Kevin David Anderson’s debut novel the geeky, cult zombie classic, Night of the Living Trekkies, from Quirk Books, the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, is a funny, offbeat Zombie novel that explores the pop culture carnage that ensues when the undead crash a Star Trek convention. Publishers Weekly gave Night of the Living Trekkies a starred review and the Washington Post listed it as one of the top five Zombie novels of 2010.

Night of the Living Trekkies and Anderson’s follow-up, Night of the ZomBEEs were required reading in college courses, most notably a class designed for incoming freshmen, How to Survive Your Freshman Year by Studying the Zombie Apocalypse, at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania.

Anderson’s short stories have appeared in almost a hundred publications, from anthologies and magazines to podcasts and radio dramas. His work has appeared in multiple languages and on every continent, excluding Antarctica - mostly because penguins and polar bears don’t read. Anderson was the first American to be published in the award-winning South African Horror Magazine, Something Wicked. He has contributed to many award-worthy publications including the British Fantasy Award-winning Magazine Murky Depths, and the Bram Stoker nominated anthology, The Beauty of Death from Independent Legions Publishing. Many of Anderson’s stories have been turned into audio productions with voice talents like Jason Hill, Rish Outfield, and Mur Lafferty, on Parsec Award-winning podcasts like Pseudopod, The Drabblecast, The Dunesteef and on the very popular Simply Scary Podcast and the No Sleep Podcast.

When not writing horror, comedy, or horror-comedy, Anderson likes spending time at the beach with his family, attending horror conventions and book festivals, and writing and telling bad, corny, nerdy jokes. Dad jokes with a geeky twist are his specialty and with the help of his son, he published The Geektastic Joke Book for Kids under the pseudonym, Giggles A. Lott and Nee Slapper. Giggles & Slapper have followed with STAR WARS: The Jokes Awaken, and JURASSIC JOKES: A Book 65 Million Years in the Making. STAR WARS: The Jokes AWAKEN was named one of the top 10 Star Wars gifts for kids by Best Deals For Kids (dot) com in 2020.

Anderson was born in Indiana, and currently lives and writes speculative fiction in Southern California. Before becoming a writer and active member of the HWA (Horror Writers Association), Anderson earned a B. A. in Mass Communication (TCOM) with a focus on Media Production from CSUF (Fresno State). He worked as a marketing professional for more than a decade, during which he managed award-winning campaigns for both television and radio. Currently, he is doing something much more rewarding. Anderson is a high school special education teacher.

Nicole “Nickie” Jamison is one pseudonym of Ora J. McGuire. Ora wrote her first full-length novel at age 10 – that creative endeavor sparked the desire to begin her writing career. Her stories dabble in and blend many different genres, but she is best known for her LGBTQ+ erotic romances and short fiction.

Her other hobbies include knitting, drinking copious amounts of wine, Netflix binge-watching, and vlogging about beauty products on her YouTube channel. Ora is a graduate of Old Dominion University (Creative Writing, Class of 2006) and lives in Hampton Roads with her darling husband, step-child, and two spoiled furbabies, Jayne and Frye.

Carmilla Voiez is a British horror and fantasy writer living in Scotland. Her influences include Graham Masterton, Thomas Ligotti, and Clive Barker. She is pansexual and passionate about intersectional feminism and human rights.

Carmilla has a First-Class Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Linguistics. Her work includes stories in horror anthologies published by Crystal Lake Publishing, Clash Books and Mocha Memoirs; a co-authored Southern Gothic Horror novel; two self-published graphic novels, and the award-winning, dark fantasy/horror Starblood series.

Graham Masterton described the second book in her Starblood series as a “compelling story in a hypnotic, distinctive voice that brings her eerie world vividly to life”.

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Her books are both extraordinarily personal and universally challenging. As Jef Withonef of Houston Press once said - "You do not read her books, you survive them."

Greetings fellow readers. I'm Astrid Addams and I write horror and weird stuff. It's been a little while since I've published anything on here. That doesn't mean I've spent the last year just watching crap online.

Oh no, for the last few months I have been working my way out of a place most writers are familiar with, editing hell.

Whilst I battle the next novella into the shape I want, I hope to offer up some short fiction for you to get your teeth into.

Dan Allen is Canadian and enjoys spending time in Northern Ontario. You can find his short stories in numerous magazines, anthologies, and podcasts. Visit www.danallenhorror.com to see a presentation of his published work.

His terrifying look at Alzheimer’s, “Above the Ceiling,” is featured in Bards and Sages collection of the Best Indie Speculative Fiction Vol. 2.

A personal favorite, “Sympathy for the Zingara,” can be found in the March 2019 edition of ParAbnormal Magazine.

His terrifying story, “The Basement” (edited by Horror Zine’s Jeani Rector), was published by Hellbound Books in July 2020.

You can visit Dan at www.danallenhorror.com and follow him on Facebook and Twitter at

@danallenhorror. You can write to Dan at contact@danallenhorror.com

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Kenzie Jennings is an English professor residing in the sweltering tourist pocket of central Florida. She is the author of the Splatterpunk Award nominated books Reception and Red Station (Death’s Head Press) as well as the collection Always Listen to Her Hurt under her imprint, Blistered Siren Press.

Alicia Hilton is an author, editor, arbitrator, law professor, actor, and former FBI Special Agent. She believes in angels and demons, magic, and monsters. Ever since she was a little girl and saw a ghost, she’s been fascinated by the supernatural. Alicia’s work has appeared in Akashic Books, Creepy Podcast, Daily Science Fiction, Dreams & Nightmares, Eastern Iowa Review, Modern Haiku, Mslexia, Neon, NonBinary Review, Not One of Us, Space & Time, Unnerving, Vastarien, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 4, 5 & 6, and elsewhere.

Alicia has taught writing workshops through HWA, MWA ,and RWA, and has been a guest speaker at more than sixty law schools, including: Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, and the University of Southern California. She received her BA in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and her JD and MA from the University of Chicago.

As an FBI Special Agent, Alicia was a member of a foreign counterintelligence squad, and also worked undercover in two long-term criminal cases. Now, Alicia enjoys playing different personalities on the stage and screen. She’s had acting roles with NBC’s Chicago PD, Fox’s Empire & Proven Innocent, Showtime’s The Chi, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Joffrey Ballet.

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Shannon Grant is an indie horror author and adventurer living in the strange land of upstate New York. In her writing, she takes the world around us and twists it into a bizarre landscape filled with girls who turn into bugs, scary fairies, and creepy toys. She would like to write a novel one day, but for now, she's enjoying where short stories take her.