Masque & Maelström
Volume 1
The Reluctant Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe
- T. Fox Dunham lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with his wife, Allison. He's a cancer survivor, disabled author, modern bard, herbalist, baker and historian. His first book, The Street Martyr, is in production to be a major motion picture by Throughline Films. He’s a well-published crime, horror and sci-fi author and a member of the Horror Writers Association. Fox is proud to have also contributed to official Stargate canon with a story published in the Stargate Anthology Points of Origin from Fandemonium Books, telling the last story of the Asgard. He's also a political author. MSN, Yahoo News and several north-eastern newspapers regularly publish his op-ed pieces. More information at tfoxdunham.com & Twitter: @TFoxDunham.
- Carmelo Rafalà's work has been published in various anthologies and magazines, including Galaxy, Worlds of If, the Portals, Gateways, and Doors anthology, among others. His debut novella, "The Madness of Pursuit" was published by Guardbridge Books, Scotland, who will also be releasing a collection of his work titled The Stars Must Wait.
- Gabriel is a cultural anthropologist currently travelling through the Pacific West Coast of British Columbia. His current obsessions include: memory as artifact, the invisible gifts we give one another, baby pygmy hippos, the concept of mono no aware (物の哀れ), and the liminal landscapes of airports, train stations, and bus terminals. Gabriel Mara's story, "Place of Four Winds" has been published in The Deadlands, with his second publication, "Tigers in the Sun", appearing in the JayHenge anthology The Apparatus Almanac: Gizmology & Technomancy.
- Geoff Hart (he/him) works as a scientific editor, specializing in helping scientists who have English as their second language publish their research. He is the author of the popular "Effective Onscreen Editing" and "Write Faster With Your Word Processor". He also writes fiction, and has sold 80 stories thus far. Visit him online at www.geoff-hart.com.
- William Wandless is a professor by day and a writer and role-playing game designer by night. His fiction has recently appeared in Bourbon Penn, New Myths, Hidden Realms, and Tales from the Moonlit Path, and he is currently editing a novella manuscript tentatively slated for publication in Spring 2026. Online he can be found thinking aloud about writing and game design at Wrackwellabbey.com.
- Lorina Stephens is a writer, editor, publisher, and artist living in Mid-Western Ontario, Canada. She's an editor and reviewer for On Spec magazine. Lorina has four novels, two collections, and two non-fiction books in publication, as well as 40 short stories, and co-edited Tesseracts Twenty-Two: Alchemy and Artifacts with Susan MacGregor.
- Robert Dawson teaches mathematics at a Nova Scotian university. His stories have appeared in Nature Futures,Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Tesseracts, and many other periodicals and anthologies. He is an alumnus of the Sage Hill and Viable Paradise writing workshops. He believes that the world needs more bicycles.
- J. Michael Hayes is a writer, film-maker, musician, and founder of a boutique creative agency. In 2023, Hayes launched Cast Iron Rocket Productions with his debut short film "Submerge" screening in ten film festivals across three continents. His work has previously appeared in Space & Time Magazine, Salvation South, The Genre Society, and was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize. Deeply inspired by nature, jazz, folk-tales, futurisms, and all things mysterious, Hayes lives by the ocean with his wife Nekeshia and their three near-adults.
- Adam Breckenridge is an Associate Professor for the University of Maryland Global Campus currently based in Tokyo. He has over forty five publications, including in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Amazing Stories, The Fantastic Other, and his Novella "This Damnable Utopia That I Have Wrought" is available from Nat1 Publishing.
- J. Weintraub has published fiction, essays, translations, and poetry in all sorts of literary reviews and periodicals, from The Massachusetts Review to New Criterion, from Prairie Schooner to Modern Philology. A member of the Dramatists Guild, he has had plays produced throughout the United States and in Australia, New Zealand, India, and Germany. As a translator he has introduced the Italian and Swiss horror writers, Nicola Lombardi and Davide Staffiero, to the English-speaking world, and his edition of Lombardi's The Gypsy Spiders and Other Tales of Italian Horror was published by UK's Tartarus Press in 2021. In 2018, his annotated translation of Eugène Briffault's Paris à table: 1846 was published by Oxford UP. More at jweintraub.weebly.com.
- Anna Cabe's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Slate, Vice, West Branch, The Masters Review, StoryQuarterly, Joyland, and Fairy Tale Review, among others. She received her MFA in fiction from Indiana University and has been supported by the likes of the Fulbright Program in the Philippines, the Tin House Summer Workshops, and Millay Arts. She currently serves as a co-fiction editor for Split Lip Magazine. You can find Anna at annacabe.com.
- David J. Thirteen (He/Him) is a writer of horror and other dark fiction living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His short fiction has been featured in Lamplight Magazine, Seize the Press Magazine, The Other Stories Podcast, and several anthologies. He's a member of the HWA and is the event coordinator for their Ontario chapter. You can find out more at DavidJThirteen.com.
- Brian Bianchi lives and writes in Nebraska. He loves animals, art, and music. He is at work on a new book.
- Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist. He has published over 50 short stories in such magazines as Nature, Galaxy's Edge, and The New Haven Review. His new books this year include the fantasy novel "The Shadow Minister" and the science fiction novella "Pâtissier et Étranger." Check out all his books and stories at laurencebrothers.com/bibliography. Pronouns: he/him.
- Stephen A. Roddewig is an author from Arlington, Virginia. His latest feat of cutting back from four to two cups of coffee a day has convinced him that he is superhuman, and his membership in the Horror Writers Association hasn’t disproved that belief. When not pushing the bounds of human endurance, he has published three dozen short stories and three novels. Mostly, though, he spends his time reading incredible war fiction from William Peter Grasso while cycling in the gym and cooking like his savings depend on it. You can find more of his speculative fiction and comedy at stephenaroddewig.com.
- By day, Kevin Holochwost works for the European Union, keeping Artificial Intelligences in check and by night speculates about what would happen if his day job fails. His work has appeared in Vine Leaves Press as well as White Papers on artificial intelligence and apocalyptic science fiction in A Coup of Owls Press, Spring Edition. He lives in Massachusetts USA with his wife and family.
- David M. Schultz is a writer of horror and dark speculative fiction with a background in clinical psychology. He lives in Chicago with his wife, accompanied by two cats who he suspects are themselves possessed by the devil. "The Feast of Saint Mary" is his first published story.
- Native New Yorker LindaAnn LoSchiavo, an award-winning member of British Fantasy Society, HWA, SFPA, and The Dramatists Guild, released three titles in 2024: "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" (Wild Ink), "Apprenticed to the Night" (UniVerse Press), and "Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide" (Ukiyoto). Next: "Cancer Courts My Mother" and "Vampire Verses." Book accolades include Chrysalis BREW Project Awards, Spotlyts Story Award, and the Elgin Award, won for "A Route Obscure and Lonely," a title inspired by Poe's poem "Dreamland."
- Caleb Call is a writer of speculative fiction, as well as poetry of various kinds. He lives in Missouri, surrounded by farmland and potholes. His work has previously been published in such places as the Triangulation: Hospitium anthology and In Another Time Magazine. Mostly, He’s just happy that someone is reading this. Check out more of his writing at calebcall2.wordpress.com.
- J.T. Glover has published short fiction in Best New Horror, Pseudopod, and New Myths, among other venues. His nonfiction and interviews have appeared in Lightspeed, Fantasy, and elsewhere. He lives in Virginia, where he works as an academic research librarian specializing in the humanities. He can be found online at jtglover.com.
- Liam Hogan is an award-winning speculative short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction and in Best of British Fantasy (NewCon Press). He volunteers at the creative writing charities Ministry of Stories, and Spark Young Writers. Sci-Fi collection: A Short History of the Future (Northodox Press). Fantasy: Happy Ending Not Guaranteed (Arachne Press). More details at happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk.
- Shikhandin is the pen name of an Indian author of seven books, including "The Woman on the Red Oxide Floor" (Red River Story, India), "Impetuous Women" (Penguin-RandomHouse India), "Immoderate Men" (Speaking Tiger, India) among others. Shikhandin has won awards and accolades for her poetry and prose in India and abroad, and is widely published in journals and anthologies worldwide. She lives in Chennai, India.
- Stephen Myer is a writer and musician in Southern California. His stories and poetry have been published in Tales from the Moonlit Path, Hidden Peak Press, Roi Faineant Press, Grand Little Things, JayHenge Publishing's The Back Forty, Kafka Protocol, and Masque & Maelström anthologies, Figwort Journal, The Avenue Journal, Close to the Bone, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Blood Fiction Anthologies Vols. 2 & 3, Exquisite Death, Hemlock Journal, Fiction on the Web, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Award for Literary Fiction.
- Gregg Chamberlain, a community newspaper journalist now retired after five decades in the trade, lives in rural Eastern Ontario, Canada with his missus, Anne, and their cats who allow their humans the run of the house. He writes speculative fiction and poetry for fun and zombie filk on a whim. Past fiction credits include Abyss & Apex, Daily Science Fiction, Apex, Pulp Literature, Mythic, Polar Borealis and Weirdbook magazines, and various original anthologies.
- In his waking life, Joshua Hester is a cybersecurity professional and IT enthusiast with decades of work experience. But his dreams tap into a strange fascination with artificial life and the probability of escaping our original programming. Rising out of the bayous of the Louisiana lowlands, he now lives in the forested hills of Decatur, Georgia, with his patient wife and two cats, all of whom, with some reservations, tolerate chronic procrastination and all-night writing binges.
- Nancy S. Koven (she/they) is an American author who divides her time between New Mexico and Maine. She is a psychologist and professor emerita who now edits and writes speculative fiction full time. Her work has been published in The Future Fire, Kinpaurak, Thin Skin, and Once Upon a Crocodile.
- Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction, poetry, and games, including The Butterfly Disjunct: And Other Stories (Interstellar Flight Press), and has written for the Nebula-nominated games The Bread Must Rise and A Death in Hyperspace. Born in England, Stewart lives in Oregon.
- Julie Dron is originally from Liverpool, UK, and currently lives in Taiwan. She has been published in a wide variety of journals and anthologies, most recent being Jerry Jazz Musician, Synkroniciti, Pesto Comics, Inkd Publishing, Graveside Press and many others. She was nominated for Best Mircrofiction Anthology 2025, and twice nominated for Pushcart Prize 2024.
- Born to Dutch and Indian immigrants in Sydney, Australia, Barend Nieuwstraten III has worked in film, television, music, and online comics. He has over a hundred short stories published in anthologies, as well as two novels, continuing to work in fantasy, science fiction, and often dipping his toes in horror.
- Kevin Novalina has had fiction, non-fiction and poetry published in over 200 literary journals, magazines and anthologies. He won numerous writing competitions and was nominated for multiple prizes and awards, including four Pushcart Prizes.
- L. D. Colter has farmed with draft horses and worked as a paramedic, Outward Bound instructor, athletic trainer, roller-skating waitress, and concrete dispatcher, among other curious choices. She's an author of contemporary, epic, and dark fantasy novels, and a two-time winner of the Colorado Book Award for science fiction and fantasy. Her Perilous Gods trilogy is coming soon from Solaris Nova, and you can find a list of all her published works and more at ldcolter.com or her newsletter at ldcolter.substack.com/.
- Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her award-winning poetry and prose have appeared in over seventy journals, including F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, and Lightspeed. For more about her work, including her Elgin-placing poetry collections, Bounded by Eternity and From Voyages Unreturning, see www.deborahldavitt.com.
- Robert Borski's writing has been published in Analog, Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and The New York Review of Science Fiction. A former state university employee, he continues to live in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Robert's initial exposure to Edgar Allan Poe was in 1960, when he was given a volume of Poe's collected works by his maternal grandparents, and he is hoping to write further tales in the same EAP-verse as "Tarr and Fether."
- Harris Coverley has more than a hundred and twenty short stories published or forthcoming in Penumbra, A Darker Continent (Belanger Books), Exomoons (Rogue Planet Press), and The Black Beacon Book of Horror (Black Beacon Books), amongst many other places. A Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Award nominee, he has also had over two hundred poems published in journals around the world. He lives in Manchester, England.
- Anthony Panegyres is a Perth writer of novelettes and short stories. He has had stories in both premier Australian literature journals, such as Overland 204 (an Aurealis Award Finalist story), Overland 214, and Meanjin Quarterly, and also "weird lit" homes like Bourbon Penn 25 (highlighted by Ellen Datlow in her Year's Best intro. and on her Recommended Reading List) and Bourbon Penn 31 (also an Aurealis Award Finalist story). A few of his other story homes include the anthologies The Best Australian Stories, The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror Vol. 2 & 6, The Apparatus Almanac and At the Edge. His next new story will appear in Penumbric later this year. "Lady Killer" was originally published in the Aurealis Award winning anthology Bloodlines Ed. Amanda Pillar and was also reprinted in The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror Vol. 6.
- CB Droege is an author and voice actor from the Queen City living in the Millionendorf. His latest book is Ichabod Crane and the Magic Lamp and Other Stories. Short fiction publications include work in Nature Futures, Science Fiction Daily, Amazing Stories, and dozens of other magazines and anthologies.
- K. Marvin Bruce is a self-taught writer who has had over thirty short stories published. He has moved around quite a lot but currently is based in the wider New York City metropolitan area. His work has been nominated for a few awards, including a Pushcart Prize. He makes a living as an editor.
- Title page artist, Warren Muzak – warrenmuzak.weebly.com.
