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.
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.
28 Striking Vampire Books—including horror, romance, fantasy, and comedy titles
This list of remarkable vampire books shows classics to blockbuster series—ranging from horror and romance to fantasy or even comedy. Which books would you add to the list?
30+ Black Authors for fans of Horror, Urban Fantasy, and Paranormal Fiction
There are many great Black writers that readers of horror, urban fantasy and paranormal fiction should get to know. Our list includes Helen Oyeyemi, Linda D. Addison, Tananarive Due, and lots more!
30+ Indie Urban Fantasy Authors—including Ilona Andrews, Brandon Sanderson, more
Celebrating several self-published and hybrid urban fantasy authors, including Ilona Andrews, Jessica Cage, Dan Willis, Whitney Hill, N.D. Jones, N.E. Conneely, D.M. Guay, Lindsay Buroker, and lots more!
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.
75+ Urban Fantasy Writers Who Aren’t White UPATED
Including L.A. Banks, Maurice Broaddus, Jessica Cage, Zoraida Córdova, Owl Goingback, Nalo Hopkinson, N. K. Jemisin, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Shweta Taneja, Kenesha Williams, and more.
‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Fans—16 Vampire Books You Should Check Out
For fans of vampire stories that break into new territory, check out these 16 vampire books that offer their own unique spin on vampire mythology.
Kenesha Williams on Non-POC Authors Writing POC Characters
“I’ve seen it done well and I’ve seen it done marginally well, and I’ve seen it done poorly.”
Vampire Q&A: Kenesha Williams (Blood Debt)
“There’s a cost with each transaction, and I like stories that explore those costs.” Author Kenesha Williams reveals her unique spin on vampires in BLOOD DEBT, names her favorite vampire movies and TV series, and explains what’s wrong with vampires that aren’t scary.
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?
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.