Here are the current Malevolent Dark contributors. We are always looking for new ideas and voices. We also entertain guest blogging spots. Please let us know at azrael@malevolentdark.com if you are interested in writing for us. We accept one time and reoccurring contributions. Come join the horror of it all!
Malevolent Dave – Editor in Chief
Dave was raised on horror movies. The first film to blow his mind was House on Haunted Hill (1959). From that film, Dave caught the fever that keeps him in the horror game today. He has written over 100 posts on malevolentdark.com and continues to manage and grow the site. His favorite horror film of all time is the Tobe Hooper classic, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Dave’s focus tends to skew towards classic horror from the previous 5 decades. He holds a special love for Italian horror, especially the giallo sub-genre.
Growing up in New England and now attending graduate school for communications at Stephen King’s alma mater, ‘spooky’ runs in Asia’s veins. While other kids were watching The Labyrinth or The Neverending Story, Asia’s old man was sitting her down in front of Sinister and Mama. Now, she is an enthusiastic contributor to Malevolent Dark, an aspiring horror fiction author, and an avid gardener.
Jacob Engelsman has a lot going on. His day job and most of his writing focuses on taking care of infants and supporting LGBTQIA+ families. He also writes horror and sci-fi under the name J. Bradford Engelsman with a few short stories found in the anthologies from Outsider Publishing and a novella in the works which is likely to turn into a novel before it’s finished. When he does wrangle some down time, he’s watching Star Trek or horror movies with his cats and husband or reading some weirdo’s memoir.
Tiffany Frowiss – Contributor, Social Media Contributor
Follow me on Instagram: @tiffrtreat Both sweet and spooky, her love of Halloween and horror started at a young age. From costumes and pumpkin carving to “potion making” in the bathroom, her parents probably should have realized early on that this twisted kid would grow up to be a full-blown Halloween weirdo. You know the type—horror T-shirt wearing, gruesome treat making, turning a scary movie night into a full ritual… even if it’s just for two. Fair warning: she’s a screamer. And she loves it. Her passion for being scared—through movies, haunts, and immersive experiences—has only grown with time. She’s been watching scary movies with family and friends since before the age of five, catching Elviraon cable at her cousin’s house. While she appreciates horror with humor (and a soft spot for campy, “so bad they’re good” films), her heart leans toward the supernatural—Poltergeist, The Conjuring, and anything that leaves the lights on after. Her taste also drifts into the beautifully unsettling—Rosemary’s Baby, Hereditary, and The Omen. And with a deep love for October, Halloween and Trick ’r Treat remain all-time favorites. Her bedroom is filled with jack-o’-lanterns, skulls, bats, and black cats—a cozy retreat built to capture the magic of dark nights, crisp air, and knocking on strangers’ doors in search of candy. It’s her personal haunted haven, where Halloween never really ends… just pauses long enough for her to go find it again beyond her walls—feel free to join her.
Shaun was bitten by the horror bug with the help from his mom and dad with Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman and Universal Monsters. As time would go on, Joe Bob Briggs, Elvira and the MST3K crew would help continue his horror education and his interest in horror hosts. In his teen years, he started going to horror cons and connecting to the horror community.
During this time, he would run a horror host blog and also review horror movies. His love for 80s and 90s slashers grew during this time. He has recently gotten back into writing, working towards the ultimate goal of being published in magazines or a book.
Lionel is a horror and fantasy writer, an award-winning newspaper journalist, and a U.S. Army gulf war veteran living in Alabama. His stories have appeared in more than two dozen horror and fantasy anthologies. His short story “Scarecrow Road” won the WriterWriter 2018 International Halloween Themed Writing Competition and was featured on The Night’s End Podcast. His Amazon Kindle stories “Dead of Winter” and “Peace of Mind” both cracked the Top 100 Paid Amazon Best Sellers in the 30-Minute Literature & Fiction Short Reads Category. Lionel also writes a column for HorrorAddicts.net titled The Bigfoot Files. Lionel’s website is lionelraygreen.com.
Peggy Christie is an author of horror and dark fiction. Her work has appeared in dozens of websites, magazines, and anthologies. Her horror fiction/art collaboration with Don England, Plague of Man: SS of the Dead, can be found through Amazon; her short story collections, Forever Trapped, Dark Doorways and Hell Hath No Fury, from Dragons Roost Press; and her vampire novel, The Vessel, from Source Point Press.
Peggy is one of the founding members of the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers, as well as a contributing writer for the website of Cinema Head Cheese. Check out her webpage at themonkeyisin.com for more information on her other publications and appearances.
Peggy loves Korean dramas, dogs, survival horror video games, and chocolate (not necessarily in that order) and lives in Michigan with her husband.
Sarah believes her penchant for horror began when her parents baptized her on Halloween. She grew up reading ghost stories by Mary Downing Hahn, then fell in love with Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, and the master of all things gothic, Ray Bradbury. Her foray into horror movies came later; COVID quarantine quickly turned her into a film buff — and she found herself enamored by the unsettling disquiet of Eraserhead, the chilling suspense of Hitchcock films, and the slapstick gore of 80’s slashers like Intruder and Slumber Party Massacre. To this day, she still thinks of a molting Jeff Goldblum every time she accidentally lets a fly into her house. Sarah currently works as an editor and publishes short prose and poetry in various literary magazines. She holds a BA in English and Journalism from Dominican University and a MA in English from Loyola University Chicago.
Angela Amador from El Paso,Texas ia a former chef and retired roller derby skater who now channels her adrenaline into something far more chilling: horror writing. She’s been obsessed with the macabre since childhood, immersing herself in everything from blood-soaked slasher films to unsettling manga and psychological thrillers. Today, she is working in short fiction and graphic novels that explore the brutal, the eerie, and the darkness in people (the real Boogeyman). Her favorite masked killer? Michael Myers. Her favorite subgenre? Home invasion—because true horror doesn’t knock, it breaks in.
Jo is a Brooklyn born-and-raised writer and artist, frequent Dungeon Master, and aspiring member of the Nosferatu clan. Her horror short story “Something Outré” was recently published in the Black women-owned literary journal Midnight & Indigo, Issue 12, Volume IV of their Speculative fiction series. Interests include psychological and supernatural horror, and putting things into little boxes.
He is a northern Michigan journalist by day and a movie and music junkie by night. He mixes writing, photography, and nostalgia for ’70s and ’80s horror, explosive ’80s action, and the killer soundtracks that tied it all together. His favorite movie of all time is JAWS. Here’s to swimming with bow-legged women. Check out some other nonsense I’ve written about here.
J. Brams is a ghost stuck in a bone house. It wasn’t the eeks of the ghouls that captured Bram’s adoration for the macabre, but the creaky floorboards, candles that wave at you when you pass and the lives left to be explored. Now, as retired spiritualist they spend most of their time exploring abandoned buildings and studying creative writing. Paranormal horror is their specialty, but they often dabble in cultish and beast subgenres too.
Scott is a country musician, avid fly fisherman, and all around horror nerd raised in the hills of eastern Kentucky. He grew up terrified of Chucky but loving Scooby-Doo and Courage the Cowardly Dog which no doubt influenced his later love of horror films, books, and comics. You can find Scott on instagram @riverhaintflyco or on Spotify, iTunes, and all other streaming services. I can also be found on Facebook.
K. M. Parker is a writer of all forms of speculative fiction – but horror was his first love. Some of his favorite memories are of staying up late with his brothers and cousins watching scary movies on old VHS tapes when the adults were all in bed.
His work has been featured in several anthologies (see his past and upcoming projects on his website – KMParkerwrites.com ! ) When he’s not writing, he enjoys traveling, fencing, and spending time with his wife and three dogs.
It’s not always a movie or a book, my favorite horror is a Youtube short titled “Portrait of God”. Much like like my favorite genre, Cosmic Horror, it focuses on the horrors of the unkown. I like my horror in moderation so as to keep the edge razor sharp.
My Facebook Profile can be found here where I focus on biting political commentary and digital creation. I am a developing professional writer with a collection of short horror and suspense stories on Substack. I am 37 and live in Lakeland Florida.
Zack Hohenstein is horror screenwriter and filmmaker living in Los Angeles, California. Raised on AMC Fear Fest and R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps book series, he was indoctrinated into horror as a child by his older brothers. Scream and Halloween franchises got him hooked, and exciting contemporary works keep him dialed in to the genre.
His short films The Dead (2022) and Grayson’s Yard(2025) have screened at multiple festivals. He holds BA’s in both Journalism and Film from University of Missouri – Columbia and a MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA.
Ismael lives with his long-time partner, two cats, and the snake he got from PetSmart on an impulse. The snake’s name is Betelgeuse and he’s the cutest snake you’ve seen. On occasion, he (Ismael, not the snake) likes writing short horror stories and even produced a few episodes of a podcast where he narrated his own stories. He’ll get around to re-recording them eventually.
Leigh Moll is an Appalachian based writer. Her work was published for the first time with “THE SKY, ALL FULL OF TEETH, GRINNING” in Moody Magazine in 2026, as well as HAUNTER Review and The Morgue Mag. She is inspired by the writings of Andrew Joseph Wrote, C.G. Drews, and Anne Rice. Leigh also works for the Reverie Issue. They have a poem published in the Moody Magazine
Kevin L. Williams is a hybrid author from San Antonio, Texas, who writes Horror, Gothic Romance, Gothic Horror, and Speculative Fiction. Influenced not just by all the great literature of the past (Poe, Herbert, King, etc.), but also by a steady diet of comic books, Science Fiction, Horror, and Speculative movies and TV shows from the 1970s to the present. His stories pay homage to the Gothic tradition of storytelling, in keeping with the great Gothic authors of our time such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Bronte, and Daphne Du Maurier. Kevin lives and breaths writing, and considers it a calling. Writing about the darkness we live in and with, but always from a place of hope and optimism! Kevin also has a podcast called Speaking of Gothic. More than writing, he loves spending time with his beautiful wife, teenagers, and grandkids.
Taylor Steinberg is an English major at the University of Florida, where she can embrace her love of literature, particularly genres such as horror, literary fiction, science fiction, and fantasy. Her poetry collection, My Past Haunts, is published in The Archived Press. Additionally, she has experience with serving as a Staff Writer for Bubble Magazines</> and an Editing Intern for Trill Magazine. Through creating reviews, poems, and literary pieces, she can explore complex emotions — those fathomless, cavernous beasts that haunt your mind deep into the night and enwreathe your soul far into the day.
Michael “The Dedman” Jones had been a journalist in the industry for over 20 years and has written for such sites as Horror-Zone, Horror Vein, Horrornews.net, Horror Society, Tom Holland’s Terror Time, Morbidly Beautiful and House of Tortured Souls as well as in print with Dark Disc Magazine, Wicked Karnival Magazine, GoreZone (UK) Magazine, ShriekFreak Quarterly, GASP Magazine, Living Dead Magazine, Screams Quarterly Magazine StiffMag, Gore Noir, Coffin Cuties Magazine, Digital Dead Magazine and HorrorScope Magazine!
He is also the host of The Calling Hours Horror Podcast as well as the owner of Slit of the Wrist FX based out of Raleigh, NC. Films worked on include The Forever Dead (2007), Z13: The Zombie Within (2007), The Evil Woods (2007), Mental Scars (2009), Heredity (2010) as well.
Brian DuBois, a native of the Hudson Valley in New York state, has lived in southern New Jersey most of his adult life. He possesses a BA and MA in English Language and Literature and has spent the last 25+ years teaching high school English and Creative Writing. Additionally, he designs and presents content for post-secondary continuing education programs, hosts seminars for local arts councils and horror conventions, and writes non-fiction articles for magazines and journals. So far, he has created content on horror literature, noir fiction, and Transgressive fiction along with presentations centered on specific authors like Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Laymon, and HP Lovecraft — stay tuned for a non-fiction title that compiles all of these.
Brian DuBois has currently written and published more than ten extreme horror titles: The Gory Details, A Saturday at the Mall, Last Ditch Effort, Riding the Finger, The Perverse Misadventures of Grampy’s Shovel Buddy, Giddy-Up Minions !!, Satan’s Guide to Telling Good Bar Jokes, Lady Satan’s Armpit, The Demented. The Sick. The Scary. The Funny Vols 1 & 2, and The Audio Files of Hudson Bleak. He is also a passionate fan of writing noir crime thrillers. His anti-hero Kingston shows up in No Place For Nice Guys, Kingston Toads the Hog, and Kingston Throws Down at The Monarch. Look for Brian DuBois on Amazon, Goodreads, Etsy, and Godless.com.
Paul A. J. Lewis – Guest Contributor, #9 Tenths of the Law
A writer, photographer, lecturer, and sometime filmmaker from Lincolnshire in the UK, Paul was introduced to horror films during his childhood, in the era of the Video Nasty. During this period, he fell under the spell of Lucio Fulci’s genre films, in particular. He started writing about films for ‘zines back in the 90s, and pursued his love of cinema into education, eventually producing his PhD thesis on the American films of Paul Verhoeven. He has had work published both in print magazines and online. He is particularly interested in European genre films of the 1960s and 1970s, and neo-noir films of the 1990s. His writing has been published in the Film Noir Foundation’s magazine Noir City, Horror Homeroom, From Below, Warped Perspective, Horrified Magazine, The Film Magazine, and elsewhere. He has written home video reviews for DVDCompare since 2005, and records episodes of the cult movie-focused podcast Kill It With Fire (on Twitter at @Kill_It_Podcast) with friends who are both lecturers and practitioners in various creative fields. Paul can be found on Twitter as @Krycek_Facility.
Craig Wallwork is the author of the novels, Bad People, Labyrinth of the Dolls, The Ghost of Stormer Hill, and The Sound of Loneliness, as well as the short story collections, Human Tenderloin, Quintessence of Dust, and Gory Hole. His stories have been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, many of which feature in various anthologies and magazines both in the U.K. and U.S. He is also the co-host of the horror podcast, Session 10. Please check out Craig’s written and photographic work at craigwallwork.com
The Session 10 Podcast is a weekly podcast where two irregular guys talk about regular horror movies. British horror writer Craig Wallwork, and purveyor of all things strange, Boff Island, walk you through horror movies from each decade, starting with the 1970s. Expect chills, thrills, spoilers, and hilarity.
J. Brams – Contributor
K.M. Parker – Contributor
Brian DuBois – Contributor
Paul A. J. Lewis – Guest Contributor, #9 Tenths of the Law
Craig Wallwork – Guest Contributor