Throngs of tourists pack the streets from Derby to Essex. Costumed children and adults visit haunted attractions and browse t-shirt shops and street vendors’ booths. A veiled figure appears, and you catch her out of the corner of your eye, but she quickly disappears into the crowd… or perhaps into thin air? The night is filled with laughter and screams as the living walk shoulder to shoulder with the dead. Halloween in Salem has expanded into a month-long celebration of all things creepy, but in four hundred years of history, October 31st has held many mysterious customs and dark events, lost and forgotten in the passing of decades. From the cursed Puritan settlers to the Great Salem Fire of 1914, and the whispers of war in 1812 to the story of a bullet hole in an alley on Gedney Street, travel through time, as ghosts mingle with the living, glimpsing the Witch City on the most important night of the year, October 31st.
Authors
Laurie Moran is a lover of the macabre, quirky, and cute, and she wishes it were Halloween every day. When she isn’t writing or editing for FunDead Publications, she likes to make costumes and tiny cemeteries. Find her at FunDeadPublications.com and on Instagram as @thecemeterrarium.
Chad McClendon is a 32 year old author who studied English & Creative Writing at Northern Kentucky University. Chad has been published most recently through Crossed Heart, as well as in several online publications. He has won various awards for Fiction Writing. His short story, "Uploaded Vengeance" is now available in "One Night In Salem" by FunDead Publications. Chad attended high school in Alexandria, Kentucky at Bishop Brossart High School. He was a founding member of Monday's Child, a volunteer group that worked around the Tri-State to better the lives of others. He was active in French Language competitions, and a general troublemaker otherwise. He and his wife, Briana, have two daughters and one boy . In his free time Chad enjoys camping at Red River Gorge, playing video games and also swimming. Authors who have inspired him include Stephen King, John Steinbeck, William Golding, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, and others.
Amber Newberry is the Editor-in-Chief of FunDead Publications, and she writes as often as the muse gives her opportunity. She published her first novel, 'Walls of Ash', in 2012, and released a follow-up novella called 'The Widow's Blessing'. She is currently working on the second novel in the Daughters of Rhineholt Series: 'The Masque and the Mausoleum'. Amber has published short stories in 'Shadows in Salem', as well as 'O Horrid Night'. She currently has two young adult novels in the works. Amber lives in Salem, MA, where it's Halloween all year 'round. She spends most of her extra time writing, planning insane theme parties, and getting tattoos. Amber is married to her very own bard, and together they've raised three beautiful fur-babies. Find me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/397103333675567
R.C. Mulhare has the distinction of reading a translation of the famous cursed play "The King in Yellow" without going mad, once successfully defended her day-job workplace from zombies, through some judicious use of clearance-rack garden tools, survived a fight with Yog-Sothoth cultists in a hallway of a hotel in Providence; she's also picked up some extra work editing posts for the product blog of Umbrella Corporation... In actuality, R.C. Mulhare was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and grew up in one of the surrounding towns, in a hundred year old house up the street from an old cemetery. Her interest in the dark and mysterious started when she was quite young, when her mother read the faery tales of the Brothers Grimm and quoted the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe to her, while her Irish storyteller father infused her with a fondness for strange characters and quirky situations. When she isn't writing, she moonlights in grocery retail. She's also fond of hiking in the woods of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and browsing the antiques shops one finds all over New England. A two-time Amazon best-selling author, contributor to the Hugo Award Winning Archive of Our Own, and member of the New England Horror Writers, her work previously appeared with Atlantean Publishing, Macabre Maine, FunDead Publications, Deadman's Tome, NEHW Press, and Weirdbook Magazine, with more stories in various stages of publication. She shares her home with her family, a parakeet with a dictionary in his teeny head, about fifteen hundred books and an unknown number of eldritch things that rattle in the walls when she's writing late in the night....
Hi, I’m just a guy from Lynn, MA named Dan Le Fever with a degree in history from Salem State College that focused on Byzantine and Ottoman history. I’m fascinated by linguistics, etymology, and orthography. When I’m not writing, I spend my time playing video games, reading and watching scifi/fantasy/horror books, movies, and tv. The greatest of which is Dune by Frank Herbert. This isn’t even a discussion. Don’t @me. I also enjoy extreme metal. A lot of my work is influenced by the music I’m listening to when I write it. The stories are a bit eclectic. Some horror, some comedy, tragedy, action, and some introspective. I hope you enjoy my journey as I write it. Associate member of the SFWA.
