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S.A. Barnes is a high school librarian who writes genre-blending science fiction and horror for adults (as Barnes) and romance, mystery, and science fiction for teens as Stacey Kade. Barnes mixes the menacing, creepy, and gruesome aspects of horror with the atmospheric, world-building setting of outer space. Adventurous readers will appreciate these intricately plotted, intensifying stories. |
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South African writer Lauren Beukes writes genre-bending stories filled with unexpected mashups that will delight seasoned fans of science fiction, urban fantasy, literary fiction, graphic novels, and short stories. Beukes skillfully creates strange yet fascinating worlds, some set in South Africa, populated by sympathetic characters trying to build a life or who just want to survive. Her plots involve serial killers, criminals, and dystopian settings that can be gruesome and disturbing, but she skillfully injects satire and thought-provoking elements here and there that will keep readers engaged. |
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Scott Carson is the pseudonym of Michael Koryta, a New York Times bestselling author whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages, adapted into major motion pictures, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. |
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Horror author Richard Chizmar is most known for his intense and haunting novels. He has co-authored works with the King of Horror, Stephen King, and other horror authors. A must-read for fans of Blake Crouch and Stacy Willingham. |
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Australian Darcy Coates is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen horror and suspense novels. Best known for her ghost stories, Coates' novels are intricately plotted, fast-paced, and full of suspense.Books by this author |
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Georgia native Delilah S. Dawson is an American author, primarily of fantasy and science fiction. She writes everything from Star Wars tie-ins to psychological suspense novels. |
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Christina Henry is a horror and dark fantasy author whose works contain twisted characters, cinematic and action-packed moods written in a fast-paced style. |
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Junji Ito is a prolific Japanese mangaka, known as a master of horror. As a writer, Ito creates stories that begin with small but strange occurrences that steadily build into their disturbing and horrific crescendos–from a town haunted by spirals whose residents begin behaving in unnervingly erratic ways to a pervasive rotting stench that spawns destructive multi-legged fish. |
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Ronald Malfi is an award-winning author of several horror novels, mysteries, and thrillers. Most recognized for his haunting literary style and memorable characters, Malfi’s dark fiction has gained acceptance among readers of all genres. |
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The outrageous and suspenseful horror fiction of Graham Masterton doesn't leave readers much time to breathe. Though Masterton skillfully develops mood and atmospheric detail, his well-plotted and fast-paced stories keep readers turning pages with their short chapters, frequent narrative twists, and clear, direct prose. These chilling novels focus on a diverse crop of supernatural evils, including ancient Native American demons, parallel dimensions, restless ghosts, and vicious cults. |
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The mystery and horror fiction of Robert R. McCammon presents sympathetic accounts of the human condition amidst gruesome and fantastic situations. McCammon's imaginative and atmospheric supernatural horror stories feature alien bounty hunters, werewolves employed as military agents, and evil shapeshifters. He draws readers into these fast-paced and bizarre narratives with vivid, perceptive, and sympathetic characterizations and themes of redemption amidst horrific violence. |
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The imaginative, genre-bending fiction of Cherie Priest contains suspenseful, fast-paced tales of survival and adventure. Priest is best known for her Clockwork Century novels, unique alternative histories set in a vividly rendered late 19th-century Seattle full of quirky steampunk technology, horrific zombies, and grim apocalyptic ambiance. |
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Dystopian futures, alternate histories, and fantastic conspiracies are staples of Matt Ruff's imaginative and offbeat fiction. These vividly detailed, atmospheric, and intricately plotted stories lead readers through imaginative deviations from reality, which can be as lighthearted as a fairy-tale college or as dark as a man plagued by the relentless voices of disturbed souls. |
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Award-winning author Jennifer "Jen" Williams is a British fantasy novelist and short story writer most known for her Winnowing Flame trilogy. Her horror novels can be described as suspenseful and plot driven often set in small towns in England. |
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