Gender Bender” (2015), “Molly” (2015), and “Huntress Returns” (2016), he has released two volumes of poetry—Fangoria: Bloodcurdling Tenderloins (2015) and Bloody Tongue and Painted Face (2016). He is the cofounder of The NoSleep Podcast, a popular audio drama produced by Nightlight Digital Media. Rachelle Ayala Rachelle Ayala is an award-winning author and artist. Her comic The Undead Circus (IDW) and its sequel, Undead Circus: The Last Ring of Fire (Dynamite Entertainment), garnered international attention. She is the writer/artist of a series of young adult novels, The Shadow Girls (Angry Robot Books) as well as the critically acclaimed, award-winning illustrated novel The Shadow Children (Ace Books). Ayala and her husband, Jim Di Bartolo, have created comic book characters Rook, Hell’s Prince of Fools, as well as the critically acclaimed mini-series of the same name for Dark Horse Comics. She is also a contributor to Boom! Studios’ upcoming superhero crossover event, Dark Army Rising. Her comic Bad Medicine (DC) was nominated for a 2016 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series and her horror anthology Ghost Dolls (Ace Books) was nominated for a 2013 Eisner Award for Best Anthology. In 2012, she and Di Bartolo created the television series, Reaper, for which they both are producers and which airs on the SyFy Channel. Christopher Mitten Christopher Mitten is a fantasy author living in the UK. He has been writing stories since he was eight years old, and sold his first short story at the age of nineteen. His influences are many and varied, including Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Inklings, Stephen King, and many more. His story The Last Prince of the Kingdom of Ice and Fire was nominated for Best Novella by Fantasy-Faction. He has also been published in Interzone and Intergalactic Medicine Show. He is currently working on a sequel to the novel The Shadow Man and can be found on Twitter as @christomitten. Christopher’s latest book is A Kingdom Besieged (Tor). Travis Louie Travis Louie’s first book, Paths of Hate, was released in November 2015. His first novella, The Goddess Cried, was released in October 2015. He is the co-creator, with Christopher Golden, of the Nocturnal Trinity series, a six-book series, published by Simon and Schuster in 2012. (It is now the publisher of Paths of Hate.) His debut novel, The Fall, was published by ROC in 2017. It is the first in a series about a demon who can’t remember why he’s been marked for exorcism. His current projects include editing the anthology Paths of Hate: Tales of Dread and Fear for Tor Books, and working on The Fall 2 and The Fall 3, as well as a collaboration with Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon, the novella trilogy Harrowgate. John Shirley John Shirley is the Nebula Award-winning author of twenty novels, including The Forbidden Library, The World Split Open, Beggars in Spain, and Lord of the Fantastic. He is also the editor of The Essential Philip K. Dick (co-edited with Pamela Jackson), the anthology Dark Love, and the nonfiction book Wasted Lands. Shirley has written a wide variety of SF and mainstream fiction, including short stories that have been collected in dozens of anthologies and novels including: The Others, Shirley’s Wonderful World of Dying, Strange Highways, and the bestselling Shirley’s World of Horror. He has written scripts for Hanna-Barbera, Disney and Fox, plus the cult classic Star Trek: The Animated Series. Shirley’s latest books are The Devil Is Dead, featuring a young Jack Finney, and the novella collection Little Boy Bug, which won the International Horror Guild Award. He is currently working on “Harrowgate,” which is currently entitled Troll Hole. Shirley also recently wrote the script for the upcoming horror film M.T. Wentworth, from director Christopher Landon, who directed Harrowgate. John Shirley, along with co-editors Tim Lebbon and Christopher Golden, has just released the new anthology: The Best American Horror Stories 2017. F. Brett Cox Brett Cox is a prolific author in the field of science fiction and horror. He is the author of nine novels, including Redshirts, the first book in a trilogy about the crew of a spacecraft that becomes embroiled in a war between androids and humans. The third book, Sassquatch: From the Stars, was released in July. His science fiction novels include Shadows (with Chris Golden and Tom Piccirilli), the first novel in the Dark Intelligence series about aliens who have conquered Earth, and A Time for Monsters (with Christopher Golden), about a monster who has only one thing on his mind — eating. Cox’s latest book is a collection of original short stories called The Devil in Me, which was released in September. He has stories forthcoming in several anthologies including Apocalypse Forever, edited by Christopher Golden, and Horror: The Second Decade (Delirium Books), edited by Nancy Kilpatrick. Mark Steensland Mark Steensland has been editing for over twenty years, selling stories to numerous magazines including Dark Voices, Weird Tales, Black Heart Magazine, and the anthologies Out of Space and Time and Dark Faith. His literary novel, The Eternal Kiss was released by Bind Publishing. It was named as one of the best genre novels of 2016 by NPR. Mark’s short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, magazines and e-zines, including Cemetery Dance, Cemetery Dance 2, Dead Souls, and Horror Library among others. His most recent published works include the new novella “The Replacement” for Dark Faith, a chapbook of flash fiction called, “The Dead Man’s Tome” for Unnerving Tales and eerie tales, and a short story for Cemetery Dance, entitled, “The Book of the Dead.” Steensland also serves as senior editor for the zombie-themed publishing imprint called Deadite Press. In addition, he has been a long-time contributor to the Horror Haven podcast. John Claude Bemis John Claude Bemis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University, where he has taught a course entitled, “Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Medieval Literature.” He received his PhD from the University of Chicago, with an emphasis in the modern literature of medieval Spain, and also holds an MA from the University of Toronto, where he also received a diploma in translation. Bemis’s research and interests revolve around the ways in which medieval Spanish literature can reveal and illuminate medieval culture and society. He is currently editing, with Alphonso J. Martinez, an annotated translation of the Poema de Mio Cid for the Oxford World’s Classics. Other publications include the critical edition of Don Quixote, for the Brill Classics series, and a monograph entitled, “The Poetic Visions of the Poem of My Cid: Medieval Spanish Poetry and the Limits of Religious Tolerance in the Early Modern Period.” He is currently completing a book on the relationship between Spain and early modern science fiction and fantasy, and a Spanish translation of David J. Skal’s Horror in the Aisles: The Coming of the Modern Age of Fear. Bemis’s short fiction has appeared in publications such as Borderlands, Shimmer, and a special edition of Black Heart Magazine (on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of World War I), and in an interdisciplinary collection from the University of Minnesota Press on medieval literature. He has also written a chapbook (Birds of the Wold) for Hippocampus Press, and his work has been featured on Grimm Up North and in other publications. Stefan Petrucha In the middle of a career as an engineer, Stefan Petrucha found himself in front of his computer one day, playing a game of tabletop roleplaying. When the session was over, he began to experiment with the story he’d written, only to find that he couldn’t stop. Soon he was writing dozens of stories each year, penning his first novel in 2015. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Stefan is also a musician, musician, writer, and artist. His literary work has been translated into twelve languages. Mark Gedak is an American author, musician, radio broadcaster, and publisher who writes fiction, prose and poetry. His books include Wormwatch, a collection of poetry; Rites of Spring and Rites of Passage, a pair of novellas; and The Great War and the Weather Machine, a memoir that is a chronicle of his experience as an infantry