Lesley Bannatyne is an author with five books on Halloween (covering its history, an anthology of Halloween literature, a children’s story, a how-to, and her most recent, Halloween Nation. Behind the Scenes of America’s Fright Night). She is also a freelance journalist, covering stories ranging from local druids to relief aid in Bolivia. Bannatyne has shared her knowledge on […]

David Sklar grew up in Michigan, where the Michipeshu nibbled his toes when Lake Superior was feeling frisky. His work has appeared in such places as Strange Horizons, Ladybug, and Scheherazade’s Façade. Publications in 2014 include the anthology Trafficking in Magic/Magicking in Traffic (coedited with Sarah Avery) in May of 2014 from Fantastic Books, and […]

Nikita is a hobbyist writer of horror and science fiction. She currently resides in Oakland, California where she works at Tippett Studio, managing PR and the stop-motion project MAD GOD. She loves painting, horror films, motorcycles, aerial silks, and baking elaborate tarts.  Her favorite book is Stephen King’s Misery, and her favorite film is Let the Right One […]

H.L. Nelson (hlnelson.com) is head of Cease, Cows literary magazine, Associate Editor for Queens University of Charlotte’s journal, Qu, and Proofreader for Literary Orphans. Her publications include Writer’s Digest, Lunch Ticket, PANK, Menacing Hedge, Hobart, Connotation Press, plus over 40 others in the last year. H. L.’s poem “Absolution” was nominated for Best of the Net 2013. Her fiction chapbook, The Sea is Only Meat, […]

Lane Robins was born in Miami, Florida, the daughter of two scientists, and grew up as the first human member of their menagerie. She attended the Odyssey workshop, the Center for the Study of Science Fiction novel and short story workshops, and has a BA in Creative Writing from Beloit College. She writes urban fantasy […]

Joe McKinney has been a patrol officer for the San Antonio Police Department, a homicide detective, a disaster mitigation specialist, a patrol commander, and a successful novelist. His books include the four part Dead World series, Quarantined, Inheritance, Lost Girl of the Lake, The Savage Dead, Crooked House and Dodging Bullets. His short fiction has […]