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.

Linking to news, reviews, and interviews with the urban fantasy author of the Hollows series. “It is very important to me that the series doesn’t just peter out.”

Looking over news, reviews, and interviews with this popular horror author. “As I’m writing a cool monster,” LaValle says, “often halfway through I go, ‘What’s the monster’s point of view? Is it really a monster?’”

Horror comedy author Jeff Strand is interviewed by the Drinking With Authors Podcast. “I self-identify as a horror writer who puts lots of jokes in the books.” Strand is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of more than 50 books, including his novelization of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

Featuring links to news, reviews, and interviews with the urban fantasy author. “I always have more ideas than I have time to write,” says the author best known for her werewolf Kitty Norville series.

Featuring news, reviews, and interviews with the popular urban fantasy authors who write the Kate Daniels series, the Innkeeper Chronicles, The Edge series, and The Hidden Legacy series.

The debut novel of Whitley Strieber, The Wolfen (1978), tells the story of two police detectives in New York City who are involved in the investigation of suspicious deaths across the city…

“I have a lot of nightmares. I have gotten into the habit of writing them down.” Watch this conversation with horror writers S.A. Barnes, Christopher Golden, and Anne Heltzel as they discuss their books and the appeals of reading horror novels.

On a blog tour promoting her new dark fantasy heist novel Thick As Thieves, author M.J. Kuhn tells Monster Complex about the inspirations behind her magical crime series, shares her love of the genre(s), and reveals what she has enjoyed by other storytellers.

A writer in a variety of categories, Clive Barker’s horror short story collections began to attract an audience for his fiction. “Horror stories tend to work very well in the short form,” Barker says, “because they’re a slap across the face.” Find out more about the books in the series.

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.”

The horror, fantasy, and suspense author explains his favorite research story, and reveals the inspiration for his Ben Walker novel Red Hands.

Lawyer-turned-suspense-writer James Scott Bell came up with a humorous horror angle that included a zombie lawyer taking on supernatural cases. Mallory Caine, Zombie at Law, defends the creatures no other lawyer will touch…and longs to reclaim her real life…

Taking a look at the magic vs science series Lizzie Grace, which follows two witches in a werewolf reservation solving supernatural crimes. “What used to annoy me was the lack of capable female stars in many books,” the author says. “Some of us would actually grab the nearest weapon and bop them over the head with it.”

Find about the books in the series combining edgy humor with a dark and truly twisted vision, delivering a masterful amalgam of action novel, urban fantasy, and in-your-face horror.

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?

Polidori has been credited with revising vampire of folklore, changing it into the humanistic monster now often seen in vampire stories today.

Interested in getting the Japanese western horror fantasy Vampire Hunter D? Find out more about the series—and about the amazing sale going on this month.

Looking at the three books in the classic series from the Vampire Chronicles author and her son. “We had to make choices that were about best serving the existing material,” Christopher Rice said.

Looking at the books in the Urban Magick & Folklore series, featuring retellings of fairy tales. “I discovered I loved poking fun at our modern myths,” the author says. “And I loved playing with big ideas…in a story that could be action packed, emotionally moving, and fun.”