Threads that Bind is a coalition of authors and artists specializing in things macabre. Monsters? We know monsters. Demons? We got ’em. Criminals of the nastiest sort? Do you have to ask? Here you’ll find the minds who bring you the stories and artwork that have you checking under the bed at night.

Your Hosts for the Macabre

Andrea Merchak – Brian Tyler – Bryce Raffle

C.W. Hawes – David Lee Summers

Eva Kreepers – Garrett Dennis

Jack Tyler – Peter Davidson – William Mowass

Andrea Merchak has been passionate about the horror genre since she was 4–5 years old and sneaked out of her bedroom to see the horror films her father watched. Her stories are pure, graphic, vicious horror that stay with readers long after they finish reading.

Brian Tyler, a.k.a. Draws With Shadows, is an original, talented and creative designer and freelance artist of 10 plus years. Skilled at quick but creative black and white artwork, Brian Strives to improve his art with each drawing and can be contracted for covers and illustrations.

Bryce Raffle is an author of everything from children’s books to gut-twisting horror, an illustrator and game writer who works in the Canadian film industry. A true Rennaissance Man, Bryce has chosen to grace our pages with his words of wit and wisdom. Expect the unexpected with this one.

CW Hawes is one of the hardest-working indies in the Craft today. Responsible for a number of series across multiple genres, CW brings the talent to succeed in all of them. Expect ghosts, goblins, and an eerily spot-on channeling of the Cthulhu Mythos in all of its glory.

David Lee Summers is a well-known writer in the fields of steampunk, sci-fi, and a very off-beat brand of the supernatural that indulges clockwork mummies in Victorian London and vampires in deep space. David labors in his “day” job as a full-time astronomer at the Kitt Peak Observatory, so his fiction is very much based in scientific fact. Every bit the gentleman that he appears to be, David is a delight to know, so be sure to say hello while you’re visiting the site!

Eva Kreepers; Childhood was a different me who feared dark corners, shadows, hideous creatures, ghosts, and what ever else imaginative creators could put into words or on film. My fears may not be completely gone and could easily resurface, but so far my quest for enlightenment in this area is strong and I’m forging ahead rather than running away. It’s like metal to magnet drawing me into the darkness and it is a peaceful journey at least until I find the monster under the bed. Then the battle is on and the adventure is in full swing. Words are my artists tools I use to make word art pictures of deep darkness, coldness, and depraved actions, thoughts, and evil things do what most people wouldn’t dare to consider. Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back. The black cat and shadows are beckoning and I must follow.

Garrett Dennis is a Jekyll-and-Hyde indie author who’s retired from two careers (biologist, software engineer). He emulates the famous writer Margaret Atwood in that, like her, he has no set writing routine and writes when he can in between everything else. As Garrett Dennis, he’s known for his Storm Ketchum Adventures series of coastal tales set on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a picturesque location that still leans pleasantly toward the quaint, but sometimes also toward the dark. That’s his Dr. Jekyll persona; in his Mr. Hyde persona, he writes risque horror / sci-fi as Gerhard Dennis. Mix up those two names at your peril. You’ve been warned!

Jack Tyler is the Administrator and coordinator for the talented authors and artists of the site. He has several books and stories available from his younger days, and still manages to write an occasional short thriller.

Peter Davidson is retired, based just south of London in the UK, and a lifelong photographer. Is he now a writer? Not really. He has nothing published and has no such ambition. Creating stories that seem to revolve around the darker side of our human impulses and emotions has simply become addictive. It’s fun, he’s having a blast, and hopes you will too.

Will Mowass is a fine purveyor of alternate worlds such as the Legacy Universe, the World Of Luminous Perils, and more. He is a wandering goth, a Trekkie, and a man breaking out from many straightjackets.

These are the denizens of Threads that Bind. We expect that more will join the fold periodically. There’s a lot of experience here to be plumbed, so bookmark the site and come back frequently for the latest from great creative minds. We’d love to… have you!