Nathan Carson is an author and musician in Portland, OR. His reading is his story "Shewboat" from this year's special anthology Tales From The Emma (a double book with the Lovecraftian Microfiction contest winners on the flip side!) He has several short stories out now: "Gruel Master" in the HWA anthology Scaring and Daring (<a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/scaring-and-daring?variant=43735904649250" target="_blank">Harper Collins</a>), "Our Love Was Nitro" in the <a href="https://a.co/d/bg0ZSRw" target="_blank">Bizarro Circus of Madness,</a> edited by Riley Odell, and "Phantom of the Paramount" in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Back-Into-Ground-Anthology-Northwest-ebook/dp/B0FCCZS38Y" target="_blank">Back Into the Ground</a>: An Anthology of Pacific Northwest inspired Horror (digital release) out from Caretaker Press. He is widely known as co-founder and drummer of the internationally touring doom metal band Witch Mountain, host of the XRAY FM radio show The&nbsp;Heavy Metal Sewïng Cïrcle,&nbsp;and owner of the boutique music booking agency&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nanotear.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 102);">Nanotear</a>. His byline can be found in the&nbsp;Willamette Week&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Oregonian. A regular on the weird fiction convention circuit, he has published many short stories and novelettes in critically acclaimed horror anthologies. His first standalone novella,&nbsp;Starr Creek, was recently released by Lazy Fascist Press and currently sits at #1 on the Goodreads list of&nbsp;“Books Like Stranger Things.”

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