Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors by Todd Keisling
Whispered Echoes by Paul F. Olson
Embers: A Collection of Dark Fiction by Kenneth W. Cain
Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest, by Bruce Boston and Robert Frazier
Tribulations by Richard Thomas
Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast by Jonathan Winn
Flowers in a Dumpster by Mark Allan Gunnells
The Dark at the End of the Tunnel by Taylor Grant
Through a Mirror, Darkly by Kevin Lucia
Things Slip Through by Kevin Lucia
Where You Live by Gary McMahon
Tricks, Mischief and Mayhem by Daniel I. Russell
Samurai and Other Stories by William Meikle
Stuck On You and Other Prime Cuts by Jasper Bark
Poetry collections:
WAR by Alessandro Manzetti and Marge Simon
Brief Encounters with My Third Eye by Bruce Boston
No Mercy: Dark Poems by Alessandro Manzetti
Eden Underground: Poetry of Darkness by Alessandro Manzetti
If you’ve ever thought of becoming an author, we’d also like to recommend these non-fiction titles:
The Dead Stage: The Journey from Page to Stage by Dan Weatherer
Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre, edited by Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson
Horror 101: The Way Forward, edited by Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley
Horror 201: The Silver Scream Vol.1 and Vol.2, edited by Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley
Modern Mythmakers: 35 interviews with Horror and Science Fiction Writers and Filmmakers by Michael McCarty
Writers On Writing: An Author’s Guide Volumes 1,2,3, and 4, edited by Joe Mynhardt. Now also available in a Kindle and paperback omnibus.
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
Paul Michael Anderson is the author of Bones are Made to be Broken and a short story writer with recent work in Suspended in Dusk 2, Chiral M4d (with Bracken MacLeod), and the War on Christmas. He can be found on Twitter under the inspired handle of @p_m_anderson, or his website paulmichaelanderson.wordpress.com.
Meghan Arcuri writes fiction and poetry. Her short stories can be found in various anthologies, including Chiral Mad (Written Backwards), Chiral Mad 3, and Madhouse (both from Dark Regions Press). She also has a story in the forthcoming Borderlands 7 (Borderlands Press). She lives with her family in New York’s Hudson Valley. Please visit her at meghanarcuri.com, facebook.com/meg.arcuri, or on Twitter.
Laura Blackwell is an editor and writer of speculative fiction. Her novelettes and short stories have appeared in magazines and in various print and eBook anthologies, including the 2016 World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows. She was Shimmer’s final copy editor. You can find her on Twitter at @pronouncedLAHra.
Bruce Boston is the author of more than fifty books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener’s Tale and Stained Glass Rain. His poetry has received the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov’s Readers Award, and the Rhysling and Grandmaster Awards of the SFPA. His fiction has received a Pushcart Prize, and twice been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (novel, short story). His latest poetry collection, Artifacts, is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
Jonah Buck wanted to study eldritch knowledge and commune with pale, furtive creatures of the night, so he went to law school. His interests include history, professional stage magic, paleontology, and exotic poultry. He is the author of numerous short stories and several novels, including Carrion Safari and Substratum.
Cory Cone lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife and son. He is a Business Systems Analyst at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he graduated with a BFA in Painting in 2007. In January of 2017 he attended the Borderlands Press Writer Bootcamp. Cory’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in several magazines and anthologies, including Borderlands 7, Nightscript, Phobos Magazine, and Shrieks and Shivers from The Horror Zine. Outside of writing, you can find Cory birding around Maryland, playing at the playground with his son, or streaming video games on Twitch.tv under the handle quid66. His website is www.corycone.com.
Formerly a film critic, journalist, screenwriter and teacher, Gemma Files has been an award-winning horror author since 1999. She has published two collections of short work (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart), two chap-books of speculative poetry (Bent Under Night and Dust Radio), a Weird Western trilogy (the Hexslinger series—A Book of Tongues, A Rope of Thorns and A Tree of Bones), a story-cycle (We Will All Go Down Together: Stories of the Five-Family Coven) and a stand-alone novel (Experimental Film, which won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the 2016 Sunburst award for Best Adult Novel). Most are available from ChiZine Publications. She has two upcoming story collections from Trepidatio (Spectral Evidence and Drawn Up From Deep Places), and one from Cemetery Dance (Dark Is Better).
Michelle Ann King was born in East London and now lives in Essex. She has published stories of fantasy, science fiction, and horror in over ninety different magazines and anthologies, including Interzone, Strange Horizons, and Black Static. Her favourite author is Stephen King (sadly, no relation), and she also loves zombies, Las Vegas, and good Scotch whisky. Her first two short story collections are available in ebook and paperback from Amazon and other online retailers. See www.transientcactus.co.uk for details.
Samuel Marzioli is an Italian-Filipino writer of mostly dark fiction. His work has appeared in numerous publications and podcasts, including the Best of Apex Magazine (2016), Shock Totem, InterGalactic Medicine Show, Pseudopod, and LeVar Burton Reads. For more information about his work, visit his blog at marzioli.blogspot.com.
Peter Mark May is the author of six horror novels and one novella Demon, Kumiho, Inheritance [P. M. May], Dark Waters (novella), Hedge End, AZ: Anno Zombie and Something More Than Night. He’s had short stories published in genre Canadian & US magazines and UK & US anthologies of horror such as Creature Feature, Watch, the British Fantasy Society’s 40th Anniversary anthology Full Fathom Forty, Alt-Zombie, Fogbound From 5, Nightfalls, Demons & Devilry, Miseria’s Chorale,The Bestiarum Vocabulum, Phobophobias,Kneeling in the Silver Light, Demonology.
He also writes historical crime under the name Alexander Arrowsmith, his first of a series of novels Pillars of Blood was published 2016/17.
Website: http://petermarkmay.weebly.com/
Gene O’Neill has seen over 180 of his stories and novellas published, several reprinted in France, Spain, and Russia. Some of these stories have been collected in Ghost Spirits, Computers & World Machines, The Grand Struggle, In Dark Corners, Dance of the Blue Lady, The Hitchhiking Effect, Lethal Birds, and Frozen Shadows & other chilling stories. He has seen six novels published. Gene has been a Stoker finalist twelve times. In 2010 Taste of Tenderloin won the haunted house for collection; in 2012 The Blue Heron won for Long Fiction. A series of two novels in The White Plague Chronicles will come out in 2018—The Sarawak Virus in the summer, Pandemic in the winter. Also out in 2018, Entangled Soul, a collaborative novella, with Chris Marrs.
Gene lives in the Napa Valley with his wife, Kay. He has two grown children, Gavin, who lives in Oakland, and Kaydee who lives in Carlsbad and rides herd on his two g-kids, Fiona and TJ.
When he isn’t writing or visiting g-kids, Gene likes to read good fiction or watch sports—all of them, especially boxing.
Allison Pang is the author of the Urban Fantasy Abby Sinclair series, the IronHeart Chronicles series, and the writer for the webcomic Fox & Willow. She likes LEGOS, elves, LEGO elves . . . and bacon. You can find her at https://www.heartofthedreaming.com
Joanna Parypinski is a college English instructor by day and a writer of the dark and strange by night. Her work has appeared in Nightmare Maga
zine, Haunted Nights (Penguin Random House), The Beauty of Death 2: Death by Water, Vastarien, Nightscript Vol. 4, and Tales from the Lake Vol. 5. Her forthcoming novel, Dark Carnival, will be published by Independent Legions in March 2019. Living in the shadow of an old church that sits atop a hilly cemetery north of Los Angeles, she writes, grades essays, and plays her cello surrounded by the sounds of screaming neighbor children.
Andi Rawson edits for Thunderstorm Books and Cemetery Dance. She lives in Connecticut where she works as a pharmacy technician and lives with her menagerie of rescue animals.
Marge Simon lives in Ocala, FL. She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, “Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side,” and serves on Board of Trustees. She is the second woman to be acknowledged by the SF&F Poetry Association with a Grand Master Award. She has won three Bram Stoker Awards, Rhysling Awards for Best Long and Best Short Fiction, the Elgin, Dwarf Stars and Strange Horizons Readers’ Award. Marge’s poems and stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Silver Blade, Bete Noire, Grievous Angel, Daily Science Fiction, You Human, Chiral Mad 2,3,4 and The Beauty of Death 1,2—to name a few. She attends the ICFA annually as a guest poet/writer and is on the board of the Speculative Literary Foundation.
Jason Sizemore is a writer, editor, and publisher from Lexington, KY. He owns and operates the award-winning Apex Book Company and Apex Magazine. You can find more of his dark speculative short fiction in his recent collection Irredeemable (Seventh Star Press). Find him on Twitter at @apexjason.
Lucy A. Snyder is the five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of over 100 published short stories. Her most recent books are the collection Garden of Eldritch Delights and the forthcoming novel The Girl With the Star-Stained Soul. She also wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess, and the collections While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, and Best Horror of the Year. She’s faculty in Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction MFA program. You can learn more about her at www.lucysnyder.com.
Robert Stahl is a whisky drinkin’, vampire fightin’, skull collectin’ writer from Dallas, Texas. As a grocery attendant, he rarely gets a second glance during the day. But at nights, especially when the moon is full, he puts on his armor and patrols the streets protecting unsuspecting souls from the dark forces of evil. He writes, too. His work has been published at Acidic Fiction, Urban Fantasist, Creepy Campfire Stories (for Grownups), Odd Tree Press, Crystal Lake Publishing and Whispers From the Abyss.
Lucy Taylor is the author of seven novels, including The Safety of Unknown Cities, Left to Die, Eternal Hearts, and Nailed, as well as over a hundred short stories.
Most recently her work has appeared in the anthologies Endless Apocalypse (Flame Tree Press) Death by Water II, (Independent Legions Publishing), Edward Bryant’s Spheres of Influence and A Fistful of Dinosaurs (Charles Anderson Books), The Five Senses of Horror anthology (Dark Moon Books), and Monsters of Any Kind (Independent Legions Publishing).
Her most recent collection Spree and Other Stories is available from Independent Legions Publishing.
Her science fiction/horror novelette “Sweetlings” was on the 2018 Final Ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards in the category of Long Fiction. Her story “In the Cave of the Delicate Singers” (Tor.com) is currently being made into a feature film by Lost Eye Films.
Taylor lives in the high desert outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Tim Waggoner has published over forty novels and five collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and his articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. He’s won the Bram Stoker Award, the HWA’s Mentor of the Year Award, and been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award. He’s also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.
Lane Waldman grew up in Rochester, NY and currently lives in Philadelphia. Their fiction has previously appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Capricious, and Betwixt.
Craig Wallwork is the twice nominated Pushcart Prize writer of two novels, The Sound of Loneliness, and, To Die Upon a Kiss, as well as the short story collections, Quintessence of Dust, and Gory Hole. His short stories have been published in various anthologies and magazines both in the U.K. and U.S. He currently lives in West Yorkshire, England, with his wife and two children.
Stephanie M. Wytovich is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her work has been showcased in numerous anthologies such as Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Shadows Over Main Street: An Anthology of Small-Town Lovecraftian Terror, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 2, The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 8, as well as many others.
Wytovich is the Poetry Editor for Raw Dog Screaming Press, an adjunct at Western Connecticut State University and Point Park University, and a mentor with Crystal Lake Publishing. She is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, an active member of the Horror Writers Association, and a graduate of Seton Hill University’s MFA program for Writing Popular Fiction. Her Bram Stoker Award-winning poetry collection, Brothel, earned a home with Raw Dog Screaming Press alongside Hysteria: A Collection of Madness, Mourning Jewelry, An Exorcism of Angels, and Sheet Music to My Acoustic Nightmare. Her debut novel, The Eighth, is published with Dark Regions Press.
Follow Wytovich at http://stephaniewytovich.blogspot.com/ and on twitter @SWytovich.
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