Did you like NBC’s Hannibal?

Did you love Chuck Tingle’s Camp Damascus?

Did Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy change your brain chemistry?

Congratulations, you’re already on the horror romance (or horromace) boat!

Basically, horror romance blends core elements of the horror genre (fear, dread, discomfort) with core elements of the romance genre (a main focus on a central romantic relationship with a guaranteed Happily Ever After or a Happy For Now ending). There are so many ways to blend these elements, and every horror romance author has their own unique mix: gore, camp, tension, fear, disgust, desire, slashers, and sex scenes—there’s really no limit to the cool, unusual, odd, creepy, unsettling, sexy, amazing things we can do.

It’s a newer but growing subgenre, one I’m thrilled to be part of!

Want to read more? These write-ups from Beatrix Hollow, Elliot Grove, and Instagram user lostinthepages all have some nice references for horror romance. Take a look!

With so many flavors of horror romance out there, what are you getting when you pick up one of my books?

I’m a simple woman: I like my kisses a little bloody, I like my body horror with a side of body worship, and I don’t believe it’s true love until someone’s been stabbed.

In my books, you’ll find paranormal elements (hauntings, curses, monsters), murder, and dark themes, centering on characters who are mercilessly in love on a good day and passionately obsessive on a different kind of good day. You’ll find hot, yearning-fueled smut alongside highbrow gore and lowbrow camp. You’ll meet devoted couples facing off against the apocalypse, or an angry undead horde, or, worst of all, their own undisclosed feelings. They’ll challenge each other, they’ll make the worst mistakes, then they’ll decapitate an enemy and hold each other tenderly afterward. (Also: wound tending and that sweet, sweet “I almost lost you” angst.)

TLDR: In my books, no matter how dark and bloody things get (and they will get bloody), the main couple will always end up happy and together.

Eventually.

I write for folks who are weird and horny. You’ll like my books if you’re into:

🩶 “Two halves of a whole idiot” pairings

🪦 Soft couples in dark worlds
(Think cannibalism with a side of cuddling; first kisses in coffins; “Want to get a drink after this?” after disemboweling the enemy.)

🩶 Complicated characters
(They’re smart, they’re emotionally intelligent, they’re competent… and also, they share one lovesick brain cell.)

🪦 Lush prose and vivid descriptions

🩶 Spice without insta-lust

🪦 Biting, probably

Fun fact: I’m a demisexual author.

That influences the way I experience and write about sex and intimacy. Usually, at least one of my main characters will be demisexual in my stories. I love writing open-door sex scenes, sexual and non-sexual intimacy, and smut, especially when these scenes are emotionally earned. (I love smut for smut’s sake, too, it’s just not usually the form my writing takes.)

Basically, if you like angsty sexual tension that has a huge payoff, you’ll feel right at home here.

My fic is here because I love it, and because it will only ever appear in the shape of fic.

Fandom is a culture of gift-giving. We create out of love, not for profit. I devoted a lot of time and love to my fic, so I think this work deserves to be seen.

I understand why authors choose to rewrite some fic as original fiction. I also know that it’s not the right path for my work. There’s magic in these stories because they exist in a fandom space, not in spite of it. So many core emotional moments can never be recreated because they depend on events happening to very specific characters in very specific worlds. I want to share these stories as they are because they won’t ever be recreated as original fiction. They can’t be, and I don’t want them to be.

So, I want you to know about my fic. These stories are important to me as a writer and as a person, and hey, I think they’re pretty dang cool.

Maybe you’ll think so, too.

Books

The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw
A Lesson in Thorns, Sierra Simone
The Good House, Tananarive Due
The Hollow Places; Paladin’s Grace, T. Kingfisher
Camp Damascus, Chuck Tingle
Serial Killer Games, Kate Posey

TV & Movies

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Hannibal (TV Series)
Interview with the Vampire (TV Series—Louis and Lestat, the divas you are)
Sinners (“Your body ain't forget me," is one of the sexiest lines to ever exist)
Channel Zero
Penny Dreadful
Train to Busan
The Glory

Wildly against.

Generative AI does not belong in art, and AI can only mimic art through theft. I don’t now and will not ever use AI in my work.

As for graphics on my website, everything here is either a free stock photo or an image I made myself using assets in Canva. Good artwork isn’t cheap—rightfully so—and I would rather have some elements on my website look handmade until I can save up enough to commission custom artwork from a living human artist.