John Everson, Neighbor

John Everson is a Bram Stoker Award-winning horror author with more than 100 published short stories and 11 novels of horror and dark fantasy currently in print. His first novel, Covenant, won the Bram Stoker Award for a First Novel in 2005. His sixth novel, NightWhere, was a Bram Stoker Finalist in 2013. His 11th novel, The Devil’s Equinox was released in June 2019.

NOVELS:

Over the past decade he has published 11 novels: Covenant (2004), Sacrifice (2007), The 13th, (2009), Siren (2010), The Pumpkin Man (2011), NightWhere (2012), Violet Eyes (2013), The Family Tree (2014), Redemption (2017), The House By The Cemetery (2018) and The Devil’s Equinox (2019). His first five novels were issued in mass market and trade paperback by Dorchester/Leisure Books. Limited hardcover editions were also issued from Delirium Books, Necro Publications and Bad Moon Books.

In 2011, Amazon.com’s 47North imprint licensed his Leisure catalogue and his next three novels were released through Samhain Publishing and eventually reprinted by Dark Arts Books. Sinister Grin Press has released hardcover editions of Violet Eyes and The Family Tree.

Covenant, Sacrifice, The 13th, Siren, The Family Tree and NightWhere have been translated or are in the process of being translated and released in Poland, Turkey, France and Germany.

In 2018, his first novel for Flame Tree Press, The House By The Cemetery, appeared in hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook formats.

SHORT STORIES:

Over the past 25 years, John’s short fiction has appeared in more than 50 magazines, including Space & Time, Dark Discoveries and Grue. His work as also appeared in a couple dozen anthologies, most recently in Fearful Fathoms, Into Painfreak, Cemetery Riots, Drive-In Creature Feature, and Eulogies III. His short stories have also been translated and published into Italian, Polish and French.

A wide selection of his short fiction has been collected in four full-length short story collections – Sacrificing Virgins (Samhain Publishing, 2015), Needles & Sins (Necro Books, 2007), Vigilantes of Love (Twilight Tales, 2003) and Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions (Delirium Books, 2000). He also has released a short collection of holiday fantasy stories called Christmas Tales (2010) and two additional “mini” short horror fiction collections – Creeptych (Delirium Books, 2010) and Deadly Nightlights (Blasphemous Books, 2010).

“Letting Go,” one of the short stories from Needles & Sins was nominated for a 2007 Bram Stoker Award and three other short stories from the collection have been included in the Honorable Mention List of the annual Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror anthology co-edited by Ellen Datlow.

Editor

For information on his fiction, art and music, poke around here at John Everson: Dark Arts at www.johneverson.com.

He is also on Facebook at www.facebook.com/johneverson and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/johneverson.