Eden Royce
Eden Royce is a black gothic horror writer born in Pennsylvania who grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. She references the local Gullah-Geechee culture in her writing. As a short story writer her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, as well as two collections of her work. She is also known for writing articles and reviews. In 2016 Royce was awarded the Diverse Worlds Grant by The Speculative Literature Foundation. She is married and living in Kent, England.
Novels
Root Magic - Winner Mythopeic Fantasy Award for Children's LiteratureConjure Island The Creepening of Dogwood House - Winner of the 2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel.- ''Psychopomp & Circumstance''
Novellas
- Hollow Tongue - Winner of the 2024 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella.
Collections
Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror- ''Spook Lights II: Southern Gothic Horror''
Anthologies
Forever Vacancy: A Colors in Darkness Anthology with Mya Lairis and Kenya Moss-DymeShort fiction
- 9 Mystery Rose
- Finger Food
- With the Turn of a Key
- The Omega File with Darin Kennedy
- Red Sun, Autumn Rose
- Devil's Playground
- Infernal Proposal
- Hag Ride
- Rhythm
- The Death Bringer
- Voodooesque
- Doc Buzzard's Coffin
- Hand of Glory
- Homegoing
- Path of the War Chief
- Since Hatchet Was a Hammer
- The Choking Kind
- The Watered Soul
- Basque of the Red Death
- Graverobbing Negress Seeks Employment
- A Long Way from the Ritz
- Blood Read
- Carolina Blue
- Chilly Bears - 10¢
- Folk
- Grandmother's Bed
- Haints of Azalea Hall
- The Dating Pool
- The Laughter of Crows
- The Mermaid Storm
- The Strange Dowry of Spinster Pumpkin
- To-Do List
- Sweetgrass Blood
- Soupie's Lover
- Crickets Sing for Naomi
- Shine, Blackberry Wine
- A Cure for Ghosts
- Caretaker
- Every Good-bye Ain't Gone
- For Southern Girls When the Zodiac Ain't Near Enough
- One If by Sea
- Witches for Mars