Category: Anthology

Aquilone, James

Awards:

Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary (Moonstone Books), Graphic Novel, 2022

Nominations:

Shakespeare Unleashed (Crystal Lake Publishing, Monstrous Books), Anthology, 2023

BIO: James Aquilone is a Bram Stoker and Rondo Hatton nominated editor, author, and publisher. His anthologies include Classic Monsters Unleashed, Shakespeare Unleashed, and the Kolchak: The Night Stalker – 50th Anniversary graphic novel. He writes the Dead Jack, Zombie Detective series. His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales magazine, Nature: Futures, and The Best of Galaxy’s Edge.

He’s also the managing editor of Weird Tales and the owner of Monstrous Books. Visit MonstrousBooks.com

Hartmann, Sadie

Awards:

101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered (Page Street Publishing), Non-fiction, 2023

Nominations:

Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology (Dark Matter Ink), Anthology, 2022

BIO: Sadie Hartmann aka Mother Horror is the co-owner of the monthly horror fiction subscription company, Night Worms and the Bram Stoker Awards® nominated co-editor of Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology. She is the author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered from Page Street Publishing.

She lives in the PNW with her husband of 20+ years where they stare at Mt Rainier, eat street tacos, and hang out with their 3 kids. They have a Frenchie named Owen.

Ryan, Lindy

Nominations:

Bless Your Heart (Minotaur Books), First Novel, 2024

Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror (A Women in Horror Anthology) (Black Spot Books), Anthology, 2024

Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga (Black Spot Books), Anthology, 2022

BIO: LINDY MILLER RYAN is a Bram Stoker Awards®-nominated and award-winning editor, author, director, and professor. Prior to her career in academia, Ryan was the co-founder of Radiant Advisors, a business intelligence research and advisory firm, where she led the company’s research and data enablement practice for clients that included 21st Century Fox Films, Warner Bros., and Disney. Ryan is currently a full-time professor at Rutgers University in the Masters of Professional Science program, She is also guest faculty in Western State Connecticut’s MFA program.

In 2017, Ryan founded Black Spot Books, an award-winning independent small press, specializing in horror and dark fantasy, where she maintains her role as President after the company was acquired in 2019 as an imprint of Vesuvian Media Group. Ryan served from 2020 to 2022 on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association and was named one of Publishers Weekly‘s 2020 Star Watch Honorees. Currently, she is the co-chair of the Horror Writers Association Publishers Council. Ryan is a regular contributor at Rue Morgue, the world’s leading horror culture and entertainment brand, Booktrib, and LitReactor. Her guest articles and features include NPR, BBC Culture, Irish Times, Daily Mail, and more. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the International Thriller Writers (ITW), and the Brothers Grimm Society of North America. In 2022, she was named one of horror’s most masterful anthology curators, alongside Ellen Datlow and Christopher Golden, and has been declared a “champion for women’s voices in horror” by Shelf Awareness (2023).

Ryan grew up cutting her teeth on Goosebumps and universal monsters. She has published numerous academic texts and also writes clean, seasonal romance under the name ​Lindy Miller, where her books have been adapted for screen. Her horror-thriller debut is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books.

​Lindy is represented by Italia Gandolfo at Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management.

Nogle, Christi

Awards:

Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media), First Novel, 2022

Nominations:

The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future (Flame Tree Press), Fiction, Collection, 2023

Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds), Anthology, 2022

BIO: Christi Nogle is the author of the Bram Stoker Award® nominated novel Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media, 2022) and co-editor with Willow Dawn Becker of the Bram Stoker Award® nominated anthology Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds, 2022). Christi’s debut short story collection The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future is out now from Flame Tree Press. Her collections Promise and One Eye Opened in That Other Place are coming from Flame Tree Press in 2023 and 2024. Her short stories have appeared in many publications, including PseudoPod, Vastarien, Mooncalves, and Horror Library. Follow her at http://christinogle.com and on Twitter @christinogle