Chris Ryall boasts a prolific career in comics as writer, editor, publisher, and historian. Currently the co-founder of Image Comics, Syzygy Publishing, and Editor-at-Large at Abrams ComicArts, Ryall is also the former Chief Creative Officer at IDW Publishing. His co-creations include of Zombies vs Robots, Onyx, Groom Lake, The Hollows, and Dreamweaver. He was an executive producer on Netflix’s Locke & Key. His most recent releases include The Mighty Marvel Calendar Book, Origins of Marvel Comics: The Deluxe Edition, and Dread the Halls. Other 2025 releases include the graphic novel Megalopolis with co-writer Francis Ford Coppola and Son of Origins of Marvel Comics: The Deluxe Edition.

Aaron Barnett has a lengthy career writing and producing in the feature film and TV world. On the features side he has produced films for the likes of Blumhouse, Universal, Sony, Paramount, Netflix and Amazon with such titles as The Lie, In the Shadow of the Moon and The Silent Hour . 

In addition to his producing work, Aaron has a sizeable writing resumé, having 100+ episodes of TV animation to his credit. Some of these series include: Johnny Test , Top Wing  and Bakugan: Battle Brawlers .

Cat Voleur is a writer of dark fiction and co-host of The Nic F’n Woo Cage Cast. Her passions include movies, video games, and the study of fictional languages. When she’s not creating or consuming morbid content, you can find her relaxing at home with her small army of rescued felines.

Michael Gingold is a veteran horror journalist, filmmaker, and genre scholar whose influence spans five decades. His career began in his teenage years with the fanzine Scareaphanalia, and he went on to serve in key editorial roles—including editor-in-chief of Fangoria. He has written for the magazine from 1988, and has contributed to the website since 2000. He writes regularly for Rue Morgue in print and online and is managing editor of Delirium magazine, and has contributed to Birth.Movies.Death., Scream, Time Out New York, Inverse.com, and IndieWire.com. He’s also an accomplished author—his Ad Nauseam series, which collects vintage genre-movie ads, and The FrightFest Guide to Monster Movies are both celebrated contributions to horror scholarship, and his novelization of Nightmare was nominated for the Rondo Award. He has directed documentaries and other bonus features, written liner notes, and taken part in audio commentaries for numerous Blu-rays, including the award-winning doc Twisted Tale: The Unmaking of “Spookies” for Vinegar Syndrome.

Jeremiah Dylan Cook is a horror writer whose debut collection, A Mythos of Monsters of Madness, was released in September 2025. His short stories have been published by The NoSleep Podcast, Castle Bridge Media, Tales to Terrify, Ghost Orchid Press, Scary Dairy Press, Cabbit Crossing Publishing, Timber Ghost Press, The Lovecraft eZine, Hippocampus Press, Necronomicon Press, and Eye Contact. He won Purple Wall Stories February 2021 Writing Competition, and the Ligonier Valley Writers 2018 Flash Fiction Contest. While pursuing his bachelor’s degree at St. John’s University, Jeremiah received the Mario Mezzacappa Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry and Prose. He completed his Master of Fine Arts in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. Jeremiah is the Managing Editor of New Pulp Tales.

David Irons was the kid who went to his room to watch and read horror when his relatives came round. It paid off. When he left his room, he became an award-winning filmmaker and writer living on the south coast of England. His films, colourful and stylish in design, have won awards at the Cambridge Film festival, Las Vegas VIFF festival, and LA Independent Festival for cinematography, editing, writing, and directing. 7 Winters Alone – a sci-fi, horror short – was a winner in David Lynch’s 2014 Short Film Competition.

In 2019 David had his first novel, Night Waves, published, followed by Night Creepers, Polybius, and The Bloody Tracks of Bigfoot in 2020 – 2021 from Severed Press. Since then, David has become a Splatterpunk award-nominated writer for his ’80s summer camp slasher, Don’t Go To Wheelchair Camp.

The moral of this story is to be weird and stay in your room. It pays off in the end.

Brian G Berry is a writer that focuses mainly on 80s/90s horror and action. His books are as follows: The Pail, The Child Eater, Bloody Christmas, The Shack, Terror From the Sky, Night of the Mutants, Sleepover Massacre, Campfire Tales Beneath a Pallid Moon, Accursed Ground, Blood Lanes, The Night Mutilator, Thanksgiving Day Massacre, Snow Shark, Into the Pit, OGRE, Brian’s Birthday Bloodbath, Night Weaver, Death Commando, Jungle Rot, Abominable Snowman, Hooker Massacre in Trash City, Invader From the Sphere, The Mound, Rabid Madness, Snow Shark II: Terror in Space, Motorboat The Novelization. He has stories in several anthology collections and is currently writing his next book.

Nat Brehmer is the writer and co-director of the upcoming horror film Julie, starring Kane Hodder and J. LaRose. He is also the author of Puppet Master Complete: A Franchise History, a comprehensive exploration of the cult classic horror franchise and wrote for the series’ official video game, Puppet Master: The Game, as well. In addition to these, he is the author of the books Slices of Julie, Bully, Nightmaria, and more. As a film historian and journalist, he has contributed numerous Blu-ray commentaries and essays and has written for Bloody Disgusting, Dread Central, Wicked Horror, Fangoria, ReMIND Magazine and several others. He currently lives in Florida.