Author Dorian Edgerly

Dorian Edgerly is the author of science fiction, dark fantasy, horror, and suspense. His love of storytelling took hold early on, and became an obsession after graduating from Dr. Suess (still an all-time favorite) to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Goosebumps.

     From there, the gateway was open, and it was an easy transition to 70s, 80s, and 90s paperback pulp. The kind of lurid, indulgent trash teachers warned against while mass-market copies of that very same trash adorned their nightstands.

     Then came the super speculative stuff. Tolkien, Martin, Asimov, Crichton. The impossible-yet-somehow-so-feasible ideas and the sprawling, magical, violent worlds of sci-fi and fantasy opened up yet another gateway, an even bigger one, showing a young Edgerly that stories truly have no limits.

     The endless dig to the bottom of the TBR continues to this day, with modern voices like James S.A. Corey, Joe Abercrombie, and Joe Hill taking the baton from those old influences and running full-sprint into the next wave of speculative greatness.

     Raised just south of Boston, Dorian grew up in the heart of the infamous "Bridgewater Triangle," and from his earliest days was inundated with "true" stories of the supernatural and extraterrestrial, many of which "occurred" just an easy bike ride from his own front door. Thanks to all of this, every dark forest, every quiet, one-thoroughfare town, and every abandoned, dilapidated building speaks to him of hauntings, invasions, murderous cults, and unfathomable creatures from the dark beyond.

     When he's not writing, you'll find him reading, working out, catching up on movies he should have seen years ago (but didn't, because he was too busy rewatching The Crow, Predator, and Jason Lives), noodling on his guitars, or carefully flipping through the stacks in the nearest mom-and-pop used book store.