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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Anna Dressed in Blood
For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before. (NoveList) Young Adult.
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Girl, Incorrupted
Girl, Incorrupted is a love-horror hybrid with minimal heat and an emphasis on horror. (Goodreads)
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Chromophobia
Story: "The gray" by G.G. Silverman. A small, remote, coastal town is plagued by eldritch mist every summer. It creeps in, capturing the bodies and souls of those left outside. (Staff annotation)
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Diet Riot
Story: "A curious garden" by E.E.W. Christman. Fat camp + botanical horror. Jeanie, like the other teens, was sent to fat camp by her parents. It is incredibly cruel and brutal and of course doesn't yield the "desired" results. Suddenly, girls start disappearing. The counselors keep saying they went home, but did they really? (Staff annotation)
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Cats of the Pacific Northwest
David, an unsure young man, is trying to figure out how to be a "man" in the modern age...When [his girlfriend] suggests a backpacking trip out on the Olympic Peninsula, he jumps at the opportunity to demonstrate his worth. But, once they get out into the wilderness, they are quickly lost. Now they are out of food and beginning to starve, when a strange couple of cats cross their path. (Publisher description)
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Vial Thoughts
Balanced on a thin wire between horror and steampunk, Van Essler’s debut novel is an acrobatic performance at the darkest of circuses. (Goodreads)
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Revelator
Returning to the backwoods of Tennessee for her grandmother's funeral, and to check on Sunny, a mysterious 10-year-old girl her grandmother adopted, professional bootlegger Stella soon discovers that Sunny is a direct link to her buried past and her family's destructive faith. (NoveList)
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Free Burn
Follow Triple-Six, an institutionalized, lovestruck outcast, as he fights to save the only girlfriend he's ever had from the reanimated clutches of her undead mother--the infamous pyromaniac serial killer he accidentally freed from Hell. (Publisher description)
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Human Monsters
Local editors and co-owners of the horror subscription box Night Worms have collected 35 stories centering the monsters we live with, work with, and otherwise share this world with – human monsters, with an introduction by horror legend Christopher Golden. (Staff annotation)
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Fashion Trends, Deadly Ends
Take a journey through a gruesome history of fashion. Rib removal, poisonous dyes, sewn eyelashes...the cost to stay in fashion. From head to toe, Brianna Malotke tells the tales of deadly fashion trends in history through beautiful poetry. (Goodreads)
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