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.
Most Popular Posts 2024
Monster Complex celebrates our articles that got the most views in the past year! Looking back at our most-read monster stories from 2024, including stories about monsters in books, movies, TV, music, comic books, and more.
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.
14 Great Women Comic Book Writers
Celebrating Women’s History Month with some great comic book writers. Whether you’re talking about those who write for the major comics publishers or an indie publisher, any list of great comic book writers would include several women.
InCryptid Series by Seanan McGuire In Order
Seanan McGuire’s Hugo-nominated series features an eccentric family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between the humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us.
Season’s Bleedings: 13 Christmas Horror Anthologies with stories from Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Seanan McGuire, and more!
Want a look at the scary side of Christmas? Check out these collections with Christmas horror stories from Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Simon R. Green, Seanan McGuire, Neil Gaiman, Daphne du Maurier, Mercedes Lackey, Arthur Conan Doyle and more!
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.
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.
Seanan McGuire: Lost in the Moment and Found [Spotlight]
“Seanan McGuire has rare ability to delve into deep subjects, in this case loss, without drowning the reader in sorrow.” The latest book from Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series follows a young girl who discovers an infinite variety of worlds...
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…
‘Classic Monsters Unleashed’ by Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Owl Goingback, and more
Sit back for stories of famous monsters in a new collection of horror short stories that reimagine, subvert, and pay homage to our favorite monsters and creatures.
13 Christmas Horror Anthologies
Want a look at the scary side of Christmas? From Krampus and ghosts to zombies and killers, these anthologies offer dozens of authors raising a lot of questions about the season…
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.
Seanan McGuire: Where the Drowned Girls Go [Spotlight]
She knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldn’t save…
There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again.
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.
Best Zombie Books: 50 Great Zombie Novels from Colson Whitehead, Seanan McGuire, Isaac Marion, more
Looking for a zombie story? You can’t swing an undead cat without hitting another one. If you want some help narrowing down the field, here are some zombie novels worth checking out.
Wizard Writers: Jim Butcher + 31 More
Here are more than two-dozen authors who write about magic, magic practitioners, and those who live in a world of magic.
Seanan McGuire: Complete October Daye Urban Fantasy Detective Series
Seanan McGuire’s urban fantasy October Daye series follows changeling knight and sometime P.I. Toby Daye through the streets of San Francisco and into the mercurial world of Faerie.
The Zombie Issue: Isaac Marion, Justina Ireland, Zombie Comedy Movies, More!
Author interviews, Top 13 Zombie Comedy Movies, 70+ Zombie Book Series, plus BONUS links about zombie books, zombie movies, zombies on television, and zombies in comics.
Mira Grant AKA Seanan McGuire: Complete Newsflesh series + Interviews
The author reveals what she wanted to bring to the zombie genre, explains why diverse readers can see themselves in her books, and teaches us how to survive the zombie apocalypse.