Jason Rekulak

Jason Rekulak is an American novelist who lives in Philadelphia. For many years he was publisher of Quirk Books, the Philadelphia press behind Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and he is credited with originating the latter.

Before turning to fiction he wrote and edited illustrated nonfiction and gift books, including The Writer's Block (2001) and Let's Paint the '90s! (2006). His debut novel, The Impossible Fortress (2017), a coming-of-age story set in 1987, was an Edgar Award finalist.

He followed it with the supernatural thriller Hidden Pictures (2022) and the thriller The Last One at the Wedding (2024), which won the International Thriller Writers award for Best Standalone Thriller. His novel Look What the Cat Dragged In is announced for October 2026. His books have been translated into more than forty languages.