Alaheh Amini

Alaheh Amini is an Afghan-Canadian writer and English teacher living in Austria. She completed her studies in Global Literature and Political Science from the University of Toronto in Canada. When she is not trapped in the existential dread of what the future holds, she is pretending to read while looking for cats to pet. One day, Alaheh hopes to transcribe works of Afghan folklore, poetry and literature to share her country’s vibrant history with the rest of the world.

Twitter: @‌AlahehAmini

Alexa K Moon

Alexa K Moon is a Mountain Jewish horror writer and immigrant from Azerbaijan, whose work is often inspired by the legends and lore of her ancestry. Fascinated by the macabre, she’s that 90s kid who grew up hiding Stephen King books from her mother. She writes short stories while pursuing a BA in Creative Writing.

Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @‌alexakmoon
Bluesky: @‌alexakmoon.bsky.social
Website: https://www.alexakmoon.com/

Allison Filiatreault

Allison Filiatreault comes from the bustling city of Montreal, Quebec. She has held a love of writing fantasy, horror, and science fiction for many years, though largely for herself, and is a lifelong history buff. Recently, she has turned those interests towards the creation of a large historical, dark fantasy series that is set in 15th-century Venice. When Allison is not writing, she can be found cooking or baking new recipes under the supervision of her cats, reading her endless pile of books, or enjoying her ever-expanding pollinator garden.

Amy Boucher

Amy Boucher is a writer and folklorist, who focuses on her native Shropshire. Her emphasis is primarily on the interplay between folklore, history and the paranormal, and perceptions of the past through the lens of folk beliefs. She is a writer for Haunted magazine and Ghostmag, has recently written an audio drama about Shropshire’s satanic folklore, and shares Shropshire’s folklore via her blog.

Website: nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com

Andrew J White

Andrew J. White is a writer of fiction and poetry from the Black Hills of South Dakota. His work is typically on the mythological themes of death, time, faith, and fate seen through a modern existential lens.

Bluesky: @‌awhy.bsky.social

Anna Chorlton

Anna Chorlton writes in the Cornish wilds, and she is the author of Cornish Folk Tales of Place published by The History Press (2019). Her poetry was published in Atlanta Review (2020), Wild Court (2021), Indigo Dreams (2022), Ice Floe Press (2022), Ink Sweat and Tears (2022), Seaborne Magazine (2022), Skylight 47 (2022), and King River Press (2023). Anna also wrote the animation scripts for the Cornish folklore project Mazed.

Twitter: @‌anna_chorlton
Instagram: @chorltonanna
Facebook: @anna.chorlton
Website: https://annachorlton.com/

Cate Zeederberg

Cate Zeederberg is a digital/graphite artist and eclectic conjurer of random creations with a focus on portraiture, nature, and that which lurks within. She finds solace researching and exploring dark folklore, classic literature, haunting fairy tales, and long forgotten history.

Twitter: @‌hecazerin
Instagram/Threads: @‌athenas.grove
Bluesky: @‌cazerin.bsky.social
Website: https://cazerin.com

Dirk Puehl

Dirk Puehl is 12,489 years old, comes from a Land that Time forgot and actually has a degree in literature. He usually tells tall tales in his marketing day jobs, hates pizza margarita, and shares other peoples’ art on Instagram with depressing quotes from dead authors. Follow him there.

Twitter/Instagram: @‌darkartslore

Doremi

Doremi is a fawn living in the woods of Chicago. She makes cute goods for the soft hearted. Occasionally, she’ll leave the forest to bring them to you!

Twitter/Instagram: @‌dearestdoremi

Ellen Forkin

Ellen Forkin is a chronically ill writer living in windswept Orkney with a passion for folklore, myth and magic. She has work published in New Writing Scotland, Northwords Now, Crow & Cross Keys and the Alternative Stories & Fake Realities podcast.

Twitter/Instagram: @‌ellen_forkin
Website: https://ellenforkin.co.uk

Emma Heywood

Emma Heywood lives in Cornwall, UK, a place famous for countless myths, legends and folktales. Emma is fascinated by nature, and in particular how it has shaped folklore, myth and legend over the centuries. Her current research focuses on the place that animals, birds and plants have held historically within folklore and superstition. She illustrates her findings using both traditional and digital mediums.

Instagram/Threads: @‌paintandpestle

Fiona Vigo Marshall

Fiona Vigo Marshall’s work has been published in Aesthetica, Ambit, Fiction, Ink Sweat & Tears, OpenPen, Orbis, Phantom Drift, Prospect, Theology Journal and Vita Poetica. She is the author of Find Me Falling (2019) and The House of Marvellous Books (2022/3) published by Fairlight Books, Oxford.

Twitter: @‌FionaVigo
Image Credit: Fairlight Books

Garrett Bliss

Garrett Bliss lives in Rhode Island. His essay, ‘Accumulations’ on the Tahoma Literary Review (2020), was selected by Best American Essays Editor Robert Atwan as a Notable Essay of 2020. His fairytale ‘The Peddler’ appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of Gramarye, the journal of the University of Chichester’s Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction. ‘Beneath This Tree’, a folk horror story set in late 18th century New England, is included in the Poet’s Choice Revenge anthology. His fiction has also appeared in The Blue Lake Review and Typishly.

Twitter: @‌GBliss
Instagram: @‌gblissri

Georgia Bellas

Georgia Bellas is a writer/artist/filmmaker. She is passionate about puppets and plants. Her work appears in a number of journals, including Milk Candy Review, Ruby Lit, and Okay Donkey. She plays theremin in the hypnagogic band Sugar Whiskey and her teddy bear is host of the podcast Mr. Bear’s Violet Hour.

Twitter: @‌MrBearStumpy

Jessi Zabarsky

Jessi Zabarsky is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Chicago. She makes comics about small journeys and big feelings, with queer themes and folksy environments. Her first two graphic novels, Witchlight and Coming Back, were published by Random House Graphic, and she’s previously worked with Czap Books, Iron Circus Comics, and Shortbox. She has stopped counting her house plants, because there are now far too many.

Twitter: @‌jessizabarsky
Instagram: @‌hug_box

Julie Shiel

Julie Shiel lives in Maryland with a ginger feline fluffball and a dilute tortie that keeps him in line. She has a pair of crows named Zoltan and Zelda that visit her daily just to tease the cats. Her work appears in issues of Strange Horizons, Space & Time Magazine, Eye To The Telescope, Penumbric and others. When not writing she grows a moon garden and communes with her local murder.

Twitter: @‌forgottenbeauty
Instagram: @‌julieshiel

Kerria Seabrooke

Kerria Seabrooke is a writer and machinima animation pioneer who is inspired by folklore, ghosts, and mysteries. Her work can be seen in television and film, including CSI, What Not to Wear, and award-winning film Tiny Nation. Her writing and art have been published in REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters and The Kids World Almanac. She lives in a small haunted town in Virginia.

Twitter: @Kerria & @BookChatWeekly
Instagram: @kerriasea

Leah Brown

Leah Brown is a PhD student in Information Science at Western University in Canada. She has a Bachelor’s degree in anthropology where she developed an enduring interest in folklore and superstitions from around the world. She is currently working on a cyberfolklore-themed interactive fiction game called Hawthorn.

Twitter: @@‌shadowymaus
Mastodon: @‌leahdriel@fediscience.org

Lyndsey Croal

Lyndsey is a Scottish author of strange and speculative fiction, with work published in several magazines and anthologies. She’s a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee, British Fantasy Award Finalist, and former Hawthornden Fellow. Her debut novelette Have You Decided on Your Question was published by Shortwave Publishing and her Scottish folklore-inspired audio drama Daughter of Fire and Water was produced by the Alternative Stories & Fake Realities podcast.

Website: www.lyndseycroal.co.uk

Phil Brown

Phil is a graphic designer, photographer, and video producer living in Chicago, Illinois, and working in the architecture sector. As a lover of all things spooky, he enjoys learning about and visiting purportedly haunted places. When he’s not working, Phil can be found reading sci-fi and fantasy books in the company of his pets, or trying out a new recipe.

Instagram: @yung.magus
Website: https://pbdesign.me/

P.J. Richards

P. J. Richards is an artist and author living in Somerset. All her work is inspired by nature, folklore and mysticism. She has had several short stories published in anthologies and online literary magazines, and her mythic-fantasy novel Deeper Older Darker is published by independent press Snowbooks.

Twitter: @‌P_J_Richards

Rachel Deering

Rachel Deering’s first collection, Crown of Eggshells, was published by Cerasus Poetry in 2020. Rachel is one of the Directors of the wonderful writing website ABC Tales. She co-hosts Bookworm Saturday with Signe Maene on Twitter too. Rachel can be found on Twitter herself tweeting poetry, art, nature, myth and folklore.

Twitter: @‌DeeringRachel

Rebecca Freeman

Rebecca Freeman usually lives in Cornwall, England and makes art inspired by folklore, myth and nature. Her work reflects a fascination for storytelling as a tool to entertain, teach, record, comfort, deceive and enchant.

Instagram: @‌rebecca.freeman.art

Sam K Horton

Sam lives above the moor in Cornwall and works in a library by the sea. After training as a costume designer, then working as an artist, he turned to writing, finding to his frustration he liked it better than drawing. He was shortlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize, highly commended in the Hammond House Short Story Contest and has had fiction published in their anthology, Full House Literary and poetry in Modern Cornish Poetries from Broken Sleep Press. His debut novel, Gorse, comes out next autumn from Solaris.

Twitter: @‌Eythin_trust
Instagram/Threads: @‌granite_and_glitter
Bluesky: @‌samkhorton.bsky.social

Sarah Jayne Tanner

Sarah Jayne Tanner is an author from Herefordshire in the UK, and has lived in South West Wales. She started creating stories at a young age, and has been writing for as long as she can remember. She has had several short stories published, and her debut novel, Defiance, is available on Amazon Kindle. She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing, loves dogs, and enjoys walking, baking and knitting. She spends most of her waking moments either reading and writing, or thinking about reading and writing.

Twitter: @SarahTanner3

Sheer Zed

Sheer Zed is a writer, Buddhist Shaman, musician, and artist. He has published with and contributed to Indie Shaman, TQ zine, Zazen Sounds, Hadean Press, Rituals & Declarations, Hyperstitions Anthology and the Folklore Thursday website. He has released many albums of music, been featured on several compilations, appeared in many playlists, broadcasts and festivals, and worked as a performance artist and stand-up poet for over forty years. He contributed to the exhibition Do You Believe in Magic? at Bristol Museum.

Website: https://linktr.ee/SheerZed

Sophia Adamowicz

Sophia Adamowicz is a medievalist, tutor and writer. Her short stories and nonfiction articles have been published by Cunning Folk, Crow & Cross Keys and Horrified. She lives near Cambridge with her partner and their two cats, Prufrock and Milquetoast.

Twitter: @‌SophiaA_writes
Instagram: @‌sophia_adamowicz

Tânia A Cardoso

Tânia A. Cardoso is an illustrator, urbanist, and PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. She explores the poetics of everyday life and reportage art by connecting urban experience, place, and imagination. Her work was awarded the ‘Worldwide Picture Book Illustration Competition’, the ‘Gorsedh Kernow Creativity Award’, and was a finalist for the ‘Women Cartoonists International Award’.

Instagram: @taniaalexandracardoso
Website: taniaaefcardoso.wixsite.com

Willow Winsham

Willow Winsham is an author and historian specializing in witchcraft and folklore. She is the co-author of Treasury of Folklore: Seas and Rivers and Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests by Batsford Books. Her latest book is Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies. Willow is also co-founder of Folklore Thursday, the popular website that shares fascinating stories and traditions from around the world.

Twitter/Instagram: @‌willowwinsham
Website: willowwinsham.com