Gwendolyn Kiste

• Apr-2026

Truth is rarely convenient as silence.Celebrated author Gwendolyn Kiste cordially invites you to explore The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own. Enter a world possessed by recriminations from bygone eras, where the regrets and malice of years past stil...

• Nov-2025

• Mar-2024

Winner of the 2025 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel Finalist for the 2025 Shirley Jackson AwardFrom Bram Stoker Award�"winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes an “emotionally devastating, character driven ghost story” (CrimeRea...

• Aug-2022

2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner 2023 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a NovelFor fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award�"winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgot...

• Jan-2021

What doesn't kill me, might make me kill you!30 women authors from around the world were challenged to write about The One That Got Away. Here you'll find tales of unrequited love, blind dates gone wrong, stalkers and their prey, cursed guitars, alie...

• Nov-2020

Boneset & Feathers is a novel of witchy folk horror by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste, in which a young woman must re-ignite her magic against the threat of the dreaded witchfinders.You don't know their fire is coming until it's too...

• 2020

• 2019

• Nov-2018

Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street.It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and Phoebe Shaw and her best friend Jacqueline have just graduated high school, only to confront an ugly, uncertain future. Across the city, abandoned...

• Dec-2017

Mary, Mary...

Always hitchhiking the same lonely highway, she calls herself Rhee, but everyone else knows her as Resurrection Mary. And when she's transported home each night to the same decrepit, nowhere mansion, she's always got her sister...

• Apr-2017

A murdered movie star reaches out to an unlikely fan. An orchard is bewitched with poison apples and would-be princesses. A pair of outcasts fail a questionnaire that measures who in their neighborhood will vanish next. Two sisters keep a grotesque s...

• Sep-2015

Fall -- a season as beautiful as it is foreboding. A Shadow of Autumn takes you back to childhood nostalgia while peeling away the mask to reveal things that haunt your worst nightmares. Within these pages, you’ll find the usual denizens of the hol...