…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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Updates

"Ghost Eaters" Haunts the Big Screen at Screen Gems

Wanna get haunted? The Hollywood Reporter announced that filmmaker Maggie Levin will be adapting and directing my novel GHOST EATERS for Screen Gems. Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Vince Cheng are producing with Crooked Highway. Reach the article at The Hollywood Report here.

Interview with The New York Times!!!

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