Bentley Little

Bentley Little is an American horror novelist born in 1960 in Mesa, Arizona. His first novel, The Revelation (1990), won the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, and later books such as The Summoning and The Haunted were Stoker nominees.

He is known for suburban and small-town horror in which ordinary institutions turn sinister, as in The Store, The Association, The Town, The Policy, The Resort and The Walking. He studied communications and English at California State University, Fullerton, worked for years as a municipal bureaucrat in Orange County, California, and has written roughly a book a year since.

He has also published story collections including Murmurous Haunts, The Collection and Walking Alone, and wrote Death Instinct under the pseudonym Phillip Emmons.