Brian Rosenberger lives in a cellar in Marietta, GA and writes by the light of captured fireflies. He is the author of As the Worm Turns, a collection of short stories, and three poetry collections - Poems that go SPLAT, And For My Next Trick and Scream For Me. His writing has appeared in numerous print and online magazines and anthologies.

Peter Adam Salomon’s second and third novels, ALL THOSE BROKEN ANGELS and EIGHT MINUTES, THIRTY-TWO SECONDS, were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Young Adult fiction. His first two novels were named a ‘Book All Young Georgians Should Read’ by The Georgia Center for The Book.

He founded both National Dark Poetry Day (Oct. 7) and the annual international Horror Poetry Showcase for the Horror Writers Association.

His poem ‘Electricity and Language and Me’ was performed by The Radiophonic Workshop on BBC Radio 6. Two of his poetry collections were nominated for the Elgin Award. In addition, he was the Editor for the first books of poetry released by the Horror Writers Association: Horror Poetry Showcase Volumes I and II.

He is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, the Science Fiction Poetry Association, the International Thriller Writers, and The Authors Guild.

Rose Blackthorn writes speculative fiction from the high mountain desert of eastern Utah.

Her short stories have appeared in such places as Stupefying Stories, Necon E-books, Interstellar Fiction, BuzzyMag, Siren’s Call and Massacre Magazine. She has also appeared in many anthologies including The Ghost IS the Machine and Fear the Abyss by Post Mortem Press, Eulogies II: Tales from the Cellar by HorrorWorld, Equilibrium Overturned and Dread by Grey Matter Press, Wrapped in Black by Sekhmet Press, and Twice Upon a Time by The Bearded Scribe Press.

Her poetry has appeared in Jamais Vu, 3 volumes of the HWA Horror Poetry Showcase, Widowmakers, and Chiral Mad 3. She has also released a poetry collection Thorns, Hearts and Thistles through Eldritch Press. More information can be found at:

http://www.facebook.com/RoseBlackthorn.Author

http://roseblackthorn.wordpress.com

https://twitter.com/rose_blackthorn

Janna Hill is an author of fiction, short stories and poetry. Most of her career was spent as a licensed nurse before dabbling behind the literary scenes as a ghost writer.

In 2012 she decided to step out of the shadows and attach her own name to her efforts and hasn't regretted the choice for one moment. She doesn't shy away from her audience either saying, "Fans are just friends and family I haven't met... or wrote about yet."

Janna currently resides somewhere between the palm trees and pines of Texas.

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Michael Penkas moved to Chicago in 2004 and soon after became a member of Twilight Tales, a small press and weekly reading series. His first published story, "Parable of the Lazy Rooster," appeared in the expanded edition of Tales from the Red Lion in 2007. He currently has over two-dozen published stories.

Currently, Michael Penkas is a regular participant at the Tamale Hut (North Riverside) reading series, the Bad Grammar (Chicago) reading series, and the Gumbo Fiction Salon (Chicago). His first novel, Mistress Bunny and the Cancelled Client, was published in November 2014.

SAVAGE ANESTHESIA - Short Stories (Carrion Blue 555) - now available.

"You know that homeless guy on the bus who sidles up to you and begins to mumble about aliens? SAVAGE ANESTHESIA is what you might get if he tied you up and made you listen to him long enough that he began to make sense. Obscene and surreal, these are mindscapes to get lost in."

—Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horse

"A work of stark and strange realism about a wholly unreal place: our very own world, which has rarely been reported on with such piercing focus. An original, paranoid, intense book of stories."

—Ben Marcus, Leaving the Sea

“Leland Pitts-Gonzalez does not transport the reader to another headspace so much as he transforms the reader. After coming out of SAVAGE ANESTHESIA, looking at words, thoughts, or people in the same light is an impossibility. To say that this is addictively irreverent is an understatement.”

—John Edward Lawson, Bibliophobia

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Leland earned an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. He has published fiction in Open City, Fence, Drunken Boat, and Monkey Bicycle, among other literary journals. He is also the project director of a literary event series, for which he received fiscal sponsorship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Annie Neugebauer is a novelist, blogger, nationally award-winning poet, and two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated short story author. Her debut collection, You Have to Let Them Bleed, and her debut novella, The Extra, are both set for publication in 2025, with two novellas to follow.

Stephanie M. Wytovich is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her work has been showcased in numerous magazines and anthologies such as Weird Tales, Nightmare Magazine, Southwest Review, 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, Southern New Hampshire University, and Point Park University, and a mentor with Crystal Lake Publishing. She is a recipient of the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant and has received the Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for non-fiction writing.

Wytovich 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, Sheet Music to My Acoustic Nightmare, and most recently, The Apocalyptic Mannequin. Her debut novel, The Eighth, is published with Dark Regions Press.

Follow Wytovich at http://stephaniewytovich.blogspot.com/ and on Twitter and Instagram @SWytovich​ and @thehauntedbookshelf. You can also find her essays, nonfiction, and class offerings on LitReactor.

Since 1994 Michelle Scalise's work has appeared in such anthologies as UNSPEAKABLE HORROR, DARKER SIDE, MORTIS OPERENDI, DARK ARTS, THE BIG BOOK OF EROTIC GHOST STORIES,BEST WOMEN'S EROTICA, BEST BISEXUAL WOMEN'S EROTICA, BELL,BOOK AND BEYOND and such magazines as Cemetery Dance, Crimewave and Dark Discoveries. She was nominated for the 2010 Spectrum Award honoring outstanding works of fantasy and horror that include positive gay characters, the Rhysling Award for poetry and the Elgin award for a poetry collection in 2015. Her fiction has received honorable mention in YEARS BEST FANTASY AND HORROR. Contributing Editor for SFSite and Black Gate Magazine chose her collection, INTERVALS OF HORRIBLE SANITY, as one of the top ten books of 2003. In 2012 Crossroad Press released her collection COLLECTIVE SUICIDE. The MANUFACTURER OF SORROW, her poetry collection released by Eldritch Press, made Amazon's Women Writers bestseller list. She has fiction and poetry appearing soon in the anthologies DISCOVERIES: BEST OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY (THE BEST OF DARK DISCOVERIES), OUR WORLD OF HORROR and the magazine Space And Time. Michelle was raised in Kent, Ohio.

Ms. Scalise is married to bestselling author Tom Piccirilli.

www.MichelleScalise.com

J.W. Zulauf wears many hats while walking the streets of the writing world. He started with a focus on the short story, first winning the Marjorie Flack Award for Fiction. Then he became one of the editors for Daylight Dims, a horror anthology for adults. He now works as an author at Evolved Publishing, where he created the chapter book series 'The Balderdash Saga' and the YA fantasy, 'Kingdom in Chains'.

To find out more, please visit his website: JWZulauf.com

Lynette Mejía writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror prose and poetry from the middle of a deep, dark forest in the wilds of southern Louisiana. Her work has been nominated for the Rhysling Award the the Million Writers Award. You can find her online at www.lynettemejia.com.

Cecilia Dockins lives just a bucket kick from Nashville, Tennessee. She spends most of her time wrangling words, kids, and pets. She doesn't like to bake and has a healthy mistrust of ribbon dancers. She does enjoy hoarding books and butchering flowers, which she describes as "gardening."

She earned her B.A. in English from Middle Tennessee State University in 2010. She is a writer of horror and urban fantasy. Currently, she is penning her first novel.

You can visit her at www.ceciliadockins.com

Or befriend her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccdockins

Chad Stroup is a writer and editor from San Diego, California. His dark short stories and poetry have been featured in various publications. Secrets of the Weird is his first novel.

Stroup received his MFA in Fiction from San Diego State University. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the San Diego Horror Professionals, and he dearly misses playing music.

Visit his blog at http://subvertbia.blogspot.com/, or drop by his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ChadStroupWriter.

Originally from the idyllic coast of Maine, Sarah Yasin presently lives inland where she studies world literature in translation using the public library. Year-round she works at the checkout counter of a convenience store, and seasonally she facilitate writing retreats. Her stories and poems can be found in Truancy, The Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase, and Lovecraft Me.

Learn more about her forthcoming books at www.sarahyasin.com

Michelle is from Arizona. She writes alongside her twin sister, Melissa Lason. They have been dubbed The Sisters of Slaughter. They write horror, science fiction and dark fantasy. Their work has been featured in anthologies such as FRESH MEAT by Sinister Grin Press, WISHFUL THINKING by fireside press, WIDOWMAKERS a benefit anthology of dark fiction. Their novel, MAYAN BLUE, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.