HALL OF RESIDENTS

Broomhilda Agony,
Our Humble Host

Elle Turpitt

Co-Founder & Editor
she/her
Twitter/Bluesky: @elleturpitt
Website

Elle is a writer and editor living in Cardiff, Wales. Her short fiction has appeared in various anthologies and on The NoSleep Podcast. She edited the sea horror anthology Sand, Salt, Blood, and co-edited A Woman Built By Man. She reads a lot and reads wildly, but has long adored horror, even as scaredy-cat kind of kid. Her favourite board game is Atmosfear. When not reading or writing she often be found playing video games or watching whatever series she’s currently obsessed with.

Dee

Team Contributor and Science Officer
she/her
Twitter/Bluesky: @SirenofScience

Dee is a professor in biomedical science living in a decaying rust belt town in the US. While mainly published in the STEM field, she has contributed at DHR & given a talk on the Science of Fear & why we should be nicer to fearful characters in horror! She loves reading fantasy, horror and, of course, science fiction. She enjoys watching films in those & many other genres but is a sucker for beautiful costumes, amazing SFX makeup, and character focused stories. 

Dai Baddley

Team Contributor
he/him
Bluesky: @preparetodai.bsky.social

Dai is a trans writer and reviewer from South Wales. His first short story, The Tide Will Bring Thee Home, was published in the anthology Sand, Salt, Blood edited by the wonderful Elle Turpitt.

As a lifelong horror fan, he's most drawn to cosmic and body horror, the gothic, and the weird.

Regi

Team Contributor & Emotional Support Admin
she/her they/them
Bluesky: @regicwrites

Regi is a horror nerd living in the land of zombies. During the day, they work in big tech, and at night, they can be found consuming countless horror films and TV series. They co-hosted with Elle on the Esbat podcast, and, though they do read and write, life has made it such that visual media is more easily consumed. When not analyzing movies to an audience of one house rabbit, Regi can be found screaming about video games and very random true crime factoids. 

Karen Lucia

Team Contributor
she/her
Instagram: @karenluciawrites
Bluesky: @karenlucia.bsky.social
Website

Karen is a science fiction and fantasy author from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has been an avid writer, reader, gamer, and all-around nerd core enthusiast her whole life. Having a passion for writing, she has published four full-length novels and four novellas, with more always on the way. Her taste in books spans genres, but there is a special place in her heart for indie books. When she’s not creating worlds or reading, she can be found chasing her children around the zoo, playground, or any other open space they happen across (and probably taking pictures of all the mushrooms they find).

Kayla

Graphics & Team Contributor
she/her
Twitter & Bluesky: @poultryofperil
Instagram: kmartingant

Kayla is a queer, disabled administrative officer, librarian, and researcher in the Deep South of the United States. She's into reading, writing, crafting, collecting (enamel pins, ticket stubs, souls in jars--you know, the usual), and, according to her mother, being "deeply unsettling and joyously spooky since before you could even talk. I was convinced you were gonna put a curse on me."

Cat Voleur

Team Contributor
she/her
Twitter: @Cat_Voleur
Website

Cat Voleur is a fulltime horror author with such titles as Revenge Arc, The Lorekeeper, and My Apologies to Tanya Grace. She is a member of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and a co-host of The Nic F’n Woo Cage Cast. When she’s not creating or consuming morbid content, you can find her relaxing with her small army of rescued felines.

Chelsea Catherine

Team Contributor
they/them
Website

Chelsea Catherine began writing poetry at eight years old and eventually expanded into fiction and nonfiction. Their piece, Quiet with the Hurt, won the Mary C Mohr award for nonfiction through the Southern Indiana Review and their second book, Summer of the Cicadas, won the Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press. They live in the high desert of Colorado where they like bird watching, photography, and reading books about the art of living.

Xan van Rooyen

Team Contributor
they/them
Website

Climber, tattoo collector, and peanut-butter connoisseur, Xan van Rooyen is an autistic, non-binary storyteller from South Africa, currently living in Finland where the heavy metal is soothing and the cold, dark forests inspiring. Xan has a Master’s degree in music, and–when not teaching or head-banging at gigs–enjoys conjuring strange worlds and creating quirky characters. You can find Xan’s stories in the likes of Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Daily Science Fiction, and Galaxy’s Edge among others and their novels include YA fantasy My Name is Magic, and adult aetherpunk novel Silver Helix. Xan is also part of the Sauútiverse, an African writer’s collective with their second anthology coming soon from Flame Tree Press. 
Xan prefers to read horror (especially graphic novels) rather than watch or play. Their favourite games are Witcher 3, Hollow Knight and Hades. They also have a particularly soft spot for -punk subgenres, dark academia, and Gothic Horror.

C.M. Rosens

Team Contributor
she/her
BlueSky: @cmrosens.com
Instagram, Threads, TikTok: @cm.rosen
Website / Book Links

black and white headshot of C.M. Rosens, a white woman with short curly hair against a black background, looking seriously at the camera.

C. M. Rosens is a genre-bending hybrid author of Gothic Horror, New Weird, and dark SFF, based in the UK. You can find her travelling between Wales and England by rail, wandering among lonely ruins and ancient megaliths, and lost in worlds of fiction, music and folklore.

C. M’s favourite genres are Gothic Horror, Supernatural Horror, Weird Fiction, Dark Fantasy, especially dark, queer fairytale retellings, in Books and Film

Sarah R. New

Team Contributor
she/her
Instagram/Twitter/Bluesky/Substack: @aldbera
Website

Sarah R. New is a horror author and film analyst, and has been writing since she was 6. She has published three books: travel memoir The Great European Escape (2023), Gothic horror novella Amissis Liberis (2024), and literary body horror novella Hypochondria (2025). Sarah lives in the U.K., but frequently travels internationally. She can be found at sarahrnew.wordpress.com.