Nicholas Kaufmann is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated, Thriller Award-nominated, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of General Slocum’s Gold, Chasing the Dragon, Dying is My Business, and Die and Stay Dead. In addition to his own original work, he has also written for such properties as Zombies Vs. Robots and The Rocketeer. He wrote the monthly […]

Martin Cahill is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in NYC and works as the marketing and publicity manager for Erewhon Books. He’s a graduate of the Clarion Workshop of 2014 and a member of the NYC-based writing group Altered Fluid. You can find his fiction in Lightspeed Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies […]

Mari Ness worships chocolate, words and music, in no particular order. Her work has previously appeared in Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Fireside, Apex, Uncanny, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons and several other publications, including previously here in Nightmare. Her poetry novella, Through Immortal Shadows Singing, is available from Papaveria Press. She lives in central Florida. For more, check out her occasionally […]

Tim Pratt’s short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy, and other nice places. His most recent collection is Hart and Boot and Other Stories, and his work has won a Hugo Award and been nominated for World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic, and Nebula Awards. He blogs intermittently at timpratt.org, where […]

Damien Angelica Walters’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in various anthologies and magazines, including The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015, Year’s Best Weird Fiction: Volume One, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction, Black Static, and Apex. She was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award for “The Floating Girls: A […]

Sam J. Miller’s books have been called “must reads” and “bests of the year” by USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among others. They’ve also been banned in Florida and stolen by AI belonging to billionaires. His short fiction has been published in places like The Kenyon Review, Vogue Italia, Tor.com, […]

Lucy Taylor is the award-winning author of seven novels, including the Stoker Award-winning The Safety of Unknown Cities, six collections, and over a hundred short stories. Her work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, German, and Chinese. Her most recent short fiction can be found in the anthologies The Beauty of Death: Death […]