The Outer Dark Podcast

Hey all! Melanie, here. Our The Call of The Weird event this weekend was a success, and we can't thank you all enough for getting Weird with us! The event was recorded will be put up on the podcast soon! Will alert you all when it is available.

Also that year, his Alphabestiary: 26 Poems and Drawings for Easily Alarmed Children and the Adults Who Like to Alarm Them, was published. Last September, his I Ain’t Resisting: the City of the Greensboro and the Killing of Marcus Smith, was published by Scuppernong Editions.

He lives in Greensboro, NC, where his reporting on the police homicide of Marcus Smith won first place in investigative journalism from the NC Press Association in 2020.

Ian McDowell’s work has appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Tales, The Year’s Best Horror, Love in Vein, and the Science Fiction Book Club's Best Short Novels.

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA]

GUEST SPOTLIGHT: @ianmcdowell.bsky.social

Of Cinder and Bone placed in the Top 30 Books in Hugh Howey's 2021 Self Published Science Fiction Contest. She is also a contributor to Marvel Comics' Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda (2021) anthology as well as the Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson (2024) anthology.

KYOKO M is a USA Today bestselling author of The Black Parade urban fantasy series and the Of Cinder and Bone science-fiction series. The Black Parade has been reviewed by Publishers Weekly and New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews.

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA]

GUEST SPOTLIGHT: KYOKO M

She is a recipient of the HWA’s Bram Stoker Award, The British Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Scribe Award. She currently resides in Macon, GA.

She is also the first woman to have written Swamp Thing for DC Comics, as well as the Vampirella character for Dynamite Entertainment.

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA]

GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Nancy A. Collins @nancyacollins.bsky.social is best known for the female punk vampire & vampire slayer Sonja Blue and as a founding pioneer of the Urban Fantasy genre.

@joannaroye.bsky.social

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA]

GUEST SPOTLIGHT: JOANNA ROY lives in the hills south of Blacksburg, Virginia with her husband, two children, her dog Weldon, and a slew of elderly cats. She loves opossums and bees.

Currently he’s editing material for a collection of civil rights–related sermons by the Reverend Doctor C. T. Vivian, that is in search of a publisher.

Hall’s novel, Dread Isle, was published in 2020. He worked in multiple capacities on the roleplaying game Blackbirds (Andrews McMeel Universal, 2022), which won Best Overall Presentation at the 2023 Ennies award ceremony.

Edward Austin Hall co-edited the 2013 anthology Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, acknowledged in a front-page NPR.org story, “Sci-Fi Has Changed A Lot In The Past Decade—These 7 Reads Will Show You How.”

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA]

GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Edward Austin Hall

Jessi Ann York "Tarantism" A TOAST TO EDGAR ALLAN POE Love Letters to Poe Check it out About Jessi Jessi Ann York's stories have been featured at several professional rate horror markets, including PseudoPod, Vastar...

Her creative work is represented by Elizabeth Copps, the founding agent of Copps Literary Services. Follow and connect with her at: jessiannyork.com

Jessi Ann York’s stories have been featured at several horror markets [PseudoPod, Vastarien, Cemetery Gates Media, Love Letters to Poe]. Her first two stories, “Phases of the Shadow” and “Women of the Mere,” were mentioned as standouts in the Summation section of The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13.

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA]

GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Jessi Ann York

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA]

GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Kortney Y. Watkins is an educator, writer, and poet residing in the Atlanta Metropolitan area. She lives for love and moonlight.

He's released stories, reviews, and articles into such colorful landscapes as The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, LA Review of Books, VICE, and Southwest Review.

The first book in that trilogy, A Crown for Cold Silver, was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award. He’s also edited two anthologies, one of which was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award.

Jesse Bullington is the author of The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, The Enterprise of Death, and The Folly of the World. Under the pen name Alex Marshall, he’s written The Crimson Empire, a genre-deconstructing stab at epic fantasy.

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA]

GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Jesse Bullington

D Street District Alliance Come explore "the coolest neighborhood you'll never find."

You can read some of his short fiction at dstreetisreal.com.

He’s also the coauthor, with Jesse Bullington, of stories in the anthologies Tales From OmniPark and Back 2 OmniPark. Brent has an MFA in creative writing from NC State University, and he’s the director of editorial services for University Communications and Marketing at NC State.

Brent Winter is a writer and editor in Carrboro, North Carolina. He’s the author of the novel Blood Family and the novella Sisterhood of the Elf-Shot, both of which are set in the strange downtown Atlanta neighborhood known as D Street.

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA]

GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Brent Winter

Violette L Meier Author | Sci-Fi Fantasy Paranormal Books Atlanta GA Violette L. Meier is the author of speculative fiction, paranormal, sci-fi, and fantasy novels, inspirational/spiritual books, poetry, and children's books. View her extensive art and check for availa...

She's the author of fourteen books and you can also find her work in various anthologies. To learn more about Violette and her eerie antics, visit her website VioletteMeier.com.