Marie O'Regan

MARIE O’REGAN is a Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadows and British Fantasy Award-nominated author and editor, based in Derbyshire. Her short fiction has appeared in many genre magazines and anthologies in the UK and abroad, and she is the author of three collections:  Mirror Mere, In Times of Want, and The Last Ghost and Other Stories, as well as the novellas Bury Them Deep and Resurrection Blues. Her first novel was the internationally best-selling Celeste. Her genre journalism has appeared in magazines like The Dark Side, Rue Morgue and Fortean Times, and she co-authored an interview book with prominent figures from the horror genre, Voices in the Dark. An essay on ‘The Changeling’ was published in PS Publishing’s Cinema Macabre, edited by Mark Morris. She is co-editor of the bestselling Hellbound Hearts, Mammoth Book of Body Horror, A Carnivàle of Horror – Dark Tales from the Fairground, Exit Wounds, Wonderland, Cursed, Twice Cursed, The Other Side of Never, In These Hallowed Halls, Death Comes at Christmas, The Secret Romantic’s Book of Magic, These Dreaming Spires and Beyond & Within: Folk Horror Short Stories as well as the charity anthology Trickster’s Treats #3. She is also the editor of bestselling The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women and Phantoms. Marie is also Managing Editor of PS Publishing’s award-winning novella imprint, Absinthe Books, and is the ex-Chair of the British Fantasy Society (2004-2008) and a recipient of their ‘Legends of FantasyCon’ award, having organised several FantasyCons over the years. For several years, she was also the co-chair of the UK Chapter of the Horror Writers Association, and ran ChillerCon UK, which took place in Scarborough in May 2022. See more at her Official Website