Pauline Chow explores alternative histories and disgruntled people in her writing. She is a mom, writer, data scientist, and former legal aid attorney. She lives in the woods in New York with her partner, daughter, and rescue pup. Snow days are her favorite. Find her stories on www.paulinechowstories.com including one forthcoming in Cosmic Horror Monthly.
Katherine Kerestman is the author of Lethal (PsychoToxin Press, 2023) and Creepy Cat's Macabre Travels: Prowling around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards (WordCrafts Press, 2020), as well as the co-editor (with S. T. Joshi) of The Weird Cat, an anthology of weird cat stories (WordCrafts Press, October 2023). Her Lovecraftian and gothic works have been featured in numerous publications. Katherine is wild about Dark Shadows and Twin Peaks.
Anthony returns to H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival after winning Best Short in 2016 with "When Susurrus Stirs." Since then he's directed shorts "The Bloody Ballad of Squirt Reynolds" and "Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes."
Marco Falcucci is a film student at Penn State University, double majoring in Film Production and Computer Science, because he never really wanted a life during college anyway. He likes making films because it engages him creatively and it's easier than drawing.
Cameron Beyl is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has featured in numerous film festivals, museums and online media outlets like Sight & Sound, Vice Creators Project, Indiewire, and the Oscars' A-Frame magazine. His ongoing video essay project, THE DIRECTORS SERIES, has also established him as a prominent voice in the world of online film scholarship. In 2019, he established FilmFrontier Studios, an independent production company dedicated to the discovery of new horizons in cinematic storytelling. THE VEIL is Beyl’s third feature film.
Kyle is a Los Angeles-based producer, writer, and actor with almost two decades of experience in the business. An Emerson College graduate, he is one half of the creative team behind FilmFrontier Studios, whose recent debut feature production - the dramatic sci-fi/thriller THE VEIL - screened at Fox Studios before its 2023 festival run. The team has several projects in development, including features, narrative podcasts, and other media.
Carson Winter is an award-winning author, punker, and raw nerve. His fiction has been featured in Apex, Vastarien, and Tales to Terrify. “The Guts of Myth” was published in volume one of Dread Stone Press’ Split Scream series. His novella, Soft Targets, is out now from Tenebrous Press. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Simone Cooper grew up on a diet of Creature Features and Speed Racer cartoons. She's an avid gamer, and was a major writer on the 2005 Ennie Award winning A Game of Thrones RPG. She has organized more than 30 game conventions under the umbrella "AmberCon." She also loves cooking.
By day, Remy Nakamura works in the funeral industry. At night, he writes weird fiction. His stories can be found in Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and a number of Lovecraftian-themed anthologies. He graduated from Clarion West, served on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association's Board, and is working on a Masters in Genre Writing. Remy resides in Portland, where he spends as much time as possible getting cold, wet, and muddy.
Carrie Dalby, a California native, has lived in Mobile, Alabama, since 1996. The summer of 2023 marked the release of her fifteenth book. She’s published several non-fiction articles in national and international magazines, served two terms as president of Mobile Writers Guild, worked as the Mobile area Local Liaison for SCBWI from 2012-2017, and helps coordinate the Mobile Literary Festival. When Carrie is not reading, writing, browsing bookstores/libraries, or homeschooling, she can often be found knitting or attending concerts.