Luke Dumas was born and raised in San Diego, California, and received his master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh. His work has appeared in Hobart, Last Exit, and the queer anthology The Whole Alphabet: The Light and the Dark, among others.
A History of Fear is his debut novel.
Awards: ITW (2024)
Genres: Horror
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Keep This for Me (2025)
Jennifer Fawcett
"Keep This for Me is a suspenseful and hauntingly beautiful mystery about a woman's search for closure and the enduring ripple effects of violence. Like the lake at its center, this book's reflective surface hides fathoms below: churning currents of loss, trauma, and cold-blooded murder colliding to drag you down into its dark depths. It grabs you on page one and doesn't let go."

The Safari (2025)
Jaclyn Goldis
"Like a luxury safari, Jaclyn Goldis' enormously entertaining new novel takes readers on a thrilling ride through terrain as brutal as it is beautiful: an imperiled ecosystem of secrets, manipulation, and murder that will leave you breathless. With characters as richly realized as its sub-Saharan setting, THE SAFARI is a transporting page-turner with surprises around every corner. I couldn't put it down."

When the Wolf Comes Home (2025)
Nat Cassidy
"When the Wolf Comes Home is a wolf-headed chimera of a novel about monstrous fathers, the power of imagination, and the brutal chaos of creating-the terrors we ignite into being, intentionally and unwittingly, as parents, as children, as tender souls bound together by the pain and violence we can't stop inflicting on each other. This full-tilt, wildly imaginative creature feature moves like a four-legged beast hungry for revenge-it will rip your throat out and devour your heart. Nat Cassidy fans will be left howling for more."
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