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Michael Wehunt

Award-Winning and Celebrated Author of the Macabre

Michael Wehunt

Michael Wehunt is the author of the novels The October Film Haunt and Nightjars, as well as two collections of short fiction. He has won the Bram Stoker Award and the Georgia Author of the Year Award. He has also been a finalist for multiple Shirley Jackson Awards and was shortlisted for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts’ Crawford Award. In Spain, his stories have garnered nominations for the Premio Ignotus and Premio Amaltea, winning the latter. He haunts the woods outside Atlanta with his partner and their dog. Together, they hold the horrors at bay. Find him in the digital trees at www.michaelwehunt.com.

Books

Featured Work

Nightjars

Nightjars

Nightjars (September 2026). A horror/psychological thriller novel about a man haunted by his serial killer father’s legacy, who finds himself implicated in new murders that mirror his father’s crimes, forcing him to confront a dark, ancient secret in the North Georgia Appalachians. The story blends elements of photography, repressed memories, and folklore, exploring themes of […]

The Inconsolables

The Inconsolables

The Inconsolables (2023). A collection of ten literary horror stories, featuring characters confronting personal desires and supernatural terrors, with illustrations by Trevor Henderson. The book explores the cracks between the ordinary and the extraordinary, with stories like the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated “Vampire Fiction” and “The Pine Arch Collection,” and is noted for its poetic, resonant, […]

The October Film Haunt

The October Film Haunt

The October Film Haunt (2025). A Bram Stoker Award®-nominated meta-horror novel about a haunted cult film and the woman reluctantly pulled into its sequel. The story examines fandom, viral trends, and the line between fiction and reality, blending elements of classic occult horror with modern paranoia in the mountains of Vermont.

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