Aimee Bender is the author of three books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, and Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of the year.
Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper's, Tin House, [McSweeney's][1], The Paris Review, and many more, as well as heard on PRI's This American Life and Selected Shorts. She's rece...
Brian Keene is a master of modern horror, known for his gripping tales that often blend the supernatural with gritty realism. His work, including the standout collection Smoke and Mirrors, offers readers a thrilling and often unsettling experience. If you're looking for stories that get under your skin, Keene's is a great place to start.
Christopher Golden (born July 15, 1967) is a New York Times bestselling author of horror and dark fantasy who has been called 'the king of the horror-thriller.' Born and still living in Massachusetts and a graduate of Tufts University, he is best known for novels including the Bram Stoker Award-winning Ararat, Snowblind, Road of Bones, All Hallows and Red Hands, and for his debut vampire series the Shadow Saga. He works across media: with Mike Mignola he co-created the comics 'Outerverse' - home...
David Liss writes historical thrillers and fantasy, including books like The Twelfth Enchantment and Mercader de Café. He also explores darker themes, contributing to horror collections such as The New Dead and Dark Discoveries. Expect suspense and rich historical detail in his stories.
David Wellington is an American horror and science-fiction novelist, born in Pittsburgh in 1971 and based in New York City. He first built an audience by serializing his fiction online before it reached print, beginning with the zombie trilogy Monster Island, Monster Nation and Monster Planet. He went on to write the Laura Caxton vampire novels, which open with 13 Bullets, and the werewolf novels Frostbite and Overwinter, set in the Canadian Arctic. His science fiction includes The Last Astronau...
If you're looking for dark, gripping thrillers, Derek Nikitas is an author to discover. His works, including The New Dead, Extra Life, and Pyres, are known for their intense plots and sharp writing.
Holly Newstein is the author of horror and speculative fiction, including The New Dead and Halloween Carnival Volume 2. She also penned the sci-fi adventure Borderlands 5, offering readers a range of supernatural and futuristic stories.
James A. Moore writes dark fantasy and horror, including titles like The New Dead and The Gods of HP Lovecraft. His stories often explore grim themes, appearing in collections such as LampLight - Volume 2 Issue 1 and SNAFU: Unnatural Selection.
Hill is the second child of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. He grew up in Bangor, Maine. His younger brother Owen is also a writer. Hill has three sons.
Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named) in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits instead of as the son of Stephen King. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007 after an articl...
Joe R. Lansdale is an American author of horror, crime, western and science fiction, born in Gladewater, Texas, and long based in Nacogdoches. He has written more than forty novels and many short stories, comics and screenplays, all steeped in the East Texas setting. He is best known for the Hap and Leonard crime series, the novella Bubba Ho-Tep and the novel The Bottoms, which won the Edgar Award. He has also won multiple Bram Stoker Awards.
John Connolly is an Irish writer, born in Dublin on 31 May 1968. He studied English at Trinity College Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University, and worked as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times before turning to fiction. He is best known for the Charlie Parker series of supernatural-tinged crime novels, which began with Every Dead Thing (1999). His other books include the standalone fantasy The Book of Lost Things (2006), the Samuel Johnson young-adult trilogy, the Chronicles of t...
Jonathan Maberry is an American author, anthology editor and comic book writer, born in Philadelphia in 1958. He is best known for the Joe Ledger thrillers, which open with Patient Zero, and for the young adult Rot & Ruin series, whose first book won the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. His debut novel, Ghost Road Blues, won the Stoker for Best First Novel. He writes horror, thrillers, science fiction and fantasy for adult, teen and middle grade readers, has written for Marvel Comics, and...
Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author of fantasy, horror, thriller and romance novels for adults and teens. She debuted in 2001 with Bitten, the first novel in her Women of the Otherworld series, and has gone on to write the Darkest Powers, Darkness Rising, Age of Legends, Cainsville and Rockton series, among others. Her novel No Humans Involved was a New York Times bestseller, and The Rising won the Aurora Award for Best YA Novel in 2014. Her Otherworld novels inspired the television se...
Maximillian Michael Brooks(born May 22, 1972), best known as Max Brooks, is an American actor and author. He is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories. He is a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York.
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M. B. Homler is the author of The New Dead, a book that delivers a fresh and unsettling take on familiar fears. If you're looking for a read that stays with you, this is it.
Mike Carey (Michael James Carey, born 1959 in Liverpool) is a British writer of comics, novels and screenplays who also publishes prose fiction as M. R. Carey. He studied English at St Peter's College, Oxford, and taught for around fifteen years before writing full time. In comics he wrote the long-running Vertigo series Lucifer, a run on Hellblazer, and the creator-owned Crossing Midnight and The Unwritten (with artist Peter Gross), plus several years on Marvel's X-Men titles. His prose debut w...
Rick Hautala is the author of The End of the World, a collection of chilling apocalypse stories. He's a writer who knows how to deliver a good scare.
American comics artist
Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957 in San Jose, California) is an American fantasy author based in California. His works, which span epic fantasy, science fiction, urban fantasy, comics, and scripts, have sold tens of millions of copies worldwide and significantly influenced a generation of writers. Williams is known for his genre-defining and genre-blending contributions to literature, including his breakthrough novel [Tailchaser's Song][1], the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series...
Tim Lebbon is a talented, highly-respected author, and the winner of the British Fantasy Society’s August Derleth Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2006) for Dusk (Bantam Spectra, 2006), the first of his “Noreela” fantasy saga. It was followed with the release of Dawn (Bantam Spectra, 2007), and 2008 sees the publication of Fallen.
Mr. Lebbon is the co-author with Christopher Golden of the novel Mind the Gap: A Novel of the Hidden Cities (Cemetery Dance: May 2008; Bantam Spectra, May 2008). He als...