Louise Shellis.Speculative horror-thriller author
Louise Shellis, green-braided and leather-jacketed, before a ruined clock face
Speculative horror-thriller authorLouise Shellis

The dark is in the details.

Expect broken rules, questionable decisions, uncomfortable consequences, and stories that rarely behave the way their tropes suggest they should.

Speculative
horror

Familiar rules.
Broken differently.

Psychological
thriller

Secrets. Obsession.
Consequences.

Dark
relationships

Love doesn't make
anyone safe.

Complex
characters

Beautifully
broken.

Dark Romance

The Voronov Trilogy

A dark romantic thriller in three parts. One mistake pulls a woman into the orbit of a man who owns everything except the truth, and the cost of knowing it compounds with every book.

Read in order. Nothing here forgives itself.

Horror

Clinical Judgement

Clinical Judgement follows two surgeons who have spent their careers deciding who lives, who dies, and what happens to the bodies entrusted to them. Behind the doors of a respected hospital, medicine becomes opportunity, ethics become negotiable, and the oath to do no harm develops some increasingly creative interpretations.

Angel of Mercy. Angel of Hope. Angel of Death.

There are worse things than dying on their table.

Post-apocalyptic horror / science fiction

The Outbreak Years

Humanity didn't die. It changed.

The world ended with the living turning on each other. Those left behind know the rules: avoid the infected, survive the bite, and never mistake what they used to be for what they are now.

But the longer humanity survives, the less those rules seem to explain.

Various

Standalone Novels

Not every story needs a sequel.

These standalone novels explore one impossible idea, one broken rule, or one question that refuses to behave itself, then follow the consequences all the way to the end. Expect speculative horror, psychological unease, dark relationships, identity, mortality, and stories designed to leave a mark without requiring another book to finish the job.

A black rose catching fire

You smile, you nod, and you let them wonder what he sees in you. That is your power, if

you are clever enough to use it.

The Wrong Woman
A guttering candle, a spilled glass of wine and a half-burnt letter on marble
the letter she never sent
About

I write the stories that happen when the rules stop working.

Which is unfortunate, because examining things too closely is usually how they start.

Horror, thrillers, speculative fiction, dark romance and fantasy. Different genres, same bad habit: take something familiar, question one small detail everyone else seems perfectly happy to accept, and follow it until the entire premise becomes somebody's problem.

Sometimes the monsters aren't monsters. Sometimes the person saving you is worse. Sometimes cheating Death turns out to be a spectacularly bad idea.

Basically, if a story has rules, I'm probably going to interfere with them.

And don't get too attached to anyone...

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