…is a horror-drunk storytelling virtuoso master idiot.

Time Out New York

…is one of my favorite horror storytellers working today.

Jordan Peele

DEVIL INSIDE

A New Horrormance Novel

A man who’s back from the dead meets a woman who’s from somewhere even worse in Clay McLeod Chapman’s new horrormance about love, possession, and just a little murder.

On shelves 8/11/26#

About Clay

Portrait of the author Clay McLeod Chapman

Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, Kill Your Darling, Stay on the Line, What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and miss corpus, story collections nothing untoward, commencement and rest area, as well as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins.

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Ghost Eaters: The Movie

Adapted and directed by Maggie Levin. Based on the novel by Clay McLeod Chapman. Produced by Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Vince Cheng at Crooked Highway. In development at Sony Screen Gems.

The Restoration at Grayson Manor

After losing his hands in a horrific accident, Boyd Grayson must learn to trust the one person he despises most… his mother. It is through her immense family fortune that Jacqueline Grayson can rebuild her son. Now that she has him exactly where she wants him, she’ll try to take the one thing her ga...

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