Interview: Johnny Compton on DEVILS KILL DEVILS
In our exclusive interview, the author explains how his monster research impacts him as a storyteller, and how he wrestles with both real-world monsters and those that are fantastical…
Luke Jennings on continuing KILLING EVE as a free serialized novel online
Find out about the new book in the Killing Eve series—and why you can read it free online! Killing Eve creator Luke Jennings talks about his wide range as an author, the espionage fiction that inspires him, and his goals with the Killing Eve books. You can also find out more about the earlier volumes in the series.
Complete Kitty Norville by Carrie Vaughn: “Werewolves kind of got short-changed over the last 100 years.”
A look at all the books in the series about a werewolf who hosts a talk radio advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. “I realized that vampires and werewolves and other supernatural creatures living in the modern world would need their own advice shows,” the author says, “because Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil just wouldn’t know what to do with their problems.”
Complete Blue Rose Trilogy by Peter Straub: “I knew how fear tasted and how it worked.”
A look behind how these horror/mystery books impacted all the popular writer’s work. “My childhood trauma demonstrated to me very bluntly that the world was not at all benign.” Find out more about the author—and all the books in this important series.
Complete Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson: “My wordview creeps into my fiction, of course.”
A look at the book series where F. Paul Wilson explores the evil of man—and the supernatural evil that man keeps alive. “I can’t imagine not writing. If I can intro you to a different way of looking at life and society than you were allowed to see in the state-run schools, fine.”
Complete Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz: “The lingering dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.”
“‘The lingering dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.’ So that complicates his efforts to assist them.” From one of the most successful novelists comes one of his most popular works—starring a young fry cook who can see the spirits of the “lingering dead.”
Seanan McGuire Q&A + Complete Wayward Children Series List
“I have never been an author who didn’t write in series form.” Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series has won multiple awards, and been optioned to be a TV show. We share a a complete list of books in the series, plus author interviews with McGuire.
Complete Talisman series by Stephen King and Peter Straub
A look behind the scenes of the blockbuster series co-written by these horror fiction masters. “I like the idea of horror,” Peter Straub says, “to speak truths otherwise ignored or suppressed.”
Complete RING series by Koji Suzuki: “I really dislike most horror writing.”
Koji Suzuki’s The Ring horror trilogy has expanded to include more books, plus lots of movies, TV shows, comics, and video games. “All human diseases and illnesses are more or less influenced by state of mind,” the author said. Find out for more about the series!
Why We Are Drawn to the Macabre: Horror Authors Panel Discussion
A panel discussion where authors Daniel Willcocks, Leanna Renee Hieber, and Andrea Janes talk about what makes horror fiction connect with readers. “You have to feel some kind of empathy for that character.”
Charlaine Harris Q&A: Gunnie Rose series continues with ‘All the Dead Shall Weep’
Charlaine Harris soon returns to her version of America where magic is acknowledged but despised. It is the fifth title in her Gunnie Rose series, which follows a young gunslinger a on deadly mission across an alternate version of 1930s America. The author answers questions about the series, about writing, and how Anne Rice influenced her.
Complete Dark Tower series by Stephen King: “It’s fun to play with a world where feelings of mysticism and wonder are taken for granted.”
Find out all about Stephen King’s multiverse fantasy western series Dark Tower. “If you create an entirely new, fictional world, readers who participate in the creation of that world say, ‘Fine. Let it exist according to its own laws,’” King says. “That’s wonderful.”
Urban Fantasy Showcase: 100 Authors To Know and Their Works
Including authors Jim Butcher, L.A. Banks, Patricia Briggs, Nalini Singh, Seanan McGuire, Zoraida Cordova, Kim Harrison, Maurice Broaddus, Faith Hunter, Nalo Hopkinson, Roshani Chokshi, Nnedi Okorafor and more.
Complete Kate Daniels Series by Ilona Andrews in Order + Q&A
The Kate Daniels series from Ilona Andrews takes place in a magical version of Atlanta where the world has suffered a magic apocalypse…
Tiffany D. Jackson: The Weight of Blood
When Springville residents are questioned about prom night, they all have the same explanation...Maddy did it. What they don’t know is that Maddy has a secret that will cost them all their lives.
Fairy Tale By Stephen King [Spotlight]
Stephen King Reveals a Chapter from FAIRY TALE: In this spellbinding novel, a 17-year-old boy inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war…
Kim Harrison: Rachel Morgan | Hollows Series Reading Order + Author Q&A
The complete order of Kim Harrison’s Hollows Series, plus the author on switching from epic fantasy to urban fantasy, why she restarted the series, and her scientific approach to magic.
Charles Stross: Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files #11) - Spotlight
It’s a brave new Britain under the New Management. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers…
The Book of Souls by Kevin Moore, based on true events (Spotlight + Author Interview)
True events inspired this compelling paranormal thriller as 40-something Jack Kelly travels into his 13-year-old self with the sudden ability to interact with the dead and fight demons.
Stephen King, Richard Chizmar: Gwendy’s Final Task (Gwendy’s Button Box Trilogy #3) - Spotlight
Evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities?