Aric Sundquist is a graduate of Northern Michigan University and holds an MA in Creative Writing. His stories have appeared in various publications, including The Best of Dark Moon Digest, Evil Jester Digest Vol. 1, and Blood Rites: An Invitation to Horror. In 2012 he was hired as an acquisitions editor/scriptwriter for Evil Jester Comics and is currently working on a new line of graphic novels.

Mike Phillips is author of The World Below and Reign of the Nightmare Prince. His short stories have appeared in ParAbnormal Digest, Cemetery Moon, Sinister Tales, Beyond Centauri, the World of Myth, Mystic Signals and many others. Online, his work has appeared in Lorelei Signal, Kzine, Bewildering Stories, Midnight Times, and Fringe.

He is best known for his Crow Witch and Patrick Donegal series.

Ben Pienaar was born in South Africa in 1991 and moved to Australia in 2000, where he lives and, more importantly, writes his days away. He also works two jobs to finance his crippling addiction to coffee, and spends his free time reading until his eyes hurt, and playing tennis.

After countless submissions, he got four stories published, ‘Beyond,’ ‘Dreamer,’ ‘Fair Trade,’ and ‘Till Death.’ The rest of his stories can be found on his website, free nightmares. His dream is to one day make drown men shiver with fear and traumatize small children. He writes obsessively, in the hopes that if he can only pass his nightmares on to others, they might leave him alone.

Sean Grigsby lives in central Arkansas with his wife and son, where he works full time as a firefighter/EMT. Sean has had several short stories published in anthologies such as “Children of the Moon” and “Christmas is Dead”. He is currently working on his first novel.

Ron J Cruz breathes and pens fiction in a hovel located in one of the seedier parts of Sacramento, California. While he teaches composition at Folsom Lake Community College, there are only a few vocations he hasn’t attempted. After a tour in the navy, a run through the police academy, writing for several newspapers, a stint in hell as a copy editor, years managing many random establishments (athletic clubs to laser tag arenas), time processing monetary transactions for a mutual fund company, and selling real estate after the market failed – he remembered he loved writing.

He has been published in “Sanitarium,” “69 Flavors of Paranoia,” “Not One of Us,” “Literary Orphans,” “Surreal Grotesque,” “Bewildering Stories,” and a few other publications.

William is a Scottish writer out of Canada, with eighteen novels published in the genre and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. His work has appeared in a number of professional anthologies and magazines with recent sales to NATURE Futures, Penumbra and Buzzy Mag among others. He lives in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company. When he’s not writing, he dreams of fortune and glory.

L. Chan lives with his wife and a dog in a tropical city. His dog was briefly internet famous, but he is not. When he is not working, he is busy collecting rejection letters in all shapes and sizes. His weapons of choice are science fiction and horror. He has work in Stupefying Stories.

Daniel Weatherer began writing horror after losing his job at the start of 2013, a cruel twist of fate that turned out to be a blessing in disguise! His first ever tale, “The Legend of the Chained Oak” was an immediate success. It is due to be made into a feature length movie.

He lives in Staffordshire, where is married to his beautiful wife, Jenni. He is a proud full time dad to his daughter, Bethany.

Jason Norton is a lifelong fan of comic books, science fiction, and monster-under-your-bed stories. A former small town newspaper reporter, Jason is now a personal trainer and massage therapist. When
he’s not playing volleyball, he studies wilderness survival skills. Honestly, not even he could have made that up.

Jason and his wife live in Powhatan, Virginia. He has a son, two cats, and two dogs. His work has been published at Bewildering Stories.com, Fiction Vortex.com, The HorrorZine/eZine and eHorror.

Daniel Davis is the nonfiction editor for The Prompt Literary Magazine. His own work has appeared in various online and print journals.