The Authors

Len Maynard "I'm Here."

Evan Baughfman "Home Sweet Home."

Aron Costello "A Quiet Night In."

Brady Sanders "Buried."

Thomas Malafarina "He Knows When You're Awake."

Penny Blood "Santa Baby."

Jeff Enos "Santa Boy."

Gene Gallistel "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town."

Daniel Brock "The Reviving."

L.N. Hunter "The True Spirit of Christmas."

Marshall Alessi "Christmas Story."

Evan Baughfman is a Southern California playwright, author, and educator. He is a playwriting member of PlayGround-L.A., and is a company member with Force of Nature Productions. A number of Evan’s plays are published through Heuer Publishing, YouthPLAYS, Next Stage Press, and Drama Notebook. A member of the Horror Writers Association, Evan has also found success writing dark fiction, his work found recently in anthologies by Black Anchor Publishing, Radical Books, and WonderBird Press. Evan’s own books include: The Emaciated Man, Vanishing of the 7th Grade, Bad for Your Teeth, Try Not to Die in a Dark Fairy Tale, Try Not to Die on Friday the 13th, and the short story collection, Mauls of the Wild. More info about Evan and his writing is available at amazon.com/author/evanbaughfman

A native of Tuam, Co. Galway, 50-ish TEFL/Secondary teacher Aron Costello has been writing, pretty much on a daily basis, since the age of eight. Since the mid-80s, he has published articles/stories in various newspapers, both local and international (The Tuam Herald, The Connacht Tribune, The Charleston Gazette, etc) and has had stories selected for inclusion in titles such as Cuirt magazine, Splinters, Noir by Noirwest, Darker Times, and many others. A few years ago, he published Story, a semi-autobiographical memoir, and recently finished its sequels, Dromomania and That Guitar Is Upside Down, Man. His Horror novels include Sore Dose, Nitetime and Deadfall.

Len Maynard & Mick Sims are the widely published authors of the Jack Callum series, the Department 18 series, the Bahamas series, as well as standalone novels in the genres of crime, mystery, thrillers, supernatural horror, and erotic romance. They have written award-winning screenplays, numerous stories and novellas, essays, reviews, and have several ghost story collections. They have worked as editors, ghost writers, and previously as small press publishers. They were friends for fifty years until Len’s death in November 2023.

Jeff Enos grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, California, and writes scary stories. His work has been published in Allegory, HauntedMTL, and Spring in the City, a dark speculative fiction anthology from Ruadan Books. He currently lives in Queens with his partner, Arik. You can follow him on Instagram and Threads @jfreez and on X @JeffEnosWrites.

L.N. Hunter’s comic fantasy novel, The Feather and the Lamp, sits alongside works in anthologies such as Best of British Science Fiction 2022 and Ghostly, as well as several issues of Short Édition’s Short Circuit and the Horrifying Tales of Wonder podcast. There have also been papers in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, which are probably somewhat less relevant and definitely less entertaining. When not writing, L.N. occasionally masquerades as a software developer or can be found unwinding in a disorganised home in Carlisle, UK, along with two cats and a soulmate

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Thomas M. Malafarina (www.ThomasMMalafarina.com) is a horror fiction author from Berks County, Pennsylvania. He was born July 23, 1955, in Ashland, Schuylkill County, PA, where he lived until moving to Berks County in 1979. Many of Thomas’s stories take place in his native Schuylkill County and in Berks County.

To date, he has published eight horror novels: What Waits Beneath, Burner, From the Dark, Circle of Blood, Dead Kill Book 1: The Ridge of Death, Dead Kill Book 2: The Ridge of Change, Dead Kill Book 3: The Ridge of War, Death Bringer Jones, Zombie Slayer Volume 1, and Doc Dalton, Demon Hunter. He has published sixteen collections of horror short stories: Thirteen Deadly Endings, Ghost Shadows, Horror Classics, Undead Living, Hellbent, Malaformed Realities Vol. 1 through 11. Volumes 12 and 13 will be published in mid-2026. He has also published five volumes of single-panel cartoons in a series called Yes, I Smelled It Too: Cartoons for the Hopelessly Off Center, Volumes 1 through 5. His horror and cartoon books are published through Sunbury Press and its Hellbender Books imprint. (www.Sunburypress.com).

Thomas has written and published a Microsoft Office Technical Manual on Hyperlinking documents, titled “Link-Tuit, A System to Organize Your Life,” through Crave Press of Leesport. (www.cravepress.com). In 2024, Crave released Thomas’s humorous collection of anecdotes from his youth growing up in Schuylkill County, called “Growin’ Up Skook.” A second volume, “Growin’ Up Skook 2, More Stories from the Skook,” was released in August 2025

Thomas’ cartoons and short stories have also appeared in Twisted Pulp Magazine from Screaming Eye Press, and he has illustrated two cartoon books, “Charles” and “Charles: Remember to Dismember,” through Screaming Eye Press.

In addition, many of Thomas’ more than 300 short stories have appeared in over 260 anthologies and e-magazines. Some have also been produced and presented for internet podcasts and radio plays. Thomas has shared anthology pages with some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including Jack Ketchum, Joe Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, and Lucky McKee.

Thomas is best known for the twists and surprises in his stories and his descriptive, often gory passages. Thomas is also an artist, musician, singer, and songwriter.

DB Dahlia is an aspiring author of horror and the macabre. He lives in the South with his wife and three kids and takes any free time he can find to continue his life-long obsession with writing. His first story, Feral, is set to be published on October 27th, 2026. With any luck, it won’t be the last. The best place to keep up with his work is his Substack, if you don’t mind some ramblings in between stories.

The main function of this avatar is to explore sexuality unhindered by the human desire to place a face to it, to see the speaker as male or female, straight or gay, cis or trans, to show the similarities between ourselves once we stop putting parameters upon them.

Penny Blood is a horror erotica writer exploring surrealism, myth, and alternate realities to convey an expressive range of human relationships, while also confronting taboos and difficult topics. Penny is a huge fan of fashion and costuming and loves any excuse to dress up for the occasion, whatever that occasion may be, both literally and figuratively. Because sometimes we get to know ourselves best by trying on someone else’s shoes for size. Penny Blood has been published through Carnage House, Limit Experience Journal, and Nat1 Publishing.

Brady Sanders is an LA-based author and screenwriter. He has written four books, including the thriller 24 Days and the space opera Zervana. For more information on his work, follow him on Instagram at @authorbradysanders or on TikTok @bradyandsarah.

Gene Gallistel writes horror and speculative fiction. He and his wonderful wife live in Milwaukee with their six cats.

His short fiction has appeared on The NoSleep Podcast (2023, 2025), the Creepy Podcast (2026), the Stygian Lepus Magazine (2026), and in the anthologies The Devil You Know Best (2024) and Consumed (2025).