Yellow Dust is covering the landscape and transforming everything it touches.

‘Basilisk Soup & Other Fantasies’ collects together stories and poems that have previously appeared in S T Joshi’s Spectral Realms journal, the Horrorzine, anthologies by Ex Occidente Press, Inkermen Press, Dark Hall Press, and History and Mystery LLC. It also includes four previously unpublished tales and ten new poems.

Oliver Smith’s writing has been described as “literary splatter-horror, and wild-conceited ironic fantasy to die for.” (D F Lewis), “richly textured and shaded through a dark and subtle palette”, “hauntingly poetic”, “beautifully written with a superb poetic turn of phrase” (Amazon reviews).

His influences include Alasdair Gray, Aldous Huxley, Angela Carter, August Strindberg, Borges, Bruno Schulz , Clark Ashton Smith, David Madsen, Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell, Gustav Meyrink, H P Lovecraft, Henrik Ibsen, Herbert Rosendorfer, Italo Calvino, Michael Moorcock, J G Ballard, Kafka, Kingsley Amis, Samuel Beckett, and Lucius Apuleius.

His short stories and poems have been included in the following books:

ANTHOLOGY- LAND'S END Inkermen Press (2008) ISBN-10: 0955625939

'Magdalene'

'Magdalene Regained'

ANTHOLOGY- COLD TURKEY Inkermen Press (2009) ISBN-10: 0955625955

'A Present for Jack Price'

'Basilisk Soup'

ANTHOLOGY- This Hermetic Legislature: A Homage to Bruno Schulz edited by D.P. Watt and D.T. Ghetu (Bucharest: Ex Occidente Press, 2012).

'With Shadow All The Marble Steps'

ANTHOLOGY- 'Transactions of the Flesh: A Homage to Joris-Karl Huysmans

Edited by D.P. Watt & Peter Holman. (Ex Occidente Press/Zagava Press, 2013)

'The Sulphur Remedy'

ANTHOLOGY -'Dark Hall Press Cosmic Horror Anthology' Edited by William Renahan ISBN-10 0615968406 (Dark Hall Press, 2014)

'The Yellow Dust'

ANTHOLOGY - 'Dark Hall Press Techno-Horror Anthology' Edited by William Renahan (Dark Hall Press - 2014)

'The Arkenholz Sonata'

ANTHOLOGY - 'History and Horror, Oh My' Edited by Sarah E. Glenn ( Mystery and Horror, LLC - 2014)

'St Ayers Gospel'

ANTHOLOGY - 'Compass' , University of Gloucestershire, (Horseplay Press -2015)

'The Souls of Men Who Went Beyond'

JOURNAL - Spectral Realms - issue 1 Edited by S T Joshi (Hippocampus Press- July 2014)

'Museum Piece'(poem)

JOURNAL - Spectral Realms - issue 2 Edited by S T Joshi (Hippocampus Press- January 2015)

'Swampsong'(poem)

JOURNAL - Spectral Realms - issue 3 Edited by S T Joshi (Hippocampus Press- Summer 2015)

'Gorgoneion '(poem)

JOURNAL - Spectral Realms - issue 4 Edited by S T Joshi (Hippocampus Press- February 2016)

'Deeper Flowers Thrive'(poem)

'The Returned'(poem)

JOURNAL - Spectral Realms - issue 5 Edited by S T Joshi (Hippocampus Press- July 2016)

‘Cast Away’(poem)

‘Whisper’ (poem)

E-ZINE/MAGAZINE - The Horror zine - Fall 2015 Edited by Jeani Rector

'After His Wrath' (poem)

'Broken Angel' (poem)

'Caliban Post Prosperum' (poem)

ANTHOLOGY – In A Cat’s Eye – edited by Kelly A. Harmon & Vonnie Winslow Crist (Pole to Pole Publishing – October 2016)

‘Grimmun’

JOURNAL - Spectral Realms - issue 6 Edited by S T Joshi (Hippocampus Press- February 2017)

‘Yaga’(poem)

‘Downstream’(poem)

ANTHOLOGY – Supernatural Horror Anthology Edited by Roger Luckhurst (Flame Tree Publishing 2017)

‘John Johnson’

JOURNAL – Illumen issue 26 – edited by Tyree Campbell (Alban Lake January 2017)

‘Serpentine’(poem)

ANTHOLOGY - Fossil Lake IV: Sharkasaurus! – edited by Christine Morgan (Sabledrake Publishing 2017)

‘Waters that Sparkled so Green’ (poem)

ANTHOLOGY - All is Full of Hell : A Panegyric for William Blake – edited by D.T. Ghetu & Damien Murphy, illustrated by Denis Forkas Kostromitin (Mount Abraxas/Ex Occidente 2017)

‘Burnt the Fire of Thine Eyes’

ANTHOLOGY – White Noise and Ouija Boards edited by Kate Garrett & Caroline Hardaker (Three Drops Press 2017)

‘Pale Molly Waiting’

COLLECTION – Stars Beneath the Ships (Ex Occidente Press 2017) limited to 101 copies hardback illustrated by Rotten Phantom.

‘Deeper Flowers Thrive’(Poem)

‘Crocodiles in the Sugar’

‘The Voice of Your Redeemer- The Songful Morning Near’

‘Blood, Dark Rainbow Bliss’

‘Magdalene’

‘A Garland of Rue’

ANTHOLOGY – Shadows – University of Gloucestershire (Horseplay Press 2017)

‘Tiger. Tiger’

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Matthew Gorman is an author of speculative fiction residing in Edmonds, Washington who specializes in supernatural horror. His work has appeared online and in a number of print anthologies including Horrortree.com’s Trembling With Fear, The Corona Book of Ghost Stories, and Flame Tree Publishing’s Supernatural Horror edition from their Gothic Fantasy series.

G.L. McDorman writes Lovecraftian horror stories in the fantasy world of Uldon -- a dark place full of insatiable greed, corrupt institutions, unspeakable evil, and lots and lots of murder.

Since growing up in the Chicago suburbs, G.L. McDorman has served as a soldier, a spy, and a scholar. Following a passion for dead languages and mysterious ruins, he is in the process of earning his doctorate in medieval history at Princeton University, where he spends an inordinate amount of time mulling things over in the gothic chapel designed by weird-fiction writer Ralph Adams Cram. When G.L. McDorman isn’t writing or teaching, you’ll find him climbing mountains or ambling across wastelands in search of adventure and glory. And sometimes he runs a speakeasy out of his apartment ... but you'll need the password to get in.

You can find G.L. McDorman online at www.claytemplemedia.com/glmcdorman

Born in the artists’ community of Woodstock, NY, Morgan Elektra discovered her passion for writing at a young age, penning stories of witches, vampires, and monsters at the dining room table. After years working day jobs and moonlighting as a reviewer for popular genre website Dread Central, Morgan left the comfort of an office to follow her dreams of writing fiction. She spent the early twenty-teens as a freelance ghostwriter of erotica, but has now put aside the masks to write under her own name. Morgan attends Southern New Hampshire University, where she is completing her MFA in Creative Writing. She writes dark fiction, paranormal romance, and erotica for those who, like her, are in love with the dark.

When not writing she can be found reading, or volunteering with and participating in her local LGBTQ+ community.

She currently lives near Savannah, GA with her husband, their cat Harlequin, and—if the rumors are to be believed (and she sincerely hopes they are)—an awful lot of ghosts.

If you have any questions this almost entirely true bio doesn't answer, Morgan encourages you to ask! She is an open book... cracked spine and all!

Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MorganElektra

Michelle Muenzler, known at local science fiction and fantasy conventions as “The Cookie Lady”, writes fiction both dark and strange to counterbalance the sweetness of her baking. Her short fiction and poetry can be read in numerous science fiction and fantasy magazines, and she takes immense joy in crinkling words like little foil puppets. Michelle is a SFWA member and represented by Howard Morhaim of the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. If you wish to lure her out of hiding, you can friend her on Facebook or chase her down at a local SF/F convention where she will ply you with hundreds of home-baked cookies while gleefully describing the latest horror she’s written. She supposes you could also use the contact page at michellemuenzler.com to reach her, but she finds electronic cookies far less tasty than real ones.

Born in France, raised in the US, currently lives in Poland; former touring musician, former stand-up comedian, currently working on his next will-be-former activity; widely published in print and online in various anthologies, literary reviews, and magazines, Michaël Wertenberg tends to write about "disturbed people doing disturbing things".

He claims to live with six cats, but sources can only confirm one, a tabby named Zvyezda.