Christi Nogle is the author of the novel Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media, 2022) and the forthcoming collections The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, Promise, and One Eye Opened in That Other Place (Flame Tree Press, 2023 and 2024). Her short stories have appeared in over fifty publications including PseudoPod, Escape Pod, and Dark Matter Magazine. Follow her at http://christinogle.com and on Twitter @christinogle

Praise for The Best of Our Past, The Worst of Our Future:

“Just as you think you have a handle on what a Christi Nogle story might be, you turn a page and are surprised anew. Enigmatic, surreal yet shockingly visceral, often rooted in a deceptively familiar domesticity turned nightmarish, these strange and unsettling tales unfold in lyrical prose that belies their savagery. The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future is a haunting and memorable debut.”

--Lynda E. Rucker, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of The Moon Will Look Strange and You'll Know When You Get There

"An astonishingly original collection of dark tales - mysterious, haunting, challenging and disturbing, written in crystalline prose as compressed as poetry. Read and then reread and be doubly rewarded!"

-- Ramsey Campbell, author of Fellstones

"Without a doubt, Christi Nogle is one of my favorite new voices in horror. Her fiction is by turns devastating, horrifying, and beyond beautiful. With her collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, she's created something truly remarkable, the kind of horror that's filled with grit and heart. Don't miss this book; it's sure to be one of the very best collections of 2023."

-- Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals

"Christi Nogle uses lush, inventive descriptions with surreal touches to create stories which both haunt and surprise. Her voice is distinctive, her characters richly and deeply portrayed. I was swept away."

-- Steve Rasnic Tem

"In this stunning collection, the familiar takes on strange and unsettling proportions. Christi Nogle’s stories are crisp, uncanny, haunting, and utterly captivating, with echoes of Shirley Jackson resonating through Nogle’s sharp and distinctive voice. Though I wanted to devour them, these are stories that deserve to be savored. The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future is truly weird fiction at its finest."

—Jo Kaplan, author of When the Night Bells Ring

"Christi Nogle takes readers on a dark yet wondrous journey through perils, horror, and thrills in this extraordinary debut collection. Behold the timelessness of these lives, these tales!"

-- Eric J. Guignard, award-winning author and editor, including That Which Grows Wild and Doorways to the Deadeye

"THE BEST OF OUR PAST, THE WORST OF OUR FUTURE brings to mind Big and Little Edie from Grey Gardens, but toss in some paranormal, tons of creepiness, and a Brian Evenson-esque descent through thick dread. Each story is gloriously laced with it."

-- Stephanie Nelson, author of The Vein

"Sophisticated, psychological horror that enfolds the reader in a shroud of fear. The Best of Our Past, The Worst of Our Future transported me into unfamiliar and terrifying worlds where the usual laws of nature don’t apply. Suspenseful, scary, addictive."

-- Catherine Cavendish, author of Dark Observation

Praise for Beulah:

“Nogle, like all writers with a rare knack coupled with incredible skill and imagination, makes everything she writes look easy and effortlessly ingenious. Even the Table of Contents of her latest novel, Beulah, reflects that sense of effortless ingenuity (The beginning chapter is called “When you talk to the dead”, followed by 12 month named titles, followed by the last chapter, “When you walk with the dead”). I’ve been lucky enough to publish Nogle’s short stories twice now, and I hope to publish her work many more times in the future. My initial reaction to reading this debut novel is simply this: how in the hell could this be anyone’s first novel? It’s so assured, so masterful, so in control at every level. This is not the typical mess of even the most talented writer’s first attempt at that tricky long form. This is the work of a top tier author in top form. Anyone writing a book blurb is tempted to summarize the plot and shower the book (and writer) with hyperbolic praise. I won’t do the former, and I promise you I’m not doing the latter. Nogle has all the goods, a singularly weird imagination, a tremendous sense of pacing and voice, and a mastery of clarity and control on the sentence level. Beulah will easily prove to be one of the best horror novels (never mind debut novels) of 2022. Read it. “

-Jon Padgett, author of The Secret of Ventriloquism

With a skilled and unflinching hand, Nogle guides us through layers of time and experience in Beulah. Through the eyes of reluctantly “gifted” Georgie, we see what is usually hidden—the heartbreaking and terrifying—every rich and textured detail leading to a truly satisfying payoff. I will never forget this walk with the dead.

— J.A.W. McCarthy, author of SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL AND OTHER STORIES

Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer based in London. His non-fiction anthology Writing The Uncanny (co-edited with Richard V. Hirst) won the British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction 2022, while his short story collection Only The Broken Remain (Black Shuck Books) was shortlisted for two British Fantasy Awards in 2021 (Best Collection, Best Newcomer). In 2018 his anthology of British folk-horror, This Dreaming Isle (Unsung Stories), was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award and a Shirley Jackson Award. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies, including Nox Pareidolia, Beyond the Veil, Mother: Tales of Love and Terror and Fiends in the Furrows III. His latest anthology - Isolation - was published by Titan Books in September 2022.

He runs a proofreading and editing service, working with both publishers and private clients.

You can find more of his writing at www.dancoxon.com, or on Twitter at @DanCoxonAuthor.

Selene dePackh is a multiply-disabled graphic designer, diagnosed as autistic late in life. She’s recently turned to writing to help navigate an increasingly treacherous social undertow bending toward eugenics. Kirkus says of her first novel and its narrator: “…a character of immense depth and originality. There are few protagonists in sci-fi—or literature in general—that present an autistic perspective with such specificity and pathos. The explorations of ableism and sexuality in a claustrophobic cyberpunk setting make this unlike anything most readers will have encountered before.”

She says of her writing, “It’s ironic that I’ve spent most of my life working in images. Words aren’t considered the tools of autistics; we are assumed to “think in pictures.” I bring a lifetime of crafting visual design to the challenge of creating narrative, and I do so driven by the urgency of my own waning days and the existential threats to the world I’ll be leaving.”

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LC von Hessen is a writer of horror, weird fiction, and various other strains of unpleasantness.

In addition to holding down a long and checkered string of day jobs, freelance gigs, and side hustles through the years, von Hessen is also the sole member of noise/industrial music project Madame Deficit, an interdisciplinary artist, and an occasional actor. They have previously been a docent at Morbid Anatomy Museum and lectured on medieval death culture at Catland Books.

An ex-Midwesterner, von Hessen lives in Brooklyn with a talkative orange cat named Monty.

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C.M. Muller lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with his wife and two sons—and, of course, all those quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore. He is related to the Norwegian writer Jonas Lie and draws much inspiration from that scrivener of old. His tales have appeared in Shadows & Tall Trees, Dim Shores, Vastarien, and a host of other venues. In addition to writing, he also edits and publishes the journal Nightscript. He is the author of two story collections, Hidden Folk (2018) and Secondary Roads (2022). More information can be found at: www.chthonicmatter.wordpress.com

Julia Rust is a writer and teaching artist living in the Hudson River valley in New York. Her stories can be found in 'Nightscript Vols. III and VI', 'Bull and Cross', 'Tiny Molecules', and 'The Cortland Review'. She's been a featured reader for “A Strange and Darksome Night” hosted by Night Time Logic in NYC as well as "A Strange and Uncanny Halloween." A collaborative short story with husband David Surface was published in the anthology 'Uncertainties Vol. III', which Ellen Datlow included on her “Recommended” list in Best Horror of the Year for 2019.

Amelia Gorman lived in Minneapolis for fifteen years before moving to Eureka, California in 2018. She loves the tide pools, redwood forests, and kinetic sculptures of her new home but misses lakes, looking at snow with a hot drink in her hand, public transit, and Eat Street. You can read more of her poetry in Liminality, Star*Line, Vastarien, and other places. She also writes weird fiction, including stories in She Walks in Shadows from Innsmouth Free Press and Nox Pareidolia from Nightscape Press.