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Lindy Ryan

Lindy Ryan

Lindy Miller Ryan is a Bram Stoker Awards®-nominated and Silver Falchion Award-winning editor, author, short-film director, and professor whose books have received starred reviews from Booklist and Library Journal. She is the current author-in-residence at Rue Morgue, the world’s leading horror culture and entertainment brand, and a columnist at​ BookTrib. Her guest articles and features include NPR, BBC Culture, Irish Times, Daily Mail, and more. Ryan is the founder and president of Black Spot Books, an independent press focused on amplifying underrepresented voices in horror. She served from 2020 to 2022 on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association and was named a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2020. In 2022, Ryan was named one of horror's most masterful anthology curators, alongside Ellen Datlow and Christopher Golden, and has been declared a "champion for women's voices in horror" by Shelf Awareness (2023). Her animated short film, TRICK OR TREAT, ALISTAIR GRAY, based on her children's book of the same name, won the Grand Prix Award at the 2022 ANMTN Awards. Ryan grew up cutting her teeth on Goosebumps and universal monsters. She has published numerous academic texts and also writes clean, seasonal romance under the name​ Lindy Miller, where her books have been adapted for screen.

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The Chill Quill: Romancing the Gothic

This is the first edition of The Chill Quill, a twice-monthly Horror, Suspense and Speculative Fiction column by Lindy Ryan. There’s something beautiful about the dark, isn’t there?  Characterized by dark atmospheres, grotesque characters and events, and powerful emotions that blur the line between love and hate, Gothic fiction has…
Lindy Ryan
February 20, 2024

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