Adam Bolivar is a poet of mythic and folkloric fantasy, a weird fiction writer and a playwright for marionettes with a particular interest in alliterative verse, balladry and “Jack” tales. That he is a member of an occult poetic society known as the Crimson Circle is a rumour which is only whispered in darkness.

John Shirley won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection Black Butterflies, and is the author of numerous novels, including the best-seller DEMONS, the cyberpunk classics CITY COME A-WALKIN', ECLIPSE, and BLACK GLASS, and his newest novels STORMLAND and A SORCERER OF ATLANTIS. He is also a screenwriter, having written for television and movies; he was co-screenwriter of THE CROW. He has been several Year's Best anthologies including Prime Books' THE YEAR'S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR anthology, and his nwest story collection is IN EXTREMIS: THE MOST EXTREME SHORT STORIES OF JOHN SHIRLEY. His novel BIOSHOCK: RAPTURE telling the story of the creation and undoing of Rapture, from the hit videogame BIOSHOCK is out from TOR books; his Halo novel, HALO: BROKEN CIRCLE is coming out from Pocket Books. His most recent novels are STORMLAND and (forthcoming) AXLE BUST CREEK. His new story collection is THE FEVERISH STARS. STORMLAND and other John Shirley novels are available as audiobooks. He is also a lyricist, having written lyrics for 18 songs recorded by the Blue Oyster Cult (especially on their albums Heaven Forbidden and Curse of the Hidden Mirror), and his own recordings. John Shirley has written only one nonfiction book, GURDJIEFF: AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS LIFE AND IDEAS, published by Penguin/Jeremy Tarcher. John Shirley story collections include BLACK BUTTERFLIES, IN EXTREMIS, REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY WEIRD STORIES, and LIVING SHADOWS. source: Amazon

Wilum lived in Seattle, WA and wrote Cthulhu Mythos fiction full-time. He was the self-proclaimed "Queen of Eldritch Horror," and had been writing Lovecraftian weird fiction since the early 1970s. Writing weird fiction was his life, but congestive heart failure slowed his writing. He considered his finest books to be Some Unknown Gulf of Night (Arcane Wisdom Press 2011), Uncommon Places (Hippocampus Press 2012) and The Tangled Muse (Centipede Press 2011).

Oliver Smith was born in 1966, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. His stories generally deal with the weird, fantastic, and speculative: there’s a mermaid in the bathroom, jars of pickled brains are plotting in the pantry, a giant flea is sat where the flatmate used to be, and down the pub a strange green man has lost his head and isn't going to take it lying down. He studied fine art painting and his writing practice developed from an interest in various surrealist techniques. He utilizes an analogous approach when writing using various cut-up and fold in techniques, automatic writing, and formal poetic exercises. His influences include Kingsley Amis, Lucius Apuleius, J G Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Angela Carter, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alasdair Gray, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, Franz Kafka, H P Lovecraft, David Madsen, Gustav Meyrink, Michael Moorcock, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Herbert Rosendorfer, Bruno Schulz, Clark Ashton Smith, and August Strindberg. His prose writing has appeared in the following anthologies: ‘Land’s End’ Inkermen Press (2008), ‘Cold Turkey’ Inkermen Press (2009), ‘This Hermetic Legislature: A Homage to Bruno Schulz’ Ex Occidente Press (2012), ‘Transactions of the Flesh: A Homage to Joris-Karl Huysmans’ Ex Occidente Press/Zagava Press (2013), ‘Dark Hall Press Cosmic Horror Anthology’ Dark Hall Press (2014) His poetry has appeared in S T Joshi’s ‘Spectral Realms’ from Hippocampus Press. More short stories are due to be published in the anthologies ‘History and Horror, Oh My’ from Mystery and Horror, LLC and ‘Techno-Horror’ from Dark Hall Press.

Kyla Lee Ward is a Sydney-based creative who works in many modes, that have garnered her Australian Shadows and Aurealis awards. She has placed in the Rhyslings and received multiple Stoker and Ditmar nominations. Reviewers have accused her of being “gothic and esoteric”, “weird and exhilarating” and of “giving me a nightmare.” This Attraction Now Open Till Late is her first collection of dark and fantastic stories after two poetry collections, The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities and The Land of Bad Dreams. Her work on RPGs including Demon: the Fallen saw her appear as a guest at the inaugural Gencon Australia. Her short film, 'Bad Reception', screened at the Third International Vampire Film Festival and she is a founding member of Deadhouse - tales of Sydney Morgue and the Theatre of Blood, which have also performed her work. A practicing occultist, she likes raptors, swordplay and the Hellfire Club. Please permit me to explain my personal scheme of ratings - I would prefer to simply provide reviews, but here at Goodreads, one is a necessary precursor to the other. 3 is the most common score I give, because it means the book was good. I enjoyed it, it was well-presented and properly proofed, and I consider the author to have achieved their objective. I give out 4s much more rarely and believe I have only ever given out one 5. 2s are also rare and mean I found the book flawed in respect of its own intent, or atrocious formatting and proofing errors. I have never yet rated a book at 1.

Clay F. Johnson is the author of A Ride Through Faerie & Other Poems (2021), published by Gothic Keats Press in honor of John Keats on the bicentennial year of his death. His writing has been published widely, nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Rhysling Award, and received Honorable Mention in The Best Horror of the Year. His collection’s eponymous poem, “A Ride Through Faerie”, was recently presented at “Ill Met by Moonlight”, a university conference in England that discussed the darker side of faeries in literature. Find out more on his website at https://www.clayfjohnson.com/ and follow him on Twitter and Instagram @ClayFJohnson.