Evan J. Peterson is an essayist, journalist, fiction author, poet, professor, and editor living in Seattle. He’s the author of Skin Job and The Midnight Channel and editor of Lambda Award finalist Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam: Gay City 5. His writing can also be found in The Myriad Carnival, Nightmare Magazine’s “Queers Destroy […]

Orrin Grey is a writer, editor, amateur film scholar, and monster expert who was born on the night before Halloween. His stories of ghosts, monsters, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters have appeared in dozens of anthologies, including The Best Horror of the Year, and been collected in Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings […]

Richard Bowes has published six novels, four story collections, and over seventy short stories. He has won two World Fantasy, a Lambda, Million Writer, and International Horror Guild Awards. His novel Dust Devil On a Quiet Street was on the 2014 World Fantasy and Lambda short lists. His novelette Sleep Walking Now and Then was on the 2015 Nebula […]

Gavin Pate is a father, husband, writer, and teacher in Norfolk, VA. His fiction has appeared in places such as The Collagist, Barrelhouse, The Southeast Review, the dark fiction anthology Warmed & Bound, and in his novel, The Way To Get Here, from Bootstrap Press. As an associate professor at Virginia Wesleyan College, he teaches […]

Jennifer Brozek is a Hugo Award-nominated editor and an award-winning author. She has worked in the publishing industry since 2004. With the number of edited anthologies, fiction sales, RPG books, and nonfiction books under her belt, Jennifer is often considered a Renaissance woman, but she prefers to be known as a wordslinger and optimist. Read […]

Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg is the “Doctor of the Dead,” world-renowned zombie expert and co-author of Zombiemania (one of the first exhaustive guides to zombie cinema; updated edition Zombiemania Rises forthcoming). Blumberg appears in the documentary Doc of the Dead, on TV, radio, online, and teaches the University of Baltimore course “Media Genres: Zombies” that […]

Rose Hartley lives in Adelaide, Australia and is a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop 2015. A former international aid worker, she is currently editing her first novel with the help of her mentor, Hachette Australia editor Sophie Hamley. Her short fiction has appeared in f(r)iction and Poetic Justice: Contemporary Australian Voices on Equality and […]

The Queers Destroy Horror! special issue was guest-edited by the following: Wendy N. Wagner, Guest Editor Wendy N. Wagner grew up in a town so small it didn’t even have its own post office, and the bookmobile’s fortnightly visit was her lifeline to the world. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies including […]