Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games. They're a recipient of the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award.
Wong studied fiction at North Carolina State University, graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts. In July 2018, they were hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch. Wong is the writer for Marvel Comics's Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series that began in 2020 and for the 2022 Deadpool series. [source](https://e...
Angela Slatter is an Australian author of speculative fiction. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Ditmar Award, the Australian Shadows Award, and numerous Aurealis Awards.
Brian Evenson writes unsettling dark fantasy and horror, with his work frequently featured in collections like The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. He is known for his ghost stories and gothic tales, including his own collection, Body Shocks.
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 26 May 1964) is an Irish-born American paleontologist and writer of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including 10 novels, series of comic books, and more than 250 published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. Kiernan is a two-time recipient of both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards.
Source: [Caitlín R. Kiernan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan) on Wikipedia.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Wastelands, a collection that explores themes of horror and the uncanny. Her work often blends genre fiction with sharp, insightful prose.
Cassandra Khaw, born August 31, 1984, is a Malaysian writer of horror and science fiction who also works as a video game scriptwriter for studios including Ubisoft Montreal, and has written for tabletop RPGs and as a games journalist. Their fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Fireside Fiction, Uncanny Magazine, and Nature. Their novella Hammers on Bone was a British Fantasy and Locus Award finalist, and their novel The Salt Grows Heavy and USA Today bestseller Nothing But Blackened Te...
Christopher Fowler would make a good serial killer. He's charming and English and lives in a white penthouse with a view of St Paul’s Cathedral, and you'd think butter wouldn't melt in his mouth until you read his dark urban fiction — 17 novels and over 120 short stories so far.
His œuvre divides into black comedy, horror, mystery, the odd revolting death and a set of novels unclassifiable enough to have publishers tearing their hair out. Emerging from a film industry background, he has come p...
Cody Goodfellow writes across the spectrum of dark speculative fiction, from the cosmic horror of Whispers from the Abyss Vol.2 and A Mountain Walked to the satirical Amazing Stories of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He's also known for his contributions to zombie fiction with The Living Dead 2 and unsettling body horror in Body Shocks.
Edward Bryant is a writer whose work has appeared in the influential Again, Dangerous Visions anthology. He's known for his contributions to science fiction and fantasy.
Ellen Datlow is a leading editor in horror and science fiction, known for anthologies like Final Cuts, Christmas and Other Horrors, and Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories. She also edited The Second Omni book of science fiction and the Women Destroy Horror! special issue of Nightmare Magazine.
Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Her short story, "The Emperor's Old Bones", won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series The Hunger.
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Kaaron Warren writes dark fantasy and horror, with stories appearing in collections like Body Shocks and The Grinding House. Her work is also featured in multiple "Year's Best" anthologies, including The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012 and The Best Horror of the Year Volume 14.
Kij Johnson is a science fiction and fantasy writer whose work frequently appears in Clarkesworld Magazine. Her stories are featured in issues 71, 114, 138, and
Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian speculative fiction writer born in Newcastle, New South Wales, who studied at the University of Newcastle before relocating to Melbourne and later Ballarat, where she lives with her husband, author Jason Nahrung. Her debut novel, Madigan Mine, won the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel. She has since written the novel Perfections and the collection Caution: Contains Small Parts, served on the committee of the Australian Horror Writers Association, and co...
Lisa L Hannett writes dark and speculative fiction, with a knack for unsettling tales. Her notable works include the anthology The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, plus collections like Body Shocks, Blood Sisters, and Midnight and Moonshine. She's a go-to for readers seeking a chilling read.
Livia Llewellyn is an author known for her dark and speculative fiction, often exploring unsettling themes. Her works include the collections Mythic Delirium and Body Shocks, along with the novel Wonder and Glory Forever. She has also contributed to publications like LampLight.
Lucy Taylor is a celebrated voice in horror, with stories featured in collections like The Best Horror of the Year Volume 5 and Body Shocks. Her work also appears in Dark Love and Crossing the Border, making her a must-read for fans of the genre.
Michael Blumlein was a distinctive voice in dark fantasy and speculative fiction. His notable works include the collections Dark Love and Body Shocks, alongside novels like Black Swan, White Raven, and The Movement of Mountains. He was known for stories that often explored the strange edges of human experience.
Nathan Ballingrud is the editor of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. He's a writer who knows his way around the darker corners of speculative fiction.
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Priya Sharma writes dark fantasy and horror, with stories appearing in collections like The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012 and Great British Horror 4. She is also the author of Body Shocks, Follow The Breeze, and Let Miracles Flow.
Ray Cluley writes chilling horror and imaginative science fiction. Look for his collection Body Shocks, or his stories in The Fourth Science Fiction MEGAPACK and Great British Horror 1.
Richard Christian Matheson Richard Christian Matheson (born October 14, 1953) is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. He is the author of over 100 short stories of psychological horror and magic realism which are gathered in over 150 major anthologies and in his critically hailed hardcover short story collections Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks, Amazon #1 bestseller Dystopia and Zoopraxis. He is the author of the suspense novel Created By and Hollywood novella of magic realism *The Ritual of...
Richard Kadrey is the author of the Wastelands series, a collection of gripping stories about the apocalypse. He's a master of dark fantasy and gritty, imaginative fiction.
Seanan McGuire (born January 5, 1978, in Martinez, California) is an American author of urban fantasy, science fiction and horror. She writes the October Daye and InCryptid urban fantasy series and the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series under her own name, science fiction and horror as Mira Grant, and the children's portal fantasy "Up-and-Under" series as A. Deborah Baker. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010 and has since won multiple Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awa...
Simon Bestwick writes unsettling horror, often with a British twist. He's known for works like Body Shocks and his zombie collection, Brain-Eating Britain. His stories have also appeared in The Best Horror of the Year.
Tananarive Due is an American writer of horror, science fiction and mystery, born in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1966. Her debut novel The Between appeared in 1995, and she went on to write the African Immortals series, beginning with My Soul to Keep, as well as The Good House. Her novel The Reformatory won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel along with the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards; her story collection Ghost Summer won the British Fantasy Award, and The Living Blood earned an Amer...
Terry Dowling is a writer known for his ghost stories and gothic fiction, with notable works including Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Body Shocks, and Exotic Gothic 4. Explore his unsettling worlds for tales that linger.
Tom Johnstone writes compelling horror and dark fantasy. His works include the collections Body Shocks and Cutting Block Single Slices, Volume 1, along with stories like How I Learned The Truth About Krampus. He has also contributed to Kzine Issue 12 and penned The cross on the sword.