Our Authors
AJ Malachite
A.J. Malachite is a trans man who writes queer horror and dark science fiction/fantasy. His work has most recently been featured in the anthology meat4meat.
He has worked in front of house management for live performance for eight years. In both his writing and his career in the theatre industry, he strives to promote storytelling as a means of individual and community healing.
You can find him online at https://ajmalachite.weebly.com.
Cat Voleur
Cat Voleur is an author of dark speculative fiction and proud mother to all the rescued felines. Her titles include Revenge Arc and Puppet Shark: The Novelization. When she’s not creating or promoting morbid content, you can find her pursuing her passion for fictional languages.
Website: catvoleur.com
Twitter: Cat_Voleur
Instagram: catvoleur
Dalton Primeaux is a proud gay author who poured blood all over his fashion-focused repertoire with his brutal self-published novelette Daddy, Why Are You Biting Me? in September of 2019, and his delightfully deranged satirical horror series, "Tales from Beyond the Closet," in December 2020.
He has written professionally as a publicist, fashion journalist, and style blogger.
Dalton Primeaux
Dean Cade is a Gen X writer who survived the chaos of running wild on the streets in his formative years. Now he uses those experiences, the highs, lows, and redemptions, to write memoir and genre fiction.
His debut, Summer of 1973, is a coming-of-age gay horror series set in true crime. A lifelong film and horror fan, he spends his free time lifting weights.
Dean lives in Texas with his partner, Bo, and their Siberian Husky, Max. deancade.com.
Dean Cade
Henry Corrigan
Henry Corrigan is a husband, father, bisexual creative, and emerging author who dreams of writing every kind of story. His debut horror novel, A Man in Pieces, won the Silver Medal from Literary Titan and was shortlisted for the Top 25 Indie Books of the Year. His horror poem, The Litany, was featured in SHARDS, a charity mental health anthology from Ravens Quoth Press.
Always an avid horror fan, the first book Henry ever stole was a copy of Stephen King’s Night Shift. (His mother eventually stole it back.) He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the admin for the Horror Writers Collaborative on Facebook.
As an obsessive, overly anxious person living with depression, he has dedicated himself to providing readers with the diverse, flawed characters that he desperately needed when he was growing up. But above all, he wants to be known for not staying where he’s been put. To always surprise people, especially himself. Because that’s what makes it fun. The feeling that even he doesn’t know what he’s going to do next.
Bear Lee
Bear Lee (they/them) is an author, editor, and lover of all things dark and icky. A lifelong love of horror films and literature led them to write books that reminded them of the movies they’d rent from their local video-and-pizza store.
Their previous works include debut novel All The Dead Things and featured stories in With Teeth and Eerie Christmas 4.
Bear currently lives in Jackson, MS with their cat, Maxine.
Chisto Healy
Chisto is the author of the Sunnycrest Apartment series which consists of Accidental Murderer in Apartment 34 and the Gateway in Apartment 8 with more coming.
He co-wrote the novella The Bucket List with Mark Towse, wrote the popular novella The World Beneath, and the extreme horror Two of a Kind that has a prequel and sequel on the way. He’s published nearly 300 stories for anthologies and podcasts.
He lives in North Carolina with his family and awesome pets. You can find him at www.chistohealy.com and on Facebook and Instagram.
Chisto encourages everyone reach out and connect.
Elton Skelter is a queer horror author from the South West of England, where he lives a quiet life as a part time customer services rep to finance his writing ambitions. He has short stories from Dark Ink Matter in the Human Monster Anthology and a story in the ABCs of Terror Volume 4, as well as being the Emerge featured author for September 2022 from the D&T family press, exclusive to Godless. He is currently working on his debut novel, Life Support, which we will be releasing in June 2023, and is always working on other projects for future publication, both in long and short form, all with one thing in common - the championing of queer central characters of all flavors.
Elton Skelter
David's latest work is the queer covid horror novella Virulent (Demain Publishing). His Christmas gothic novella, Stranger in the Snow, is forthcoming from Grendel Press. He is the author of three novels—Grave Regrets, The Skin That Fits, and Red Swarm—all of which are available from Montag Press. He has also written the short story collections Extermination Days (Demain Publishing) and Fragments of a Journal Salvaged from a Charred House in Germany, 1816 (Hammer and Anvil Books).
David has over 70 short works of published horror and literary fiction, appearing in literary journals, including Eclectica Magazine, Word Riot, The Raven Chronicles, Pulp Metal Magazine, and Yellow Mama.
He has also received grants for fiction from Seattle’s Artist Trust organization and Seattle’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. Visit his website: www.davidmassengillfiction.com.
David Massengill
Ivana Geček
Ivana Geček is a Croatian horror writer, illustrator and comic artist. She writes dark speculative fiction, with a special love for body horror and splatterpunk. Her work often includes unapologetic queer characters and unusual romances.
Her debut sapphic horror novella Bye-Bye, Babaroga was published in 2024 by Shtriga Books. Some of her short stories can be found in the online magazine Morina kutija, as well as a couple of anthologies (Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved and Insane: Nostalgic Terrors, Fearmoji: A Queer Emoji Horror Anthology, Posljednja kuća u Šenoinoj ulici, Slavic Supernatural).
She has a forthcoming short story collection with Shtriga Books.
In her spare time she likes to read about cryptids, play the banjo, and watch good and bad horror movies.
Carlos E. Rivera
Carlos E. Rivera is an IQFAF award-winning author, born and raised in Costa Rica, who has
written and rewritten this bio too many times for comfort.
He’d describe himself as anxious and introverted, though he sometimes has to do the whole “acting like a human” thing in social media.
He grew up in the small town of Siquirres during the 80s and 90s, finding refuge in sci-fi, fantasy, drama, crime thrillers, and especially horror. Influenced by Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Silent Hill, David Lynch, and Junji Ito, his writing blends these inspirations with his own experiences and folk stories, creating a unique, unsettling style.
He resides in Costa Rica with his husband, Jimmy, who deserves a “Ten Thousand Golden
Retrievers” award for putting up with his level of weird and still loving him.
For updates, follow Carlos on social media: @carlosriveraauthor or visit his website at:
Minnesota native Chloe Spencer (she/her) is an award winning writer, indie gamedev, and filmmaker. She is the author of multiple sapphic horror novellas, novels, and short stories. In her spare time she enjoys playing video games, trying her best at Pilates, and cuddling with her cats. She holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Film and Television from SCAD Atlanta.
You can find her on Instagram and Bluesky @heyitschloespencer.
Chloe Spencer
David-Jack Fletcher is a gay Australian author, specialising in LGBTQI+ horror fiction. He dabbles in comedy-horror and dark fiction, but his true love is body horror.
His debut novella, The Haunting of Harry Peck, was a 2022 Amazon international best-seller across several lists including Gay Fiction, Horror, and Two-Hour Literature. It is now in its second edition with Lethe Press. His 2023 novel, Raven's Creek is a multi-award winner, taking the 2023 Bookstagram Award for LGBTQ+ Novel of the Year, and the 2024 EW Awards in the categories of Best Monster Horror and Best LGBTQ+ Novel.
In 2024, David-Jack released The Count and is preparing for the 2025 releases of Hell is Other People (Lethe Press) and Indentured (Truborn Press).
He is also a qualified editor, utilising those skills for Slashic Horror Press, along with independent clients.
David-Jack Fletcher
Erica Summers
Erica Summers is an award-winning independent filmmaker and author, an artist, a film industry grip, and a cancer survivor with an unwavering passion for horror. Several of her films have screened worldwide, including Obsidian, Mister White, & Loverboy. Born and raised in Wyoming, Erica spent most of her life in the swampy American South. She now resides in southern Connecticut. In her downtime, the bizarre bisexual is typically slathered in garden dirt or devouring movies with her boyfriend and their Jack Russell terror.
Summers also writes spicy contemporary romance novels under the pen name Odessa Alba and hilarious cozy mysteries as Trixie Fairdale through Rusty Ogre Publishing, which she co-owns with her sister.
John Schlimm
John Schlimm is a Harvard-trained educator, multimedia artist, youth/mental health advocate, and the international award-winning author of more than two-dozen books spanning multiple genres.
The Gravery is John’s debut Horror novella.
To learn more about John’s books and other projects, please visit www.JohnSchlimm.com or find him @JohnSchlimm on Instagram, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn.
Marc Ruvolo
Marc Ruvolo (he/him) is a queer writer and musician living in Portland, Oregon who once considered himself a punk. He founded the seminal Bucket O’ Blood book store in Chicago, and his poetry and fiction have appeared in Cynthia Pelayo’s Gothic Blue Book Series, Slay and Slay Again: A Queer Horror Anthology, and Nocturne Magazine, to name a few. His debut horror novella, SLOE, was released in 2023 by Unnerving Books. A second queer horror novella, Pieties, is available now from Off Limits Press. Find him on Bluesky at @marcruvolo.bsky.social.
Maxim VOlk
Maxwell Folkman (he/they) is an author, educator, and researcher from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He writes queer and religious horror and dystopian science fiction.
He has published work in Educational Studies and has upcoming publications in Smitten Land and Nonbinary Review.
In his free time, Max enjoys going for walks, reading, and going to his local comic shop.
P. R. Wernsman is a queer author writing in the horror and speculative fiction space. They live in Chicago with their wife and two feline overlords. They have studied under Bram Stoker Award-winning instructor Cynthia Pelayo and belong to the Horror Writers Association.
You can find them on Instagram under the username @horryndous.
P. R. Wernsman
TT Maddden
TT Madden is a trans, mixed race writer of "off kilter, politically barbed horror." She's written several novellas, which she refuses to use AI in, or to keep politics out of, where she loves writing about the intersections of her various identities, and queer characters who are allowed to be messy and complicated.
She's written several other novellas, including The Familialists and The Shapes of Our Screams with Slashic Horror Press.
You can find her on social media as @ttmaddenwrites and at her website ttmaddenwrites.carrd.co, or in real life, being gay and doing crimes.
Mariah Stillbrook
Mariah Stillbrook, originally from Iowa, is a pansexual, witchy author. She lives in Colorado with her German shepherd, husband, and little girl. She spends most of her days writing, reading, and enjoying the occasional hike. Though she's moving into multi-genre storytelling, she focuses her writing on urban fantasy and horror in both adult and young adult genres.
Mark Allan Gunnells
Mark has been publishing in the small press for almost fifteen years now. He has worked with Cemetery Dance, Crystal Lake, the Random House digital imprint Hydra, Unnerving Press, Valhalla Books, as well as several others.
His focus is horror/suspense with a queer bent and loves working with publishers who focused on promoting queer voices, and specializing in nurturing queer storytellers.
Rien Gray
Rien Gray is a queer, nonbinary (they/them) author devoted to writing F/F and F/NB romance, erotica, and horror.
They love reworking classic tropes in new ways and adding a splash of heat to all of their works.
Rien started as a poet but now shifts between short fiction and longer prose, although the subject matter is always about how love transforms us.
Wesley Winters
Wesley Winters is the author of Nobody's Savior, Take Their Poison, Going Sideways (as seen in the duet, The Toll Comes Due), and multiple upcoming releases in horror and crime. He has appeared in Cursed Cooking, Terrible Lizards, and volumes of That Old House: The Bathroom and HorrorScope.
He is AuDHD and pansexual. As a father of three, he often finds himself disconnected from the world and in seclusion, which could explain why isolation plays such a big role in many of his stories.
Instagram @ thewinterseye
BlueSky @ Wesley Winters
Patreon @ WintryMonstersPress
Michael R. Collins
Michael R Collins was born at a very young age in the wilds of southern Idaho. After a few decades, he finally got his fill of all the sagebrush and rattlesnakes he could eat, so he struck out into the world. After slinging some bass guitar in Austin, Texas, he moved to Pennsylvania with his partner Mel before returning to the land of his birth.
He is a Bi author who has published a number of novels and short stories, as well as penning a few alibis. (Just in case)
Nikki R. Leigh is a queer, forever-90s-kid wallowing in all things horror. When not writing horror fiction and poetry, she can be found creating custom horror-inspired toys, making comics, and hunting vintage paperbacks. She reads her stories to her partner and her cat, one of which gets scared very easily.
Nikki is the author of Her Teeth, Like Waves (Spooky House Press), and the short story collection Lessons in Demoralization (Dark Lit Press). She also has stories published in Dark Matter Magazine, The Book of Queer Saints, Cemetery Gate’s A Woman Built By Man, Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology, Dread Stone Press’ Field Notes from a Nightmare, Ghost Orchid Press' Chlorophobia, Shredded: A Sports and Fitness Body Horror Anthology among other publications.
Nikki R. Leigh
Stephanie Sanders-Jacob
Stephanie is an author and artist from Sandusky, Ohio. Her first novel, Singing All the Way Up, debuted with No Bad Books Press and her short fiction has been featured by Books of Horror, Hearth & Coffin, Mixer, Mosaic, and Ether Arts.
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a specialization in Creative Writing from the Ohio State University. You can find her online at www.sandersjacob.com.