Gregory L. Norris is a full-time professional writer, with work appearing in numerous short story anthologies, magazines, novels, TV, and, so far, one produced feature film (Brutal Colors, Amazon PrimeA former feature writer and columnist at the Sci Fi Channel’s Sci Fi magazine, he once worked as a screenwriter on two episodes of Paramount’s modern classic, Star Trek: Voyager. Gregory judged the 2012 Lambda Awards in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror category and his stories have obtained Honorable Mentions in Ellen Datlow’s Best of Books and the Roswell Awards.
J.C. Raye
J.C. Raye is a Professor of Communication at a small NJ college, teaching the most feared course on the planet: Public Speaking. Witnessing grown people cry, beg, freak out and pass out is just another delightful day on the job for her, so she does know a little something about real terror. She has won numerous artistic & academic awards for her projects in the field of Communication & Media, and seats in her classes sell quicker than tickets to a Rolling Stones concert. Her short fiction can be found in anthologies with Scary Dairy Press, HellBound Books, and Books & Boos Press.
Rohit Sawant
Rohit Sawant’s fiction has been published in Kill Those Damn Cats - A Lovecraftian Anthology, After the Happily Ever After, and Flash Fiction Magazine. He lives in Mumbai, India. Enjoys sketching, films, and his favorite Batman is Kevin Conroy.
Irina Slav
Irina is an energy journalist by trade and a lifelong fantasy and horror fan with a degree in English. She’s been writing fiction since her teens and she still keeps her first unsuccessful novel attempt in a secret drawer as a reminder of the long way any author has to go before they produce something that’s worth reading.
Christine Stabile
Christine Stabile is retired. She is an active member of two critique groups and the Diamond Valley Writers’ Guild in southern California. She loves having more time to work on her short stories and novel. Dry Leaves is Christine’s first published short story.
S.E. Stone
S.E. Stone grew up in a suburb of a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. She currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she finds any excuse to live-tweet ghost hunting TV shows and to wander through antique malls.
M.B. Vujacic
M.B. Vujačić is an economist by trade, storyteller at heart. He is a published author of three horror novels written in Serbian: Krvavi Akvarel, NekRomansa, and Vampir. His stories appeared in SQ, Devolution Z, Crimson Streets, Encounters, Acidic Fiction, Creepy Campfire Quarterly, Under the Bed, 9Tales, and Infernal Ink magazines, as well as in professional anthologies Toxic Tales, Silent Scream, The Nightmare Collective, and The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Vol1. A fan of all things horror, he is also an avid gamer, hobby blogger, hookah enthusiast, and a staunch dog person. He lives in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Fiction: Horror
Fiction: Post-Apocalyptic/Dystopian
Fiction: Anthology