Susan Smitten
Susan Smitten is an accomplished television producer, editor and news anchor. She was story editor for the second stellar season of the acclaimed series Cinema Secrets on the American Movie Classics network. Smitten has produced and story-edited for Discovery Channel and Life Network and has worked in recent years as a senior producer with Great North and Television Renaissance. In a recent project, she produced, wrote and directed segments of a new television series called Medical Profiles for Discovery Health, including a one-hour special on actress Carrie Fisher and her struggle with bipolar disorder. Now based in Vancouver, Canada, the charismatic Smitten is still seen periodically in front of the camera as a current affairs program host on CBC Television. When not writing for television, she enjoys combining her journalistic training with her personal interest in folklore to craft ghost story collections for Ghost House Books. Smitten is author of Ghost Stories of Oregon and Ghost Stories of New England and is currently collecting and editing several other volumes of ghost stories.

Edrick Thay
Edrick Thay is the author of almost a dozen books. Born in Edmonton, he holds a degree in English literature from Queen's University in Ontario and a master's degree in journalism from Indiana University. An avid traveler and reader, he currently lives in Toronto. An avid traveler and reader, he longs one day to write from a loft in New York City. In the meantime, he busies himself with expanding his CD collection, improving his skills in the kitchen and finding inspiration in the works of Lahiri, Chabon and Murakami.

Dale Jarvis
DALE JARVIS has the unique occupation of being a professional storyteller in St. John's, Newfoundland. Dale also spends summer evenings conducting tours of the "haunted St. John's." By day, Dale is a researcher with the Heritage Foundation for Newfoundland and Labrador.