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Michaelbrent Collings



Michaelbrent Collings is an internationally bestselling novelist, a #1 bestseller in the U.S., and has been one of Amazon's top selling horror writers for years. He is one of the most successful indie horror writers in the United States, as well as a produced screenwriter and member of the WGA, HWA, and several other writing groups with cool-sounding letters. He's also a martial artist, and cooks awesome waffles ('cause he's macho like that).

He published his first "paying" work - a short story for a local paper - at the age of 15. He won numerous awards and scholarships for creative writing while at college, and subsequently became the person who had more screenplays advance to quarterfinals and semifinals in the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship screenwriting competition in a single year than anyone else in the history of the competition.

His first produced script, Barricade, was made into a movie starring Eric McCormack of TV's Will & Grace and Perception, and was released in 2012. Michaelbrent also wrote the screenplay for Darkroom (2013), starring Kaylee DeFer (Gossip Girl, Red State) and Elisabeth Rohm (American Hustle, Law & Order, Heroes).

As a novelist, Michaelbrent has written enough bestsellers that listing them seems weird, especially since they're already listed elsewhere on the website. In addition, he has also written dozens of non-fiction articles which have appeared in periodicals on several continents.

Michaelbrent is also a member of the WGA (Writers Guild of America) and the HWA (Horror Writers of America). In addition to selling, optioning, and doing rewrites on screenplays for major Hollywood production companies, he is currently developing several movies and television shows.

He hopes someday to develop superpowers, or, if that is out of the question, then at least to get a cool robot arm. 

Michaelbrent has a wife and several kids, all of whom are much better looking than he is (though he admits that's a low bar to set), and also cooler than he is.

Michaelbrent is a frequent guest speaker at genre and literary conventions, high schools, church groups, and anywhere else that wants to talk about writing. If you're interested in having him speak to your group, please contact him via the contact form on the bottom of the page.
 

Genres: Horror
 
New and upcoming books
Series
Billy
   1. Messenger of Powers (2010)
   2. Seeker of Powers (2012)
   3. Destroyer of Powers (2014)
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Colony
   1. Genesis (2013)
   2. Renegades (2013)
   3. Descent (2013)
   4. Velocity (2014)
   5. Shift (2014)
   6. Buried (2015)
   7. Reckoning (2015)
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Stranger
   1. Strangers (2013)
   2. Stranger Still (2020)
   3. Stranger Danger (2020)
   Stranger Sins (I am Legion) (2022)
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Sword Chronicles
   1. Child of the Empire (2015)
   2. Child of Sorrows (2016)
   3. Child of Ash (2019)
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Novels
   Run (1932)
   Rising Fears (2010)
   Mr. Gray (aka The Meridians) (2011)
   The Loon (2011)
   The Haunted (2012)
   Apparition (2012)
   Hooked: A True Faerie Tale (2012)
   Darkbound (2013)
   Crime Seen (2014)
   Killing Time (2014)
   The Black Fang Betrayal (2014) (with others)
   This Darkness Light (2014)
   Twisted (2014)
   The Ridealong (2015)
   The Deep (2015)
   The House That Death Built (2016)
   The Longest Con (2016)
   The Darklights (2017)
   Peter & Wendy: A Tale of The Lost (2018)
   Predators (2018)
   Terminal (2019)
   Scavenger Hunt (2019)
   The Forest (2020)
   Synchronicity (2021)
   Malignant (2021)
   Light-Years From Home (2022)
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Collections
   Though Darkness Falls (2018)
   Darkling Smiles (2019)
   Future Tense (2022)
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Anthologies edited
   Shared Nightmares (2014) (with Steven Diamond and Nathan Shumate)
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Anthologies containing stories by Michaelbrent Collings
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Shapers of Worlds Volume IV (2024)
(Shapers of Worlds, book 4)
edited by
Edward Willett
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Gilded Glass (2022)
Twisted Myths and Shattered Fairy Tales
edited by
Kevin J Anderson and Allyson Longueira
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Turning the Tide (2022)
A Mystery, Thriller, Sci-Fi, and Urban Fantasy Charity Anthology for Ukraine

More anthologies 


Awards
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (2015) : The Deep


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