Mark McLaughlin

MARK McLAUGHLIN is a Bram Stoker Award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and more. His latest releases are the huge story collection, THE WEIRD WORLD OF MARK McLAUGHLIN MEGAPACK® ... HUMAN DOLL: A NOVEL, a tale of suspense set in the entertainment industry ... THE HELL NEXT DOOR, a novel of horror and the supernatural ... and INJECTABLES, a Cthulhu Mythos novel.

McLaughlin is the author of many works in the literary tradition of H.P. Lovecraft. Paperback story collections in this vein, co-written by Michael Sheehan, Jr., include:

- THE PRISONER OF CARCOSA & More Tales Of The Bizarre

- CITY OF LIVING SHADOWS & More Lovecraftian Tales

- THE HOUSE OF THE OCELOT & More Lovecraftian Nightmares

- HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS: 24 Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos

Lovecraftian Kindle collections by McLaughlin and Sheehan include:

- STAINLESS STEEL SARCOPHAGUS

- THE TESTAMENT OF CTHULHU

- THE CREATURE IN THE WAXWORKS

- THE RELIC IN THE EGYPTIAN GALLERY

- SHOGGOTH APOCALYPSE

- THE BLASPHEMY IN THE CANOPIC JAR

- THE HORROR IN THE WATER TOWER

- THE ABOMINATIONS OF NEPHREN-KA

McLaughlin is also the author of many solo fiction collections, including:

- EMPRESS OF THE LIVING DEAD: 25 Tales Of Horror & The Bizarre

- BEST LITTLE WITCH-HOUSE IN ARKHAM

- HIDEOUS FACES, BEAUTIFUL SKULLS

Mark's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in more than 1,000 magazines, newspapers, websites, and anthologies, including DARK FUSIONS: WHERE MONSTERS LURK!, GALAXY, LIVING DEAD 2, WRITER'S DIGEST, CEMETERY DANCE, MIDNIGHT PREMIERE, DARK ARTS, and two volumes of YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES (DAW Books).

Mark is the coauthor, with Rain Graves and David Niall Wilson, of THE GOSSAMER EYE, which won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry.

What critics and colleagues have said about Mark McLaughlin's work over the years:

"In the most devious manner, McLaughlin's stories achieve a high degree of demonism by perpetuating a sinister 'humor' at the gallows of the human comedy."

-- Author Thomas Ligotti

"Listen up. Noel Coward is back. Salvador Dali is back. Dylan Thomas is back. And they're all rolled into one in the shape of Mark McLaughlin who writes stories that are wonderfully witty, surrealistic and ineffably strange. Absolutely fabulous. .... If your palette is jaded, come to the feast that is Mark McLaughlin."

-- Author Simon Clark

"McLaughlin's tales are laugh-out-loud assaults on consensus reality."

-- Paul Di Filippo, ASIMOV'S

"Reading Mark McLaughlin is a little like stepping out of the door of an airplane in mid flight. The view is pretty amazing, but the shock of impact may do you in ... gruesome, funny and touching. Top that: anybody...."

--Matthew Nadelhaft, TANGENT