Ω Editorial Associate Elliot Ansell

Elliot Ansell

Elliot Ansell is originally from England, has lived in Argentina, Spain, and Mexico, and now lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico where he is yet to see a flying saucer. He writes speculative fiction and poetry under the name Elliot Pearson. You can find him on Instagram.

Ω Editorial Associate Janet Wright

Janet Wright

Janet Wright lives in the wilds of North Yorkshire, UK, where foxes shriek and owls hoot at the bottom of her garden.

An avid reader since childhood, she loves nothing better than to curl up on the sofa and lose herself within the tactile pages of a physical book. She’s open to any genre, though her favorites are historical crime, time travel, and Gothic horror.

She writes short stories and micro fiction under the pseudonym Rosetta Yorke.

Ω Editor Kara Hawkers

Kara Hawkers

Kara Hawkers is a poet and author of short, dark fiction.

As Editor-in-Chief, Kara devotes most of her time to operating The Ravens Quoth Press, along with her partner.

If left unsupervised, you’ll find her dabbling in other arts.

Just three ravens in a trench coat.

Ω Editor Jodi Christensen

Jodi Christensen

Small town Utah is where Jodi calls home. She spends her days in a turn-of-the-century farmhouse, reading, writing, editing, and mentoring other writers. Her daily companions consist of her rambunctious and adorable six-year-old grandson and two rowdy dogs, all of whom bring her great joy.

Jodi has had a love of books for as long as she can remember. As a child, she filled her backpack weekly at the library, devouring story after story and returning the books early to trade for a new stack. She wrote her first adventure at the age of nine, a fanfic Boxcar Children story, and since then, has let her imagination be her guide.

As an author, Jodi writes time travel romance and dark speculative fiction. As an editor, she works on anything and everything that finds its way across her desk. Some of her favorite stories to read, write, and edit include; post-apocalyptic fiction, dystopian stories, and end-of-the-world adventures. She also enjoys dark romance, time travel romance, historicals, and horror stories, particularly the psychological kind. Above all else, she’s a sucker for a great character.

Ω Editor Dean Shawker

Dean Shawker

Dean Shawker hails from Bracknell, UK, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Dean is co-founder and editor of Black Hare Press.

Having found that his BSc in Bioengineering and BA in Digital Media were as useful in real life as calculus and geometric proofs, Dean now works in commercial non-fiction during the day and moonlights as a minion of the hell hare, Captain Woundwort, in the dark hours.

He writes speculative fiction and dark poetry under the pseudonym Avery Hunter, and edits under the name D. Kershaw.

You’ll usually find him hanging out with the rest of the BHP family in the BHP Facebook group, or here as a servant to the Stygian Lepus.

2025-Issue 26

Blood Ties by Malina Douglas

The ache of absence drove her to it, even as Odette dreaded what lay ahead. The doors rattled open. She found herself in a hallway, shadow-thick. Distorted faces leered and...

Bullshit, Inc. by Jeremy Stelzner

Look, we all get tired of actors repeating the same folksy anecdote on late-night talk shows, NPR interviews, and whatever the new hip podcast of the hour might be. It...

Dear Raven by Nick Romeo

Maybe you’re an angel who hit a low branch or ignored the direction back to your realm, causing your wings to fall off. Since that time, you have been painting...

Department of Murderous Vixens by Don Money

“Number thirty-one.” The monotone call from the woman in horned-rimmed glasses echoes across the stark lobby of the Department of Motor Vehicles. I look down at the number thirty-nine ticket...

Get In! by Steve Calvert

“Get in!” she said. “No,” replied the boy, “I’m not supposed to accept lifts from strangers.” “But it’s raining,” the woman in the car said. “You’ll catch your death.” The...

How Beautiful Things Disappear by Euan Lim – Part One

“Are you finished?” “No. Be patient,” Alexandru scolds. He shifts, lifting Vasile’s arm out of the way and adjusting his grip on the ballpoint pen. They sit next to the...

Howl by Albert N. Katz

I saw, if not the best, the most curious minds of my generation hungry, naked, and mad, looking for that fix when the moon was high and round and yellow...

In Sections: A Contrapuntal by Dee Allen

Based on the short story A Lady’s Hands Are Cold, written and illustrated by Emily Carroll “It began with a Spring wedding.” From the first night at her new groom’s...

Memories Saved by Allen Cash

I never thought I would want to kill my wife. Yes, the thought had crept into my mind previously, but it was only a fleeting thought. That’s when there was...

Not All Who Wander by Damir Salkovic

We were not allowed to ride our bikes all the way out to the park. Not so close to dark, and not just the three of us by ourselves. We...

One More Drink by Meta Paige Taylor

One more drink. Two more cigarettes. My hands are sticky, at that place we went. Some regrets. A few angry gods, devious wretch. I’m still floating in the same shit-swamp...

Sin Eater – Part Three by Paul W. La Bella

The sun was down, and the Hall had cooled to a more bearable temperature. The single bulb above the stage looked like the last star in a dying universe. It...

The Animals of Inkwhich Inn by Steven McClain

1. A lodger in Tolland County’s Inkwhich Inn, a storied boarding house in Inkwhich Wood, I, that Halloween, in chair at parlor chimney seated, was at supper joined by Samuel...

The Hinge That Shouldn’t Have Moved by Fendy S. Tulodo

At 3:12 a.m., the cabin door creaked—but the wind had died an hour ago. Harvey didn’t breathe. Didn’t blink. The fire had smothered itself into coal-colored silence, but something—something—moved. Not...

The Hungriest Tuesday by Lawrence Dagstine

It was a starving town. In the Norman Rockwell-like setting of Canaan Hollow, being “hungry” had an unsettling connotation. The residents’ grinning faces and cheery nature showed all the traits...

Ω Editor Dean Shawker

Dean Shawker Dean Shawker hails from Bracknell, UK, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia. Dean is co-founder and editor of Black Hare Press. Having found that his BSc in Bioengineering...

Ω Editor Jodi Christensen

Jodi Christensen Small town Utah is where Jodi calls home. She spends her days in a turn-of-the-century farmhouse, reading, writing, editing, and mentoring other writers. Her daily companions consist of...

Ω Editor Kara Hawkers

Kara Hawkers Kara Hawkers is a poet and author of short, dark fiction. As Editor-in-Chief, Kara devotes most of her time to operating The Ravens Quoth Press, along with her...

Ω Editorial Associate Elliot Ansell

Elliot Ansell Elliot Ansell is originally from England, has lived in Argentina, Spain, and Mexico, and now lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico where he is yet to see a...

Ω Editorial Associate Janet Wright

Janet Wright Janet Wright lives in the wilds of North Yorkshire, UK, where foxes shriek and owls hoot at the bottom of her garden. An avid reader since childhood, she...

Ω Editor Kara Hawkers

Kara Hawkers

Kara Hawkers is a poet and author of short, dark fiction.

As Editor-in-Chief, Kara devotes most of her time to operating The Ravens Quoth Press, along with her partner.

If left unsupervised, you’ll find her dabbling in other arts.

Just three ravens in a trench coat.