Katherine Kerestman (B.A. English and History, John Carroll University; M. A. English, Case Western Reserve University) is the author of Lethal(Psychotoxin Press, 2023), Creepy Cat’s Macabre Travels: Prowling around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards(WordCrafts Press, 2020), and Haunted House and Other Strange Tales (Hippocampus Press, 2024), as well as the co-editor (with S. T. Joshi) of The Weird Cat (WordCrafts Press, 2023) and Shunned Houses: An Anthology of Weird Stories, Unspeakable Poems, and Impious Essays(WordCrafts Press, 2024).

More than 60 of her Lovecraftian and gothic poems, essays, and short stories have been featured in Black Wings VII, Penumbra, Journ-E, Spectral Realms, Illumen, Retro-Fan, Dissections, Off-Course, Lovecraftiana and other discerning publications.

Katherine thinks Dracula and Wuthering Heights are the greatest books ever written, and is wild about Dark Shadows and Twin Peaks. Her name is etched among the inscrutable glyphs of the Esoteric Order of Dagon and the Dracula Society. Interested parties may stalk her at www.creepycatlair.com

Katherine’s debut at Leg Iron Books is in UA24 : Monster.