Five years ago when my wife shamed me into picking up my pen again, one of the first things I started writing was a mash up novel of Lovecraftian characters, and I really wanted Herbert West to be part of that team. Unfortunately, I'm a stickler for established chronologies, and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't tell the story I wanted to tell with West in it.

Enter Dr. Stuart Hartwell.

He was the perfect solution, he had all of West's skills, but his timeline was mine to play with. But, I didn't know who he was, or what motivated him. So I wrote a story about him, and another, and then another. Quickly the mash up novel was set aside and all my time was spent focused on Hartwell. Those stories became the novel Reanimators.

Now, just a year later that mash up novel I wanted to work on. The one that was called at various times The League of Lovecraftian Gentlemen, The Miskatonic Club, The Miskatonic Men's Aide Society, The Arkham Oddfellowes - well that became The Weird Company and that hits the streets in September.

Hartwell is back, but this time he's not alone, he and his cohort have been recruited by . . .

Well you'll just have to read the book now won't you.

This is the book I wanted to write from the start, and if you liked Reanimators, you will adore The Weird Company.

Ashley began writing at the age of 12. Upon discovering the macabre work of Edgar Allan Poe, she took a borderline obsessive interest in writing horror and dark fantasy poetry and even a few fantasy novels. Her favorite authors of horror and fantasy at that time were Stephen King, Dean Koontz, J.R.R. Tolkien, Piers Anthony, and Brian Jacques who also influenced her work.

She wrote up until her senior year of high school and then took a break before starting up again after college in 2011. With a nudge from a new friend, she discovered a new kind of horror, dark fantasy, and weird work from authors such as Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, George Sterling, Donald Sidney-Fryer, and David Park Barnitz.

With this new treasure trove of horror and weird authors, she began to broaden her writing.

Aside from writing, her other passion is martial arts. When she was 12 she started practicing a shotokan Japanese karate mix (called 'American' karate) and Judo at Red Dragon until she reached 3rd class brown belt at 15. At 18 she started practicing Soo Bahk Do, a Korean karate, where she stayed for four years, getting her black belt and taught as an instructor for a brief period of time before leaving.

T.M. Morgan writes horror and other dark tales. His stories have appeared in Vastarien, Pseudopod, and Lamplight, as well as the anthologies Anthology of Bizarro, Tales From Omnipark, and More Than a Monster. He lives in southern Maryland along the Chesapeake Bay with his wife and children.

Donald is the CEO and Founder of Hybrid Sequence Media.

As a writer, his work has appeared in multiple anthologies and zines. (also displayed)

A resident of North Carolina's Outer Banks, A.P searches for that unique element that twists the everyday commonplace into the weird. When he's not writing fiction, he composes music, dabbles in animation, and muses about theology and mind-hacking, all while watching way too many online movies.

Most of my written work is speculative fiction of one kind or another, often horror-adjacent, often satirical, periodically humorous. I also write traditional horror, noir, and am a practicing journalist. Occasionally I come down with poetry and once in a great while I make what I call art. I've given up on publishing other people but still edit things from time to time.

Am a cat-daddy, dog-daddy, herbal enthusiast, musician, foodie, grump. You can find me on twitter and facebook if you like, if they're still there, and on Mastodon,

My daily baseball things are at Bleed Cubbie Blue. My political writings are classifiable. My pronouns are he/him. hey you.

Sean Malia Thompson is the author of the GOD DAMN ZOMBIE series, the mosaic novel THEY NEVER FIND THE BODIES IN WHISPERING PINES, as well as the horror crime novella THE CLEAR LAKE KILLER 1974, and the story collection SCREAMING CREATURES. His work has been featured in HYMNS OF ABOMINATION, NOX PAREIDOLIA, and others.

Thompson is originally from central Massachusetts, and currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his long time partner and little gray cat.

Born from an egg on a mountain top, Russell has spent the past 40 something years doing stuff and things. After spending a decade travelling around the world he has now settled down in a small town in England by the North Sea. He lives with his lovely family, some rats, some fish and a very wayward cat. The cat most definitely knows far more than he should. Luckily he's not telling.

S. L. Edwards enjoys dark fiction, dark poetry and darker beer. He is a Texan currently residing in California, specializing in weird fiction and poetry.

Jill Hand is a member of International Thriller Writers. Her Southern Gothic novels, White Oaks, and Black Willows, are available on Amazon and from the publisher, Black Rose Writing.

Advance readers called White Oaks a fast-paced, hilarious account of three siblings who are competing for their father's forty-billion-dollar fortune while trying to prevent the destruction of Planet Earth.

Diane Donovan, senior reviewer from Midwest Book Review praised White Oaks, calling it, "an unusually multifaceted tale that holds the ability to prompt laughter from thriller-style tension."

A sequel to White Oaks, Black Willows, follows the adventures of the squabbling, dysfunctional Trapnell family. Red Pines, third in the series of Trapnell family thrillers, will be released in April 2024.

When William Tea was a boy, he thought monsters lived in the dark. So when the lights were out, he snarled and spat and twisted his hands into claws, trying to blend in with the things that went bump in the night.

He’s been friends with the monsters ever since.

Today, William Tea lives in the Northeastern Pennsylvania Coal Region. His work has been featured in anthologies published by Muzzleland Press, Wildside Press, Planet X Publications, StrangeHouse Books, and CLASH Books.

Find him online at WilliamTea.com.

Maxwell I. Gold is a Jewish-American prose poet, author, and editor, with an extensive body of work comprising over 300 poems since 2017. His writings have earned a place alongside many literary luminaries in the speculative fiction genres and his work has garnered nominations for multiple awards including the Pushcart Prize, the Eric Hoffer Awards, Rhysling Awards, and the Bram Stoker Awards. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies such as Weird Tales Magazine, Startling Stories, the recent Horror Writers Association anthology Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology, Chiral Mad 5, and many more

Maxwell has taught several poetry workshops and co-edited several anthologies. He’s the author of the Bram Stoker nominated poetry collection Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums.

Australian Shadows Award nominated horror and weird fiction writer. I write fiction and comics. I’ve written for television (Fragments Of Fear TV Show) and also non-fiction.

Film lover.

Find me here - https://johnpfitch.wordpress.com

Sarah Walker is a Pacific Northwest anthropologist, writer, artist, and head art director, and co-editor/co-owner of Weird Fiction Quarterly with Chris Karr, a flash fiction magazine created by Russell Smeaton. With the editing magic of Shayne Keen and Scott Couturier, be sure to check it out if you like flash fiction! Sarah has been published in multiple venues from Vasterian to Lovecraft Ezine and also illustrated, wrote, and curated A Walk in a Darker Wood along with the sequel, A Walk in a City of Shadows with Gordon White, Duane Pesice, Jill Hand, Nora Peevy and Phil Breach.

She has work coming soon from various publishers and is also readying her first fiction novel for publication as well as re-editing an Anthropological text on witchcraft and the supernatural in the Americas with her sister and father. She is also coediting a book of short stories celebrating the work Gemma Files titled Experimental Files whose profit after cost will be going to charity Autism Works. Finally, Sarah is working with Frances Lai Ippolito on an anthology of Indigenous women's stories focusing on comfort and peace and how one can find it in a world that often is neither comfortable nor peaceful.

A true New England born soul, Matthew lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and three cats. A long time seeker and lover of the strange and unusual led him to the darker corners of his mind where he discovered a trove of disturbing tales waiting to be told. In addition to writing, Matthew is a musician and magician, having performed his music and magic on the East Coast for over 20 years in dank dark pubs where only locals dare tread.