Author of the exciting Death Crawlers series: Death Crawlers (Book 1), Deep In The Jungle (Book 2), The Next World (Book 3), and Battleground Earth (Book 4).

Gerry has been published by Severed Press, Mighty Quill Books, Outskirts Press, April Moon Books, Dark Hall Press, Grinning Skull Press, WolfSinger Publications, Dark Moon Books, along with numerous issues of the e-magazine Dark Eclipse and the quarterly paperback Dark Moon Digest.

He has earned honorable mentions from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Writer's Digest. Five of the short stories in his collection, "Creatures," were recognized in the 77th and 78th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competitions. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association.

He enjoys writing horror, adventure thrillers, and speculative fiction.

Gerry lives in San Jose, California with his family and their five rescue dogs.

Loren Rhoads is the author of 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die and Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel. She's also the editor of Death's Garden Revisited. Her death-positive memoir This Morbid Life won a gold medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

In addition to her nonfiction, Loren is the co-author (with Brian Thomas) of the novels Lost Angels and Angelus Rose, about a succubus who falls in love with an angel. On her own, she's author of a story collection called Unsafe Words and The Dangerous Type, Kill By Numbers, and No More Heroes, a space opera trilogy set after a galactic war wiped out much of humanity.

You won't be surprised to know that she likes long walks in the moonlight and old graveyards.

Winner of the Silver Stake Award

Int’l Vampire Film & Arts Festival

Roh Morgon dreams up her dark tales while driving through California’s Sierra Nevada foothills. But it’s her time spent in more remote locales—the soaring peaks of Colorado, the windswept plains of Wyoming, the mysterious Carpathian Mountains of Romania—that provides the settings for her stories, and opens the door into hidden worlds filled with seductive, lethal creatures and the secret lives they lead.

Roh shares her home in the Sierra Nevada foothills with her very patient husband and the ghosts of three mustang horses, two intense herding dogs, and a crazy cat. Her current, even crazier cat helps her write by periodically walking on the keyboard.

Roh will soon be releasing SEEKER: BOOK III OF THE CHOSEN, her sixth book in her award-winning dark fantasy series, The Chosen. To receive notification of this and other new releases, click FOLLOW (above).

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John Claude Smith has had three collections, four chapbooks, and two novels published, along with tales and/or poems in Vastarien, Pluto in Furs, and many more magazines and anthologies. His debut novel, Riding the Centipede, was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist. He is presently shopping four novels and a novella, while putting together a short story collection and a poetry collection. Busy is good. Reissues of his OOP earlier books are in process as he types this sentence (one is out now!). He splits his time between the East Bay across from San Francisco, and Rome, Italy, where his heart resides always.

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Sumiko Saulson is a speculative fiction author whose focus is on horror and science-fiction, novelist, poet and writer of short stories and editorials, who writes the column "Writing While Black" for the San Francisco BayView (a National Black Paper) and also writes for Search Magazine. They are a native Californian, who spent their early childhood in Los Angeles, and lived in Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii in their teen years. They have spent most of their adult life living in the San Francisco Bay Area. An early interest in writing and advanced reading skills eventually led to becoming a staff journalist on their high school paper, the Daily Bugle (McKinley High, Honolulu, HI) one of the nation's only four such daily High School papers at the time. By the time they moved to San Francisco at age 19, they had two self-published books of poetry and was a frequently published poet in local community newspapers and read poetry around town. They were profiled in a San Francisco Chronicle article about up-and-coming poets in the beatnik tradition. Over the years they have written numerous articles for local and community papers, non-profit and corporate newsletters, poetry and lyrics and novels.

Winner of the HWA Scholarship from Hell (2016) BCC Voice "Reframing the Other" contest (2017), Mixy Award (2017), Afrosurrealist Writer Award (2018), HWA Diversity Grant (2020), Ladies of Horror Fiction Grant (2021). Sumiko has an AA in English from Berkeley City College. is the host of the SOMA Leather and LGBT Cultural District's "Erotic Storytelling Hour," and teaches courses at the Speculative Fiction Academy.

G. O. Clark was born in Norfolk, MA in 1945. His writing has been published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog, Talebones Magazine, Strange Horizons, Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, A Sea Of Alone: Poems For Alfred Hitchcock, Tales Of The Talisman, Space & Time, Daily SF, and many other publications. He's the author of 15 poetry collections, including, "White Shift", 2012, from Sam's Dot Publishing. A fiction collection, "The Saucer Under My Bed & Other Stories", was also published by Sam's Dot Publishing in 2011.

He won the Asimov's Readers Award for poetry in 2001, and was a Stoker Award finalist for poetry in 2012. He retired from the University of California, Davis in 2008, where he worked in the library for many years. He currently lives in Davis, CA in a not-so-mobile home with lots of books, cds, and collectable clutter.

His latest speculative poetry collection is titled, "Easy Travel To The Stars", 2020, from Alban Lake Publshing, and latest fiction collection, "Twists & Turns", 2016, also from Alban Lake Publishing. Review of the later;

TWISTS & TURNS by G. O. Clark

"Always delightful and surprising, author G. O. Clark’s newest short fiction collection is aptly named. In seventeen clever, strange, and utterly enjoyable tales, the author writes of attractive young zombies, space creatures, a shape changer, a most oddly haunted house, a real Tom Thumb, a grieving widow, a space abductees, and so much more. Mr. Clark turns the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres on their respective heads, producing stories that make you wonder whether to laugh or shriek—or both! TWISTS & TURNS is a serpentine adventure into weirdness most grand. Enjoy!"

Reviewed by J. Comeau online at Creature Features Tomb Of Horror, 5/20/18

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Sean Patrick Hazlett is a technologist, finance professional, and science fiction, fantasy, horror, and non-fiction author and editor working in Silicon Valley. He has published over a hundred research reports on clean energy, semiconductors, and enterprise software including Wall Street's first comprehensive market analysis of opportunities in the smart grid, which was cited twice in The Economist (See "Making Every Drop Count" and "Smart Grids: Wiser Wires"). He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest and his fiction has appeared in publications such as Terraform, Vastarien, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Galaxy's Edge, Abyss & Apex, Fictionvale Magazine, Plasma Frequency Magazine, Kasma SF, The Colored Lens, NewMyths.com, and Mad Scientist Journal, among others.

Before working in finance and technology, Sean was a research associate at the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project where he worked on energy security issues that included the United States-India Strategic Partnership and policy options for confronting Iran's nuclear program. He won the 2006 Policy Analysis Exercise Award at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government for his work on policy solutions to Iran's nuclear weapons program. Sean also spent time at Booz Allen Hamilton as an intelligence analyst focusing on strategic war games and simulations for the Pentagon. Before graduate school, Sean was a cavalry officer in the United States Army where he trained American forces for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan at the National Training Center.

Sean holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and bachelor's degrees in History and Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

L.S. Johnson lives in Northern California and is the author of over 40 dark fiction stories. Her first collection, Vacui Magia, won the 2nd Annual North Street Book Prize and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Her second collection, Rare Birds, was longlisted for the Stoker Award and won an IPPY Medal. She is the author of the Chase & Daniels series of gothic novellas and the ongoing vampire serial Prima Materia. Find out more about her and sign up for her mailing list at http://traversingz.com/.

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Horror fantasist E.M. Markoff writes about damaged heroes and imperfect villains; she is also a klecksography artist. Her works include THE DEADBRINGER and TO NURTURE & KILL, for which she respectively won fantasy and novella finalist awards from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Both books received favorable trade reviews in Kirkus, with THE DEADBRINGER receiving additional praise in Booklist and Mark Lawrence’s SPFBO5. Under her imprint Tomes & Coffee Press, she published TALES FOR THE CAMP FIRE, a charity anthology to raise money for California wildfire recovery and relief efforts. She has been on a number of panels speaking about topics including horror cinema, as well as the importance of diversity and decolonization in speculative fiction. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association and is mostly made up of coffee, cat hair, and whiskey. Connect with her @tomesandcoffee on Instagram and EM Markoff on YouTube.

John McCallum Swain has lived in Canada, Germany, Scotland, and the United States, where he now shares his home with a small herd of cats. Tales ranging from graphic horror to alternate history have appeared in WEIRD MENACE VOLUME 2, SPAWN OF THE RIPPER, PEELING BACK THE SKIN, BLOOD SWEAT & FEARS, THE STARS AT MY DOOR, DEATH'S GARDEN, TALES FOR THE CAMP FIRE and many other anthologies. His own titles include the horror and speculative fiction collections MY VILE BOUNTY and CALIFHORRORNIA, and the novellas SMILE and THE UNICORN MAN.

Ben Monroe has spent most of his life in Northern California, where he lives in the East Bay Area with his wife and two children. He is the author of In the Belly of the Beast and Other Tales of Cthulhu Wars, the Seething, the graphic novel Planet Apocalypse, and short stories in several anthologies. 

You can find more information about him and his work at www.benmonroe.com

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