Unhallowed Gifts

LAURA PURCELL is the author of The Silent Companions. She worked in local government, the financial industry and a bookshop before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Colchester, the oldest recorded town in England, with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Fascinated by the darker side of royal history, Laura has also written two historical fiction novels about the Hanoverian dynasty.

Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer based in London. He has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards and the British Fantasy Awards (six times), with Writing the Uncanny (co-edited with Richard V. Hirst) winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Nonfiction 2022. His anthology Being Dad won a Saboteur Award in 2016. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including Shakespeare Unleashed, Beyond the Veil, Fiends in the Furrows III, and Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana. He runs a proofreading and editing service, working with both publishers and private clients.

Eric LaRocca is the Bram Stoker Award®–nominated author of several works of horror and dark fiction, including the viral sensation, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. A lover of luxury fashion and an admirer of European musical theatre, he can often be found roaming the streets of his home city, Boston, for inspiration. For more information, visit EricLaRocca.com.

Daisy Johnson is the author of the short-story collection Fen and the acclaimed novel Everything Under. She is the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

John Langan is the author of two novels, The Fisherman and House of Windows, and two collections of stories, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies and Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters. With Paul Tremblay, he coedited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters. He’s one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, for which he served as a juror during its first three years. Currently, he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine.

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the author of Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. He is a member of the board of directors of the Shirley Jackson Awards, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies.

Robert Shearman is a British television, radio, stage play, and short story writer. He is best known for his work on the popular Doctor Who series, for which he has written several audio dramas.

Charlie Higson is an acclaimed novelist, TV producer, and actor. He started writing for television after university and went on to create and star in the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show. His novels include the million-selling Young Bond series and the incredibly successful horror series, the Enemy. Charlie lives in London. He doesn’t do Facebook, but you can tweet him @monstroso.

Liam Gerrard is an award-winning voice artist with over fifteen years of experience working in every field of the voice industry, as well as a highly acclaimed stage and screen actor. A 2017 Audie Award nominee, he has narrated numerous audiobooks in a wide range of genres and styles.

Mark Sanderlin is a talented voiceover artist who has worked on numerous audiobook projects.

Christopher Tester is an award-winning actor and voice-over artist with a home studio based in London, UK. After three years of classical training at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Christopher accidentally became an influencer in his forties, with over 750,000 social media followers. Christopher is comfortable self-directing or working with a director. He has been nominated for thirty awards, winning Best Male at the 2024 VOX Awards. His biggest passions are literary fiction, science fiction, and romantasy, but he also records fantasy, historical fiction, and business titles. He has performed in a range of audio dramas, including the BAFTA-nominated Unsinkable for B7 Media, and has narrated various titles for Graphic Audio. He records dark romance under his pseudonym Grant Armstrong. His love of storytelling stems from theater, where he first experienced the value of an artist expressing feelings that he couldn't articulate himself. He has dedicated himself to that craft ever since.

Charlie Albers is a British-born voice actor, now based outside of NYC, where she voices for clients globally from her professionally built, beautiful home studio. Her previous acting training and experience, knowledge of the corporate world, and education/training in food science and psychology all come into play in her work now, where she can take any manuscript and work through it with ease. Charlie has an intense love for reading; as a mom of three, reading to her children is the biggest joy. She has a rule that they can (and do) buy any book, in audio or print, anytime. There is never a "no" when it comes to reading or listening to books. Their library of print and audiobooks is ever increasing.

Joe Hempel, best known for his rich narrations, has entertained listeners with over one hundred audiobooks in genres ranging from horror and mystery to science fiction, romance, and personal development.

Kate Walsh is a British narrator with a rich velvet voice and an excellent ear for accents. She has been a professional voice artist for over thirty years, having started her performing life as a lead singer and session vocalist, gigging in and around London. She then moved into stage acting after taking acting classes at the prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed Off West End in many plays, including Shakespeare, Pinter, and Shaw. Her natural accent is warm northern, though she most often narrates in standard British (RP). Genres that Kate enjoys working in include psychological thrillers, crime, cozy crime and mystery, romance, and sci-fi. In addition to audiobook narration, Kate is a live announcer for the BBC and also voices many video game characters. This, alongside her honors degree in psychology, enables Kate to create authentic, relatable characters in every audiobook she takes on. Kate now lives in London with her wife and two cats. Hobbies include cycling, running, and hiking. She is a keen baker, DIY tinkerer, camper, and avid reader. Past jobs include welder, cleaner, telesales, tutor, dog walker, and bar maid.