Dr. Jerry C. Drake is a career civil servant, former professor of history, all-around amateur detective, and sometimes writer and poet, with a wide-ranging educational background to include degrees in anthropology, United States history, and adult education. This is his first foray into writing true crime after being drawn into the mysterious death…

https://sarahlangan.comSarah grew up on Long Island, got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, her MS in environmental toxicology from NYU, and currently lives in Los Angeles with her family, two rabbits, and three chickens.Her next novel TRAD WIFE is due out from S&S and Tor UK in Summer, 2026.Her most recent works include A BETTER…

https://www.catherinescully.comCat Scully is a queer author-illustrator, passionate about writing horror and dark fantasy for all ages. She is the author of the upcoming horror novel BELOW THE GRAND HOTEL (2025) and she is the author-illustrator of young adult horror series JENNIFER STRANGE (2020), which author Paul Tremblay called "a promising deb…

mber Garza has had a passion for the written word since she was a child making books out of notebook paper and staples. Her hobbies include reading and singing. Coffee and wine are her drinks of choice (not necessarily in that order). She writes while blaring music, and talks about her characters like they're real people. She lives with her husband…

Fantasy author Sarah Brooks is a writer living in Leeds. She won the Lucy Cavendish Prize in 2019 and a Northern Debut Award from New Writing North in 2021. She works in East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds, where she helps run the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing. She is co-editor of Samovar, a bilingual online magazine for translated…

Craig DiLouie is an acclaimed American-Canadian author of horror and other speculative fiction. Formerly a magazine editor and advertising executive, he also works as a journalist and educator covering the North American lighting industry. Craig is a member of the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association, International Thriller Writers and Horror Wr…

https://nancybilyeau.comBorn in Chicago and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Nancy moved to New York City to work in the magazine business as a writer and editor. After working for publications ranging from Rolling Stone to Good Housekeeping, she turned to fiction. She wrote the Joanna Stafford trilogy, a trio of thrillers set in Henry VII…

https://www.vinceliaguno.com Vince Liaguno is an award-winning writer, anthologist and editor, and an occasional poet. Vince won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award for UNSPEAKABLE HORROR: FROM THE SHADOWS OF THE CLOSET (Dark Scribe Press 2008), an anthology of queer horror fiction, which he co-edited with Chad Helder. His debut novel, 2006’s THE LIT…

Chella Courington was born and raised in Southern Appalachia in a storytelling family who taught her how to value the word. Courington’s creative publications include one novella, fifteen chapbooks of poetry and fiction, innumerable poems and stories in journals and anthologies, and her debut novel, Janet Hall. With teaching as her livelihood, she …

Join the Vox Vomitus "vixens" (who will not be dressed as reindeer) for the annual Vox Vomitus Eggnog Extravaganza as we toast to the end of 2024! We'll be chatting about the books we binged, authors we added to our auto-buy lists and have visions not of sugarplums, but guests we hope to snag in the new year. VOX VOMITUS: Sometimes, it's not what g…

Author DAVID R. SLAYTON returns to Vox Vomitus with his newest fantasy, ROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, the first installment in the LIBERTY HOUSE series, which draws from his earlier amazing Adam Binder Series. “David R. Slayton is a master of tightly plotted, can’t-stop-reading fantasy.”— “Barbara Ann Wright, award-winning, Lambda-nominated author”“Davi…

https://www.raewilde.comRae Wilde (she/her) is a queer woman and author of dark fiction. Under the name Rae Knowles, she has published numerous works including The Stradivarius (May 2023) and Merciless Waters (November 2023). Her short fiction has been featured in Dark Matter Ink, Nightmare, Ghoulish Tales, Seize the Press, Taco Bell Quarterly, and…

https://www.nicolebokat.comNicole's first novel, Redeeming Eve, was published by The Permanent Press. It was nominated for both the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction. What Matters Most, her second novel, was published by The Penguin Group. Her third novel, The Happiness Thief, was published by She Writes…

Steve Van Samson is the author of is the author of the novels "The Unpleasant Mister Snif", "Mark of the Witchwyrm", "The Bone Eater King" and "Marrow Dust", the collections “Black Honey and Other Unsavory Things” and "Year of the Rattlesnake". His writing tends to be on the pulpy side—intermingling genres like horror, dystopian with dark fantasy a…

Heather Daughrity loves all things macabre, dark, autumnal, and horrific. She lives with her husband, author and publisher Joshua Loyd Fox, their extended circus of children and pets, and more books than any one house can hold. She splits her time between the East Coast and her native state of Oklahoma, where she spends her days writing, editing, g…

https://johnnycompton.com Johnny Compton is a Stoker Award nominated, San Antonio based author whose short stories have appeared Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast and several other publications. His fascination with frightening fiction started when he was introduced to the ghost story “The Golden Arm” as a child. The Spite House, hi…

https://www.tomdeady.comTom Deady's first novel, HAVEN, won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. He has since published several novels, novellas, collections, and his first YA horror novel. He has a Master's Degree in English and Creative Writing and is a member of both the Horror Writers Association and the New Eng…

https://www.elizabeth-holden.com​Elizabeth Holden (she/her) is a writer, a physics teacher, a travel company owner, an X-Files podcast host, and an avid roller derby player. She believes the ideal conditions in which to write a novel are in the dining car of a train traveling through the Alps, with a pot of tea beside you--though she does most of h…

https://carolgoodman.comCarol Goodman is the author of twenty-three novels, including The Widow’s House and The Night Visitor, which won the 2018 and 2020 Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family and teaches literature and writing at The New School and SUNY New P…

Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet.Pelayo writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore concepts of grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. She is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Children of Chicago…

Jennifer Anne Gordon and Allison Martine take a look back at their Vox Vomitus journey as they celebrate their show's three year anniversary.www.jenniferannegordon.comwww.afictionalhubbard.com#voxvomitus #voxvomituspodcast #authorswhopodcast #authors #authorlife #authorsoninstagram #authorsinterviewingauthors #livevideopodcast #livepodcast #booksta…

https://rowlandbooks.comCharacterized by Rue Morgue Magazine as “the fast-rising dark fiction talent who deftly wed[s] hardcore horror and true, affecting pathos,” Rebecca Rowland is a Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor (American Cannibal) of seven horror anthologies (plus a cocktail recipe book) and a Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author (White …

https://www.tonyamitchellauthor.comTonya Mitchell is the author of The Arsenic Eater’s Wife, an historical true crime Gothic mystery set in 1889 Liverpool. Her debut historical novel, A Feigned Madness, won the Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award and the Kops-Fetherling International Book Award for Best New Voice in Historical Fiction. She is a mem…

https://www.lindyryanwrites.comLindy Ryan is an award-winning author, anthologist, director, and professor. 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. She is the current author-in-residence at Rue Morgue, the world’s leadi…

https://www.margaretevansporter.com Because I was born into a family of readers and writers and scholars and travelers, there's no mystery about how or why I found my profession. From a very early age I invented characters and composed scenes and stories in my head. At about 10 years old I first saw my own words printed--in the grammar school newsl…

https://www.christophergolden.com Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of such novels as Road of Bones, Ararat, Snowblind, and Red Hands. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of the Outerverse comic book universe, including such series as Baltimore, Joe Golem: Occult Detective, and Lady Baltimore…

Sarah grew up on Long Island and got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and also received her Master’s in Environmental Health Science/Toxicology from New York University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughters, and rabbits.She’s received three Bram-Stoker awards for her fiction, and her work has often been included…

https://www.megancollins.comMegan Collins is the author of Thicker Than Water, The Family Plot, Behind the Red Door, and The Winter Sister (Atria/Simon & Schuster). She received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and she holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University, where she was a …

https://kimberlygarrettbrown.com/KIMBERLY GARRETT BROWN is Publisher and Executive Editor of Minerva Rising Press. Her work has appeared in Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A Collection of Essays, Poems and Personal Narratives, The Feminine Collective, Compass Literary Magazine, Today’s Chicago Woman, Chicago Tribune, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He…

https://www.hironennes.comHiron is a writer, musician and mad doctor based on the West Coast. Their areas of interest include forensics, infectious disease, and petting your dog. #HironEnnes #LeechVOX VOMITUS: Sometimes, it's not what goes right in the writing process, it's what goes horribly wrong. Host Jennifer Anne Gordon, award-winning gothic h…

https://www.aminaakhtar.workAmina Akhtar is a novelist and former fashion editor. Her satirical first novel, #FashionVictim, drew critical acclaim. Kismet, her second book, was set in the stunning and creepy world of wellness. Akhtar has worked at Vogue, Elle, the New York Times, and New York Magazine, where she was the founding editor of the women…

Lyn Liao Butler was born in Taiwan and moved to the States when she was seven. Before becoming an author, she was a professional ballet and modern dancer, and is still a personal trainer, fitness instructor, and yoga instructor. She is an avid animal lover and fosters dogs as well as volunteers with rescues.When she is not torturing clients or talk…

Frances White, author of VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED1000 years of peace. A 12 day voyage.12 heirs on board all blessed with powers.But where there is magic there is murder.And one unlikely hero has to stop it all.'VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED is a fiendishly compelling locked room mystery brimming with character and heart that blew me away! White’s protagonist Ga…

Author of novels Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and miss corpus, story collections nothing untoward, commencement and rest area, as well as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins. His new novel, What Kind of Mother, arrives on September 12, 2023.Upcoming projects include Quiet Pa…

TARA LASKOWSKI is the author of the suspense novels The Mother Next Door, which was called a “polished and entertaining read” by The New York Times Book Review, and One Night Gone, which won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award and was a finalist for the Lefty, the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark, the Strand Critics, and th…

It's the most wonderful time of the year...when Vox Vomitus pours the eggnog and spills the tea! Join us LIVE! https://www.jenniferannegordon.com/ https://afictionalhubbard.com/ #voxvomitusliterarypodcast #livepodcast #authorsinterviewingauthors #authorssupportingauthors #authorswhopodcast #literarypodcast #voxvomitus #voxvomituspodcast #voxvomitus…

Author of the internationally bestselling THE MIDWIFE OF VENICE. Writers of a certain vintage always seem to boast of the variety of interesting jobs they held before settling down to write. Jobs like fire breather on the Reforma in Mexico City, or turkey plucker. I have not done anything so exotic. Moving from present to past, I have been: a divor…

YOU'RE GONNA DIE ALONE (& other excellent news) Storyteller and social media fast-talker, Devrie Donalson is best known for her witty, relatable, authentic storytelling that is equal parts heart and humor.On the eve of her 30th birthday, Donalson quit her job as a florist and flew to Scotland without much of a plan but the intention to build a life…

https://www.christophergolden.comChristopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of such novels as Road of Bones, Ararat, Snowblind, and Red Hands. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of the Outerverse comic book universe, including such series as Baltimore, Joe Golem: Occult Detective, and Lady Baltimore.…

https://davidrslayton.comDavid R. Slayton grew up in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where finding fantasy novels was pretty challenging and finding fantasy novels with diverse characters was downright impossible. Now he lives in Denver, Colorado and writes the books he always wanted to read.David’s debut, White Trash Warlock, was published in October 2020 by B…

What happens when a man who writes fantasy and a woman who writes horror fall in love?Joshua and Heather Daughrity, that’s what happens.Heather is the author of the ghostly novella, Knock Knock, and the unsettling collection, Tales My Grandmother Told Me, as well as having several short stories in various horror anthologies.Joshua is the author of …

https://www.davidscotthay.com He is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist; hailed by the Chicago Sun-Times as a new generation Albee-Mamet-Shepard. (“hailed” is a strong word, but it was a very nice review of one of my plays).DSH’s screenplay adaptation of his play HARD SCRAMBLED* won Creative Screenwriting Magazine’s New Visions …

https://www.thomasreedauthor.com/Thomas Reed was born in Oberlin, Ohio and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, where his father was a university professor. Tom taught literature, film, and writing at Dickinson College for thirty years. Pocketful of Poseys draws on his experience growing up in an academic family; his education at Yale, the Universi…

The precision of observation here speaks not only to the honesty of the writer, but to the respect granted in all phases of life; Jennifer Anne Gordon is on full display. Smart, full of character, vibrant. You will feel, you will feel big, and you will return, too, to the richest moments of your own history, landmarks that bring you to both smile a…

https://www.maycobb.com/May Cobb is the award-winning author of The Hunting Wives, My Summer Darlings, and Big Woods. Like her previous novels, her most recent thriller, A Likeable Woman, is set in the lush, eerie piney woods of East Texas where she's originally from. The Hunting Wives was a Book of The Month Club Selection, an Amazon Editor's Pick…

https://nishajtuli.comNisha J. Tuli is a Canadian romance author whose books feature kick-ass heroines, swoony love interests, and slow burns with plenty of heat. She loves to draw upon her Indian heritage to bring her stories to life, weaving together vibrant and compelling characters, settings, and plotlines. Her novel Trial of the Sun Queen—the …

Josh Malerman is a New York Times best selling author and one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung, whose song "The Luck You Got" can be heard as the theme song to the Showtime show "Shameless". His book Bird Box was made into a Netflix film of the same name, starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich. He has been nominated f…

Bracken MacLeod is the Bram Stoker, Splatterpunk, and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of the novels, is the author of the novels, MOUNTAIN HOME, STRANDED, COME TO DUST, and CLOSING COSTS (available in hardcover, paperback coming 9/20 from William Morrow).His short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including LampLight,…

https://www.paultremblay.netPaul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of Survivor Song, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, and the short story collection, Growing Things …

Vince Liaguno is an award-winning writer, anthologist and editor, and an occasional poet.Vince won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award for UNSPEAKABLE HORROR: FROM THE SHADOWS OF THE CLOSET (Dark Scribe Press 2008), an anthology of queer horror fiction, which he co-edited with Chad Helder. His debut novel, 2006’s THE LITERARY SIX, was a tribute to th…