Marie O’Regan is a British Fantasy Award-nominated writer and editor of horror and dark fantasy fiction. She is the author of four collections, Mirror Mere, Bury Them Deep, In Times of Want and Other Stories and The Last Ghost and Other Stories, and her anthologies include Hellbound Hearts, The Mammoth Book of Body Horror, Carnivale: Dark Tales From the Fairground, The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women, Phantoms, Exit Wounds and Wonderland. She is Co-Chair of the UK chapter of the Horror Writers’ Association and lives in Derbyshire, UK. She tweets @Marie_O_ReganPaul Kane is the award-winning and bestselling author/editor of over 90 books, including the Arrowhead trilogy (gathered together in the sellout Hooded Man omnibus, revolving around a post-apocalyptic version of Robin Hood), The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, Before, Arcana and Pain Cages (an Amazon #1 bestseller). He is a respected anthologist, editing books such as Beyond Rue Morgue, The Mammoth Book of Body Horror, Hellbound Hearts and Exit Wounds. His website can be found at www.shadow-writer.co.uk and he tweets @PaulKaneShadowLouise CareyPaul MagrsJonathan Maberry is a New York Times best-seller, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, comic book writer, executive producer, magazine feature writer, playwright, and writing teacher/lecturer. He is the editor of Weird Tales Magazine and president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. He is the recipient of the Inkpot Award, three Scribe Awards, and was named one of the Today’s Top Ten Horror Writers. His books have been sold to more than thirty countries. He writes in several genres including thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and mystery; and he writes for adults, middle grade, and young adult.Christina Henry is a horror and dark fantasy author whose works include The House that Horror Built, Good Girls Don’t Die, Horseman, Near the Bone, The Ghost Tree, Looking Glass, The Girl in Red, The Mermaid, Lost Boy, Red Queen, Alice and the seven- book urban fantasy Black Wings series.She enjoys running long distances, reading anything she can get her hands on and watching movies with samurai, zombies and/ or subtitles in her spare time. She lives in Chicago with her husband and son. Follow her on X @C_Henry_Author, on Facebook and Instagram @authorchristinahenry, and on her website www.christinahenry.net.M. R. Carey has been making up stories for most of his life. His novel The Girl With All the Gifts was a word-of-mouth bestseller and is now a major motion picture based on his own screenplay. Under the name Mike Carey he has written for both DC and Marvel. He also has several previous novels, games, radio plays, and TV and movie screenplays to his credit.Simon R. GreenRobert Shearman is a television, radio, stage play and short story writer best known for his World Fantasy Award-winning short stories. He has produced six plays for BBC Radio 4, broadcast in the station's regular weekday Afternoon Play slot, and one classic serial.Una McCormack is the author of The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway, The Autobiography of Mr Spock, the Star Trek novels: The Lotus Flower (part of The Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Hollow Men, The Never-Ending Sacrifice, Brinkmanship, The Missing, The Fall: The Crimson Shadow, Enigma Tales, and the Doctor Who novels The King’s Dragon, The Way Through the Woods, and Royal Blood. She lives in Cambridge, England, with her partner and daughter.Stark Holborn is a novelist, games writer, film reviewer, and the author of Nunslinger and Triggernometry and has worked on games and interactive fiction such as Shadow of Doubt (Colepowered Games) and Mars 2020 (BBC). Stark lives in the South West UK.Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times-bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Guillotine, Bloom, The Violence, It Will Only Hurt For A Moment, Ride or Die, Mine, Camp Scare, the Blud series, the Hit series, Servants of the Storm, Midnight at the Houdini, several Star Wars books, and the Shadow series, written as Lila Bowen. She once saw The Living Unicorn at the circus as a child and has never recovered.Find her online at www.delilahsdawson.com and on social media, @delilahsdawson.Adrian Tchaikovsky is a sci-fi and fantasy author best known for his bestselling novel, Children of Time. He was born in Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he ended up as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind, possibly excepting his son. He tweets @aptshadow.Caitlin Rozakis is the New York Times bestselling author of Dreadful. After graduating from Princeton, she has had too many career changes, including mechanical engineering (cut short after the murderous robot incident), finance (amortizing tequila receivables is not as fun as drinking tequila), the American Museum of Natural History (who knew emus had birth certificates?), and a number of marketing positions, some at companies you may have even heard of. She lives in Jersey City with her husband and son. Visit her online at www.caitlinrozakis.com.Ian Whates