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Isabel Cañas is a Mexican American speculative fiction writer. After having lived in Mexico, Scotland, Egypt, Turkey, and New York City, among other places, she has settled in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and writes fiction inspired by her research and her heritage. |
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Tannarive Due is best known for her suspenseful, fast-paced, and socially conscious supernatural horror fiction. Her imaginative, intricately plotted, and atmospheric character-driven books, such as her African Immortals series, blend elements of history, mythology, and racial politics into terrifying tales of deception, magic, and macabre violence. |
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Mariana Enriquez is one of the best-known writers of a growing literary trend in Latin America that uses the horror genre to denounce the violent realities of the region — past and present. She uses her fiction to process the historical traumas of the dictatorship. She’s published short stories, novels, and non-fiction, and in 2021, she was shortlisted for the International Booker prize, with her short story collection, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. (www.latinousa.org) |
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Hugo Award-winning and bestselling author Sarah Gailey is the author of the novels The Echo Wife and Magic for Liars. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and The Boston Globe, and they won a Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Their fiction credits also include Vice and The Atlantic. Their debut novella, River of Teeth, was a 2018 finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. |
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With more than forty novels published, Laurell continues to create groundbreaking fiction inspired by her lifelong love of monster movies, ghost stories, mythology, folklore, and things that go bump in the night. |
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Grady Hendrix skillfully straddles the thin line between horror and satire, as demonstrated in his darkly humorous novels focusing on possession and hauntings. (NoveList) |
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Alma Katsu crafts haunting urban fantasy, atmospheric horror, and intricately plotted spy thrillers, the latter informed by decades as an intelligence officer.
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Cassandra Khaw is an award-winning game writer whose fiction has been nominated for the Locus and British Fantasy Awards. Their short stories can be found in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Tor.com, Lightspeed, Uncanny Magazine, and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. |
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T. Kingfisher moves adeptly through several genres of the fantastic: from mainstream fantasy fiction to dark fantasy to horror, with side trips into historical fantasy, retellings of classic stories, and a bit of atmospheric Southern gothic flavor sprinkled in at times. Her writing style is always engaging and descriptive, but her tone varies by genre: creepy and menacing, tinged with dark humor, or more haunting and evocative. (NoveList) |
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Victor LaValle is the author of seven works of fiction: four novels, two novellas, and a collection of short stories. His novels have been included in best-of-the-year lists by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation, and Publishers Weekly, among others. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. |
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James, a.k.a. J. H. Markert is a producer, screenwriter, husband, and father of two from Louisville, Kentucky, where he was also a tennis pro for 25 years, before hanging up the rackets for good in 2020. He graduated with a degree in History from the University of Louisville in 1997 and has been writing ever since. |
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Chuck Palahniuk writes literary fiction and horror that can astonish, outrage, horrify, and amuse at once. Readers and characters alike are goaded into states of jangled disorientation by quirky digressions and idiosyncratic riffs on the bizarre, vulgar, and fantastic. |
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Zoje Stage is the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of the psychological thrillers Baby Teeth and Getaway, and the psychological horror novels Wonderland and Mothered. Her books have been named "best of the year" by Forbes Magazine, Library Journal, Barnes & Noble, Book Riot, and more. (zojestage.blogspot.com) |
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Caitlin Starling writes horror-tinged speculative fiction of all flavors. Her first novel, The Luminous Dead, won the LOHF Best Debut Award and was nominated for both the Bram Stoker and Locus Awards. Starling also works in narrative design, and has been paid to invent body parts. She's always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia. |
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Tremblay's complex horror tales often revolve around demonic possession and supernatural transformation, usually within the framework of a reasonably normal family, maintaining a menacing atmosphere and almost unbearable tension. Tremblay's writing is stylish, crisp, and slyly humorous. (NoveList) |
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Chuck Wendig is the New York Times bestselling author of more than two dozen books for adults and young adults. A finalist for the Astounding Award and an alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, he has also written for comics, games, film and television. |
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Ally Wilkes, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, grew up in a succession of isolated–possibly haunted–country houses and boarding schools. After studying law at Oxford, she went on to spend eleven years as a criminal barrister. Ally now lives in Greenwich, London, with an anatomical human skeleton and far too many books about polar exploration. |
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