Celebrating Women’s History Month 2025 with Monster Complex female authors!
To join in Women’s History Month, Monster Complex wants to share several of the women authors we’ve talked about on the site. Find out more about these ladies—plus links to find them online.
Bookshop: How buying eBooks can now support your local bookstore
Since its launch five years ago, online platform Bookshop.org has been helping local bookstores sell online. And now the company offers a way for indie bookstores to sell eBooks, too.
Horror and urban fantasy authors we featured on our Instagram page
Bookstagram has attracted book lovers from all over the Internet to celebrate their favorite fiction. Find out more about the authors and the books we talk about on the Monster Complex™ page on Instagram.
Urban Fantasy: 32 Notable Women Authors
Here at Monster Complex, lots of our readers are regularly checking in for the next great urban fantasy series. Check out a list of notable female authors whose fiction combines a realistic urban setting with far-out elements like vampires, werewolves, and faeries.
Faith Hunter Q&A: Rift in the Soul “Adding magic didn’t make anything easier for anyone.”
The urban fantasy author stops by as part of her blog tour for her latest novel! Faith Hunter talks to Monster Complex about the fun—and challenges—of writing a magical story that’s also a police drama.
Faith Hunter: Complete Soulwood Books—including RIFT IN THE SOUL
Learn about the latest book in this urban fantasy series about investigators who solve paranormal crimes. We also have info on every book in the series—including a collection with stories from both Soulwood and Jane Yellowrock!
Faith Hunter: Where should you start with her books?
Urban fantasy author Faith Hunter has written multiple series. We go over her books, discuss with her the growing popularity of vampires, and she shares what ties her different fiction together.
Discover Urban Fantasy: 101 Must-Know Authors and Their Best Works
Meet some of the most popular authors who combine the supernatural with the world out your window! Their fiction mashes together the complexities of modern life with vampires, werewolves, and other magic details.
Top 61 Monster Complex posts in 2022 about authors and books
Here at Monster Complex we explore the pages of urban fantasy, horror, supernatural thrillers, paranormal, zombie, vampire, magic and other kinds of monster fiction. Here are the most popular articles about horror fiction that folks were reading on Monster Complex last year…
Top 40 Vampire Posts on Monster Complex in 2022
We cover a lot of vampire fiction here on Monster Complex. As we enter 2023, we thought it’d be nice to highlight the most popular “vampire” articles from the past year.
Part 3: 200 Authors Every Horror Reader Should Know (F-H)
Here’s part three of our massive list of authors for fans of horror fiction, urban fantasy, vampires, zombies, ghost stories, magic, science fiction, dark fantasy, and other monster fiction.
100 Supernatural Detective Series UPDATED
Want books that mix urban fantasy and crime fiction? Including Jim Butcher, Shweta Taneja, Seanan McGuire, Jewell Parker Rhodes, plus novels from X-Files, Supernatural—and more.
200+ Monster Book Series
List of book series that feature monsters, magic, folklore, urban fantasy, science gone wrong, alien invasions, zombies, vampires, and the supernatural.
Writing Tips from 31 Horror Authors
Including tips and advice from Stephen King, Anne Rice, Zoraida Córdova, H.P. Lovecraft, Linda D. Addison, Peter Straub, Faith Hunter, Dean Koontz, Nalini Singh, Shirley Jackson, and more!
Ep 01: Killing Vampires and The Beast Within: Author Faith Hunter (Jane Yellowrock)
The author of the Jane Yellowrock urban fantasy books, Faith Hunter shares how Yellowrock has grown as a character over the series, explains why she doesn’t write sex scenes, and reveals how she’ll know when it’s time to end the series.
If You Like Kim Harrison: 25 More Authors
Kim Harrison’s series is set in a universe where supernatural beings live among the human population. Want to discover more authors who write about the fantastical among the everyday?
The Vampire Issue: Faith Hunter, L.A. Banks, Anne Rice, Buffy vs. X-Files
Featuring authors Faith Hunter, Delizhia Jenkins, L.A. Banks, Anne Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, plus Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs. X-Files, Top 5 Underrated Vampire Movies, and more!
Urban Fantasy Author Faith Hunter: The Monster Complex Interview
How Jane Yellowrock has grown over the course of the books, why she doesn’t write sex scenes, and how she’ll know when it’s time to end the series.
60+ Special Vampire Book Series—from Anne Rice, L.A. Banks, Charlaine Harris, more
Vampire fiction has captivated readers and audiences for more than a hundred years. Some of these vampire novels lean into horror or paranormal romance, while others fall in between.
Monster Complex News April 18, 2020
News for Doctor Strange 2, The Shining TV series, Urban fantasy author Faith Hunter, Godzilla board games, flashback to John Carpenter's the Thing, and Top 5 Underrated Vampire Movies!