Tiffani Angus (PhD) is the multi-award-finalist author of Threading the Labyrinth and (as co-author with Val Nolan) of Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Vols. 1, 2, and 3. A graduate of Clarion (2009) and a former senior lecturer in creative writing and publishing, she’s currently an editor, runs the book-formatting company Book Polishers, and lives in Bury St Edmunds with her partner. You can find her at www.tiffani-angus.com.
Leon Craig is the author of Polari shortlisted haunted house novel The Decadence and queer gothic short story collection Parallel Hells (both Sceptre Books). Her fiction has also been published in Elsewhere: A Journal of Place, Nulla journal, Hazlitt, Berlin Babel anthology among others and her non-fiction in the Guardian, the Sunday Times and the TLS.
Lyndsey Croal is a Scottish author of strange and speculative fiction published in 100+ magazines and anthologies, including Apex, ElectricLit, Weird Tales, Best of British Science Fiction, and Mslexia’s Best Women’s Short Fiction. She’s a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee, Shirley Jackson Award and four-times British Fantasy Award Finalist, and former Hawthornden Fellow. Her longer works include Dark Crescent (Luna Press), dark and seasonal tales from Scottish folklore, In This City, Where it Rains (Luna Press), and Limelight and Other Stories (Shortwave). Find her on Bsky and Instagram as @lyndseycroal or via her website www.lyndseycroal.co.uk
Alex Davis is an author, lecturer and workshopper based in Derby. He is the author of The Last War and Martyrs: A Personal Perspective, and has been a lecturer for the University of Derby and De Montfort University across a range of subjects over the last ten years. As an events organiser, he leads on the UK Ghost Story Festival, Edge-Lit, Darkness in the Fields and more. He is currently working on the unofficial, unendorsed guide to the folklore of Bob's Burgers for University of Exeter Press.
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Dr Kaja Franck is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Programme Lead for the MA: Literature & Culture at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research centres on monsters and monstrous animals, and she has shared her work at conferences across the world. Recent publications include chapters on troll horror, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series (2005-8), Sous La Seine (2024) and John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), alongside organising international conferences on werewolves, vampires and haunted seascapes in literature and popular culture. Her monograph, The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature: Wolves, Woods and Wilderness, was published last year. She has a soft spot for terrible shark horror.
John Fraser is a member of the Council of the Society for Psychical Research and also sits on the Societies ‘Spontaneous Cases Committee’. He was previously’ Vice Chair Investigations’ of the Ghost Club and joined ASSAP ‘not too long after it was founded’. As well as more conventional paranormal research his topics of study have been as varied as hypnotic regression and vampire folklore . With regards to the latter he has travelled to Transylvania on numerous occasions.
His 2010 ‘Ghost Hunting, a Survivors Guide’ was one of the first UK books published about investigating the subject since it’s re-popularisation by TV. He has since written a book on 'Poltergeists' 2020 and presents his overall thoughts on ‘what the paranormal is all about' in his latest book "One big Box of Paranormal Tricks?’ (Oct, 2024: 6th books / Collective Ink).
Fraser has appeared in a number of media discussions of the paranormal - including Japanese and Scottish Television, and national BBC radio.
Deborah Hyde
Eric La Rocca
Brenda LaTorre is a Mexico City native, author of BRUJA’S NEST (Creature Publishing). Her stories have found a home in different places such as Moth Eaten Magazine, Polymorphic Magazine, and more.
She holds an MFA from the University of Southern Maine and a Creative Writing Certificate from UCSD.
She lives in Mexico City with her son, where they hold occasional seánces together
Andrea Stewart
Francine Toon