Authors

James H Longmore

James hails originally from Yorkshire, England having relocated with his family to Houston, Texas in 2010. He has an honors degree in Zoology and a background in sales, marketing and business. James is an Affiliate Member of the Horror Writers Association.

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Xtina Marie

The Accidental Poet:

Xtina Marie is an avid horror and fiction genre reader, who became a blogger; who became a published poet; who became an editor; who now is a podcaster and an aspiring novelist—and why not?

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David Owain Hughes

David Owain Hughes is a horror freak! He grew up on ninja, pirate and
horror movies from the age of five, which helped rapidly install in him a
vivid imagination.

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Carlos Colon

Born in Spanish Harlem and raised by Puerto Rican parents in the South Bronx, Carlos Colón was a storyteller from the start.

He began in his pre-teens by writing comic strips for his parents and continued throughout school writing dramatic short stories in his English classes.

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Jennifer Lynne

Jennifer Lynne is a lifelong advocator of all things hedonistic, and a writer who loves what she does - writing exactly the type of steamy erotica stories that get her personally hot under the collar.

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Aurelio Rico Lopez III

Aurelio is an avid fan of the macabre. His other works include Valhalla Falling (Great Old Ones Publishing), Food for the Crows (Crowded Quarantine Publications), Night Mare (Great Old Ones Publishing), Zombies Don't Knock (Night Horse Publishing House)...

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Craig Stewart

Craig Stewart is a Canadian author and filmmaker who learned how to count from the rhyme, "One, two, Freddy's coming for you." He's a creator and connoisseur of everything horror; never afraid to delve into the dark, and then a little further.

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Peter Oliver Wonder

Hidden in a remote location in California lives a man that responds to the name Peter Oliver Wonder.

Though little is known about him, several written works that may or may not be fictional have been found featuring a character of the same name.

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Gerri R Gray

Born and raised in the Chicago area, Gerri R. Gray is a cemetery photographer and a lifelong aficionado of horror, dark humor, and high camp. She blames her twisted sense of humor on a wayward adolescence influenced by the likes of Monty Python, Charles Addams, Frank Zappa, and John Waters.

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James Watts

James Watts was born in Birmingham, Alabama in March of 1976. Growing up in the small town of West Jefferson, Alabama, Watts spent his days lost in his vivid imagination.

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Isobel Blackthorn

Isobel Blackthorn is a prolific Australian novelist. She writes dark fiction, thrillers and contemporary/literary.  On the dark side are her psychological thriller, The Cabin Sessions (2017), a short story, 'Ignominy' appearing in Shopping List 2 (2017) and a dark comedy thriller, The Legacy of Old Gran Parks (2018). 

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Gochni Schindler

Life is an alluring mask, a mask of fascination. It’s not about me, it’s about the stories. The message! Having many masks. Each of my tales being a mask unto my own persona, unto thine own flesh.

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Christina Bergling

Colorado-bred writer, Christina Bergling knew she wanted to be an author in fourth grade.

In college, she pursued a professional writing degree and started publishing small scale. It all began with “How to Kill Yourself Slowly.”


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J.P. Willie

J.P. Willie was born in Covington, Louisiana to parents Gayla and Joseph Willie on October 30th, 1981. He graduated from Tara High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and joined the United States Army on October 20, 2000. 

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Lee Todd Lacks

Lee Todd Lacks seeks to blur the distinctions between rants, chants, anecdotes, and anthems. His experience of living with significant vision and hearing deficits often informs his writing and artwork, which have appeared in The Monarch Review, The Quarterday Review, Crack The Spine Anthology, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Bop Dead City, Liquid Imagination, and elsewhere.

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Jeff Parsons

Jeff is a professional engineer enjoying life in sunny California, USA. He has a long history of technical writing, which oddly enough, often reads like pure fiction.

He was inspired to write by two wonderful teachers: William Forstchen and Gary Braver.

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Michelle Mellon

Michelle Mellon discovered her love of writing at the age of nine. She was a published poet starting in high school and into her twenties, when she shifted her focus to short fiction.

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Hend Salah

Hend Salah is a New York born, horror loving, mental health counseling, loud-mouthed mass of contradictions. She has a cornucopia of sensibly insensible controversial opinions, and is allergic to romance. She loves putting a dark twist on a good argument. Bad things are funny. Good things are boring.

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Eddie Generous

Eddie Generous is the creator, editor, designer, artist, feature writer, interviewer, and PR department of Unnerving and Unnerving Magazine.

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E.N.Dahl

E. N. Dahl is a novelist and award-winning screenwriter. She's the author of These Walls Don't Talk, They Scream, Nova EXE, and several other books.

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Daniel L Naden

Daniel L. Naden has always been a writer. It's an affliction, a blessing, a curse...a dominant part of his life for as long as he can remember.  He has published work in the areas of politics, humor, philosopy, and of course, fiction.   Dan's stories explore the irony in life, through the lens of horror, suspense, & sci-fi. 

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J. Steffy

J. Steffy lives a normal family life with normal job and a not so normal cat.

He has done work with the criminally insane, giving him the unique insight reflected in his writing.

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Feind Gottes

Feind Gottes [Fee-nd Gotz] is a horror writing, metal loving award winning horror author.

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Anders M Svenning

The eclectic Anders M. Svenning was born in New York. His work has appeared in many magazines.

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Luke Walker

Luke Walker has been writing horror, fantasy and dark thrillers for most of his life. The dark fantasy Dead Sun is now available as are the horror Hometown and the short story collection Die Laughing.

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David F. Gray

David F. Gray is an award winning television producer and director although his first love has always been writing.  He wrote his first short story at age 10 based on the television show Lost In Space and featuring his boyhood crush, Penny Robinson.

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Jeff C. Stevenson

Jeff C. Stevenson was a professional member of Pen America, a member of the Horror Writers Association, and a finalist for the Best Published Midsouth Science Fiction and Fantasy Darrell Award.

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Adam Burnett

Adam's solitary goal in life is to write books that smell like old books and believes that if there isn’t a noticeable crack in the spine of the book you are currently reading, then you are reading it incorrectly. 

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John T. M. Herres

Influenced by such authors as Robert E. Howard, Stephen King, Dean R. Koontz, and James Patterson, his genre of choice became action/fantasy-adventure.

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Lee Roberts

More than twenty years ago, I started writing stories to capture all of the interesting thoughts and impressions lurking in my imagination...

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Terry Grimwood

Former electrician, college lecturer (I'd rather teach electrical installation than do it anymore), musician (never been booed off stage - so far), actor (ham), Director (drama queen), Terry Grimwood also squeezes in a little writing now and then.

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Vanessa Hawkins

A life-long lover of horror, Vanessa wrote her first story in the genre when she was only in grade five. It was titled Mutilated and it warranted her a trip to the school guidance counselor.

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C. Bailey-Bacchus

C. Bailey-Bacchus is a devotee of dark fiction. Born in the U.K to Vincentian parents, her love of all things horror started with cautionary tales of Caribbean creatures that plagued poorly behaved children.

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Michaela L Cane

Michaela discovered Stephen King and Piers Anthony when she was in fourth grade, and there was really no going back from there. 

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Lesley Sussman

Lesley Sussman is an award-winning journalist and publicist who has worked for such publications as The Pulitzer Newspapers in Chicago, Chicago Tribune, New York Post and Jersey Journal.

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Ty Greenwood

Ty Greenwood is a high school English and Psychology teacher based in Melbourne, Australia. When he is not busy grading papers he is writing and reading.

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Lex H Jones

Lex H Jones is a British cross-genre author, horror fan and rock music enthusiast who lives in Sheffield, Northern England.

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Jason Paul

Jason Paul was born in sunny Southern California, but he has always been drawn to the darkness. A lover of night, he would much rather muse in moonlight than bask in sunlight.

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Lee Franklin

After ten years in the Australian Army , Lee Franklin has been a personal trainer, logistics officer and the mother of three boys.

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Justin Robinson

Much like film noir, Justin Robinson was born and raised in Los Angeles. He splits his time between editing comic books, writing prose, and wondering what that disgusting smell is.

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Daniel P Coughlin

Daniel is the screenwriter of three commercially successful films: Lake Dead, which was selected as one of After Dark Film's 8 Films to Die For, Farmhouse, starring A-List film and television star Steven Weber (Wings, Desperation, Single White Female) and Ditch day Massacre (starring Bill Oberst Jr.).

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Karle Johnson

Karle Johnson is the author of Mishaps, Monsters, and Madmen: A Collection of Unique Conversations, Survivor’s Guilt, and Messiah Complex. He plays guitar and sings in Arkansas punk rock band, Narrow Dinero. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas with his wife, May Johnson.

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Shawn Chang

Shawn Chang is a creative writer whose focal point for storytelling rests on the dark, the gaunt, and the livid.

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Nikki Freeman

Nikki D. Freeman, a lifelong resident of Cleveland, Tennessee, works hard to create stories that will make you think twice about sleeping with one foot sticking out from beneath the covers. She writes dark horror and psychological thrillers.

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Andrew Kanago

Andrew Kanago was born and raised in American midwest. In the fourth grade, Mrs. Arent had to quiet him down because he was laughing out loud while reading Judy Blume. 

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Bret McCormick

Bret McCormick is a native Texan, writer, artist and filmmaker.

His 1986 feature film, The Abomination has a small, but fierce international cult following. Bret has edited or co-edited five anthologies of horror fiction.

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Victor Marrow

Victor Marrow was born and raised in the Bible Belt. He has been a janitor, housekeeper, pizza boy, teacher, and is currently a lawyer.

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Michael J Moore

Michael J Moore lives with his wife, author Cait Moore, in Seattle, Washington. His books include the bestselling post-apocalyptic novel, After the Change. 

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Gerald Dean Rice

Technically, Gerald Dean Rice lives in Southeast Michigan, but he only maintains that residence to satisfy the government. He typically moves from abandoned building to burnt out house to sewer network to stay ahead of THEM.

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Sal Cangemi

Sal Cangemi writes books, which, considering where you’re reading this, you already know. He is best known for writing absurdist satires that flirt with horror and black comedy without ever committing to either genre.

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Patrick Querney

Patrick Querney has been a sailor, an airport worker, cook, bartender, bouncer, zombie in a Hollywood movie, college teacher, poet, and writer.

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Ben Pienaar

Ben Pienaar was born in South Africa and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1999.

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Jay Gould

Jay Gould is a Canadian writer and businessman from a small town in the misty mountains of British Columbia.

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Dacre Stoker

Dacre Stoker is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and the international best-selling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead (Dutton, 2009), the official Stoker family endorsed sequel to Dracula.

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Mike Shepherd

Mike Shepherd writes books about dramatic episodes of Scottish history untouched by other authors, including the history of North Sea oil (Oil Strike North Sea) and the Scottish origins of the novel Dracula (When Brave Men Shudder).

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Sam Kench

Sam Kench is an author, screenwriter, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.

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Andy Rausch

Andy Rausch is the author of more than 50 books (fiction and nonfiction).

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Paul Lubaczewski

Paul has lived all over the country before settling in Appalachia over fifteen years ago with his wife Leslie and their son.

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Jeff Oliver

Jeff began writing Dark Poetry at just 11 years old. Transferring darkness to paper at such a young age. There are thoughts about a troubled childhood, thoughts of love and imagination that never elude his pen.

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Armand Rosamilla

A New Jersey boy currently living in sunny Florida, where he writes when he's not sleeping. He's happily married to a woman who helps his career and is supportive, which is all he ever wanted in life...

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Erin Louis

A former adult entertainer with three non-fiction books about her life as a stripper as well as several short fiction stories.

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