Jay Caselberg was born in a country town in Australia and then traveled extensively while growing up and later for his dayjob. He writes across many genres, both at short story and novel length, crossing the boundaries of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, and the Literary, generally with a dark edge. He is currently based in Germany. You can find him at http://www.caselberg.net and on Facebook

John F.D. Taff is a multi-Bram Stoker Award finalist and World Fantasy Award finalist dark fiction author with more than 30 years experience, and more than 125 short stories and seven novels in print.

He has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Unnerving, Deathrealm, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, as well as anthologies such as Hot Blood: Seeds of Fear, Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, Shock Rock II, Lullabies for Suffering, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Behold!, Shadows Over Main Street 2 &3, Horror Library V, Best of Horror Library, Dark Visions Vol. 1, Ominous Realities, Death's Realm, I Can Taste the Blood Human Monsters, and Savage Beasts. His work will appear soon in Log Division.

His novels include The Bell Witch, Kill-Off and the serialized apocalyptic epic The Fearing. Short fiction collections include The End in All Beginnings, Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection, Little Black Spots, and his latest novella collection All the Stars Die..

Taff's novella collection, The End in All Beginnings, was called one of the best novella collections by Jack Ketchum and was a Stoker Award Finalist. His short "A Winter's Tale" was also a Stoker Finalist.

His anthology Dark Stars, a tribute to that seminal '80s work Dark Forces, was a finalist for the World Fantasy award.

Brian Fatah Steele has been writing various types of dark fiction for over fifteen years, often describing it as “cosmic horror with elements of urban fantasy and sci-fi.” Steele originally went to school for fine arts but finds himself far more fulfilled now by storytelling. His own titles include DIRE BRANCHES (Alien Agenda Publishing), OUR CARRION HEARTS (Bloodshot Books), HUNGRY RAIN (Severed Press), CELESTIAL SEEPAGE (Alien Agenda Publishing), BLEED AWAY THE SKY (Bloodshot Books) and THERE IS DARKNESS IN EVERY ROOM (Sinister Grin Press), along with the self-published YOUR ARMS AROUND ENTROPY, BRUTAL STARLIGHT, FURTHER THAN FATE, and IN BLEED COUNTRY. His work has appeared in such anthologies as 4POCALYPSE, BLOOD TYPE, CTHULHU LIES DREAMING, DEATH’S REALM, THE IDOLATERS OF CTHULHU, and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated DARK VISIONS, VOL.1.

Charles Austin Muir is a writer, visual storyteller, and personal trainer. He is the author of Pug Monster Gallery, a coloring book with short stories for dog lovers and children, the bizarro collection, Slippery When Metastasized, and the Splatterpunk Award-nominated collection, This Is a Horror Book. He has also contributed to many anthologies and magazines in the horror and weird fiction genres, including Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume One, Peel Back the Skin, and Cinema Viscera. His autobiographical short film, "A History of Worry," won Best Experimental Micro Film at the Fall 2021 Oregon Short Film Festival. He has worked as an obituary writer, humor columnist, and fitness writer. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and dogs.

www.worldsofcharlesaustinmuir.com

Taking his cues from Clive Barker, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, and Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Balog operates in the badlands within the triangle of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. His fiction and poetry have been anthologized in both the US and the UK, most notably in Chiral Mad 3, Chilling Ghost Short Stories (Flame Tree Publishing), Ominous Realities, Dark Visions (Volume 1) and Dread: A Head Full of Bad Dreams--The Best of Grey Matter Press. His work has also been featured in ARES Magazine, Independent Ink Magazine and Dark Moon Digest.

Jonathan grew up in Maryland, and graduated from Washington College in 2005 with a BA in English. He currently lives in Rome, Italy.

David A. Riley writes horror, fantasy and SF stories.

In 1995, along with his wife, Linden, he edited and published a fantasy/SF magazine, Beyond.

His first professionally published story was in the 11th Pan Book of Horror in 1970. This was reprinted in 2012 in The Century's Best Horror Fiction edited by John Pelan for Cemetery Dance. He has had numerous stories published by Doubleday, DAW, Corgi, Sphere, Roc, Playboy Paperbacks, Robinsons, etc., and in magazines such as Aboriginal Science Fiction, Dark Discoveries, Fear, Fantasy Tales.

His first collection of stories (4 long stories and a novelette) was published by Hazardous Press in 2012, His Own Mad Demons.

A Lovecraftian novel, The Return, was published by Blood Bound Books in the States in 2013.

A second collection of his stories, all of which were professionally published prior to 2000, The Lurkers in the Abyss & Other Tales of Terror, was launched at the World Fantasy Convention in 2013. Hazardous Press published his third short story collection, Their Cramped Dark World and Other Tales, in 2015. Both Hazardous Press collection have now been reprinted, with brand new covers, by Parallel Universe Publications.

A fantasy novel, Goblin Mire, was published by Parallel Universe Publications in 2015.A second horror novel was also published, Moloch's Children.

He and his wife recently relaunched Parallel Universe Publications, which originally published beyond. The first book published was The Heaven Maker & Other Gruesome Tales by Craig Herbertson, followed by Charles Black's Black Ceremonies and the anthology Things That Go Bump in the Night, edited by David A. Riley and Douglas Draa. An anthology of new stories, Kitchen Sink Gothic, edited by David A. Riley and Linden Riley, was published in May 2015.

Since 2020 he has edited six highly popular swords & sorcery anthologies: Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy, with a 7th volume to be published in November 2023.

David Riley's stories have been translated into Italian, German, Spanish and Russian.

Anthony Rivera is a Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor committed to finding, developing and nurturing the best talent writing in horror, SciFi, speculative and other dark fiction genres. Tony is the editor-in-chief at Grey Matter Press where it's his hope that authors and readers alike will come to realize the company's products are exceptional examples of the best work being published in genre fiction.

After spending far too much time marketing big-name corporate clients, Tony realized his publishing dream in 2012 when he opened the doors of Grey Matter Press, a Chicago-based independent publishing company producing works of dark fiction. One year later, in 2013, Grey Matter Press released its first volume which was nominated for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. Other critically acclaimed and award-nominated volumes followed.

In subsequent years, Grey Matter Press has released a succession of acclaimed titles. FANGORIA Magazine has said: "Grey Matter Press has managed to establish itself as one of the premiere purveyors of horror fiction currently in existence.”

Tony's early attraction to the dark and fantastic led him first into the world of marketing. Throughout a career that took him through the fields of news reporting, copywriting, copyediting, publishing, promotions, design and advertising, he ultimately remained focused on what was truly important -- creativity and the words and imagery that drive it.

For more information follow him on Twitter at @janthonyrivera or visit GreyMatterPress.com and follow the publisher on Twitter at @GreyMatterPress or Facebook at Facebook.com/GreyMatterPress.