AUTHORS

Marcus Abshire grew up on high-octane action movies and blood-soaked slasher films and it shows. Born in Key West Florida and shipped all over the country with his family. You might think that being a military brat was a curse. Marcus would tell you otherwise. Moving from one state to another and having to find a way to fit in, he grew thick skin and a love for change. Maybe that’s why he’s done everything from bagging groceries, to pouring concrete, to shooting surface-to-air missiles in the Army, to getting shocked as an electrician and finally to being a Physical Therapy Assistant. Variety is the spice of life; they say, and they ain’t wrong. Marcus has written eight books, as of today, and he is furiously working on more. When his daughter isn’t causing him enough stress to cause the rest of his hair to fall out, he loves nothing more than sitting down with a great cup of coffee and cranking out stories that keep you up at night, having to read just one more chapter, just one more page. Marcus believes that in the darkness is when the light shines brightest, and his writing reflects that. So strap in and buckle up because it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

 After one year of college, Grady found he could not control his restlessness and moved on to more exciting projects. He joined the army and was trained for assignments that suited his call for high adventure. When discharged, he turned to driving race cars and was immediately picked up by Chevrolet to help develop several concepts of the muscle car era. After a successful ten years of driving, promotion, and handling motor sports teams, Grady quit and returned to college and earned a law degree. He practiced criminal law until sickened by the system and returned to what he knew best---driving race cars. Being a syndicated writer for several motor sports publications led him to write his first book about the early days of drag racing, "Match Race Madness."  Unbeknownst to himself, he was continuously preparing to be an action-adventure writer, encompassing his travels and adventures into fiction, which is manifested in all his books. 

‘Spawned and warped in a small village in the shadow of the Welsh mountains, S. C. Fisher consumed a staple diet of horror and science fiction from an early age. 

Following 15 years of living at a variety of haunted RAF bases, Fisher was inspired to write her first novel. She now spends much of her free time torturing the people she makes up in her head, or playing Sims. 

Some of her most chilling horror shorts can be found on the Crystal Lake Publishing Patreon page and the Trembling With Fear website. Recently, she was long listed for The Book Edit Writer’s Prize with her debut Young Adult novel, (The Secrets We Keep in the Dark). 

Find her on Instagram (@s_c_fisher_author) and Facebook (S. C. Fisher – Author) for more terror and bizarreness than the human mind was designed to handle.’

Hailing from the UK, Mark’s writing has appeared in over thirty publications, online and in print, over the last twenty years. These include Unlikely Stories; A Thousand Faces; Beat to a Pulp; Thrillers, Killers and Chillers; and Volume V of 4horsemen’s Demonic Anthology series.

His first collection, International Best Cellar, can be found on Amazon.

When not writing, Mark can be found in the #writing community Twittering @the_mark_rob.

https://themarkrobwrites.wordpress.com/

Fred Staff was born in Seminole and raised in Pawnee, Oklahoma. His love of history drove him to write books that make history come alive and at the same time gives the reader action and excitement. The numerous reviews he has received on his first book ROCHA'S TREASURE OF POTOSI explains why it is a best seller in Bolivia and highly acclaimed in the USA.
 

He has followed this work with the Bass Reeves trilogy, an adult history of, without a doubt, the most amazing US Marshal ever to serve the Federal Courts. The first three books in his Bass Reeves series were top twenty bestsellers.
 

 The terms 'action-packed' and 'could not put it down' are the most common remarks made in the numerous reviews of his work.   

Jerry Underhill works in the history department for a university. He has also taught high school and middle school history. Prior to that and sometimes concurrently, he co-produced multiple podcasts, including a well-received audiodrama based on his book, "Runners of the Woods', about the colonization of fictional Planet G. He spends most of his time with his wife and dogs and loves hiking, kayaking, watching the films, listening to the Dave Matthews Band, and floating about (bit too much of the last bit).

Cherie Mitchell is a prolific, multi-genre writer based in the beautiful South Island of New Zealand. A lifetime spent within easy access of the places where the wild things live has given her a sound general knowledge of the ocean, rivers, lakes, mountains, and forests, and other locations that make the perfect backdrop to many of her books. Cherie has won a number of writing awards and accolades including a trip to Portland, Oregon to receive a Small Towns, Big Stories trophy that now takes pride of place on her bookcase. Many of Cherie's books are based in and around small towns and include complex, multi-layered characters that readers fall in love with. Popular books to date include the Boulder Lake Series, the Lake Ness series, the Nothing Room series, the Breach series, and the Voyager series.

Jason Rubis was born in San Francisco and grew up in western Pennsylvania, where he cultivated a love of dark forests and the thingsthat might dwell within them.  Early loves included Tolkien, Bradbury, Poe and Burroughs, as well as AIP monster films.  He currently lives in North Virginia with his wife, daughter and a frighteningly intelligent Shih Tzu.  His earlier works include Terror Birds, The World Beneath, Project Caliban and Jurassic Beach as well as many short stories for anthologies and magazines like Weirdbook. 

Born in western North Carolina in 1964, Jeff Crawford was raised in a small community and part of a large extended family. He became an avid outdoorsman at an early age, hunting and fishing with father, grandfather, uncles, and neighbors by the age of six. In 1994 Crawford’s father opened a contract cut and sew factory. Later that same summer, Crawford joined with his father to help operate the business, focusing on the production side. Around 2008, Crawford had a surgery that would require 2-4 weeks' down time for recovery. It was during this time that he began writing his first book. Always a major reader, he thought writing one might prove enjoyable. Only after eight attempts did he produce one he thought was quality enough to pursue publishing---that was in or around 2013.

Crawford has written and published eleven novels in a wide array of genres but all being suspense-based. He's been a frequent guest on many radio and blog talk shows both in the United States and internationally, and even sat down as guest host. Crawford writes stories that are easy to believe, full of relatable characters, with particular attention paid to vocabulary that fits the setting.

Justin is the author of the novels Tethered To Darkness, Seven Cleopatra Hill, and the three-book Bruised series, as well as a plethora of short stories inhabiting anthologies and magazines around the world. He also investigates the paranormal, plays a mean match of volleyball, and lives somewhere on the Mississippi River with his wife, a grumpy Bengal, and a good-natured Danetiff. He is currently busy working on his next novel.

My name is Andy Hopkins and I see ghosts. I have always been aware of Spirit and the paranormal became an everyday occurrence in my life growing up. This unusual start in life is what inspired my love for horror stories and anything scary. My upbringing in the most haunted house I have ever encountered was the story of my first book I released: the Haunting on Park Road. I am not only an author, but also work with the paranormal every day, whether that be in my psychic capacity, spiritually reading for people, or investigating some truly terrifying venues all across the United Kingdom. My goal of writing the true-life tales of my fearsome encounters with Spirit and the Demonic was to show others out there that these things exist and that it is not crazy to experience these things in real life. My hope in releasing my true-life horror story was to inspire others to tell their own stories and not to be afraid of them. I enjoy anything that the horror genre can offer and am still searching the ultimate fright that can keep me up at night… after all, where is the fun without the fright?

Anghus Houvouras is a Wilmington, North Carolina-based writer with three produced features from his scripts, including 20 Funerals (released by Koch Lorber), Furnace (released by Genius/Weinstein), and Dead Heist (released by First Look Entertainment). The latest film produced from his scripts is A Civilized World, premiering at the 2021 Downtown Urban Arts Festival in New York City. 

In print, his first novel, My Career Suicide Note, was serialized in Encore Magazine. In 2021, his novella The Cocaine Zoo was released by Severed Press.

Born into the blue-collar city of Buffalo, NY, Rex Hurst was traumatized as a small child by the suffocating rabbits scene in the animated adaptation of Watership Down. Ever since, his mind twists towards the macabre, until his inevitable blossoming as a horror and sci-fi writer. When not writing he is an assistant professor of composition, public speaking, and literature. 

Rex Hurst is the author of the horror novels The Foot Doctor Letters: A Serial Killer Speaks Out; What Hell May Come & the sci-fi novel Across the Wounded Galaxy as well as several sci-fi novellas. He is also co-host of the weekly radio show Write on SC on the https://writeonsc.blog/art of writing. Catch up with him at https://rexhurst.com. See what he’s reading at https://rexhurst.blogspot.com/ . And watch his YouTube Channel Obscure Comics at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgutypj4clb3SL30GpfxIcA 

Charles has been writing fiction since his teens, having won a national short story writing contest sponsored by a Sunday school magazine. During the 1960s he wrote poetry for the European edition of Stars and Stripes, and has done articles, reviews, cartoons, and photography for a number of publications in Asia, Africa, and the U.S. He writes in several genres, mystery, fantasy, urban fantasy, and humor, in addition to non-fiction; but, his favorite is mystery. He still writes poetry from time to time, and has appeared in a number of anthologies.

He wrote a book on leadership, Things I Learned from my Grandmother About Leadership and Life, in 2008, the second edition of which was published in 2017, and which continues to enjoy modest sales but a growing reputation on three continents. In 2009, he went back to his first love, fiction, with Color Me Dead, the first in his Al Pennyback mystery series. He began the Al Pennyback series from a desire to see stories about Washington, DC, his adopted home, that focused on ordinary people rather than spies, lobbyists, and politicians.

He was editorial cartoonist for the Spring Lake (NC) News from 1977 to 1981, and had a regular cartoon page and did cover art for the now defunct Buffalo magazine, a publication geared to showcasing the contribution of soldiers of color in US history.

Charles writes for a number of Internet sites; he was a featured travel contributor on Yahoo Voices from 2010 to 2012 until the featured contributor program was terminated, and is the diplomatic correspondent for asnycnowradio, an Internet radio station based in New York. 

His own blogs can be viewed at http://charlesaray.blogspot.com and he blog occasionally at http://www.redroom.com/author/charles-a-ray. 

You can also check out his books on his author page at http://charlesray-author.com

Chris Smith has always been a writer at heart, as well as an avid reader. It started off with poetry and he finally took the plunge in 2014 and started writing Blood On The Range: Caught In The Crossfire. It was a hobby until he got a review describing it as "a well done story in style of classic Western tales from the 40's-60's". And that was the spur he needed to really get stuck in and start writing seriously. He is writing both Western and Fantasy novels and is aiming for a new book every month.

His books are often described as 'exciting', 'action from start to finish', and having 'incredible plots'. Chris is a great fan of Agatha Christie, Robert Ludlum, Louis L'Amour, and Dick Francis, and he likes to bring a bit of mystery and suspense into his stories. He's created a shared universe for his Western characters that has them featuring in each others' titles and his Steve Savage, Bounty Hunter series is well under way and brings something unique and intriguing to the Western genre, and, along with his Daemon Queller fantasy series, has the makings of a TV series about it.

When he isn't writing, Chris enjoys hunting, fly fishing, and hitting the beach.

G. Michael Vasey is a collector of  paranormal stories and a magician. He writes paranormal books that will  keep you awake at night, poetry that will make you question reality and  books on practical magic and shamanism. He grew up experiencing ghosts  and poltergeists, studied and taught magic with a real school of  hermetic sciences, and these days can be found in search of the Goddess  in the forests and mountains of Czechia. He hosts a podcast series  called The Magical World of G. Michael Vasey  (https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-magical-world-of-g-michael-vasey)  that looks at reality, magic and myth.

M. A. Hollstein resides in Southern California with her two children and her spoiled fur-babies. She obtained her degree in Art Studio with a concentration in painting from 

the California State University of Sacramento and enjoys partaking in creative projects. When she’s not busy dreaming up new worlds with her words, you can often find her painting with acrylics. 

Michelle is a multi-genre author that writes in a large array of genres. She’s the author of the sci-fi horror series, When Darkness Falls, as well as the sci-fi horror series, Fatal Reaction, the quirky and comical cozy mystery series, An Aggie Underhill Mystery, the young adult paranormal series, A Vienna Rossie Paranormal Mystery, and the fantasy trilogy, The NiburuChronicles.

Michael R. Cole is an author of creature horror and science fiction. He was born in Toledo, Ohio and grew up in lower Michigan. He has a profound love for monster movies and books, as well as the action genre. As a child, his father introduced him to the many creature features of the 1950s. The fascination with oversized and mutated creatures out to feast on tasty humans led to a desire to craft his own stories. 
In addition to writing, his hobbies include martial arts and fishing. 
Michael is married to Angela, and they have three sons: Tommy, Dayton, and Luke.
He can be reached at mrcolenovels@gmail.com.

Zach Cole is the author of the novella TSUCHIGUMO, his debut work, BLUE MOON, KAIJU EPOCH and TITANS UNLEASHED. He was born in Wooster, Ohio, beginning his love of monsters at the age of two with Mothra vs. Godzilla. He became a writer around the age of ten, writing Godzilla stories and even comics containing his own monstrous creations. His love of books started with the Goosebumps series, reading anything that has to do with monsters, big or small. He lives in West Salem, Ohio with his wife, son, two dogs, and bearded dragon. He is also an artist, designing creatures for each of his books by himself. He loves to create things that strike fear into people or that will awe people, whether they be monsters, Kaiju, or stories.

John Grover is a fiction author residing in Massachusetts. He completed a creative writing course at Boston’s Fisher College and is a member of the New England Horror Writers. Some of his more recent credits include stories in The Heart of a Devil Anthology by Fantasia Divinity and The Ancient Ones II Anthology by Deadman’s Tome. He is the author of the new zombie apocalypse trilogy Underground and several collections, including his best of collection: Best of Shadow Tales—featuring reprinted works. Please visit his website www.shadowtales.com

Derek Hutchins is a writer for the Bad Vibes Podcast and author of a collection of short horror stories The Undertaker and Other Macabre Tales. Raised in Connecticut (the most haunted state), he developed a love for horror and the fantastic at an early age. Derek has an MFA in Writing for Film and Television from Emerson College and lives with his wife and daughter in Utah. Follow him on Instagram @themanwhoknewjustenough or Twitter @derekmhutchins for updates.

John Sammon is a freelance writer and newspaper reporter, novelist and historical fiction writer, non-fiction book writer, political pundit and column writer, comedy and humor writer, screenplay writer, film narrator and a member of the Screen Actors Guild. Mr. Sammon has had experiences including sitting in a hut with two other guys at the Bridge of No Return (Loneliest Outpost in the World) on the border of North Korea surrounded by hostile North Korean soldiers, appearing in a biker sci fi movie (Deathsport) with David Carradine, featured as a gangster on the TV show General Hospital, and having beers (Pacifico Beer) with Clint Eastwood. He lives with his wife near Pebble Beach.

Sam M. Phillips—creator of inter-dimensional demons, existential cosmic horror, and messed-up characters who make bad choices—is the co-founder of Zombie Pirate Publishing, helping emerging authors get published. His own short stories have appeared in over fifty books and magazines worldwide, including a debut collection of seventy sci-fi stories, INFINITY AND I. Also a prolific poet, you can find his work at www.bigconfusingwords.wordpress.com, and his novellas and short stories at www.zombiepiratepublishing.com.

Greg Stumbo writes along the Crystal Coast of North Carolina. Well, not actually along the coast, since the tide would wash it away. You get the idea. His writing had previously been interrupted by becoming other things such as a father to two amazing boys, a veteran of Army Rangers, a plumber, a musician, a business owner and comedian, to name a few. Most days now are spent entertaining people with witty banter and stupid jokes in whatever form is handy at the moment. Regardless of where it is – in a book, in a bar, or a porch – he's keeping someone somewhere entertained in some fashion. Even if it's just to see what crazy thing comes next!

Fred Wiehe is a bestselling author and a member of the Horror Writers 
Association. Although he considers himself a horror writer first and 
foremost, his novels, books, short stories, poems, and screenplays 
crossover genres into science fiction, fantasy, mystery, suspense, and 
crime thrillers. Do you believe you have the courage to face the dark, 
mystic, alternate worlds and realities within the pages of his fiction 
and the monsters--some human and some not--who inhabit those worlds 
and realities? If so, sit a spell, turn the lights down low, find 
protection against the preternatural chill, and take the time to 
explore his work. But beware. Don't lose yourself too much within the 
stories. You never know who or what might be lurking behind you in the 
shadows and the gloom.

British born Charles has a TV, movie and theater background.

He has now written twenty novels to date, ranging from 30,000 to 200,000 words. Even though many have strong love themes, they have varied genres: Biblical Times, Nineteenth Century America, [ Westerns] World War Two London, Nineteen Sixties England, and various modern-day American Dramas. New Western Romance. New Modern History Military series.

Intriguing subjects dealt with are: The stresses of war, Law enforcement, Father-son relationships, Coming of age, The world of entertainment [theater], Family sagas, Business rivalry - and Murder. Each story is unique, original, and compelling.

A new ‘Creature feature’ series is an addition and a must for horror fans.

Charles now resides with his wife Wendy in California.

Charles R. Bernard is a writer who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. His first novel, A Baptism for the Dead, was published in 2020. Charles’ work has been featured in ‘Thuggish Itch’ and ‘Cosmic Horror Monthly’ and has appeared in anthologies including Fears of a Clown and American Cult. He resides next to Salt Lake City Cemetery; a sprawling necropolis whose tombs and markers stretch out over a square kilometer of grounds. Charles is lively enough company, though. You can find him on Twitter at @CRBernard and on Instagram at @SaltCitySinner, and can read more at saltcitysinner.blogspot.com

“In another life,” Glenn A. Bruce wrote the hit movie Kickboxer, episodes of Walker: Texas Ranger, Baywatch, and the original G.L.O.W. Show, as well as sketches for Cinemax’s Assaulted Nuts and several uncredited feature “page one” rewrites. He has had over 50 short stories, essays, and poems published in the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, France, and India, and has won awards for writing, screenwriting, and directing. He holds an MFA in Writing from Lindenwood University and taught screenwriting at Appalachian State University for over twelve years. He judges the ongoing Defenstrationism short story contests three times a year where he was a finalist two years in a row before winning “someone else’s damn contest.” Originally from Miami, and after living for Los Angeles for “most of twenty-one years,” then the mountains of western NC for another twenty-one, Glenn recently returned to his home state to be a Florida Man once again. He recently completed his 28th novel.

Photo by Susan Bolash Photography

After being born on the flat and barren planes of Wichita, Kansas, Radar DeBoard had nothing but time on his hands. Plenty of time to hone his craft of writing stories that explored the darkest parts of his imagination. Once Radar had received his master's in economics, he took his works to another level, far more gruesome than the last. He can analyze your fear, truly find what keeps you up at night, and then give your greatest nightmares back to you in written form. This is why he has already had stories published by Gypsum Sound Tales, Eerie Lake Publications, Macabre Ladies Publishing, Black Hare Press, Black Ink Fiction, and Little Demon Publishing, while also being a regular contributor to HorrorTree and Siren's Call Publications. If you're brave enough to seek out him and his writing out, you can follow Radar on his Facebook page or on Twitter.

Matthew (Matt) Dennion lives in New Jersey with wife and two daughters. Matt works primarily as a teacher of students with autism and as aWBL (Work Based Learning) Coordinator. He has loved giant monster and superhero stories his entire life. 

In 2015 he began writing kaiju novels for Severed Press. His current works for Severed Press include his best-selling Atomic Rex series, Chimera Scourge of the Gods, Operation ROC, Polar Yeti, Kaiju Corps, Operation Megalodon, Marsh Thing and Valley of the Dinosaurs. He also has a line of Super Novels featuring the hi-tech hero Raptor with Wild Hunt Press. 

All of Matt's novels and comics are available on Amazon in print and digital formats. Along with his friends Andres Perez and Chris Martinez, Matt has also created the charity Kaiju vs Cancer, through which creators use their monsters and heroes to team with St. Jude Children Research Hospital to battle childhood cancer!

Ezekiel Kincaid resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his four children and a cat. When he’s not working, writing horror, or doting on his family, he likes to train in martial arts. The only other language he is fluent in is sarcasm. He has been published by many different horror presses and writes for House of Stitched Magazine, Puzzle Box Horror, and Horror Bound. For fun, Zeke enjoys watching people get in socially awkward circumstances. He also loves wrestling promo videos from the 80's. Zeke is an ordained minister and served in full time ministry for twenty years. He uses his three theology degrees to influence his work, and writes in various styles and sub-genres of horror. The greatest compliment fans attribute to his writing is the various styles he writes in are so versatile, it's hard to believe they come from the same author. And no, Zeke does not have a split personality disorder. 

Jamie Lee has been writing fiction for 30 years. His debut release, Harmony, has been 15 years in the making. While he holds a degree in Microbiology and welcomes comparisons to a mad scientist, writing has always been his first love and interest.

When not writing, Jamie is a fervent, life-long gamer. He can be found every Friday night with long-time friends playing any number of online RPGs and, during the weekend, building and painting his countless Warhammer armies, playing any chance he gets. He also enjoys reading, music, traveling, searching for the best bar-b-que and being fueled by endless coffee and kombucha. He is forever searching for the perfect haunted home to live in since his condo is simply not large enough for a proper library or laboratory.

Jamie can be found at:

www.jamieleewrites.com 

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Since his writing career began, Frank has had multiple short stories published in horror anthologies by numerous indie publications. Frank has also had comic shorts appear in the "fluff noir" anthology series Torsobear and the all-ages horror anthology Cthulhu Is Hard to Spell. Frank also wrote and produced the comic anthology series Modern Testament, which featured a wide ensemble of artists throughout its four volumes. Frank's novels include the YA sci-fi thriller Predestiny published by Crossroads Press, the lake monster tale Oscawana published by Severed Press, among others. He currently lives in New York with his wife and three kids. 

 Erica Schaef is a writer of dark fiction whose work has been featured in a variety of anthologies, literary journals, and magazines, as well as on the Tales to Terrify podcast. When she's not writing, Erica enjoys gardening, baking, and spending time with her family. She lives in rural Tennessee with her husband and two children. To learn more about her work, you can visit her website at: https://ericaschaef.wordpress.com.

Andrew P. Weston is a bestselling author from the UK who lives with a large amount of rescue cats in a medium sized house on a small Greek island. While battling an inordinate compulsion to make things up and write them down for other peoples’ entertainment, he nevertheless excels at being nuisance . . . just ask his wife.   

Among other things, Andrew has the privilege of being a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, the British Science Fiction Association, and the British Fantasy Society. In his spare time, he also writes review articles for Amazing Stories and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. 

Links:

Website/blog: https://andrewpweston.blogspot.com/ 

Twitter: @WestonAndrew 

TikTok: @andrewpweston666 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrewpaul.weston 

Michael Schussler Jr. was born and raised in Silver Run, Maryland, where the fields and streams spoke whispers to him in an unknown, ancient tongue. Try as he might to capture their stories, he admits that he understands very little. To take magic from the air and translate it into words is — as he puts it — “Impossible… but worth every moment.” His poems and stories have appeared in several literary magazines. He’s worked as a sports journalist and analyst, a ghostwriter (not that kind), and as a managing editor for a variety of publications.

After graduating high school, Chris joined the Marine Corps and left his hometown of Malvern, Arkansas. After retiring from the Marines, he began spending the majority of his free time camping and off-roading, and can usually be found exploring somewhere in the Ouachita National Forest. Chris is really enjoying exploring the areas in and around Broken Bow, OK and in the Kiamichi and Ouachita Mountains.