Do you know someone who was an addict, and now, they are sober? Do you know someone who was an addict and couldn't beat their addiction in time? Do you know someone who is currently struggling with addiction? Show them you care by purchasing this anthology. Help raise awareness so your best friend, brother, parent, or anyone in your life isn't taken by the drug epidemic in America. The education for addiction post rehab/sobriety isn't pushed as much as the need to get sober. Many people feel alienated and like they're going insane because the addiction part never goes away even though they are clean. This leads to relapses in usage and, a lot of times, death. They no longer have the built up tolerance so they overdose. We need to end the stigma and talk about addiction more! We need to let people know their life matters and sobriety is the way to go. We need to let them know we do care about them. By purchasing this anthology, you are taking steps to help save people! From getting rehab help to post rehab education about sobriety, our chosen charity, To Write Love On Her Arms, helps people achieve sobriety and educates them on the journey ahead of them.

61 authors came together in The Devil's Playground: A Horror Charity Anthology for Drug Addiction to show their support for those who are dealing with addiction and to show they care. With a diverse style of writing and subgenres of horror, each person has spun a tale to chill you to the bone. 

All proceeds going to To Write Love On Her Arms

Contributors:

C. S Anderson, Alison Armstrong, Andrew Bell, David Bennet Black, William Bove, Pixie Bruner, J. Rocky Colavito, Dawn Colclasure, Lawrence Dagstine, Emma Rose Darcy, Josh Darling, Jacque Day, Christina Delia, Carietta Dorsch, Alyson Faye, Thomas Folske, A. M. Forney, Lindsey Goddard, Mawr Gorshin, Mark Grover, Megan Guilliams, Dave Hann, Kasey Hill, Whitney R. Holp, Harold Hoss, Ken Hueler, Rhys Hughes, Emily James, Ashley Jane, Toshiya Kamei, Ezekiel Kincaid, Ryan Klopp, Kristoph Kosicki, Basile Lebret, Andrew Lennon, Suzie Lockhart, Tom Lucas, Courtney Lyrics, J.C. Maçek III, Shane Morin, Jason Morton, Michael Noe, OBSCURIA, D.J. Pitsiladis, JT Wolf Poetry, Rick Powell, Ricardo D. Rebelo, John Reti, Yusuf Saleh, Neil Sanzari, Zachary Schneller, Matt Scott, John Claude Smith, Stephanie Smith, Veronica Smith, Michael Errol Swaim, Rob Tannahill, D.J. Tuskmor, Mimi Vizinau, Robb White, Amanda Worthington

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C. S Anderson
C. S Anderson is one of the founding members of the small horror press, Alucard Press, and the author of more than thirty books. He has also contributed to dozens of anthologies and collections. He resides in a small, haunted town in the Pacific Northwest called Ocean Shores with his lovely wife, who is also his long-suffering editor. He loves to hear from readers and can be reached at alucardpress@yahoo.com

Alison Armstrong

Alison Armstrong is the author of three literary horror novels (Revenance, Toxicosis, and Dark Visitations), a novella (Vigil and Other Writings), and a collection of writings addressing women and horror archetypes (Consorting with the Shadow: Phantasms and the Dark Side of Female Consciousness). Her work focuses on inner terror, stealthily lurking, solipsistic dread and nightmare flash epiphanies. Having obtained a Master of Arts in English, she has taught composition and literature at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. In addition to her novels and novella (available on Amazon and other online retailers), she has edited and contributed writings to Nature Triumphs: A Charity Anthology of Dark Speculative Literature and has had writings published in The Sirens Call as well as other horror anthologies. Further information is available on her website: https://horrorvacui.us

Andrew Bell

Andrew Bell lives in the northeast of England, United Kingdom, with his wife and three children. After four novels and a collection of short stories under his belt, he is the proud owner of Damned Nation Books. Now a teacher, he hopes to help aspiring writers get into print.

David Bennet Black
David Bennett Black is a rapscallion. Born in a small town in southern Canada to parents who died in the 1800s, he now lives in a much larger city with his partner and various bloodhounds. His work can be read and heard in many places, most recently through the Creepy podcast, where his story, “My Child's Skin,” was the number-one fiction podcast in multiple countries for two straight weeks. With various shorts being published in a number of different anthologies in the next twelve months, he truly believes that people may actually start enjoying his company now.

William Bove
William Bove is a Gothic horror author based in St. Charles, Missouri. His passion for Gothic horror and romance began at age six when he first read Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of The Red Death.” Captivated by Poe’s symbolism and storytelling, William discovered his life’s purpose and has pursued it ever since. Now, as Gothic horror experiences a renaissance, William’s work celebrates this resurgence of vampires, horror, and romanticism.

Pixie Bruner

Pixie Bruner is a writer, editor, and cancer survivor. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her doppelgänger and their alien cats. Her collection, The Body As Haunted, was published in 2024 (Authortunities Press). She co-curated and edited Nature Triumphs: A Charity Anthology of Dark Speculative Literature (Dark Moon Rising Publications) to benefit The Nature Conservancy. Her words are found/forthcoming in Space and Time, Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing), Star*Line, Penumbric, Dreams & Nightmares, and many more. She wrote for White Wolf Gaming Studio. Werespiders ruining LARPs are entirely her fault. She is a member of the HWA and SFPA. Find her at https://pixiebruner.substack.com/

J. Rocky Colavito

J. Rocky Colavito (aka Dr. Damned or The Plague Prof) is transitioning from a forty-plus-year teaching career into retirement. He aspires to give credence to his brand: “all the genres of the dark,” producing writing ranging from quiet to screaming loud extreme horror. He’s the one they warned you about, and damn proud of that.

Dawn Colclasure

Dawn Colclasure is a writer who lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband and teen son. She writes poetry, essays, articles, short stories and books. She is the author and co-author of over five dozen books. She is also a book reviewer and columnist. Her stories have appeared in magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies. She publishes the free monthly newsletter for writers, the SPARREW Newsletter. Her websites are

https://dawnsbooks.com/

https://www.dmcwriter.com/

Twitter: @dawnwilson325

Instagram: dawn10325

Lawrence Dagstine

Lawrence Dagstine is a native New Yorker and speculative fiction writer of close to 30 years. He has placed over 500 short stories in online and print periodicals during that period of time. He has been published by houses such as Damnation Books, Steampunk Tales, Wicked Shadow Press, Black Beacon Books, Farthest Star Publishing, Calliope Interactive, and Dark Owl Publishing (with which he has a new book out called The Nightmare Cycle). Visit his website for publication history, past and present, at: www.lawrencedagstine.com

Emma Rose Darcy

Emma Rose Darcy emerged, fully formed, five years ago and slithered snakelike down from the mountains. She writes dark fantasy and horror. Emma suffers from Basilar Migraine, so sometimes real life is weirder than anything she could ever write. She stumbled upon horror, discovering authors like Joe Donnelly and G M Hague among the Kings and Rices in charity shop books cases. It may be why she has a hunger for reading and writing body horror and transformation horror stories, hauntings and huntings.

Josh Darling

Josh Darling is a freelance ghostwriter and the editor-in-chief at Carnage House Magazine. His short stories have appeared in The Horror 'Zine, Siren's Call, and various anthologies. His short story collection 9 Horror Stories: The Sequel is available on Amazon.com and Godless.com. To increase his writer cred and boost his obnoxious mystique, he lives in Vermont with a bulldog who snores like a chainsaw.

Jacque Day

Jacque Day is co-editor of the Carnage House horror web 'zine and a staffer for Crystal Lake Publishing. Her stories appear or are forthcoming in anthologies by Sunbury Press and Demagogue Press, and she is a regular contributor to Memento Mori Ink Magazine, a Crystal Lake partner. Before swerving into genre writing, she worked as a copywriter and served as the longtime managing editor for the New Madrid: Journal of Contemporary Literature. She lives in her home state of Pennsylvania, USA, with her scientist husband.

Christina Delia

Christina Delia is a horror and speculative fiction writer from New Jersey, USA, and an affiliate member of The Horror Writers Association. Christina's stories are published in the LGBTQ+ anthology Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction, Gabba Gabba Hey: An anthology of fiction inspired by the music of The Ramones, Planet Scumm magazine, The Grey Rooms anthology podcast, and most recently, in the HellBound Books anthology, Happy Hellidays. When she’s not writing, Christina can be found watching Scooby Doo episodes with her daughter, Juliet.

Carietta Dorsch

Carietta Dorsch currently lives in North Carolina and is the author of The Mitchell County Stories, Never Be Lonely Again, and Unmarked Grave.

Alyson Faye

Alyson Faye lives in the UK with her family and rescue-Labrador, Roxy and one-eyed pirate kitten, Ewey. She is a tutor, editor, mum, dog-walker, keen swimmer and avid old movie buff. Her fiction/poetry has been published widely, in Space and Time #141, by Brigids Gate Press, Were-Tales, Musings and Daughter of Sarpedon, by Perpetual Motion in Night Frights 2, as podcasts on ‘The Casket of Fictional Delights’, Red Cape Press, several Sirens Call e-zines, The Horror Tree, Unsettling Press' Still of Night and Fairy Tale Magazine. Her stories can be downloaded on various podcasts, e.g., Night of the Rider (co-production from Dissonance Media and The Other Stories)

https://thecasket.co.uk/stories/?321892671=549

https://shows.acast.com/after-the-gloaming/episodes/night-of-the-rider.

Thomas Folske

Thomas Folske lives in Minnesota with his wife, four kids, and three black cats. He has had over 20 short stories published or in the process of being published, with new stories to be featured in upcoming anthologies by Jersey Pines Ink, British Fantasy Society, Hiraeth Publishing and House of Loki Press.

See more at https://tfolske1987.wixsite.com/mysite

A.M. Forney

A. M. Forney lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, their three children, their St. Bernard and three cats. When she’s not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family or reading. Her first book, Forgiving Madness, was published in November 2023 and she has been featured in other projects along the way, as well.

Lindsey Goddard

Lindsey Goddard is an author of dark fiction, poetry, and true crime, living in Missouri, whose short stories have been published in magazines such as Gamut and online in e-zines such as Carnage House, as well as in anthologies such as Error Code (Riverfolk Books). Her work has been performed on popular podcasts like CreepyPod and Chilling Tales For Dark Nights. She is the author of four short story collections, a poetry book, and a novel, Ashes of Another Life. Lindsey also runs www.WeirdWideWeb.org, where she hosts a podcast, paid writing contests, and blogs aimed at entertaining fellow weirdos.

For more information on her writing, visit: www.LindseyBethGoddard.com

Mawr Gorshin

Mawr Gorshin was born Martin Gross in 1969 in Timmins, Ontario. He moved to ROC Taiwan in the summer of 1996, where he's lived ever since, teaching English as a second language. In his spare time, he has composed and recorded music, which can be found on the Jamendo website under both his birth and pen names, and he has written poetry, prose, and analyses of literature, film, and music, typically with a Marxist and/or psychoanalytic perspective, on his blog, 'Infinite Ocean.'

https://mawrgorshin.com/

https://www.facebook.com/mawrgorshinwriter/

https://www.facebook.com/mawr.gorshin

Mark Grover

Mark lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with his husband, two French Bulldogs, and four cats. He has been published in various horror publications over the years. He is currently retired after working over thirty years at the University of Iowa. He enjoys traveling, spending time with his pets, drawing, photography, and almost anything in books and movies related to the horror genre. Mark continues to work on building his portfolio of short stories and is hopeful that he will finish a novel along the way.

Megan Guilliams

Megan Guilliams is an Independent Fiction author who specializes in Urban Fantasy and Horror. She is a Franklin County native who lives in Virginia with her husband and two children. When she's not writing Young Adult and New Adult Fiction, she enjoys painting. Filling the walls of her home with colorful lowbrow art and Pop art, Megan enjoys bringing her book's characters to life. As a young child, Megan dabbled in short stories, often entertaining her peers. While she doesn't hold any specialized degrees that led her to her writing passion, she currently has over twenty novels published on Amazon and Kindle. You can find more of her work in the year to come, as well as read her story “Kroak” in Nature Triumphs: A Charity Anthology of Dark Speculative Fiction.

Dave Hann

David Hann is a university teacher and freelance writer from southern New Zealand. While teaching and ghostwriting pay the bills, he likes to see work published under his own name from time to time. He claims he tries to write happy stories but that they often just turn dark by themselves. His stories have been featured in some magazines and online publications, including The Weird and Whatnot, The Fifth Dimension, Sci-Fi Lampoon, and After Dinner Conversation. He also has a book of short stories to his name, co-written with H. J. Tidy.

Kasey Hill

Kasey Hill, owner of Dark Moon Rising Publications, has lived in Franklin County, VA, for most of her adult life and is a versatile writer known for her work in several genres, including urban fantasy, horror, thriller, paranormal romance, and nonfiction metaphysical/New Age topics. Her fiction often dives into the supernatural and the macabre, blending mythological elements with modern storytelling. She has published multiple novels, poetry collections, and short stories. Notable works include her Guardians of Light series in the mythology fantasy genre and her poetry that has received recognition for its depth and emotional resonance. As she grows in the horror genre, she has a particular penchant for Southern Gothic and Appalachian Gothic storytelling, such as her Adult Horror novel Devil’s Claw and her Young Adult horror series, The Whispering Spirits featuring The Haunting at Foxwood Village and Dark Coven. She has several Horror short stories circulating for anthologies and Ezines featuring her unique style of worldbuilding.

www.kaseyhillauthor.com

www.facebook.com/kaseyhillauthor

www.instagram.com/kaseyhillauthor

www.tiktok.com/kaseyhillauthor

www.amazon.com/stores/Kasey-Hill/author/B00O2WT210

Whitney R. Holp

Whitney R. Holp is a writer from Saskatchewan. He studied Journalism at the University of Regina and worked at various odd jobs while writing his first book. A surrealist, he seeks gnosis through dreams, intoxication, and objective chance. These stories are from his unpublished book The Old Carter Place.

Harold Hoss

Harold "Blake" Hoss is an award-winning writer, film producer, and graduate of USC Gould School of Law. His short stories have appeared in print, online, and performed as podcasts in Grim & Gilded, Ill-Advised Records, MetaStellar, Trembling With Fear, and the KaidainKai podcast, among others. His films have played everywhere, from Tribeca to Trieste, with many stops in between, and can currently be found streaming on Hulu, Shudder, and Alter. He currently resides in New York.

Ken Hueler

Ken Hueler teaches kung fu in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he also co-chairs the local Horror Writers Association chapter. His work has appeared in Weirdbook, The Sirens Call, Weekly Mystery Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways, and anthologies such as The Cozy Cosmic and Tales for the Camp Fire. He is an assistant editor at Space & Time magazine and, with Frances Lu Pai Ippolito, co-edited the game fiction anthology Winding Paths: A Playable Reading Experience. You can learn more at kenhueler.wordpress.com

Rhys Hughes

Rhys Hughes began writing at an early age. His first book, Worming the Harpy, was published in 1995, and since that time, he has published fifty other books. He recently completed an ambitious project that involved writing exactly 1000 linked short stories.

Emily James

Emily James was born and raised in a railroad city in Pennsylvania. Her love for writing started in her teenage years, and her love for books even before that. She was often chased from the library after trying to check out books meant for older children. In her spare time, she loves to urban explore, decaying asylums being her favorite. She finds beauty in the abandoned. She has always considered herself a darker soul that was born in the wrong generation. She has a daughter, Kirsten and two granddaughters, Elliott Rose and Monroe Valentine. All three she calls her reason.

Ashley Jane

Ashley Jane is an indie author and poet from Alabama. She is a former Substance Abuse Counselor with research published in Crime and Delinquency magazine. She has also been featured on various poetry sites. Currently, she has her own business, Ashley Jane Aesthetics, where she helps others fulfill their publishing dreams through editing, formatting, and book building. She still enjoys research, and you'll often find her alternating between reading poetry books and psychological studies. While from the South, she is a city girl at heart who loves to travel. Her Aquarian soul also loves music concerts and festivals, true crime dramas, and anything ocean related. She currently lives with her husband and their one child, a rescue cat named Shadow Monkey. You can find her on most platforms at @breathwords.

Toshiya Kamei

Toshiya Kamei (she/they) is a queer Asian writer who takes inspiration from fairy tales, folklore, and mythology. Her short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies.

Ezekiel Kincaid

Known by his readers as "The Paranormal Pastor," Ezekiel Kincaid has authored numerous horror books, short stories, and articles. He is currently a columnist for Memento Mori Ink Magazine where he writes on the connection between spirituality and horror. Kincaid also has three theology degrees and served as a pastor for twenty years. He currently works as a chaplain and is also a paranormal investigator. As a clean and sober former addict, he loves to share his story of recovery with those struggling with addiction. He is from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has four children, and enjoys training in martial arts and boxing.

Ryan Klopp

Ryan Klopp is a graduate of the College of William & Mary. He is originally from Virginia and has also lived in New York, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova. In September 2019, his debut novella Souljar of Fortune was published by Alban Lake, with other fiction credits including Lovecraftiana, Eerie River, Savage Planets, Dark Horses, The Fifth Di…, Dread Space, Aphelion, and The Night’s End Podcast. In addition to writing, he loves camping, playing board games, and watching old movies. His website can be reached at

https://certamenryan.wixsite.com/ryan-klopp-writes/

Kristoph Kosicki

Kristoph Kosicki is a Literary Enthusiast who writes fiction and music as well as hosts a podcast as Robostoph on his YouTube channel. He enjoys exploring literary connections to the world around him and following rabbit holes into the obscure. He hails from Ohio, where he lives with his loving wife and five children.

Basile Lebret

Basile Lebret is French and lives south of Paris where the cities meet the trees. His work has been published in SlicedUp Press' Monstroddities, Atonic Vision Press' Strange Weeds, Bag of Bones' Step Into the Light, Off Topic Publishing's Home, Carnage House Magazine, Underland Press' Even Cozier Cosmic and in France in Lufthunger Club's Les Feux de la Révolte. Find him on Twitter: @evoripclaw or Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/author/basilelebret

Andrew Lennon

Andrew Lennon is the bestselling author of Every Twisted Thought and several other horror/thriller books. He has been featured in various bestselling anthologies and is successfully becoming a recognised name in horror and thriller writing. His work has appeared alongside horror royalty such as Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Richard Chizmar, Clive Barker, and many more. Andrew is a happily married man living in the North West of England with his wife Hazel & their children.

For more information, please go to www.andrewlennon.co.uk

Suzie Lockhart

Suzie Lockhart is an author, editor, and HWA member. Her first all-female anthology, Killing It Softly, was a success and was featured in a Publisher's Weekly review. The follow-up anthology of the same name took 1st place in the horror anthology category for a Solstice Award. Her most recent project is Dastardly Damsels, published by Crystal Lake.

Tom Lucas

Tom Lucas was born and raised in Detroit, and although currently enjoying the lack of snow and ice in Florida, remains a son of the post-industrial apocalypse. Tom has been published in The Orlando Weekly, Writer’s Digest, Genuine Orlando, The Writer’s Monthly Review, The South End, The Oakland Press, The Macomb Daily, Orbit, Anthropomorphic, and U. Magazine. He has also been featured in literary journals such as Ghost Parachute, The Write Place at the Write Time, Graffiti Rag, and Dark Fire Fiction. He has performed on the Lollapalooza stage, Matty Loves Podcast, The Drunken Odyssey, and radio guest spots on CIMX, WDET, and WJR. He is the author of the weird fiction novels Pax Titanus, Leather to the Corinthians, and Research Randy and the Mystery of Grandma’s Half-Eaten Pie of Despair — as well as a featured contributor to several anthologies.

Visit Tom at www.Room1331.com

Courtney Lyric

Jordan Evans, writing under the pseudonym Courtney Lyric, is a self-published author from Shreveport, Louisiana, and a proud mother of two boys. With a passion for storytelling, she has authored five books—four fiction titles and one devotional. Her creative journey extends beyond writing, as she has also produced and staged three plays based on my books. In 2019, she launched Writer Bees, a local children's creative writing program designed to inspire young writers. A graduate of the Dallas KD Conservatory Film and Acting School (Class of 2022), she is actively involved in both the literary and performing arts, continuously exploring new ways to share powerful stories.

J.C. Maçek III

J.C. Maçek III is the author of the hit true crime novel The Black Dahlia (2024) and the producer of the 2018 film [CARGO], starring Ron Thompson of American Pop fame, as well as the author of the film’s tie-in novel. His other novels include The Antagonist and Seven Days to Die. More recently, the author has found success in shorter stories and novellas, though novels are still his primary focus. An experienced and prolific entertainment journalist and celebrity interviewer, he has written thousands of articles, reviews and interviews. He recently curated and edited Symptom of the Universe: A Horror Tribute to Black Sabbath, an anthology of short stories and novellas inspired by the music and lyrics of every era of Black Sabbath. He resides in Southern California with his wife and family and a veritable zoo of pets.

Shane Morin

Shane Morin is an urban poet living in Dover, New Hampshire. After a loss of parental time due to divorce, he began writing as a grief process. Since then, he has honed his craft to blend post-modernity with speculative concepts and topics of contemporary horror. Shane identifies as a feminist and LGBTQIA++ ally. He is currently completing his Master's in Literature at UNH and hopes to earn a PhD at Old Dominion. In his spare time, Shane binges Farscape and anything Star Trek.

Jason Morton

Jason Morton is a poet. A visual dream. Bringing words of the impossible as the poet of impossible dreams.

Michael Noe

Michael Noe is a writer from Barberton, Ohio. He is the author of Legacy, Legacy 2, The Darkness of The Soul, Insecure Delusions, Out with A Whimper, and Slime Time, and has short stories in various anthologies... He is a geek who collects vinyl record.

O B SC U R I A

O B S C U R I A is the pen name of a bilingual horror, bizarro and dark romance poet/writer, currently working on their first novel. Their dark poetry and short horror stories have been featured in various anthologies and online magazines. As a member of a collective of charity writers, O B S C U R I A also contributes to charity projects through collaborative publications.

Link to Goodreads: https://shorturl.at/B1cXd

D.J. Pitsiladis

D.J. Pitsiladis is an author, blogger, and voice actor based in Willow City, North Dakota. He is a regular contributor for

www.HorrorAddicts.net and runs his own blog, Casa de Pitsiladis

http://djpitsiladis.wordpress.com). When not creating, you can find him spending time with his girlfriend, kids, and persnickety kitty, blowing things up on video games, reading, or watching horror movies (the more outrageous and scarier, the better).

JT Wolf Poetry

JT Wolf is a poet originally from Wyoming living in Princeton, West Virginia. He is 53 and has been sober for seven months. He writes from raw emotion and pure thought.

Rick Powell

Rick Powell, a resident of Oak Forest, Illinois, immerses himself in the eerie realms of horror and dark fiction. His poetic and narrative talents have graced the pages of various publications, including Infernal Ink Magazine and the tantalizing anthology Lustcraftian Horrors: Erotic Stories Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. His poetry books consist of the titles My Soul Stained, My Seed Sour and More Regrets Than Glories. He also has a collection of short stories titled A Vault of Whispers and a children's book titled George The Holiday Spider. He is currently working on another collection of creepy and eerie stories to be released in the near future, published by I Ain't Your Marrionette Press.

Ricardo D. Rebelo

Ricardo D. Rebelo has published multiple horror shorts for magazines and anthologies such as Monsters in the Mills by Glass House Books, Halloweenthology, Flash of the Un-Dead, Dead Girls Walking and Children of the Dead by Wicked Shadow Press, Monster Mag, The Chamber, and Scars magazines as well Ricardo has also directed the award-winning PBS Documentaries Island of My Dreams, Dark New England, and Lizbeth, a Victorian Nightmare.

John Reti

John Reti is an author from the West Coast of Canada with previous stories in Possessions 1, 2 & 3, Dark Holidays, Symptom of the Universe: A Horror Tribute Black Sabbath, as well as an upcoming story with Possessions 4. Other than writing, he also engages in visual arts and dabbles in music. He also writes under the name PJ Scorpian.

Yusuf Saleh

Yusuf Saleh is a former drug addict who found much of his help in Recovery through conversion to Islam. Nowadays, Yusuf tries to keep a low profile while doing Sponsoring and continuing work on his own Recovery. His current therapy has him facing a lot, which he also puts into a new book. He is the author of many books, which include From 14 Words To 77,797 Words (Poetry), Operation Islam Takeover (Non-fiction), 57 (Non-fiction), From Addict To Allah (Memoir), I Could Be A Suicide Bomber (Fiction), The Prison Letters (Memoir), The Orange Book (Non-Fiction), and Muslim Sci-Fi (Science Fiction).

Neil Sanzari

Neil Sanzari is a weird fiction author. He attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the School of Visual Arts. Neil worked as a graphic artist in the advertising field in New York City for many years until he was displaced by the tragic events of 9/11. And now he lives with his wife, Celia, at the Jersey Shore, writing short stories and creating comic books. He is currently writing a novel.

Zachary Schneller

Zachary Schneller is a thirty-four-year-old Virginia transplant currently living in Northeastern Pennsylvania. His life’s great ambitions include helping people with mental illness, becoming an author after earning his degree at James Madison University, and tutoring high school students with their English. He loves writing in his spare time, delving into literature, not to mention investing his time in remaining a horror geek all year round. Making a difference in this chaotic world matters to him while he still can. Writing is the best way he knows how.

Matt Scott

Matt Scott is the author of over 90 published works of short horror fiction, as well as four stand-alone collections. He lives and writes in Southern Colorado, where he and his wife, Heather, and their ever-growing gaggle of furry friends love to go out and explore the colorful state every chance they get.

John Claude Smith

John Claude Smith has had three collections, four chapbooks, and two novels published, along with tales and/or poems in Vastarien, Pluto in Furs, and more magazines and anthologies. His debut novel, Riding the Centipede, was a Bram Stoker Award® Finalist. He is presently shopping four novels, two short story collections, and a poetry collection. Busy is good. Reissues of his OOP earlier books are in progress as he types this sentence (one is out now!). He splits his time between the East Bay across from San Francisco and Rome, Italy, where his heart always resides.

Stephanie Smith

Stephanie Smith's work has appeared in issues of The Horror Zine, Carnage House, The Literary Hatchet, Raven Cage, The Chamber, and Illumen, among others. She lives outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with her partner and their feline companion named Sam.

Veronica Smith

Veronica Smith is a lover of all things horror. Whether she’s reading, writing, or watching, that’s what you will find her doing when she isn’t at her day job. She treats every day as if it were Halloween and hasn’t yet been fired for decorating her office as if it’s a haunted house. She’s been writing since 2014, when her first short story was published, and works on several projects simultaneously. Her genre ranges from Young Adult to Splatterpunk. She lives in Katy with her husband of over thirty years.

www.linktr.ee/mistressofhorror

Michael Errol Swaim

Michael Errol Swaim is a horror and fantasy author and proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma who survived a liver and kidney transplant in 2019. His first horror publication can be found in issue three of the e-zine Carnage House, and his stories and poems also appear in several anthologies, including Nature Triumphs: A Charity Anthology of Dark Speculative Fiction from Dark Moon Rising Publications, The Horror Zine Fall 2024 Issue, and Dead Girls Walking: The Red Volume from Wicked Shadow Press, with more on the way. He also writes film and book reviews for the Weird Wide Web blog and is an assistant editor at Carnage House. Michael lives in Northeast Oklahoma with his wife, Mandy, his kids, and four cats.

Rob Tannahill

Rob Tannahill is an author living in Northern Nevada. His work has appeared in Yale Program of Recovery and Community Health (PERCH #7, Substance), Nature Triumphs: A Charity Anthology of Dark Speculative Fiction, and Symptom of the Universe: A Literary Tribute to Black Sabbath, among other places. He is also the author of the full-length novel Prince Junkie. He has been in recovery for three years.

D.J. Tuskmor

D.J. Tuskmor grew up in New England, where folklore sparked a love of horror. By day, he works in cybersecurity; by night, he writes horror. You can find his other works in The Fear Doctor anthology, Silly Goose Press, and Litmora's Tabi's Flash Tuesdays series. Connect on social @Tuskmor

Mimi Vizinau

Mimi Vizinau spends her days bending to the will of a four-year-old. She's a native San Franciscan who studied Creative Writing at SFSU. Her work has been featured in Carnage House, HellBound Books, Spinetingler's, and Resident Aliens. In her down time, she writes stories and Admins for a horror film appreciation group.

Robb White

Robert T. White lives in Northeastern Ohio. He publishes crime, horror, and mainstream fiction. Betray Me Not is a recent collection of revenge tales selected for distinction by the Independent Fiction Alliance in 2022. Another collection of noir tales, Fade to Black: Noir Stories of Grifters, Drifters, & Unlovable Losers was published by Close to the Bone Pub., U.K., 2024.

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Amanda Worthington

Amanda Worthington is a writer of all things dark and perverse. She is particularly fond of psychological and cosmic horror and the ways ordinary humans behave in the face of adversity. Admittedly, much of her own work is semi-autobiographical. With a style that has been described as lyrical and immersive, she has been published in Space & Time, Siren’s Call, and Carnage House. Amanda also founded Horror in the Heartland, the Heartland chapter of the HWA and currently serves as its chair. When she’s not writing or chaptering, she’s probably hiking, cooking, or playing Zelda. She lives in Kansas City with her two furry overlords, Apollo and Artemis.