SCOTT J. COUTURIER is a poet and prose writer of the weird, liminal, & darkly fantastic. His work appears in numerous venues, including Space and Time Magazine, Weirdbook, S. T. Joshi's Spectral Realms, The Literary Hatchet, Eternal Haunted Summer, & Weird Fiction Quarterly. His poetry collection I Awaken In October: Poems of Folk Horror and Halloween is available from Jackanapes Press, while his short story collection The Box is available from Hybrid Sequence Media. Nightmuse: Poems of Speculative Darkness is his second collection of poetry.