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Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author thirty-five or so books. He really likes werewolves and slashers. Favorite novels change daily, but Valis and Love Medicine and Lonesome Dove and It and The Things They Carried are all usually up there somewhere. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado. It's a big change from the West Texas he grew up in.

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T. Kingfisher

T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections.

This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups.

When she is not writing, she is probably out in the garden, trying to make eye contact with butterflies.

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Kenya Moss-Dyme

Kenya is the proud author of the collections Sick xoxo, Daymares, and The Mixtape. Her novels include Prey for Me, the hard-hitting story of a monstrous child-abusing preacher, the romantic thriller series A Good Wife, and Devil Inside, a disturbing tale about a cancer patient who morphs into something unrecognizable during treatment.

Dipping her toes into dark fantasy, Kenya debuted The Forever Souls, a bloody romantic series set in the distant future. A talented multi-genre writer, Kenya also appears in the Freestyle Cypher, a collection of urban drama/thrillers, with more volumes on the way.

Watch for her dark fantasy brand to emerge in 2024!

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Andrew Joseph White

Andrew Joseph White is the trans, autistic, and bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Compound Fracture, and You Weren't Meant to be Human. Born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University, and lives in Virginia with his wife and their antisocial cat.

He can be found at andrewjosephwhite.com or on Twitter and Instagram at @AJWhiteAuthor.

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Ava Reid

Ava Reid is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of gothic fantasies, including A Study in Drowning, Juniper & Thorn, and Lady Macbeth. She lives in California.

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C.J. Leede

CJ LEEDE is a horror writer, hiker, and Trekkie. She is the author of Maeve Fly and American Rapture. Her debut novel Maeve Fly won the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award and Splatterpunk Award, and earned a Bram Stoker Award nomination. When she is not driving around the country, CJ can be found in LA with her boyfriend and rescue dogs.

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K.M. Mixon

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K.M. Mixon is an up-and-coming fantasy/romance author. Her hobbies include books, her kindle, writing, and keeping her home life in order. She can be found either reading a fantasy book or writing inside of a fantasy world.

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Aiden E. Messer

Aiden E. Messer does not exist. Are they an illusion, a ghost, a mere thought? No one knows. If we are to believe one of the children they seem to work with, if they were a teacher, they would be as tall as a human. They are not a teacher. According to various sources, they have studied psychology, and have always had a penchant for horror and the macabre. They like to combine these subjects in their books.

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A.W. Rene

A currently resides along the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains, sharing her chaotic abode with her loving husband, three mischievous goblins-turned-trolls, a duo of capricious feline companions, and a loyal canine whose DNA seems to be infused with that of a shark. When she's not exploring the dark recesses of her imagination, she’s usually telling her trolls to stop licking walls and that bees are not food while telling her husband about her escapades during book research. In her off time—when she can run away from her family—she’s knee-deep in a computer game, trolling and karaoke-ing to 80s songs at the top of her lungs.

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A. Em

“Where others write ever after, I write never after.” -A.

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Mia Ballard

Mia Ballard is an American poet and fiction writer. She loves all things horror and is passionate about writing stories focused on feminine rage. She lives with her partner and dog in Northern California.

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Lennox Rex

Lennox Rex was raised in sunny San Diego, on a steady diet of mythology, folktales, and scary stories. He wrote his first story in second grade and hasn’t stopped since. To him, life is best enjoyed with music, body mods, and plenty of coffee and sweets. He lives with his husband, their three children, and nowhere near enough books.

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Andromeda Ruins

Andromeda is a queer author from a small town in the Midwest. He recently graduated his undergrad program with a Classics major and loves to take the themes and stories he learns about and adapt them to the modern day.

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H.S. Wolfe

(He/They) HS Wolfe is a queer author and artist from the midwest now residing in Denmark with their spouse and two bonsai trees. When they are not juggling manuscripts he can be found wrestling with procreate and the mortifying ordeal of being known. Find wolfe across social media everywhere as WOLFEHORROR

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Caesar Daniels

Creative director and fantasy-epic writer. Floridian living in California. Lover of sci-fi/fantasy, greek epics and slashers, Lovecraft and vampires.

Caesar Daniels' career as a writer and VFX supervisor spans for nearly a decade––blessed with the opportunity to collaborate alongside many talented artists in the entertainment industry. Yet at heart, he is mostly a huge pop culture nerd and film enthusiast.

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Sage Mitchell

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Loralai Blake

Loralai Blake lives in a small town in the midwest. She spends her free time reading dark romances, but her favorite genre is horror eroitca. Loralai has been an avid reader since she was little and a writer since she was in high school. Loralai started out writing poetry to cope with her depression and it slowly turned into something so much more. She has many more dark and depraved works coming that will make you question your own sanity and morals while reading them.

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Iona Penn

Iona Penn is the pen name for Meera Masen.

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James Yates

James Yates is a proud member of the Horror Writers Association. He writes horror fiction that blends the brutal, the supernatural, and the psychological. Focusing on working-class British settings and character-driven stories, his debut novel The Cleanse explores the monstrous in both man and myth. A lifelong devotee of horror in all its forms – from slasher to folk to the quietly unhinged – he draws from a background that understands just how grey the edges of humanity can be.

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A.W. Rene

A currently resides along the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains, sharing her chaotic abode with her loving husband, three mischievous goblins-turned-trolls, a duo of capricious feline companions, and a loyal canine whose DNA seems to be infused with that of a shark. When she's not exploring the dark recesses of her imagination, she’s usually telling her trolls to stop licking walls and that bees are not food while telling her husband about her escapades during book research. In her off time—when she can run away from her family—she’s knee-deep in a computer game, trolling and karaoke-ing to 80s songs at the top of her lungs.

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Lennox Rex

Lennox Rex was raised in sunny San Diego, on a steady diet of mythology, folktales, and scary stories. He wrote his first story in second grade and hasn’t stopped since. To him, life is best enjoyed with music, body mods, and plenty of coffee and sweets. He lives with his husband, their three children, and nowhere near enough books.

Profile picture done by Holly Sivils (IG: @beware_the_idiots_of_march)

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Amanda Leanne

Amanda Leanne began reading at a very young age and has been writing since grade school. She is a prolific reader, book collector, and writer with an interest in all aspects of art including sewing, painting, sculpting, jewelry design, soapmaking, and various other hobbies. After spending nearly a decade working on her degrees in forensic sciences, abnormal behavioral science, and neurological psychology with the prospect of joining the FBI ViCAP unit, Amanda's health took a turn for the worse. Daily struggles with her medical issues hasn't stopped her from pursuing her childhood aspirations to become an author. She currently lives with her spouse (Kris), her son, and their menagerie in the mountains of Northern Alabama. Leanne writes non-f

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Dianna Gunn

Dianna L. Gunn has known she wanted to be a writer since she was eight years old. She wrote her first novel for Nanowrimo at the age of eleven years old, but quickly discovered that writing books is not an easy way to make a living. So she decided to broaden her horizons, seeking another career that still allowed her to work with words.

Her freelance writing career started when she became a marketing intern at Musa Publishing(now defunct) in September 2011 and quickly became a staff writer in charge of multiple imprint blogs. Since then she has worked with a variety of small businesses and non-profits to improve their online brands and create long term marketing strategies. Some of her most notable work has been for the tech education non-pr

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Alyson Hasson

Alyson Hasson grew up in New Brunswick, Canada, where she obtained a love for nature-based horror. Her interest in horror movies, combined with her background in biology, spurred a curiosity that drove her to write. She currently spends her days forecasting beer sales and her nights conjuring new monsters.

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