The Unnerving Podcast Creators & Guests

Sonora Taylor is a writer and editor of horror fiction and speculative fiction.Taylor's stories have appeared in Quoth the Raven, Frozen Wavelets, and The Sirens Call, and have been collected in anthologies. Her first book, "Without Condition," was published in 2019.

Alison J. Littlewood is a horror fiction writer, occasionally under the name A. J. Elwood.

Kathe Koja is an author. She became known for her intense speculative fiction for adults, and has since written young adult novels and historical fiction. Her work often focuses on characters who have been marginalized by society, often focusing on the transcendence and/or disintegration which proceeds from this social isolation.Koja's short stories, including some she wrote in collaboration with Barry N. Malzberg, have appeared in many publications. She won the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award for her first novel, "The Cipher," and a Deathrealm Award for "Strange Angels."Koja began writing when very young, but only became serious about it after attending the Clarion Workshop.

Gwendolyn Kiste is an author of horror and speculative fiction.Kiste began her career as an independent film maker. Before becoming a full-time writer, she wrote theatre reviews for the Pittsburgh City Paper. She also wrote plays for the Massillon Museum.Kiste's work has appeared in Interzone, Nightmare, LampLight, Shimmer, and Daily Science Fiction. Her first novel, "The Rust Maidens," was published in 2018.

Lee Murray is an author and editor of science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror fiction. She is most noted for her Taine McKenna military thrillers, and supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra.Before becoming a full-time writer, Murray was a scientist. She co-founded Young New Zealand Writers, an organization which provides development and publishing opportunities for children.

Karen Runge is an author, editor, and occasional visual artist.

Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion.Vincent's short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Borderlands 5, Ice Cold, and The Blue Religion. His story "The Bank Job" won the Al Blanchard Award. His non-fiction has appeared in The Poetry Foundation, Fangoria, Rue Morgue, Screem, Pensacola Magazine and Texas Gardener. He has been a contributing editor at Cemetery Dance magazine since 2001. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.Vincent received his Ph.D. in X-ray Crystallography from Dalhousie University.

Laird Samuel Barron is an author and poet, mostly of horror, noir, and dark fantasy fiction.In Alaska, Barron raced the Iditarod three times in the 1990s and worked as a fisherman on the Bering Sea. He began writing professionally in 1994. He was the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review.He has stated his affection for pulp fiction, westerns, and noir, and his work typically combines one or more of these elements with a horrific or weird supernatural intrusion. Barron has referred to the Bible and the Necronomicon as "the greatest horror stories ever told."[6]Barron's fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, SCI FICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Lovecraft Unbound, Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as in numerous year's best anthologies.Barron received the 2007 and 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards for his collections "The Imago Sequence and Other Stories" and "Occultation and Other Stories." His first novel, "The Light is the Darkness," was published in 2011.

Stephen Graham Jones is an author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction.

John C. Foster is a horror fiction author.Foster's stories have appeared in Shock Totem, Dark Moon Digest, Strange Aeons, and Unnerving Magazine, as well as in anthologies. His first novel, "Dead Men," was published in 2015.

Ray Cluley is an author of horror and fantasy fiction.Cluley's work has appeared in publications and has been collected in "best of" anthologies, including Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year series, Steve Berman’s Wilde Stories: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, and Benoît Domis’s Ténèbres. He won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story for "Shark! Shark!" His first book, the collection "Probably Monsters," was published in 2022.

Kaaron Warren is an author of horror fiction, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.Warren's work has appeared in Aurealis, Orb, Fantasy Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Grimdark, and other publications. Her first novel, "Slights," was published in 2009. Her short stories have won Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards and Aurealis Awards.

Tim Lebbon is an author of horror and dark fantasy fiction.Lebbon's first novel, "Mesmer," was published in 1997. Since he has published over forty novels. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the 2001 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction. He has also won the British Fantasy Award and the Scribe Award.

Cat Rambo is a writer and editor, largely of science fiction and fantasy. She was co-editor of Fantasy Magazine from 2007 to 2011.Rambo's stories have appeared in Asimov's, Clarkesworld Magazine and Tor.com. In 2012, her story "Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain" was a Nebula Award finalist. Her first novel, "Beasts of Tabat," was published in 2015. She also writes articles about gaming, and has done technical writing for Microsoft and Security Dynamics.Rambo served two two-year terms as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America form following one year as Vice President.Rambo graduated from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.

Joe Richard Lansdale is a writer and martial arts instructor. He is the writer in residence at Stephen F. Austin State University. He also teaches at his studio, Lansdale's Self Defense Systems.Lansdale's first novel, "Act of Love," was published in 1981. Since then, he has published over 40 novels and over 30 collections, plus comic books and screenplays. He works in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. Several of his novels have been adapted for film and television. In addition to his real name, he has published under the names Ray Slater, Brad Simmons, and Jack Buchanan.Lansdale has received the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and eleven Bram Stoker Awards.