Our Authors

Aksheeya is obsessed with collecting stories like an old witch hoards crystals. Sometimes, she likes to take you on a trip and offer you these tiny capsules of fantasy to carry in your pocket, infect you with its energy, and challenge your own notion of reality.

Alexandra Seidel writes stories that often turn out darker than she thought. She can't remember selling her soul to any demons however, so there is a logical explanation for these dark twists. Probably. As Alexa Piper, she writes (very queer) paranormal romance books which have been rumored to make people laugh out loud in public. Such rumors please this author.

Arlo “Zven” Graves lives in a salvaged shack deep in the woods. Zven enjoys hiking at night, weird rocks, and ocarinas. They’re not so good at small talk, but exceptional at Dance Dance Revolution. Their short work can be found at Dragon Soul Press, the 96th of October, and others. Zven’s short memoir about the CZU Lightning Complex fire won the Stories That Need to be Told 2023 grand prize.

Craig Crawford grew up reading constantly. After being wowed by so many great novels he wondered if he could do it too. Since 2020, he has published more than twenty short stories, plus a novella and a four-book serial through many different presses. He writes science fiction, fantasy, YA, horror, humor—whatever his imagination gives him.

Elizabeth Guilt lives in London, UK, where history lurks alongside plate glass office buildings and stories spring out of the street names. Her fiction has appeared most recently in Pseudopod, Escape Pod, and Cosmic Horror Monthly.

Graveside Press is a new imprint focused on horror, managed by members of the publishing teams that bring you Paper Angel Press, Water Dragon Publishing, and Cupid’s Arrow Publishing.

Hannah Rebekah Graves is an AuDHD ball of nerves and chaos. Her special interests include horror and Anne Boleyn. Shes resides in the Redwoods with her wife and is bossed about by a cockatiel named Bananakin. Please do not feed her after dark. Please do not let her in your house.

J C Lee is the penname of an Anglo/Chinese, male/female authorial partnership. They share a passion for myth, fairytales, and ghost stories from Chinese and Western cultures, and a taste for good whisky from anywhere. Both are published authors in their own right, but this is their first collaboration in horror fiction.

J. Brian Ballinger is an aspiring new writer with a taste for the historic and the macabre. He writes both novels and short stories and is best known for skin-chilling tales that take you back through the centuries. J. Brian Ballinger lives in Canada and loves bewildering coworkers and friends with his wild tales and unique style of horror and nonsense.

Mark London Williams wrote the Los Angeles Times best-selling Danger Boy time travel series, among other books and anthology contributions. He covers show business, its content and discontents, as a columnist in Los Angeles. He has taught storytelling at Disney’s Creative Academy, keeps a watchful eye out for Santa Ana winds, and has two grown sons.

Nigel Williams was born in the middle of England and is a voracious reader, geek, and true crime buff. He began writing in later life to stave off the terror of encroaching middle age. He lives in Sheffield with his wife and two young children. When not reading or writing, he usually spends his life fixing the house or wondering where his spare time went.

Jeremy Scott Craig, also known as J.S. Craig and now R.R. Harrow, is a husband, father, medically retired firefighter, and football coach with a long history of writing and well-established love for the fantasy, horror, and classic adventure genres of writing. He is on the Autism Spectrum, and has, throughout his life battled though stereotypes, childhood homelessness, and several crippling, near-death experiences to both care for his family and achieve his childhood dreams of one day being a published author.

Rose Strickman is a speculative fiction writer living in Seattle, Washington. Her work has been published over fifty times, in anthologies such as Sword and Sorceress 32, Nightmare Sky and Spring Into SciFi 2024, as well as several e-zines. She has also self-published several novellas.

Ryan Van Ells (he/him) is a queer lawyer and author of dark fiction from Wisconsin. His work has appeared in October Screams, Drabbledark III, Trembling with Fear, and other publications. When not writing, he can be found watching scary movies with his partner and their three cats.

Sandra J. Paul is an award-winning Belgian author, who has written over thirty novels. Her books have been translated in over fourteen languages. Her novel My Truth has been optioned for film or limited streaming series. Her novel The Girl without a voice will be published by Watkins Publishing Group (UK) and Penguin Random House (USA). Her novel Everyone is worried will be released in the US in the Fall of 2024. The author has been shortlisted for various writing competitions, such as Coverfly Cinematic Book/Short Story competition. She has won various awards for her psychological thrillers and children's books.

Tom Vandermolen started out life as a military brat, born in Japan to a US Navy sailor and a Japanese mother, but raised primarily in the American South—in a town suspiciously similar to the one in "Male of the Species". A retired Navy officer, he now works as a data scientist in Seattle, where he lives with his wife.