Rio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award–nominated author of Westlake Soul and Lola on Fire. His 2017 thriller, The Forgotten Girl, was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. He is the writer of Refrigerator Full of Heads, a six-issue comic series from DC Comics, and Sleeping Beauties, a graphic novel based on the number-one bestseller by Stephen King and Owen King. Rio’s latest novel, No Second Chances, was published by William Morrow in February 2022.

Paul Kane is the award-winning, bestselling author and editor of over a hundred books – including the Arrowhead trilogy (gathered together in the sellout Hooded Man omnibus, revolving around a post-apocalyptic version of Robin Hood), The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, Hellbound Hearts, The Mammoth Book of Body Horror and Pain Cages (an Amazon #1 bestseller). His non-fiction books include The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy and Voices in the Dark, and his genre journalism has appeared in the likes of SFX, Rue Morgue and DeathRay. He has been a Guest at Alt.Fiction five times, was a Guest at the first SFX Weekender, at Thought Bubble in 2011, Derbyshire Literary Festival and Off the Shelf in 2012, Monster Mash and Event Horizon in 2013, Edge-Lit in 2014 and 2018, HorrorCon, HorrorFest and Grimm Up North in 2015, The Dublin Ghost Story Festival and Sledge-Lit in 2016, IMATS Olympia and Celluloid Screams in 2017, plus Black Library Live and the UK Ghost Story Festival in 2019, as well as being a panellist at FantasyCon and the World Fantasy Convention, and a fiction judge at the Sci-Fi London festival. A former British Fantasy Society Special Publications Editor, he is currently serving as co-chair for the UK chapter of The Horror Writers Association. His work has been optioned and adapted for the big and small screen, including for US network primetime television, and his novelette ‘Men of the Cloth’ has just been turned into a feature by Loose Canon/Hydra Films, starring Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, You’re Next). His audio work includes the full cast drama adaptation of The Hellbound Heart for Bafflegab, starring Tom Meeten (The Ghoul), Neve McIntosh (Doctor Who) and Alice Lowe (Prevenge), and the Robin of Sherwood adventure The Red Lord for Spiteful Puppet/ITV narrated by Ian Ogilvy (Return of the Saint). Paul’s latest novels are Lunar (set to be turned into a feature film), the Y.A. story The Rainbow Man (as P.B. Kane), the sequels to RED – Blood RED & Deep RED – the award-winning hit Sherlock Holmes & the Servants of Hell, Before (an Amazon Top 5 dark fantasy bestseller) and Arcana. He also writes thrillers for HQ Digital/HarperCollins as PL Kane, the first of which, Her Last Secret, came out in January 2020 (www.plkane.com). Paul lives in Derbyshire, UK, with his wife Marie O’Regan and his family. Find out more at his site www.shadow-writer.co.uk which has featured Guest Writers such as Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, Robert Kirkman, Dean Koontz and Guillermo del Toro.

Born in Wales, Lou Morgan now lives and works in Bath. Her first short story was published in 2008, and since then her work has appeared in a variety of anthologies.

Her first novel, "Blood and Feathers" - an urban fantasy described as 'Alice in Wonderland goes to Hell' - was published in the UK & the US by Solaris Books in 2012, with the sequel, "Blood and Feathers: Rebellion" released in 2013. Both novels were nominated for the British Fantasy Society's 'best fantasy novel' award, and Lou was a finalist for the Sydney J. Bounds 'Best Newcomer' award for the first book.

Her study-drug YA horror, "Sleepless", was a finalist in the Hillingdon Book of the Year award in 2016.

Lou has written articles for genre magazines including SFX, and is a long- and short-list reader for the Bath Novel Award.

She can mostly be found on Twitter as @LouMorgan or at her blog: http://loummorgan.wordpress.com.

She is represented by Juliet Mushens at UTA (London).

Marie O’Regan is a Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadows and British Fantasy Award-nominated author and editor, based in Derbyshire. She was awarded the British Fantasy Society ‘Legends of FantasyCon’ award in 2022. Her first collection, Mirror Mere, was published in 2006 by Rainfall Books; her second, In Times of Want, came out in September 2016 from Hersham Horror Books. Her third, The Last Ghost and Other Stories, was published by Luna Press early in 2019. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of genre magazines and anthologies in the UK, US, Canada, Italy and Germany, including Best British Horror 2014, Great British Horror: Dark Satanic Mills (2017), and The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories. Her novella, Bury Them Deep, was published by Hersham Horror Books in September 2017. Her first novel, Celeste, was published in February 2022 by Encyclopocalypse Publications. She was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Short Story in 2006 (‘Can You See Me’), and Best Anthology in 2010 (Hellbound Hearts), 2012 (Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women), 2019 (Wonderland) and 2023 (The Other Side of Never). Wonderland was also shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson award for Best Anthology. Her genre journalism has appeared in magazines like The Dark Side, Rue Morgue and Fortean Times, and her interview book with prominent figures from the horror genre, Voices in the Dark, was released in 2011. An essay on ‘The Changeling’ was published in PS Publishing’s Cinema Macabre, edited by Mark Morris. She is co-editor of the bestselling Hellbound Hearts, Mammoth Book of Body Horror, A Carnivàle of Horror – Dark Tales from the Fairground, Exit Wounds (four stories from which have been shortlisted for a CWA dagger for Best Short Story), Wonderland (nominated for a Shirley Jackson award and BFS award), Cursed, Twice Cursed, The Other Side of Never (nominated for a British Fantasy Award), In These Hallowed Halls, and Beyond & Within Folk Horror Short Stories, as well as the charity anthology Trickster’s Treats #3 (nominated for an Aurealis award). She is also the sole editor of bestselling The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women and Phantoms. Marie was on the British Fantasy Society Committee from 2001 to 2008, editing both Prism and Dark Horizons before becoming Chair in 2004, and worked on several FantasyCons over the years, sometimes as Chair. She also ran ChillerCon UK, which took place in Scarborough in May 2022. One further anthology (Death Comes at Christmas) is currently slated for release in October, 2024, with three more forthcoming for 2025 and 2026 beyond that and various further projects in the works. Marie is also Managing Editor of PS Publishing’s award-winning novella imprint, Absinthe Books, which has has so far published novellas by SJI Holliday, George Mann (twice), Laura Mauro, Cavan Scott, Jen Williams, Angela Slatter (winner of a Shirley Jackson award for Best Novella), M.R. Carey, Louise Carey, Priya Sharma (winner of a World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella), Alan Baxter (nominated for an Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel and Best Fantasy Novella, Tracy Fahey (nominated for a British Fantasy Award for best Novella), Lee Murray (shortlisted for a Bram Stoker™ Award for best Long Fiction), A.C. Wise, Premee Mohamed, Conrad Williams, Ian Rogers, and Paul Finch, with the next three titles being released in Spring 2025.

Andrew J McKiernan is an author and illustrator living and working on the Central Coast of New South Wales. First published in 2007, his stories have since been short-listed for multiple Aurealis, Ditmar and Australian Shadows awards and reprinted in a number of Year's Best anthologies. He was Art Director for Aurealis magazine for 8 years and his illustrations have graced the covers and internals of a number of books and magazines. http://www.andrewmckiernan.com

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