WA State Horror Authors
If you like your horror to reflect the Pacific Northwest, these are authors to try! Individual works listed are by Washington state horror authors or are anthologies with specific works by local authors noted. (Created July 2025)
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The Possession of Alba Díaz
This chilling gothic horror novel from bestseller Cañas transports readers to 18th-century Mexico, where a plague outbreak in Zacatecas forces Alba Diaz and her devout Catholic family to flee the city. (Publishers Weekly)
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Overgrowth
Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she's an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. (NoveList)
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Better Living Through Alchemy
Kelly Mun...runs Non-Linear Investigations with her cousin Critter, using psychic and esoteric methods to try to earn a living. When a mysterious businesswoman hires them to find the source of a deadly new street drug called bardo, Kelly's life gets even stranger than usual in this occult-noir Seattle. (Publisher description)
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It Was Her House First
Priest spins a chillingly effective ghost story. Finding fresh angles on a familiar premise, Priest delivers an eccentric haunted house thriller with plenty of surprises up its sleeve. Readers will be up all night. (Publishers Weekly)
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Rain Shadows
Inspired by the dark forests, high deserts, misty mountains, and tumultuous seas of Washington State, this collection delves into the horror that lives beyond the shadows and fog of the Pacific Northwest. (Goodreads)
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Listen to your Sister
Anxiety metamorphoses into terror for a young Black woman fiercely protecting her own...A relentless descent into familial fears made manifest, both haunting and terribly familiar. (Kirkus)
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Patricia Wants to Cuddle
...an amusing and jolting look at a dating show gone horribly wrong. Four contestants on the reality show The Catch—think Naked and Afraid meets The Bachelor—converge on an eerie island in the Pacific Northwest. (Publishers Weekly)
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Arterial Bloom
Story: "The darker side of grief" by Naching T. Kassa. 10-year-old George lost his mother 3 months ago, but she continues to haunt him and his family as a shade, sucking the life out of them. (Staff annotation)
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The Beast of Rose Valley
After suffering through a horrific car accident, Jake Rollins struggles to survive in his tiny hometown of Rose Valley—a place to which he hoped never to return. (Publisher description)
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The Dark Between the Trees
Historian Alice Christopher leads a team of investigators into Morseby Wood in northern England to uncover the truth about a centuries-old mystery involving the disappearance of fifteen Parliamentarian soldiers in 1643. (NoveList)
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