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About

Little Key Press is a PNW small press that publishes anthologies featuring established and emerging authors and the work of publisher, Elizabeth / Elle Mitchell.

THE TEAM

Publisher & Creative Director

Elizabeth Mitchell

Elizabeth Mitchell is a disabled author, multidisciplinary artist, and publisher who's lived many lives. Her work challenges, blends genres, explores haunted bodies, and delves into the human psyche. She's an activist, a gamer with potato aim, and an avid reader. As a woman with several invisible illnesses, she enjoys living a semi-horizontal life with her husband and spoiled furbutts in the PNW. Her writing is also under Elle. Find her at https://www.justanotherelizabeth.com/.

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Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker is an artist, anthropologist, and writer of horror living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears in publications such as Audient Void, Lovecraft Ezine Press, Vastarien, and many more. She co-edited the Folk Horror anthology, A Walk in A Darker Wood with Gordon White, Phil Breach, and Duane Pesice, and A Walk in a City of Shadows: Tales of Urban Legendry, with Nora B. Peevy, Jill Hand, Gordon White, and Phil Breach.

Events

March 6th

Animal Noir in-person reading with Bold Coffee & Books / 7pm

June 23rd

Clocks online reading with Vintage Books!
Time TBD / Link incoming

Little Key Press

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FICTION IN THE SAME WORLD

Dark

Janes series

Their Haunted Bodies series

Standalone fiction

Dark

Other

Non-Fiction

Author Art

The authors of Little Key Press anthologies are multi-talented. Beyond writing, many of them are artists.This is a living page—art will show up as author's complete it and as it becomes available to share!

Animal Noir

The star of my little story in Animal Noir, Ian.

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— Pen Anderson (@pensiv.art) February 24, 2026 at 1:46 PM

Story Rich Art

An Anthology

Story Rich Art is what happens when thirteen writers are asked to translate art into story.Writing and art have collided in an eclectic collection featuring speculative and dark short stories, flash fiction, and poems exploring Steve Graziani's artwork.A tale of a monster hunting summer settles alongside a woman on Death’s door. There is fear, romance, longing, loss. Time slips, space is all there is left, and our pasts call for us.By the last page, you’ll have visited many worlds, been many people, traveled through time, cried and laughed.Twenty-two stories and twenty-four etchings await you.

Stories by Adam Bolivar, Angela Yuriko Smith, Angelique O'Rourke, David Barker, Elle Mitchell, Gigi Little, G.R. Theron, Jacque Day Pallone, Kiyomi Appleton Gaines, Sarah Walker, Simone Cooper, Steve Graziani, Summer Olsson | Edited by Elle Mitchell & Sarah Walker

**Just a sampling of Steve Graziani's incredible work! Check out more in Story Rich Art and on his website.

MEET THE AUTHORS

Adam Bolivar is a formal poet of dark fantasy, a weird fiction writer and a playwright for marionettes with a particular interest in alliterative verse, balladry and “Jack” tales. He is the author of THE LAY OF OLD HEX (Hippocampus Press, 2017), THE ETTINFELL OF BEACON HILL (Jackanapes Press, 2021), BALLADS FOR THE WITCHING HOUR (Hippocampus Press 2022) and A WHEEL OF RAVENS (Jackanapes Press, 2023). A native of gambrel-roofed Boston, Massachusetts, he now resides in the gloomy dreamlands of Portland, Oregon.
Angela Yuriko Smith, president of the HWA and publisher of Space and Time magazine, is the proud recipient of multiple awards, including two Bram Stokers. As a Publishing Coach, she helps writers search less and submit more with her weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.Angelique O'Rourke is a creative professional based in Portland, OR. A lifelong Oregonian, she is a writer, actor, model, storyteller and musician. Her experience is wide-ranging, including musical theater, runway, print, film, and television.David Barker has been writing supernatural fiction and poetry since the mid-1980s. In collaboration with the late W. H. Pugmire, he wrote three books of Lovecraftian fiction, including the novel Witches in Dreamland (Hippocampus Press, 2018). His collection of horror stories Her Wan Embrace was published by Weird House Press in 2019. David’s work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies such as Fungi, Cyäegha, Weird Fiction Review, The Audient Void, Nightmare’s Realm, Forbidden Knowledge, Spectral Realms, The Art Mephitic, A Walk in a Darker Wood, and A Walk in a City of Shadows.Elizabeth Mitchell is a disabled author, multidisciplinary artist, and publisher who's lived many lives. Her work challenges, blends genres, explores haunted bodies, and delves into the human psyche. She's an activist, a gamer with potato aim, and an avid reader. As a woman with several invisible illnesses, she enjoys living a semi-horizontal life with her husband and spoiled furbutts in the PNW. Her writing is also under Elle. Find her at https://www.justanotherelizabeth.com/.Gigi Little is a freelance book designer and the staff designer for Forest Avenue Press. She's the editor of their popular anthology City of Weird and the art director of the picture book A Tree of My Own. Her writing can be found in journals and anthologies including Portland Noir, Spent, Dispatches from Anarres, and The Magic We Miss. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, fine artist Stephen O'Donnell.G.R. Theron is a Pacific Northwest based fantasy author, panelist, and member of the Mythopoeic Society. He is the host of Northwest Speculative, a monthly sci-fi and fantasy reading series. Educated at the University of Washington as an Ancient Historian and Classicist, his work often draws upon classical themes and mythos.
He cherishes the best writing advice he ever received from his grandfather; the truth should never get in the way of a good story.Jacque Day is the founding co-editor-in-chief of Carnage House and served as the longtime managing editor for the New Madrid journal of contemporary literature. A member of the HWA, Jacque lives in her home state of Pennsylvania, USA, with her scientist husband.Kiyomi Appleton Gaines is a writer of fairy tales and other fantastical things whose stories have been said to cause nightmares! She was a contributor to the Central Oregon Writers Guild 2023 Literary Collection, the 2023 anthology Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror and to Mad Scientist Journal 2019 Spring Quarterly. In 2018 she was Contributing Editor at Enchanted Conversation: A Fairytale Magazine. Her work has also appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, and The Grimm Reaper, among others. Kiyomi is an Asian-American of Japanese descent, and works as a copywriter and resume writer, helping others tell their stories and connect with their ideal clients. She lives in Bend, OR.Sarah Walker is an artist, anthropologist, and writer of horror living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears in publications such as Audient Void, Lovecraft Ezine Press, Vastarien, and many more. She co-edited the Folk Horror anthology, A Walk in A Darker Wood with Gordon White, Phil Breach, and Duane Pesice, and A Walk in a City of Shadows: Tales of Urban Legendry, with Nora B. Peevy, Jill Hand, Gordon White, and Phil Breach.Simone Cooper is a writer, gamer, dog trainer, bird watcher, and home chef in Portland, Oregon. She grew up on a diet of 1970’s horror comics, Creature Features, and Speed Racer cartoons, and will still recklessly devour anything horror, science-fiction, or fantasy.Steve Graziani is a Californian, transplanted from Virginia. His blended majors of theater and art at San Jose State University reinforced connections between written and visual art. He's been lucky to find ways to live off of art and imagination most of his life, early on as an art director and later, through straight art and some writing. Currently his home and studio are in Frogtown, the nickname for a creative sliver of Los Angeles.Summer Olsson writes stories that explore female perspectives and often play on the border between reality and the supernatural. She is always interested in memory, ghosts, loneliness, and everyday magic. Her work has been published in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, and others. Two of her stories are in the anthology Art Born Words, due Spring 2025 from Demagogue Press. Besides being a writer, she works in theater and stop motion animation. She was a Second Assistant Director on the film Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio. She grew up in New Mexico and lives in Oregon.

Animal Noir

An Anthology

11 hard-boiled crimes featuring a cast of memorable anthropomorphic animals.New Growl has always had too much crime. From the 20s until its inevitable collapse, eleven authors are exposing the city's seedy underbelly.The upper echelon, the lower class, and all of the animals in between have their share of problems. Some hire the private detectives or jet to a private island to escape, while others are the ones on-call and in the trenches.It's familiar, it's different, it's Animal Noir.*Stories by Angelique O'Rourke, A.P. Howell, Ben Curl, Beth Cook, Camden Rose, Elad Haber, H.L. Fullerton, M Shedric Simpson, Megan Lee Bees, Pen Anderson, and Phoenix Bourgeois. / Illustrations and edits by Elizabeth MitchellListen to the authors read their work here!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Elad Haber—“Two Sides of the Truth” / Upstairs/Downstairs, but make it feathered
Beth Cook—“Our Song” / a mystery and a song
A.P. Howell—“Femme Prédatrice” / she’s not what you think
M. Shedric Simpson—“At The Edge of the Gunmetal Sea” / it’s a different kind of audit, sorta
Megan Lee Bees—“The Perfect Victim” / you shouldn’t have done that…
Camden Rose—“Mei Ren, Royalty” / it’s not delusional if it’s true
Travis Pen Anderson—“Tauric Tonic” / things always escalate quickly, don’t they?
Phoenix Bourgeois—“One Killer Deal” / charged talking is charged
H.L. Fullerton—“Wolves Always Howl Twice” / a well-told lie often causes ripples
Angelique O'Rourke—“Gorrilianaire” / if one can, one will
Ben Curl—“Embossed in Ivy” / what happens after

clocks

An Anthology

Seventeen emerging and established authors from around the world reimagined clocks and wove them into beautiful speculative and dark stories.As you move from one narrative to the next, you'll find yourself lost in fog, grasping at a young love, risking it all to save a dying world. Pages will swallow you whole as you slip through time, challenge what it means to live, and create an automaton. With poignant representations of queerness, disability and mental health issues, grief, love, and acceptance, Clocks is an anthology as lush and emotional as it is unique.Stories by: Chantell Saunders, Charlotte Van Ryswyk, Courtney Raines, Elizabeth Jaffari, Erin Hall, J.S. Mercer, James Carraghan, Katherine Quevedo, Katrina Jax, Madi Haab, Mia Dalia, Niyyah Ruscher-Haqq, Raymond Brunell, Reign Reeves Pearson, Rose Wilde Hall, Sarah Walker, and Susan E. Rogers / Front cover and interior illustrations by: Elizabeth Jaffari / Back cover illustrations by: Chantell Saunders / Edited by: Elizabeth Mitchell

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chantell Saunders—”Chimes at Midnight” / you think you know what a time loop is
Charlotte Van Ryswyk—”Memory Jars” / nothing like a storm
Courtney Raines—”Time Together” / is more time really more time?
Erin Hall—”You Can't Go Home Again” / what is time and is it what matters most?
J.S. Mercer—“Time's Up” / some things cannot be predicted
James Carraghan—“Checking the Time” / how much knowledge would you really want?
Katherine Quevedo—”Gearheart” / be careful who you tinker with
Katrina Jax—”Second Hand” / morals can be tricky
Madi Haab—”The Wind-Up Heart” / what if metaphors?
Mia Dalia—”Tick Tock” / you never know what’s real on the internet
Niyyah Ruscher-Haqq—”Grandmother Clock” / nothing is what you expect
Raymond Brunell—”Seventeen Calls” / liminal spaces hold so much
Reign Reeves Pearson—”Counting You” / the fluidity of time can be haunting
Sarah Walker—"The Last Hour" / it's not what you think... at all
Susan E. Rogers—”Clockmaker” / good deeds can go unpunishedART BY
Elizabeth Jaffari & Chantell Saunders

MEET THE AUTHORS

Chantell May Saunders is a South Australian writer and artist. She is a graduate of The University of Adelaide and holds a BA in Creative Writing. When she’s not busy writing poetic tales of haunted girls, you can find her painting colourful portraits or spending more money than she should in bookstores.Having found herself retired in 2020 from teaching elementary school music, Charlotte Van Ryswyk began the next chapter of her life writing novels for middle-grade readers and short stories. Her current gaslamp fantasy, The Secret of the Moon Dial, featuring a pocket watch with mysterious powers, will be independently published in the late summer/early fall 2026. Her second book will come out in 2027. She is an active member of SCBWI. When not writing or reading, you can find her taking photos for her blog, hiking, traveling, and making tiny books for her two grandchildren.Courtney Raines lives on the “wet coast” of British Columbia, Canada. She spends her days ferrying her children from one place to the next, planning camps for other people’s kids, and writing. When she has free time, you can find her with her nose in a book. She has work previously published in The Leaf.Elizabeth Jaffari is a San Diego, CA based artist, cosplay maker and writer. She received an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from the California Institute of the Arts. Her work often explores the intersections of whimsy and horror. You can find her sipping tea and finding a use for unused art supplies.Erin Hall (she/her) is a reader, writer, and vegan nacho enthusiast. She’s the author of the Detective Molly Malone series, which begins with her debut novel, Dear Sylvia, Love Jane. In addition to writing, she teaches classes in fiction and memoir writing, offers marketing coaching to small businesses and entrepreneurs, and also works a day job as a content marketing manager and strategist. Outside of writing and coaching, Erin serves on the board of Gather Repertory Theatre, the planning committee for the Terroir Creative Writing Festival, and is an active member of the Oregon Historical Society and Willamette Writers. She holds a Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing, and she always wants to know what you’re reading.J.S. Mercer is a writer from England with a focus on speculative fiction, and a love of all things horror.
James Carraghan is a writer and collage artist from Pennsylvania. In 2024, he published A Guided Tour Through Hell, a zine collection of weird fiction, as well as Laughing in the Realms of the Unreal, a tribute to artist Henry Darger. His work has been published in Flights of Fantasy, LitHub, Bleed Error, Terse. Journal, The Lizzie Borden House Anthology, and Lured into the Deep, among other publications. He currently drives a library bookmobile, bringing stories to communities without a library of their own. Visit his website at https://librarynevercloses.wordpress.com/ and follow him on Instagram @libraryboy24 for more of his work.Katherine Quevedo was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. She is the author of the Elgin Award-winning poetry chapbook The Inca Weaver’s Tales (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024) and the fantasy novella Thrice Petrified (Of Metal and Magic Publishing, 2025). Her fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appears in Claw Machine, Nightmare Magazine, Last Girls Club, LatineLit, On Spec, Abyss & Apex, and elsewhere. Find her at www.katherinequevedo.com.Katrina Jax has a particular affinity for strange, dark, hopeful stories full of fantastical elements and emotional turmoil. Born and raised in Virginia, she loves traveling (especially in South America), drinking coffee (hot over iced), and running (when she has writer's block). Previous publications include a flash fiction piece appearing in the Havok Publishing anthology Rebirth under the name Lila Kims.Madi Haab (she/her) is a queer and neurodivergent writer and poet of Moroccan descent from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She draws inspiration from her mixed cultural heritage and identities to explore the liminal and interstitial. In 2025, she was the winner of the Marina Nemat Award for Fantasy and QWF’s carte blanche Prize, and has been published in Augur Magazine, Haven Speculative, Baffling Magazine, and more. When not writing, she dabbles in art and singing, and likes video games and afternoon naps a little too much. Find her at madihaab.com and on Bluesky @madihaab.Mia Dalia is an internationally published, Crime Writers Association-nominated author of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange. Her short stories of horror, noir, science fiction, mystery, crime, humor, and more have been featured in a variety of anthologies, magazines, literary journals, online, and adapted for narrative podcasts. Her work has been voted top ten of Tales to Terrify 2023, shortlisted for the CWA's Daggers Awards 2024, acclaimed by Booklist, and praised by genre luminaries such as Michael Marshall Smith, Stephen Jones, Marie O'Regan, Clay McLeod Chapman, Neil Sharpson, M.R. Carey, A.C. Wise, Edward Ashton, and more. She is the author of the novels Estate Sale and Haven, novellas Alakazam, Tell Me a Story, Discordant, Arrokoth, and Do You Know The Muffin Man? and the collection Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness. Her upcoming work will be published by Lethe Press, Crystal Lake Publishing, PS Publishing, Earthling Publications, and more.Niyyah Ruscher-Haqq writes middle grade and adult speculative fantasy and horror. She emphasizes Muslim-American, multicultural, and neurodivergent stories. Her work has appeared in Demagogue Press, Believe in Wonder Publishing, Weird Fiction Quarterly, Bel Esprit, and Hayaat House. By day, she's a healthcare provider and can get really nerdy with you about infectious disease, emergency medicine, and toxicology. She is the Portland SCBWI Coffee Coordinator, and Co-Chair for Young Willamette Writers. She is a member of SCBWI and HWA. She is a professional candle and soap maker and an amateur marionettist, and a passionate yet unskilled karaoke devotee.Raymond Brunell writes speculative and gothic fiction exploring grief, transformation, and the impossible systems we build to survive loss. His work has appeared in Skeleton Flowers Press, The Drift, and Moss Puppy Magazine. He lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where time doesn't always flow the way it should. More at www.unbound-atlas.com.Reign Reeves Pearson is a genre-blending storyteller, voice actor, and chaos enthusiast, equally at home conjuring creeping dread or biopunk rebellion—sometimes in the same afternoon. Based in Houston, she shares her home with her husband, four kids, and three cats who are definitely plotting something. A lifelong fan of the eerie, uncanny, and undead, Reign dives deep into horror, with a knack for threading heart (and heartbreak) through the shadows. When she’s not summoning stories, she lends her voice to animation, audiobooks, and games—bringing characters to life with the same intensity and range she pours into her writing. She also crafts elaborate D&D campaigns, gets emotionally wrecked by Final Fantasy VII (again), or stares dramatically out the window while it rains. Always with a Kopiko in hand.Rose Wilde Hall is a queer disabled working artist living in a lightly haunted house in Portland, Oregon. She was raised by brilliant heretics and feral librarians, and thus grew up to be both deeply unserious and burdened with terrible knowledge. Her heroes are Pippi Longstocking and the velociraptors from Jurassic Park.Sarah Walker is a Pacific Northwest anthropologist, writer, artist, and head art director, and co-editor/co-owner of Weird Fiction Quarterly with Chris Karr, a flash fiction magazine created by Russell Smeaton. With the editing magic of Shayne Keen and Scott Couturier, be sure to check it out if you like flash fiction! Sarah has been published in multiple venues from Vasterian to Lovecraft Ezine and also illustrated, wrote, and curated A Walk in a Darker Wood along with the sequel, A Walk in a City of Shadows with Gordon White, Duane Pesice, Jill Hand, Nora Peevy and Phil Breach.Susan E. Rogers lives in sunny St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA transplanted from Massachusetts. Her move was the catalyst to focus on her life-long ambition to write. Her other interests include genealogy and psychic spirituality, and she often twists these into her writing. She’s published two speculative non-fiction books, and three horror novels with small independent presses. Her short fiction has been published in anthologies, podcasts, and numerous literary and genre magazines. A complete listing of her work is found at www.susanerogers.com.

Claw Machine

An Anthology

When you hear of claw machines, what do you picture?In this anthology, claw machines aren’t just beacons for lost dollars and frustration, packed with cheap toys that rarely make it home with us. The claw machine is a game, a curse, a tool, even a drug-induced metaphor. It has omens of death, portals to other dimensions, plushies that aren't what they seem, eggs filled with wishful thinking, society's view on perfection, and so much more.Claw Machine is a collection of stories, with a special introduction, written by 18 established and emerging authors. Their unique speculative stories and dark fiction will grab and pull you in. Unlike the arcade game, you'll definitely walk away with something after reading these stories.

Stories by Angela Yuriko Smith, Angelique O'Rourke, Beth Cook, Curtis C. Chen, Elle Mitchell, Erik Grove, J.B. Kish, Katherine Quevedo, Laura Burge, Marianne Xenos, Mark Teppo, Pia Baur, Sarah Walker, Simone Cooper, Summer Olsson, Valerie Geary, Wes Mitchell, with an introduction by Will Errickson | Edited by Elle Mitchell.

Listen to the authors read their work here!

MEET THE AUTHORS

Angela Yuriko Smith, president of the HWA and publisher of Space and Time magazine, is the proud recipient of multiple awards, including two Bram Stokers. As a Publishing Coach, she helps writers search less and submit more with her weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.Angelique O'Rourke is a creative professional based in Portland, OR. A lifelong Oregonian, she is a writer, actor, model, storyteller and musician. Her experience is wide-ranging, including musical theater, runway, print, film, and television.Beth Cook is a lifelong writing student, too curious to stick to any one medium, who delights in children’s novels, comics, and screenwriting. As a staff writer for Muppet fan site ToughPigs.com, she is the co-host, producer, and editor of the podcast “Fraggle Talk: Classic.” She writes in order to scream into the Void (existential), usually while trapped under a Void (feline).Curtis C. Chen — Once a Silicon Valley software engineer, Curtis C. Chen (陳致宇) now writes stories near Portland, Oregon. He's the award-winning author of the bestselling KANGAROO series of funny science fiction spy thrillers and has written for the Realm original podcasts Echo Park, Ninth Step Murders, and Machina. Curtis' shorter works have appeared in Playboy Magazine; the ENNIE Award-winning Kobold Guide to Roleplaying; The Year's Best Fantasy, Volume 2; Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey; and elsewhere. His homebrew cat feeding robot was displayed in the "Worlds Beyond Here" exhibit at Seattle's Wing Luke Museum. Visit him online: https://CurtisCChen.comElizabeth Mitchell is a disabled author, multidisciplinary artist, and publisher who's lived many lives and goes by many names. Her work challenges, blends genres, explores haunted bodies, and delves into the human psyche. She's an activist, a gamer with potato aim, and an avid reader. As a woman with several invisible illnesses, she enjoys living a semi-horizontal life with her husband and spoiled furbutts in the PNW. Her writing is also under Elle and Buffy. Find her at https://www.justanotherelizabeth.com/.Erik Grove is a writer, long distance runner, workshop runner, writing teacher, and small to medium sized dog wrangler living and doing things in Portland, OR. You can find his short fiction in places like ESCAPE POD and NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE and the BUCKMAN JOURNAL. Follow him on Bluesky, https://bsky.app/profile/erikgrove.com, or check out his website www.erikgrove.com for dog glamour shots and sundry musings.J.B. Kish is a weird fiction and horror author that helps emerging writers design a strategy to reach their goals. He has been writing fiction for the last fifteen years. In that time, he has published short stories in publications like Cosmic Horror Monthly, Unsettling Reads, and Metaphorosis Magazine.  His author author milestone program has been developed based on eight years of helping clients roadmap and achieve their goals. When he’s not writing, he facilitates workshops for people looking to improve their public speaking and presentation skills.Katherine Quevedo was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Rhysling Award, and her short stories and poetry have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Asimov’s, Fireside Magazine, and elsewhere. Her debut fantasy novella, Thrice Petrified, is forthcoming from Of Metal and Magic Publishing.Laura K. Burge (she/her) is a fiction editor, writing coach, and writer. She spends her days helping authors find their ways through the weeds of the writing process - and specializes in working with and writing stories with (at least) a touch of the weird.When not immersed in stories, Laura can often be found wandering through a forest, ignoring perfectly good recipes while baking, or bowing to her cat’s every whim.Although Laura plays with stories all the time, and has been writing them since her timeline began, this is the first publication of her fiction. She is also working on a novel, which she loosely describes as fabulism in space.Marianne Xenos is a writer and artist living in western Massachusetts. As a member of a small cooperative art gallery in Amherst, she exhibits photography and hand-cut collages. Stories have been a central part of her visual art for decades, but she recently shifted focus to the written stories themselves. Her stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies including The Future Fire, The Amphibian, Orion's Belt, and the game anthology, Winding Paths. Marianne was a first-prize winner of the Writers of the Future contest, and the winning story was published in the Volume 39 anthology. She is currently at work on a novel set in 1983 in Boston's queer community.Mark Teppo spends most of his time in several different places in the Pacific Northwest. He’s written more novels than he has fingers and toes (including the extra ones). When he’s not writing, he’s publishing books as Underland Press. His favorite tarot card is the Moon.Pia Jee-Hae Baur is a writer born to German and Korean parents and raised in the United States. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana in Missoula. She lives and works in the Pacific Northwest.Sarah Walker is an artist, anthropologist, and writer of horror living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears in publications such as Audient Void, Lovecraft Ezine Press, Vastarien, and many more. She co-edited the Folk Horror anthology, A Walk in A Darker Wood with Gordon White, Phil Breach, and Duane Pesice, and A Walk in a City of Shadows: Tales of Urban Legendry, with Nora B. Peevy, Jill Hand, Gordon White, and Phil Breach.Simone Cooper is a writer, gamer, dog trainer, bird watcher, and home chef in Portland, Oregon. She grew up on a diet of 1970’s horror comics, Creature Features, and Speed Racer cartoons, and will still recklessly devour anything horror, science-fiction, or fantasy.Summer Olsson writes stories that explore female perspectives and often play on the border between reality and the supernatural. She is always interested in memory, ghosts, loneliness, and everyday magic. Her work has been published in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, and others. Two of her stories are in the anthology Art Born Words, due Spring 2025 from Demagogue Press. Besides being a writer, she works in theater and stop motion animation. She was a Second Assistant Director on the film Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio. She grew up in New Mexico and lives in Oregon.Valerie Geary is the author of the Brett Buchanan Mystery Series in addition to Everything We Lost and Crooked River, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her short stories have been published in The Rumpus, Litro, Boston Literary Magazine, the Art Born Words anthology, and more. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband. She has never tried to beat a claw machine.Wes Mitchell has been cultivating his weird, odd, and wallflower side since childhood, running around his backyard woods in fantastical dreams. He enjoys exploring compelling narratives and personalities in different formats, exploring what life is and means for us all. You can find him whipping up something tasty, prepping for another meal in the garden, finding ways to game that never quite make complete sense, or enjoying a cup of tea with his lovely wife and two cats.Will Errickson Born in southern New Jersey, Will Errickson has been a fan of horror entertainment his entire life. As a teenager during the great 1980s paperback horror boom, Will discovered the writing of H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, and many others. In college he worked in various bookstores which strengthened his love of vintage paperbacks and deepened his appreciation for horror.In early 2010, he began the blog Too Much Horror Fiction, devoted to collecting and reviewing the best—and worst—in paperback horror from the 1960s through the 1990s, as well as celebrating its resplendent cover art. With bestselling horror novelist Grady Hendrix in 2017, Will co-wrote PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: THE TWISTED HISTORY OF 1970s & 1980s HORROR FICTION, which went on to win the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction.Today Will lives in Portland, OR, with his wife Ashley, and his ever-growing library of horror fiction paperbacks…

Authors

Little Key Press is pleased to have published so many talented voices!

Story Rich Art

Adam Bolivar is a formal poet of dark fantasy, a weird fiction writer and a playwright for marionettes with a particular interest in alliterative verse, balladry and “Jack” tales. He is the author of THE LAY OF OLD HEX (Hippocampus Press, 2017), THE ETTINFELL OF BEACON HILL (Jackanapes Press, 2021), BALLADS FOR THE WITCHING HOUR (Hippocampus Press 2022) and A WHEEL OF RAVENS (Jackanapes Press, 2023). A native of gambrel-roofed Boston, Massachusetts, he now resides in the gloomy dreamlands of Portland, Oregon.
Angela Yuriko Smith, president of the HWA and publisher of Space and Time magazine, is the proud recipient of multiple awards, including two Bram Stokers. As a Publishing Coach, she helps writers search less and submit more with her weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.Angelique O'Rourke is a creative professional based in Portland, OR. A lifelong Oregonian, she is a writer, actor, model, storyteller and musician. Her experience is wide-ranging, including musical theater, runway, print, film, and television.David Barker has been writing supernatural fiction and poetry since the mid-1980s. In collaboration with the late W. H. Pugmire, he wrote three books of Lovecraftian fiction, including the novel Witches in Dreamland (Hippocampus Press, 2018). His collection of horror stories Her Wan Embrace was published by Weird House Press in 2019. David’s work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies such as Fungi, Cyäegha, Weird Fiction Review, The Audient Void, Nightmare’s Realm, Forbidden Knowledge, Spectral Realms, The Art Mephitic, A Walk in a Darker Wood, and A Walk in a City of Shadows.Elizabeth Mitchell is a disabled author, multidisciplinary artist, and publisher who's lived many lives. Her work challenges, blends genres, explores haunted bodies, and delves into the human psyche. She's an activist, a gamer with potato aim, and an avid reader. As a woman with several invisible illnesses, she enjoys living a semi-horizontal life with her husband and spoiled furbutts in the PNW. Her writing is also under Elle. Find her at https://www.justanotherelizabeth.com/.Gigi Little is a freelance book designer and the staff designer for Forest Avenue Press. She's the editor of their popular anthology City of Weird and the art director of the picture book A Tree of My Own. Her writing can be found in journals and anthologies including Portland Noir, Spent, Dispatches from Anarres, and The Magic We Miss. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, fine artist Stephen O'Donnell.G.R. Theron is a Pacific Northwest based fantasy author, panelist, and member of the Mythopoeic Society. He is the host of Northwest Speculative, a monthly sci-fi and fantasy reading series. Educated at the University of Washington as an Ancient Historian and Classicist, his work often draws upon classical themes and mythos.
He cherishes the best writing advice he ever received from his grandfather; the truth should never get in the way of a good story.Jacque Day is the founding co-editor-in-chief of Carnage House and served as the longtime managing editor for the New Madrid journal of contemporary literature. A member of the HWA, Jacque lives in her home state of Pennsylvania, USA, with her scientist husband.Kiyomi Appleton Gaines is a writer of fairy tales and other fantastical things whose stories have been said to cause nightmares! She was a contributor to the Central Oregon Writers Guild 2023 Literary Collection, the 2023 anthology Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror and to Mad Scientist Journal 2019 Spring Quarterly. In 2018 she was Contributing Editor at Enchanted Conversation: A Fairytale Magazine. Her work has also appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, and The Grimm Reaper, among others. Kiyomi is an Asian-American of Japanese descent, and works as a copywriter and resume writer, helping others tell their stories and connect with their ideal clients. She lives in Bend, OR.Sarah Walker is an artist, anthropologist, and writer of horror living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears in publications such as Audient Void, Lovecraft Ezine Press, Vastarien, and many more. She co-edited the Folk Horror anthology, A Walk in A Darker Wood with Gordon White, Phil Breach, and Duane Pesice, and A Walk in a City of Shadows: Tales of Urban Legendry, with Nora B. Peevy, Jill Hand, Gordon White, and Phil Breach.Simone Cooper is a writer, gamer, dog trainer, bird watcher, and home chef in Portland, Oregon. She grew up on a diet of 1970’s horror comics, Creature Features, and Speed Racer cartoons, and will still recklessly devour anything horror, science-fiction, or fantasy.Steve Graziani is a Californian, transplanted from Virginia. His blended majors of theater and art at San Jose State University reinforced connections between written and visual art. He's been lucky to find ways to live off of art and imagination most of his life, early on as an art director and later, through straight art and some writing. Currently his home and studio are in Frogtown, the nickname for a creative sliver of Los Angeles.Summer Olsson writes stories that explore female perspectives and often play on the border between reality and the supernatural. She is always interested in memory, ghosts, loneliness, and everyday magic. Her work has been published in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, and others. Two of her stories are in the anthology Art Born Words, due Spring 2025 from Demagogue Press. Besides being a writer, she works in theater and stop motion animation. She was a Second Assistant Director on the film Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio. She grew up in New Mexico and lives in Oregon.

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Angela Yuriko Smith, president of the HWA and publisher of Space and Time magazine, is the proud recipient of multiple awards, including two Bram Stokers. As a Publishing Coach, she helps writers search less and submit more with her weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.Angelique O'Rourke is a creative professional based in Portland, OR. A lifelong Oregonian, she is a writer, actor, model, storyteller and musician. Her experience is wide-ranging, including musical theater, runway, print, film, and television.Beth Cook is a lifelong writing student, too curious to stick to any one medium, who delights in children’s novels, comics, and screenwriting. As a staff writer for Muppet fan site ToughPigs.com, she is the co-host, producer, and editor of the podcast “Fraggle Talk: Classic.” She writes in order to scream into the Void (existential), usually while trapped under a Void (feline).Curtis C. Chen — Once a Silicon Valley software engineer, Curtis C. Chen (陳致宇) now writes stories near Portland, Oregon. He's the award-winning author of the bestselling KANGAROO series of funny science fiction spy thrillers and has written for the Realm original podcasts Echo Park, Ninth Step Murders, and Machina. Curtis' shorter works have appeared in Playboy Magazine; the ENNIE Award-winning Kobold Guide to Roleplaying; The Year's Best Fantasy, Volume 2; Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey; and elsewhere. His homebrew cat feeding robot was displayed in the "Worlds Beyond Here" exhibit at Seattle's Wing Luke Museum. Visit him online: https://CurtisCChen.comElizabeth Mitchell is a disabled author, multidisciplinary artist, and publisher who's lived many lives and goes by many names. Her work challenges, blends genres, explores haunted bodies, and delves into the human psyche. She's an activist, a gamer with potato aim, and an avid reader. As a woman with several invisible illnesses, she enjoys living a semi-horizontal life with her husband and spoiled furbutts in the PNW. Her writing is also under Elle and Buffy. Find her at https://www.justanotherelizabeth.com/.Erik Grove is a writer, long distance runner, workshop runner, writing teacher, and small to medium sized dog wrangler living and doing things in Portland, OR. You can find his short fiction in places like ESCAPE POD and NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE and the BUCKMAN JOURNAL. Follow him on Bluesky, https://bsky.app/profile/erikgrove.com, or check out his website www.erikgrove.com for dog glamour shots and sundry musings.J.B. Kish is a weird fiction and horror author that helps emerging writers design a strategy to reach their goals. He has been writing fiction for the last fifteen years. In that time, he has published short stories in publications like Cosmic Horror Monthly, Unsettling Reads, and Metaphorosis Magazine.  His author author milestone program has been developed based on eight years of helping clients roadmap and achieve their goals. When he’s not writing, he facilitates workshops for people looking to improve their public speaking and presentation skills.Katherine Quevedo was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Rhysling Award, and her short stories and poetry have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Asimov’s, Fireside Magazine, and elsewhere. Her debut fantasy novella, Thrice Petrified, is forthcoming from Of Metal and Magic Publishing.Laura K. Burge (she/her) is a fiction editor, writing coach, and writer. She spends her days helping authors find their ways through the weeds of the writing process - and specializes in working with and writing stories with (at least) a touch of the weird.When not immersed in stories, Laura can often be found wandering through a forest, ignoring perfectly good recipes while baking, or bowing to her cat’s every whim.Although Laura plays with stories all the time, and has been writing them since her timeline began, this is the first publication of her fiction. She is also working on a novel, which she loosely describes as fabulism in space.Marianne Xenos is a writer and artist living in western Massachusetts. As a member of a small cooperative art gallery in Amherst, she exhibits photography and hand-cut collages. Stories have been a central part of her visual art for decades, but she recently shifted focus to the written stories themselves. Her stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies including The Future Fire, The Amphibian, Orion's Belt, and the game anthology, Winding Paths. Marianne was a first-prize winner of the Writers of the Future contest, and the winning story was published in the Volume 39 anthology. She is currently at work on a novel set in 1983 in Boston's queer community.Mark Teppo spends most of his time in several different places in the Pacific Northwest. He’s written more novels than he has fingers and toes (including the extra ones). When he’s not writing, he’s publishing books as Underland Press. His favorite tarot card is the Moon.Pia Jee-Hae Baur is a writer born to German and Korean parents and raised in the United States. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana in Missoula. She lives and works in the Pacific Northwest.Sarah Walker is an artist, anthropologist, and writer of horror living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears in publications such as Audient Void, Lovecraft Ezine Press, Vastarien, and many more. She co-edited the Folk Horror anthology, A Walk in A Darker Wood with Gordon White, Phil Breach, and Duane Pesice, and A Walk in a City of Shadows: Tales of Urban Legendry, with Nora B. Peevy, Jill Hand, Gordon White, and Phil Breach.Simone Cooper is a writer, gamer, dog trainer, bird watcher, and home chef in Portland, Oregon. She grew up on a diet of 1970’s horror comics, Creature Features, and Speed Racer cartoons, and will still recklessly devour anything horror, science-fiction, or fantasy.Summer Olsson writes stories that explore female perspectives and often play on the border between reality and the supernatural. She is always interested in memory, ghosts, loneliness, and everyday magic. Her work has been published in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, and others. Two of her stories are in the anthology Art Born Words, due Spring 2025 from Demagogue Press. Besides being a writer, she works in theater and stop motion animation. She was a Second Assistant Director on the film Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio. She grew up in New Mexico and lives in Oregon.Valerie Geary is the author of the Brett Buchanan Mystery Series in addition to Everything We Lost and Crooked River, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her short stories have been published in The Rumpus, Litro, Boston Literary Magazine, the Art Born Words anthology, and more. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband. She has never tried to beat a claw machine.Wes Mitchell has been cultivating his weird, odd, and wallflower side since childhood, running around his backyard woods in fantastical dreams. He enjoys exploring compelling narratives and personalities in different formats, exploring what life is and means for us all. You can find him whipping up something tasty, prepping for another meal in the garden, finding ways to game that never quite make complete sense, or enjoying a cup of tea with his lovely wife and two cats.Will Errickson Born in southern New Jersey, Will Errickson has been a fan of horror entertainment his entire life. As a teenager during the great 1980s paperback horror boom, Will discovered the writing of H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, and many others. In college he worked in various bookstores which strengthened his love of vintage paperbacks and deepened his appreciation for horror.In early 2010, he began the blog Too Much Horror Fiction, devoted to collecting and reviewing the best—and worst—in paperback horror from the 1960s through the 1990s, as well as celebrating its resplendent cover art. With bestselling horror novelist Grady Hendrix in 2017, Will co-wrote PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: THE TWISTED HISTORY OF 1970s & 1980s HORROR FICTION, which went on to win the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction.Today Will lives in Portland, OR, with his wife Ashley, and his ever-growing library of horror fiction paperbacks…

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Chantell May Saunders is a South Australian writer and artist. She is a graduate of The University of Adelaide and holds a BA in Creative Writing. When she’s not busy writing poetic tales of haunted girls, you can find her painting colourful portraits or spending more money than she should in bookstores.Having found herself retired in 2020 from teaching elementary school music, Charlotte Van Ryswyk began the next chapter of her life writing novels for middle-grade readers and short stories. Her current gaslamp fantasy, The Secret of the Moon Dial, featuring a pocket watch with mysterious powers, will be independently published in the late summer/early fall 2026. Her second book will come out in 2027. She is an active member of SCBWI. When not writing or reading, you can find her taking photos for her blog, hiking, traveling, and making tiny books for her two grandchildren.Courtney Raines lives on the “wet coast” of British Columbia, Canada. She spends her days ferrying her children from one place to the next, planning camps for other people’s kids, and writing. When she has free time, you can find her with her nose in a book. She has work previously published in The Leaf.Elizabeth Jaffari is a San Diego, CA based artist, cosplay maker and writer. She received an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from the California Institute of the Arts. Her work often explores the intersections of whimsy and horror. You can find her sipping tea and finding a use for unused art supplies.Erin Hall (she/her) is a reader, writer, and vegan nacho enthusiast. She’s the author of the Detective Molly Malone series, which begins with her debut novel, Dear Sylvia, Love Jane. In addition to writing, she teaches classes in fiction and memoir writing, offers marketing coaching to small businesses and entrepreneurs, and also works a day job as a content marketing manager and strategist. Outside of writing and coaching, Erin serves on the board of Gather Repertory Theatre, the planning committee for the Terroir Creative Writing Festival, and is an active member of the Oregon Historical Society and Willamette Writers. She holds a Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing, and she always wants to know what you’re reading.J.S. Mercer is a writer from England with a focus on speculative fiction, and a love of all things horror.
James Carraghan is a writer and collage artist from Pennsylvania. In 2024, he published A Guided Tour Through Hell, a zine collection of weird fiction, as well as Laughing in the Realms of the Unreal, a tribute to artist Henry Darger. His work has been published in Flights of Fantasy, LitHub, Bleed Error, Terse. Journal, The Lizzie Borden House Anthology, and Lured into the Deep, among other publications. He currently drives a library bookmobile, bringing stories to communities without a library of their own. Visit his website at https://librarynevercloses.wordpress.com/ and follow him on Instagram @libraryboy24 for more of his work.Katherine Quevedo was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. She is the author of the Elgin Award-winning poetry chapbook The Inca Weaver’s Tales (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024) and the fantasy novella Thrice Petrified (Of Metal and Magic Publishing, 2025). Her fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appears in Claw Machine, Nightmare Magazine, Last Girls Club, LatineLit, On Spec, Abyss & Apex, and elsewhere. Find her at www.katherinequevedo.com.Katrina Jax has a particular affinity for strange, dark, hopeful stories full of fantastical elements and emotional turmoil. Born and raised in Virginia, she loves traveling (especially in South America), drinking coffee (hot over iced), and running (when she has writer's block). Previous publications include a flash fiction piece appearing in the Havok Publishing anthology Rebirth under the name Lila Kims.Madi Haab (she/her) is a queer and neurodivergent writer and poet of Moroccan descent from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She draws inspiration from her mixed cultural heritage and identities to explore the liminal and interstitial. In 2025, she was the winner of the Marina Nemat Award for Fantasy and QWF’s carte blanche Prize, and has been published in Augur Magazine, Haven Speculative, Baffling Magazine, and more. When not writing, she dabbles in art and singing, and likes video games and afternoon naps a little too much. Find her at madihaab.com and on Bluesky @madihaab.Mia Dalia is an internationally published, Crime Writers Association-nominated author of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange. Her short stories of horror, noir, science fiction, mystery, crime, humor, and more have been featured in a variety of anthologies, magazines, literary journals, online, and adapted for narrative podcasts. Her work has been voted top ten of Tales to Terrify 2023, shortlisted for the CWA's Daggers Awards 2024, acclaimed by Booklist, and praised by genre luminaries such as Michael Marshall Smith, Stephen Jones, Marie O'Regan, Clay McLeod Chapman, Neil Sharpson, M.R. Carey, A.C. Wise, Edward Ashton, and more. She is the author of the novels Estate Sale and Haven, novellas Alakazam, Tell Me a Story, Discordant, Arrokoth, and Do You Know The Muffin Man? and the collection Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness. Her upcoming work will be published by Lethe Press, Crystal Lake Publishing, PS Publishing, Earthling Publications, and more.Niyyah Ruscher-Haqq writes middle grade and adult speculative fantasy and horror. She emphasizes Muslim-American, multicultural, and neurodivergent stories. Her work has appeared in Demagogue Press, Believe in Wonder Publishing, Weird Fiction Quarterly, Bel Esprit, and Hayaat House. By day, she's a healthcare provider and can get really nerdy with you about infectious disease, emergency medicine, and toxicology. She is the Portland SCBWI Coffee Coordinator, and Co-Chair for Young Willamette Writers. She is a member of SCBWI and HWA. She is a professional candle and soap maker and an amateur marionettist, and a passionate yet unskilled karaoke devotee.Raymond Brunell writes speculative and gothic fiction exploring grief, transformation, and the impossible systems we build to survive loss. His work has appeared in Skeleton Flowers Press, The Drift, and Moss Puppy Magazine. He lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where time doesn't always flow the way it should. More at www.unbound-atlas.com.Reign Reeves Pearson is a genre-blending storyteller, voice actor, and chaos enthusiast, equally at home conjuring creeping dread or biopunk rebellion—sometimes in the same afternoon. Based in Houston, she shares her home with her husband, four kids, and three cats who are definitely plotting something. A lifelong fan of the eerie, uncanny, and undead, Reign dives deep into horror, with a knack for threading heart (and heartbreak) through the shadows. When she’s not summoning stories, she lends her voice to animation, audiobooks, and games—bringing characters to life with the same intensity and range she pours into her writing. She also crafts elaborate D&D campaigns, gets emotionally wrecked by Final Fantasy VII (again), or stares dramatically out the window while it rains. Always with a Kopiko in hand.Rose Wilde Hall is a queer disabled working artist living in a lightly haunted house in Portland, Oregon. She was raised by brilliant heretics and feral librarians, and thus grew up to be both deeply unserious and burdened with terrible knowledge. Her heroes are Pippi Longstocking and the velociraptors from Jurassic Park.Sarah Walker is a Pacific Northwest anthropologist, writer, artist, and head art director, and co-editor/co-owner of Weird Fiction Quarterly with Chris Karr, a flash fiction magazine created by Russell Smeaton. With the editing magic of Shayne Keen and Scott Couturier, be sure to check it out if you like flash fiction! Sarah has been published in multiple venues from Vasterian to Lovecraft Ezine and also illustrated, wrote, and curated A Walk in a Darker Wood along with the sequel, A Walk in a City of Shadows with Gordon White, Duane Pesice, Jill Hand, Nora Peevy and Phil Breach.Susan E. Rogers lives in sunny St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA transplanted from Massachusetts. Her move was the catalyst to focus on her life-long ambition to write. Her other interests include genealogy and psychic spirituality, and she often twists these into her writing. She’s published two speculative non-fiction books, and three horror novels with small independent presses. Her short fiction has been published in anthologies, podcasts, and numerous literary and genre magazines. A complete listing of her work is found at www.susanerogers.com.

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