Announcing the publication of my second novel, Nightjars! A leaner, meaner, even more emotionally charged story that combines serial killer darkness and vampire fiction through the lens of an unreliable narrator who is forced to face the truth about his life. Nightjars will be published on September 29, 2026. Read all about it here.
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Just a couple of weeks after winning a Bram Stoker Award, my debut novel The October Film Haunt has been honored again! The Georgia Author of the Year Awards were just announced, and my book took home the prize in the Horror category. Thank you to the judges and to the red Georgia clay in […]
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I’m still a little stunned to share that my novel The October Film Haunt has won the 2025 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel! Thank you to everyone in the Horror Writers Association who voted for my cursed-film story, and congratulations to all the winners and nominees. What a ballot and […]
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Miki whispers “Daddy” into the dark, as she has on the cusps of the last seven midnights. The dark breathes back onto her. Her hand reaches up to the shelf beside the bed and presses the large pebbled button on her alarm clock. A thin voice says, “It is eleven-fifty-six p.m.” Each word’s tail is […]
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Tyler shot a foamy jet of roach spray into his laughing mouth. He sprang up from the basement floor and lifted his fists toward the unfinished ceiling, gargling a pop song. An old cloak the color of buttered toast hung off his shoulders, ending in tatters above his knees. “Swallow it,” Meribeth said. Her eyes […]
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Ira switched off the lamp and stretched his legs out under the covers with soft gasps. His arthritis nibbled at him. Outside, rain droned against the roof, washed their wooded acres in a gray blanket. He thought abstractly of what he would do tomorrow. The garden, maybe. “Good night, love,” he murmured to his wife. […]
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Short stories are all fine and good, but when will you have a novel? All the answers I used to give to this question (which mostly came down to “I’m trying to find room in my life”) can finally be done away with, because The October Film Haunt is coming on September 30, 2025, courtesy […]
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After knitting together bones and sinews and pine needles in the Georgia woods, my new horror story collection, The Inconsolables, has been released into the neighborhoods and bookshelves of society! Many thanks to Bad Hand Books for giving this book an incredible home. After selling out all 400 of the signed pre-orders, online sales have […]
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[excerpt from Rotting Pyramid: Tracing the Teeth of America Cult, Dr. Linda Royal, University of Georgia Press, 2025] The nine thousand wild acres between Hiram and Forsyth—between Georgia state roads 9 and 113 and 378, specifically—form a rough triangle, and the cult erected the pyramid in its center. They buoyed it in an ocean of […]
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Publishing fiction is always a risky venture. Will anyone read the things I made up? Will enough people? Will they enjoy them? Sometimes, though, it’s worth upping the risk a little and making the questions shriller. And so it is with great pleasure and enormous fanfare (okay, maybe regular fanfare) that I announce the publication […]
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Michael Wehunt 