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Dan Chaon

Dan Chaon is the author of eight works of fiction. His most recent book, One of Us (2025,) just happens to take place in a travelling carnival sideshow, so he’s been watching a lot of Tod Browning. He’s on Instagram at dchaon.

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Rebecca Stone Gordon

Rebecca Stone Gordon is an American biocultural archaeologist, horror scholar, fiction writer, and artist. She informed her kindergarten teacher she was going to be an archaeologist and was inconsolable after Scrappy-Doo made his television debut by unrolling a perfectly good mummy. She works on a range of scholarly topics, including nuclear culture and the Cold […]

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Anne Mai Yee Jansen

Anne Mai Yee Jansen is a lifelong lover of weird and wonderful tales. She’s been making up stories inside her head for as long as she can remember and is happy that some of them actually make it out into the real world. When she’s not teaching literature and ethnic studies, she exists on a […]

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Delia Cullity

Delia Cullity is a dark fantasy and speculative fiction writer and a freelance editor. She graduated from Salem State University with a degree in creative writing and her areas of interest are folklore, dreamscapes, RPGs, and psychology. You can find her wandering in the dusky woods of Cape Cod or procrastinating by watching video essays […]

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David Agranoff

David Agranoff is a novelist, screenwriter, and a Horror and Science Fiction critic. He is the Splatterpunk and Wonderland book award-nominated author of 13 books including  the WW II Vampire novel The Last Night to Kill Nazis, the science fiction novel Goddamn Killing Machines from CLASH BOOKS, the cli-fi novel Ring of Fire, Punk Rock Ghost Story and People’s […]

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Kevin Varghese

Kevin Varghese is a writer fascinated by the blurred line between horror and absurdity. With a foundation in poetry, his work is rooted in rhythm while he explores aspects of the human condition, such as vulnerability, mental illness, and morbid curiosity. As a lifelong student of wordplay, he is captivated by the mechanics of language, […]

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Matthew Rozsa

Matthew Rozsa has been a professional writer since 2012 and currently writes a column, “Back Seat Socialism,” for the 501(c)(3) Democracy at Work. He is also working on a memoir called “Neurosocialism.”

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V.H. Chen

V.H. Chen lives close enough to a graveyard to have heard drunken singing coming from it once. She is a graduate of Viable Paradise Class of 2022. This is her first professional sale.

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Daniel Oluremi

Daniel Oluremi is a fourth-year medical student living and studying in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is an afrocentric speculative fiction writer and poet, with forthcoming works in Apex, Heartlines Spec and The Deadlands. He is also the first-runner up of the DKA Short Story Writing Competition 2024. In his free time, he enjoys discussing books and […]

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Lindz McLeod

Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class, Scottish writer and poet who dabbles in the surreal. Her short work has been published by Apex, Catapult, DIVA, and many more. Her longer work includes the award-winning short story collection Turducken, as well as her books Sunbathers, Queen O’Nine Tails, and The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet. Her […]

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