Skyler Goff
Murder Sandwich
Skyler Goff is a novelist, playwright, actor, and educator who lives in Asheville, NC with his lovely bride, Ashleigh. When he isn't writing he enjoys teaching theatre, escape room building, and zombie survival classes to middle schoolers.
Andrew Johnston
Overdue Notice
Born in rural western Kansas, Andrew Johnston discovered his Sinophilia while attending the University of Kansas. Subsequently, he has spent most of his adult life shuttling back and forth across the Pacific Ocean. He is currently based out of Hefei, Anhui province. He has published short fiction in Nature: Futures, the Arcanist, and Mythic.
Website: www.findthefabulist.com.
Alyssa Eckles
Bad Dates and Dragons
Alyssa Eckles is a speculative fiction writer with stories in DreamForge Magazine, Shoreline of Infinity, and A Flash of Silver-Green: Stories of the Nature of Cities. She also writes for American Greetings, mostly funny birthday cards you can't send to Grandma. When she's not putting pen to paper, Alyssa likes running, grabbing a bowl of pho, and planning elaborate vacations she'll never take. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio with too many books and her cats, Libel and Poe.
Website: www.alyssaeckles.com
Twitter: @alyssaeckles
George Nikolopoulos
The Haunting of Peruvius Corcorant
George Nikolopoulos is a member of the Codex Writers' Group. His short stories have been published in over 60 magazines and anthologies including Galaxy's Edge, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, Factor Four, Best Vegan SFF, and The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF. He lives in Athens, Greece, and when he's not writing he is, among other things, an actor, a civil engineer, a husband and a father. He wishes he could write more, read more, travel more, play more computer games, and spend more time with cats.
Website: www.georgenikolopoulos.wordpress.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/nikolop
Twitter: @g_nikolop
Eric J. Guignard
It Came from Mail Order
Eric J. Guignard has twice won the Bram Stoker Award, been a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award, and is a multi-nominee of the Pushcart Prize for his works of dark and speculative fiction. He has over one hundred stories and non-fiction author credits appearing in publications around the world; has edited multiple anthologies (including the current series, The Horror Writers Association’s HAUNTED LIBRARY OF HORROR CLASSICS with co-editor Leslie S. Klinger); and created an ongoing series of author primers championing modern masters of the dark and macabre, EXPLORING DARK SHORT FICTION through his own press, Dark Moon Books. His latest books are his short story collection, THAT WHICH GROWS WILD (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2018) and novel, DOORWAYS TO THE DEADEYE (JournalStone, 2019).
Website: www.ericjguignard.com
Blog: ericjguignard.blogspot.com
Twitter: @ericjguignard
Jeff Strand
Captain Pistachio's Charming Rampage
Jeff Strand is a four-time finalist (and zero time winner, but he lost to Stephen King twice) for the Bram Stoker Award. His 40+ books include PRESSURE, DWELLER, MY PRETTIES, DEAD CLOWN BARBECUE, EVERYTHING HAS TEETH, and A BAD DAY FOR VOODOO. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, but please don’t show up uninvited after nightfall.
Website: www.JeffStrand.com
Twitter: @JeffStrand
Santiago Eximeno
Your Diabolical Baby
Santiago Eximeno is a Spanish genre writer who has published several novellas and collections, mainly of horror literature. His work has been translated to English, Japanese, French, and Bulgarian. UMBRIA, his award-winning Spanish language horror short story collection will be published in English in 2019 by Independent Legions Publishing.
Website: www.eximeno.com
Twitter: @santiagoeximeno
Sean Logan
Night Stockers
Sean Logan's stories have appeared in more than forty publications, including America Gothic Short Stories, Black Static, Supernatural Tales, and Dark Visions Vol. 1. He lives in northern California with his lovely wife, a matching set of newborn twins, and a giant white Kuvasz that may be part polar bear.
C L Raven
Dying Art
C L Raven are identical twins and mistresses of the macabre. They're horror writers because 'bringers of nightmares' isn't a recognised job title. They write novels, short stories, comics, and film scripts. Their work has been published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA, and Australia. A story of theirs was published in The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper, which makes their fascination with him seem a little less creepy. They’ve worked on several indie horror films as crew and reluctant actors and have somehow ended up with lead roles in the forthcoming indie horror film School Hall Slaughter. In their spare time, they hunt ghosts, host a horror radio show, look after their animal army, and try to look impressive with polefit. Their attempts at gymnastics should never be spoken about.
Website: www.clraven.wordpress.com
Twitter: @clraven
William West
Tea Time
William West is the unholy love child of William Gibson and Frank Zappa, a born and bred Ohio native transplanted to Reno, Nevada with a cat named Five. His shticks include writing, Perl programming, and teaching English as a second language. He enjoys empanadas, choripanes, completos, pizza, pirogies, pasta, potstickers, computery things, languages, telling his daughter stories on demand, and writing discomfiting fiction. His better half and little one currently reside in Santiago, Chile, and, if he ever gets his ever-loving stuff together, he’ll be living there too.
Brandon Butler
All Aboard!
Brandon Butler is a Canadian and a Maritimer. Not necessarily in that order. Hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, he currently lives, works and writes from Toronto, Ontario. By day he toils as a computer programmer and by night... does the same. But also writes!
A previous second-place quarterly winner of the Writers of the Future Contest (Volume XIX), Brandon has just returned to writing after a 15 year hiatus. Welcome back. His latest work has been accepted for publication with Helios Quarterly Magazine, Third Flatiron Publishing and the forthcoming Monsters in Space anthology from Dragon's Roost Press.
Twitter: @2BWritingStuff
W. T. Paterson
Vlad's Incorruptible Soul
W. T. Paterson is the author of the novels DARK SATELLITES and WOTNA. A Pushcart Prize nominee and graduate of Second City Chicago, his work has appeared in over 50 publications worldwide, including Fiction Magazine, The Gateway Review, and The Paragon Press. A number of stories have been anthologized by Lycan Valley, North 2 South Press, and Thuggish Itch. He spends most nights yelling for his cat to "Get down from there!"
Brett Reistroffer
Editor
Brett Reistroffer is an editor and writer from the Pacific Northwest. He established Bad Dream Entertainment in 2013 as a home for dark, weird fiction from new and emerging voices in the worlds of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.
Website: www.BrettReistroffer.com
Stefan Koidl
Cover Illustrator
Stefan Koidl is a full-time Krampus mask carver, self-taught illustrator, and concept artist living in Salzburg, Austria.
He started drawing when he was a little kid, fascinated with creating characters and scenes that don’t exist in real life. Currently, Stefan specializes in digital paintings, and especially likes to paint creepy, dark stuff.
One of his biggest dreams is to be able to work as a full-time illustrator in the near future.
Website: www.artstation.com/stefankoidl
Facebook: www.facebook.com/The.Art.of.Stefan.Koidl
Instagram: www.instagram.com/stefankoidl