“‘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.”

If you enjoy urban fantasy with hard-boiled detectives and supernatural creatures, check out this series with “plenty of action, folklore, magic, and suspense.”

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!

Meet popular authors who contrast reality with magical elements to make social critiques. Including authors Louise Erdrich, Gabriel García Márquez, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and more!

Looking at Kalayna Price’s urban fantasy series starring a witch who solves crimes speaking to the dead. “I enjoy working in a world that is recognizable but with a magical overlay,” the author says. “I like the endless possibilities available to work with.”

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!

A look at the magical realism fiction that inspired the movie Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, which adapts the stories of magical realism author Haruki Murakami.

With a brand-new title coming out soon, Monster Complex is turning its focus to author Nalini Singh’s New York Times bestselling paranormal romance Psy-Changeling Trinity series.

The paranormal author talks about the broken love story that inspired her to write her own books. “What is wonderful about fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal novels is that the unknown, fantastical, and unmanageable can exist alongside the mundane and the familiar.”

Lauretta Hignett talks to Monster Complex about her fun, fast-paced urban fantasy series Foils and Fury. “The odd-couple buddy comedy practically wrote itself.” Foils and Fury is a fun, fast-paced urban fantasy and paranormal cozy mystery series with a diverse cast including witches, shifters, vampires, sassy skeletons and, of course, vengeance demons.

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.

Find out how N.D. Jones is impacting publishing, learn about the story that inspired her to write a special brand of paranormal romance, and read up on the books in her Fairy Tale Fatale series. “What makes my brand of romance special is that I write what I see as a dearth in the paranormal romance genre.”

The Kate Daniels series from Ilona Andrews takes place in a magical version of Atlanta where the world has suffered a magic apocalypse…

We cover a lot of monster fiction here on Monster Complex—including books, movies, TV, music, games, comic books and more. Here are the most popular posts from the past year.

The Vampire Huntress Legend series was written by L.A. Banks (1959-2011). The urban fantasy series centers around a twenty-something woman who, by night, hunts vampires and demon-predators.

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…

Who wrote the Vampire Diaries books? And when did the Vampire Diaries books come out? The novels were written by more than one person, and we don’t even know all the names.

The Vampire Diaries is a YA vampire fiction series of novels created by L.J. Smith. The author explains why her fiction includes strong female characters…

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.

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.