Clay Vermulm is a Montana-born, Washington-based author of horror and contemporary dark fiction. He has been published in Sleyhouse Magazine, Grendel Press, Reader Beware, Redacted Tales, True Northwest, and numerous anthologies. Clay currently studies under Richard Thomas and is the co-chair for the Seattle HWA and the managing editor for the annual Crypticon Seattle Writing […]

Clockpunk Studios is a web design company based in Lawrence, Kansas. They specialize in websites for authors, publishers, and small businesses, and are experts in WordPress design and development. Clockpunk Studios is run by writer Jeremiah Tolbert.

Christie Yant is a science fiction and fantasy writer, Associate Publisher for Lightspeed and Nightmare, and guest editor of Lightspeed’s Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue. She is a two-time World Fantasy Award finalist and a two-time Locus Award finalist for her work as co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies and […]

Stefan Rudnicki is an independent director, producer, narrator, and publisher of audiobooks. For his work, he has received more than a dozen Audie Awards from the Audio Publishers Association, a Ray Bradbury Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and GRAMMY Awards for the audiobooks The Children’s Shakespeare and Society’s Child. Outside of the audiobook industry, he’s […]

Terence Taylor (terencetaylor.com) is an award-winning children’s television writer whose work has appeared on PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney, among many others. After years of comforting tiny tots with TV, he turned to scaring their parents. His first published short story, “Plaything”, appeared in Dark Dreams, the first horror/suspense anthology of African-American authors. He was included […]

Adam-Troy Castro made his first non-fiction sale to Spy magazine in 1987. His books to date include four Spider-Man novels, three novels about his profoundly damaged far-future murder investigator Andrea Cort, and six middle-grade novels about the dimension-spanning adventures of young Gustav Gloom. Adam’s works have won the Philip K. Dick Award and the Seiun (Japan), and […]

Melissa V. Hofelich is originally from South Jersey, but now lives in Atlanta with her husband Alex and their cats Zoey and Violet. She’s worked for both The Man and The Devil over the years (though not at the same time), trying her hand at jobs such as accounting, professional box-slinging, fraud detection, and lingerie […]

Devin Marcus is a writer and editor whose love for spooks is, to his knowledge, unparalleled. He would love it if you sent him cool horror-related stuff on Twitter @DubbleOhDevin. He lives in Olympia with his partner and their handsome pupper, Emmett.

Leighanna DeRouen is freelance writer and proofreader who lives with her husband and their dog GG somewhere in Ohio. When she’s not rewatching the 1990 hit film Rockula, she can be found lurking in the abyss that is Twitter at @fleurdleigh.

Alex Puncekar writes fantasy, science fiction, and horror. His fiction has appeared in Jenny Magazine. He is also the assistant editor for Nightmare Magazine, an interviewer for Lightspeed Magazine, and writes reviews at Grimdark Magazine. He won a cookie stacking contest when he was six or seven (he can’t remember the age but yeah it […]