I am the publisher and editor of the annual anthologies Indiana Horror, Indiana Science Fiction and Indiana Crime. During 2013 I expanded my business, jwkfiction.com, to include many other works, ranging from poetry anthologies to regular anthologies by multiple authors, to single author anthologies and complete novels. My own fiction has been published in various magazines and anthologies and when not busy running JWKfiction, I try to expand on that. I have a Master's in English from Indiana University at Indianapolis, where I also happen to live.

L.A. Sykes is a writer from Atherton, Greater Manchester, UK. He studied psychology and criminology before working in acute psychiatry. He’s been up or due at the likes of Shotgun Honey, Powder Burn Flash, The Big Adios, Blink Ink, Close To The Bone, Dark Dreams Podcast, Nightmare Illustrated, and Spelk Fiction and others.

Lily Childs... writes dark fiction, horror and chilling mysteries. She is currently completing her first novel, a supernatural asylum thriller set in the south of England. Her gothic horrors, ghost stories and crime tales have been published in anthologies, most recently: The House of Three: a Short Story (Ganglion Press), The Twistweaver’s Son in The Demonologia Biblica (Western Legends Publishing), The Ossillatrice Shift in Bones (James Ward Kirk Fiction), Strange Tastes in Fresh Fear (James Ward Kirk Fiction), Girl Don’t Come in Thirteen (Soul Bay Press), Rapture in The Bestiarum Vocabulum (Western Legends Publishing) and Bad Exposure in Phobophobias 2 (Western Legends Publishing) Cabaret of Dread: a Horror Compendium (2012) is a gathering of Lily’s terrifying tales, and a selection of her poems was published in Courting Demons - A Collection Of Dark Verse in 2011. Lily is also author of the Magenta Shaman dark urban fantasy, short story series. Her psychological crime thriller Carpaccio was nominated for a Spinetingler Award in 2011. She is a member of The British Fantasy Society and former Horror Editor at Thrillers Killers 'n' Chillers e-zine. Blog: The Feardom http://lilychildsfeardom.blogspot.com Twitter @LilyChilds and Facebook.com/LilyChildsFeardom

Shawna L. Bernard, better known as Sydney Leigh, is a writer, editor, and English teacher native to the North Shore of Massachusetts. Her short fiction, poetry, and reviews have been published in various anthologies and magazines, including Shock Totem, The Library of the Dead, Shroud, Darkness Ad Infinitum, Enter at Your Own Risk: The End is the Beginning, Demonic Visions 1-4, Widowmakers, and more. She currently works for Villipede Publications and as the Chief Editor of Eldritch Press’ Novel Division. She is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association. She recently edited Michael Bailey’s Inkblots and Blood Spots, a collection of short stories and poetry illustrated by British Fantasy Award-winning artist Daniele Serra and with an Introduction by the legendary Douglas E. Winter. Her short fiction has been appeared in audio format on The Wicked Library and is due to be podcast on Tales to Terrify as part of their annual Stoker Awards celebration. In 2015, “Baby’s Breath” was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction and won the Best Horror Short Story Award in the Preditors & Editors Readers’ Poll. The first two episodes of a show she co-hosts with her local writers group called “The Taco Society Presents” (a nod to Peter Straub’s Ghost Story) can be found online at the following links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnbyU... (Episode 1) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gje5Q... (Episode 2). Forthcoming work is due to appear in Chiral Mad 3, Our World of Horror, the HWA Poetry Showcase Volume II, and the third volume in the Quick Shivers series from the DailyNightmare.com. You can find a full bibliography of her work on her website at http://thespiderbox.shawnaleighbernar.... She is currently working on her first novel.

I was born in London. After completing a PhD in visual information processing, I moved to Canberra, Australia. Currently, I live on the Sunshine Coast, Qld, with my wife, Judith. I'm also involved with woodwork and tai chi (with a slight martial flavour).

Alessandro Manzetti (Rome, Italy) is a Three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, editor, scriptwriter and essayst of horror fiction and dark poetry whose work has been published extensively (more than 40 books) in Italian and English, including novels, short and long fiction, poetry, essays, graphic novels and collections. ​ English publications include his novels Shanti - The Sadist Heaven (2019) and Naraka - The Ultimate Human Breeding (2018), the novella The Keeper of Chernobyl (2019), the collections The Radioactive Bride (2020), The Garden of Delight (2017), The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly (2016, with Paolo Di Orazio), and The Massacre of the Mermaids (2015), the poetry collections Dancing with Maria's Ghost (2021), Whitechapel Rhapsody (2020), The Place of Broken Things (2019, with Linda D. Addison), War (2018, with Marge Simon), No Mercy (2017), Sacrificial Nights (2016, with Bruce Boston) Eden Underground (2015), Venus Intervention (2014, with Corrine de Winter), and the graphic novels Calcutta Horror (2019), Her Life Matters (2020) and The Inhabitant of the Lake (2021), and the Guide '150 Exquisite Horror Books' (2021) ​ He edited the anthologies The Beauty of Death (2016), The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 - Death by Water (2017, with Jodi Renee Lester) and Monsters of Any Kind (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti) ​ His stories and poems have appeared in Italian, USA, UK, Australian, Polish and Russian magazines, such as Weird Tales Magazine, Dark Moon Digest, Splatterpunk Zine, Disturbed Digest, Space and Time, The Horror Zine, Illumen, Devolution Z, Hinnom, Recompose, Polu Texni, Nothing's Sacred, Okolica Strachu, and anthologies such as Splatterpunk Forever, The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13, Classic Monsters Unleashed, Best Hardcore Horror of the Year Vol. 2, 4, 5, 6, The Big Book of Blasphemy, Midnight Under the Big Top, Bones III, Rhysling Anthology (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 3 and 4, The Beauty of Death Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, World of Light and Darkness, One of Us, Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, Tales of the Lost Vol. 3, Hope: Poems of Hope and Resilience From the Pandemic, Sorrow and many others He edited the anthologies The Beauty of Death (2016), The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 - Death by Water (2017, with Jodi Renee Lester) and Monsters of Any Kind (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti) Awards and Nominations: • Bram Stoker Awards 2021 winner • Bram Stoker Awards 2019 winner • Bram Stoker Awards 2015 winner • SFPA Elgin Awards 2019 winner • Bram Stoker Awards 2019 three-time nominee • Bram Stoker Awards 2018 nominee • Bram Stoker Awards 2017 two-time nominee • Bram Stoker Awards 2016 two-time nominee • Bram Stoker Awards 2014 nominee • Splatterpunk Awards 2019 nominee • Splatterpunk Awards 2018 nominee • Rhysling Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 nominee • Elgin Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 nominee • This is Horror Awards 2017 nominee • HWA Specialty Press Awards 2017 winner (as CEO of Independent Legions Press) Furthermore, he received honorable mentions (for stories and poems) in Ellen Datlow's 'The Best Horror of the Year' Vol. 7-8-9-10-12-13 ​ ​He is the CEO & Founder of Independent Legions Publishing, editor of 'Molotov Magazine' (in Italian), HWA Active member and a former HWA Board of Trustees member. In 2021 he served the Science Fiction Poetry Association as the Rhysling Award Chair. He lives in Trieste, Italy website: www.battiago.com

I have been writing for over 30 years. My poetry has been appearing small magazines, journals and anthologies since the late 80's, Recently I have turned my attention to writing short fiction, mostly horror spiced with healthy doses of humor and satire. My short stories can be found in Bones III, Floppy Shoes Apocalypse, Hell 2: Citizens and Indiana Horror Review 2014. http://www.amazon.com/Passing-Through... http://www.amazon.com/Succulent-Flesh...

✍🏼 Screenwriter ✍🏼 🎬 Cinefile 🎬 🤓 Nerd 🤓 🐾 MKL 🐾 Jaimie Engle is a multiple award-winning writer of stories with a magic touch. With 15 published books, she is a seasoned storyteller who has taught at national conferences, state libraries, and local schools on writing, publishing, and marketing books. In 2021, she began writing for film & television and optioned her first feature film JUST JAKE was produced by True Brand Entertainment and streamed on the UpTV Faith & Family Network in 2023. She sold the book rights with publication through Vinspire Publishing on August 29th 2023 (add JUST JAKE to your TO READ SHELF). Several of her award-winning tv shows, based off her published work, were also optioned and in the hands of major producers and networks, with a comic book adaptation that caught the eye of the producer of “The Stand” and “Thinner” plus King’s next venture “The Gingerbread Man.” When not telling stories, Jaimie spends time with her husband, watches her oldest son on the stage and cheers her youngest son on Varsity football. Fun fact? Jaimie danced at the Aloha Bowl halftime show. Follow the journey on social @JaimieEngleWrites and www.JaimieEngle.com.

David Eccles is an author who was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and he still lives there to this day. Raised on a diet of pulp comic books, graphic novels, classic literature of all genres and contemporary fiction and horror, he always wanted to be a writer, but real life always seemed to get in the way, until recently. After giving up his job in the security industry to care for his elderly father, he finally found time to realize his dream of becoming a writer and so began writing his first novel, which has yet to see the light, because floods of ideas for short fiction pieces kept coming to the fore of his mind and so for the immediate future, the novel has been put to one side. After writing chapter two of a twenty-part episodic flash fiction project entitled "Easter Bunny Apocalypse" for author Ksenia Anske on her blog, he wrote "The Teeth Police", which was featured by author and publisher James Roy Daley on his BOOKSoftheDEADPRESS website. He had this to say about David: "I've been keeping my eye on David Eccles for a while now; he's clearly one of the good guys. His flash fiction piece "The Teeth Police" is awesome, reminds me of early Stephen King. If you've read "Night Shift" you might know what I'm talking about." Author M.C. O'Neill says that David's writing style reminds him of the writing of "Necroscope" author Brian Lumley. The praise from authors goes on, and author and publisher James Ward Kirk recently accepted two of the stories presented here in this slim volume for inclusion in two of his anthologies. "Doing It For JRD" is currently available in the "Sex, Drugs & Horror" anthology, and Eyes is to be included in the forthcoming anthology "Serial Killers Tres Tria". Both anthologies are published by James Ward Kirk Fiction. "All Sunshine Makes the Desert" is due to be published later this year in "Echoes of the Wasteland", an anthology of apocalyptic fiction stories based on a common theme. There will be at least twelve authors taking part in this venture which will hopefully raise money for a nominated charity.

John W. Dennehy is an American novelist and short story writer. His thrillers include Limited Damages , Jurassic War , Pacific Rising , and others. His stories have appeared in Crimson Streets, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Dual Cost Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Near to the Knuckle, and many more. A U.S. Marine veteran, he graduated from UNC Wilmington and Suffolk Law. John was a Litigation Partner in a Boston law firm for many years. He is a member of International Thriller Writers, and Mystery Writers of America. He lives in New Hampshire. Website: https://johnwdennehy.com/

In een grijs verleden heeft Michael wel eens meegedaan aan een King Kong Award. Daarnaast assisteert hij de schrijver Mike Jansen met proeflezen, redigeren en adviezen en deed hij voorheen een aantal van de juridische zaken voor uitgeverij Babel Publications, tegenwoordig Verschijnsel. Zijn voornaamste schrijfwerk vindt plaats in het LARP circuit, waar hij drijvende kracht en creatief verantwoordelijke is achter een aantal LARP events zoals onder andere 7 Gates, Ravenskeep en Vortex Adventures. Daarnaast is hij voor deze events veelal de spelleider. Sinds 2012 schrijft hij zelf ook voor diverse genre-wedstrijden in Nederland, waarmee hij inmiddels een publicatie in Fantastisch Strijdtoneel III heeft gewonnen. Hij heeft een boek in de planning, maar da's lange termijn...