Rebecca Rowland is a best-selling editor of seven horror anthologies, including 2023’s American Cannibal, a winner of a Godless 666 Horror Fiction Award, and an Active member of the Horror Writers Association. Her speculative fiction, critical essays, and book reviews regularly appear in a variety of online and print venues. The former acquisitions and anthology editor at AM Ink Publishing, Rebecca manages the small, independent publishing house Maenad Press. Her latest collection White Trash & Recycled Nightmares was published in October, 2023 by Dead Sky Publishing and is available in print, ebook, and Audible audiobook.

In this episode I welcome back strange fiction author Daniel Braum. We talk about his new paperback releases of The Serpent's Shadow and The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales from Cemetery Dance, as well as author Robert Aickman.

Daniel is the author of the short story collections The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales, The Wish Mechanics: Stories of the Strange and Fantastic, Yeti Tiger Dragon, and Underworld Dreams. His first novella The Serpent's Shadow was published by Cemetery Dance eBooks and is available now in print for the first time, along with The Night Marchers and Other Strange Stories, also available from Cemetery Dance. Daniel is the editor of the Spirits Unwrapped anthology from Lethe Press, and the host and founder of the Night Time Logic reading series in New York City. His work has appeared in the Shivers 8 anthology, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and the American Cannibal anthology from Maenad Press among others. He can be found at bloodandstardust.wordpress.com.

The Scheming Skeleton (also known as "Skelly") is a trading card game (or TCG) content creator on YouTube who enjoys talking about, collecting, and playing trading card games. He started collecting and playing trading card games in 1993 when he discovered Magic the Gathering at a local card show and he's been hooked ever since. He also co-hosts The BoneZone Podcast with his friend George, owner of CompetEsport LGS in South Carolina. The BoneZone Podcast is a monthly trading card game podcast where George and Skelly talk about trading card games. When he's not playing card games or creating content he enjoys exploring local history, kayaking, and spending time with his family. And this is a good place to mention that Skelly is in fact my brother as well!

Douglas Ford is the author of The Beasts of Vissaria County, a novel released by D&T Publishing in 2021. His novella, The Reattachment, appeared in 2019 courtesy of Madness Heart Press, and that same press released Little Lugosi (A Love Story) in 2022. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies like Generation X-ed, Tales to Terrify, and Dark Moon Digest with several of his works collected in Ape in the Ring and Other Tales of the Macabre and Uncanny, which was published by Madness Heart Press in 2020. He is also the author of The Infection Party and Other Stories of Dis-Ease published in 2022 by D&T. Ford lives on the west coast of Florida, just off an exit made famous by a Jack Ketchum short story.

Tylor James lives in Sweet Hollow, Wisconsin. He's a member of the Horror Writers Association and has had stories published in Hypnos Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, The Literary Hatchet, The Other Stories Podcast, and several anthologies. He is the author of the collection Matters Most Macabre, and most recently from Weird House Press, the collection Beneath the Jack-O-Lantern Sky: Tales of Sweet Hollow.

Elana Gomel is an academic and an award-winning writer. Born in Ukraine, she has lived and taught in many countries, including the U.S., Israel, Italy, and Hong  Kong. She is the author of six academic books and numerous articles on subjects such as narrative theory, posthumanism, science fiction, and serial killers. As a fiction writer, she has published more than a hundred fantasy and science fiction stories, several novellas, and four novels.

Links:

My Lady of Plagues and Other Gothic Fairy Tales: https://www.weirdhousepress.com/product/my-lady-of-plagues-and-other-gothic-fairy-tales/

Website: https://www.citiesoflightanddarkness.com/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Elana-Gomel/e/B001KHVFCE

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elana.gomel

Twitter: @ElanaGomel

Heather Miller is a writer of old-fashioned horror. Her debut novella Knock Knock was published in May of 2021, and her first short fiction collection Tales My Grandmother Told Me, is published today from Last Waltz Publishing. She is also an avid book reviewer whose critical work can be found on Goodreads, Facebook, and Instagram.

Fiona Fox is an Australian born, Irish bred, and USA beaten singer-songwriter. Writing songs about people and life, Fox aims to highlight the vulnerability, humor and heartbreak of the human condition.

Links:

https://linktr.ee/fionafoxmusic (Digital Cache for It's Been Nice)

Brian Evenson is the author of eleven novels, eight short fiction collections, and dozens of short stories, essays, chapbooks, and translations. He has won three O. Henry Prizes, an International Horror Guild Award, a Shirley Jackson Award, a World Fantasy Award, and an ALA/RUSA prize. His work has also been a finalist for an Edgar Award, and he has been awarded NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. His fiction has been translated into several languages, including Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, and Turkish among others. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts

Link:

Song for the Unraveling of the World from Coffee House Press:

https://coffeehousepress.org/products/song-for-the-unraveling-of-the-world

Gordon B. White is the author of the collection As Summer’s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions (2020), and the novellas Rookfield (2021) and And In Her Smile, the World (with Rebecca J. Allred, 2022). A graduate of the Clarion West Writing Workshop, his stories have appeared in dozens of venues, including The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 12 and the Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology Borderlands 6. He also contributes reviews and interviews to outlets including Nightmare, Lightspeed, and The Outer Dark podcast. You can find him online at www.gordonbwhite.com