Award-Winning Author and Anthologist

Lindy Ryan

Lindy Ryan is a USA TODAY bestselling, Astra Award-winning, and 4x Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, anthologist, and short-film director whose books and anthologies have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Several of her projects have been adapted for screen. She is the current author-in-residence at Rue Morgue. Born and raised in Southeast Texas, she currently resides on the East Coast. She is a professor at Rutgers University. https://www.lindyryanwrites.com/

Books

Featured Work

Another Fine Mess

Another Fine Mess (2025). A Southern horror-mystery novel, the second in the Bless Your Heart series, following the Evans women in southeast Texas.

Bless Your Heart

Bless Your Heart (2024). A Southern gothic mystery-horror novel about four generations of women who run a funeral parlor in Southeast Texas and must fight off vampires (Strigoi) who have returned to their town in 1999. The book blends horror, mystery, and family drama, following the Evans women as they protect their community from the […]

Cold Snap

Cold Snap (2024). A horror novella about a grieving mother who takes her son to a remote cabin for Christmas after her husband’s death, only to be tormented by strange noises and a sinister, horned figure in the woods, blurring the lines between her grief and supernatural horror. The book explores themes of loss, guilt, […]

Dollface

Dollface (2026). A horror novel described as “Barbie meets Scream,” featuring a horror author who moves to suburban New Jersey and gets drawn into a slasher plot where a killer in a plastic mask targets PTA moms. The book blends 90s nostalgia with modern horror, combining gore with social commentary on suburban life, and has […]