The Nameless Songs of Zadok Allen
& Other Things that Should Not Be
- Dr. Elena Tchougounova-Paulson is the editor of Lovecraftian Proceedings, a journal on academic Lovecraftiana, and was formerly a specialist in history and theory of Literature at the Russian State Archive in Literature and Art, and now lives in Cambridge with her own professor who is not the sort of person who would describe himself in a sentence or two. She is a lover of literature, coffee, nonsense, HP Lovecraft, horror, Fenland, East Anglia, and all things goth.
- Stephen A. Roddewig is an award-winning storyteller and playwright from Virginia (USA). He was a finalist in the Summer 2021 Owl Canyon Press Hackathon, and his stories are featured in Abyss & Apex, Diet Milk Magazine, and JOURN-E. When not writing, he enjoys collecting records and running races.
- Brad Kelechava is a professional blogger whose writing you might find while searching for topics spanning renewable energy to the history of rats. His short fiction appears in Tales to Terrify, Utopia Science Fiction, Negative Space 2: A Return to Survival Horror, and elsewhere. He is a member of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers (BSFW) and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and cats.
- Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella series, beginning with The Continuum, is available from World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com
- Michael Fowler is a speculative fiction author and playwright living in Ohio. His farce "The Resurrectionist" is up at Fleas on the Dog online, and his most recent sci-fi is at Bewildering Stories. Don't miss his ghost story podcast at Kaidankai!
- G. Grim is a librarian obsessed with old books and mysterious basements. When not searching for treasures in dubious-looking boxes, she can be found up to her elbows in jigsaw puzzles. Her stories can be found in other JayHenge anthologies and on 365 Tomorrows.
- Johannes Svensson lives in Gothenburg, Sweden with his wife, daughter and cat. He was created from stardust at the beginning of time and will cease to exist shortly after the heat death of the universe. This information is designed to make him feel approachable enough to be liked by a wide audience, but not approachable enough for that audience to actually approach him if they should happen to see him about town.
- Eve Morton lives in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with her partner and two sons. She reads tarot cards and coffee grinds for fun, while teaching university classes on the dangers of too much and not enough media consumption. Find more updates at authormorton.wordpress.com.
- Simon Kewin is an award-winning writer of fantasy and sci/fi, with over 400 publications to his name. He's the author of the Cloven Land fantasy trilogy, cyberpunk thriller The Genehunter, steampunk Gormenghast saga Engn, the Triple Stars sci/fi trilogy and the Office of the Witchfinder General books, published by Elsewhen Press. He's the author of several short story collections, with his shorter fiction appearing in Analog, Nature and many other magazines. His novel Dead Star was an SPSFC award semi-finalist and his short story #buttonsinweirdplaces was shortlisted for a Utopia award. His novella The Clockwork King won the Tales by Moonlight Editor's Prize. He has an honours degree in English Literature (1st class) and an MA in creative writing (Distinction).
- Mike Adamson holds a Doctoral degree from Flinders University of South Australia. After early aspirations in art and writing, Mike secured qualifications in both marine biology and archaeology. Mike has been a university educator since 2006, has worked in the replication of convincing ancient fossils, is a passionate photographer, master-level hobbyist, and journalist for international magazines. Short fiction sales include to Metastellar, Strand Magazine, Little Blue Marble, Abyss and Apex, Daily Science Fiction, Compelling Science Fiction and Nature Futures. Mike has placed on over two hundred occasions to date, totaling over a million words. Mike has completed his first Sherlock Holmes novel with Belanger Books, and has appeared in translation in European magazines. You can catch up with his journey at his blog ‘The View From the Keyboard,’ mike-adamson.blogspot.com. Visit his website at dream-craft.com/mikeadamson.
Mike's story and the Zadok Allen anthology were featured on PseudoPod in 2023!
- Guy Riessen is a Californian Dark Fiction author and VFX artist currently living in Montreal, Quebec. He's been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including mulitple times in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Shotgun Honey, Miskatonic Dreams, Poe-Pourri, Urban Temples of Cthulhu, and more. His novel, Piercing the Veil, is available on Amazon, and you can follow him at guyriessen.com.
- Owen Loftus is a writer and conservation educator working out of Cincinnati, USA. He is married to a lovely ocean spirit. You can find more of his work at www.coloftus.com.
- Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist with five patents and a background in AI and Internet R&D. He has published over 50 short stories in such magazines as Nature, PodCastle, and Galaxy's Edge. His noir urban fantasies "The Demons of Wall Street", "The Demons of the Square Mile", and "The Demons of Chiyoda" are available from Mirror World Publishing while his new standalone novel "The World's Shattered Shell" has just been published by Water Dragon. Pronouns: he/him.
- Ville Meriläinen is a Finnish author of fantasy and horror fiction.
- Matthew R. Davis is an author and musician who is based in Adelaide, South Australia. He has published over seventy short stories around the world. Matthew has been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award, the WSFA Small Press Award, and multiple Aurealis and Australian Shadows Awards. He has won two Shadows for 2019. His books include If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (collection, Things in the Well, 2020), Midnight in the Chapel of Love (novel, JournalStone, 2021), The Dark Matter of Natasha (novella, Grey Matter Press, 2022), and Bites Eyes: 13 Macabre Morsels (flash chapbook, Brain Jar Press, 2023). Find out more at matthewrdavisfiction.wordpress.com.
- Ben Lockwood is a Ph.D. candidate in the Geography department at Indiana University. Ben’s work has been published in Briefly Write, Apocalypse Confidential, and Black Hare Press. You can find Ben wasting time on Twitter and Instagram at @brlockwood.
- Christina Nordlander was born in 1982 in Sweden, but met a very nice English man and moved to the United Kingdom. At the time of writing, she and her husband are planning to move back to Manchester. She has published over 20 short stories and other pieces, primarily on the horror/fantasy/SF spectrum. She also holds a PhD in Classics and Ancient History from the University of Manchester.
- Crystal L. Kirkham is a multi-genre speculative fiction author and podcaster. She has published several full-length novels and has been a part of multiple best-selling anthologies. Originally from the west coast of British Columbia, she now chooses to call a tiny hamlet in central Alberta her home. She is an avid outdoors person, unrepentant coffee addict, part-time foodie, and companion to several delightfully hilarious canines—including the real standard poodle named Fred. You can find out more about her and her work at crystallkirkham.com.
- John Possidente resides in an old house on a hill, where it's frequently dark and often cold; from it one can gaze into the vastness of the indifferent universe. Other things live there -- some with sharp teeth and claws, some with excess legs and too many eyes. Like most writers, he's soft on the outside, unpleasantly crunchy in the middle, and gruesomely, squishy wet in between. He understands a little about odd geometries and has been known to seek out the company of insects.
- James Rumpel is a retired high school math teacher who enjoys trying to turn the odd ideas circling his brain into actual stories. He lives in Wisconsin with his wonderful wife, Mary.
- Michael Fassbender is a part-time writer in the Chicago area. His highlights include “The Cold Girl” in Re-Haunts, “Miroir de Vaugnac” in Dark Divinations, “Schattenlenker’s Hidden Treasure” in The Nightside Codex, and “Old Growth” in Scary Stuff. He is an Affiliate-level member of the HWA and he is active in the Chicago Chapter. More information can be found on his website, michaeltfassbender.com.
- Matt Bliss is a construction worker turned speculative fiction writer from Las Vegas, Nevada. His short fiction has appeared in Cosmic Horror Monthly, The Nosleep Podcast, and Dark Recesses Online, among other published and forthcoming works. When he’s not haunting the used book aisle of your local thrift store, you can find him on Twitter at @MattJBliss.
- John K. Peck is a Berlin-based writer, musician, and letterpress printer. His writing has been published in a diverse range of journals and anthologies including Interzone, Pyre, Cold Signal, Salon, The Toast, VOLT, SAND, Stories from the City (Slow Travel Berlin) and Dark Stars (Shacklebound). He is also a frequent contributor to McSweeney's Internet Tendency and has appeared in two McSweeney's anthologies. Find him on Twitter at @johnkpeck and on the web at johnkpeck.com.
- Lamont A. Turner is a New Orleans area writer whose work has appeared in numerous print and online venues. His collection of short stories, "Souls In A Blender" is currently available for download on Godless Horrors and in paperback on Amazon.
- Ron Schroer lives and writes in Canberra, Australia. He writes weird tales based loosely on the weird reality of his surroundings. His work has appeared in Mondo Incantati (anthology), BITE Magazine, Aurealis, Midnight Echo, The Antihumanist, and BFS Horizons. Visit him at www.strangefolly.com.
- Andrea M. Pawley’s spirit animal is the piranhamoose. She lives and writes in Washington D.C., far from the reavers outside the Beltway. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Asimov's Science Fiction, and The Razor. Hear Andrea burble-roar at www.andreapawley.com.
- As well as writing fiction, Arlen Feldman is a software engineer, entrepreneur, maker, and computer book author—useful if you are in the market for some industrial-strength door stops. Some recent stories of his appear in the anthologies Phantasmical Contraptions, Particular Passages 4, and Kevin J. Anderson’s Gilded Glass, and in Little Blue Marble and Nocturne magazines. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His website is cowthulu.com. Mastodon: \masto{cowthulu}{mastodon.social}.
- Sean E. Britten is an author and radio journalist from Sydney, Australia. A lifelong fan of 'creature features', in 2022 he set himself a challenge to release a story every week each inspired by a different monster from the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual! His novels, including the 'Kill Switch' trilogy can be found on Amazon. Stories and more at seanebritten.com.
- Geoff Hart (he/him) works as a scientific editor, specializing in helping scientists who have English as their second language publish their research. He’s the author of the popular Effective Onscreen Editing and Write Faster With Your Word Processor. He also writes fiction in his spare time, and has sold 60 stories thus far. Visit him online at <www.geoff-hart.com>.
- Koji Dae is a queer American living long-term in Bulgaria with her husband and children. Her writing focuses on mental health, relationships, and generational trauma and can be found in magazines such as Clarkesworld and Apex. When not writing, she enjoys dancing blues or kizomba, crocheting, or camping. Her website is kojiadae.ink.
- L.H. Phillips is a retired molecular biologist with a life-long love of all types of imaginative fiction, from SF to horror. She lives with her family in San Antonio, TX.
- Mike Morgan was born in London, but not in any of the interesting parts. He moved to Japan at the age of 30 and lived there for many years. Nowadays, he's based in Iowa, and enjoys family life with his wife and two young children. If you like his writing, be sure to check out his website, PerpetualStateofMildPanic.wordpress.com.
- John Park was born in England but has spent most of his life in Canada, where he is now a retired scientist. He has published one novel, Janus (2012), plus stories in such anthologies as Northern Stars, Cities in Space and volumes of the Canadian Tesseracts series, and in various periodicals including Tomorrow, On Spec and James Gunn's Ad Astra. He admires (among others) Ursula K. Le Guin, John le Carré, William Golding, Terry Pratchett, and Beethoven.
- Paul Lonardo is a freelance writer and author with numerous titles of both fiction and nonfiction books. He has placed dark fiction stories, non-fiction articles and poems in a variety of genre print magazines and ezines. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association. Paul lives in Lincoln, Rhode Island with his wife and son and their two dogs. For more information about Paul and his books visit his website thegoblinpitcher.com
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