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Daryl Gregory

(b.1965)

Award-winning author of Pandemonium, The Devil's Alphabet, and Raising Stony Mayhall. He is also the writer of comics such as Dracula: The Company of Monsters and Planet of the Apes, both from BOOM! Studios. His first collection of short stories is Unpossible and Other Stories, by Fairwood Press (October, 2011). Daryl lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

Awards: WFA (2015), Jackson (2015) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction

New and upcoming books

October 2026

The Porcelain Sisters

Series

Harrison Squared Trilogy
1. Harrison Squared (2015)

Novels

   Pandemonium (2008)
   The Devil's Alphabet (2009)
   Raising Stony Mayhall (2011)
   Afterparty (2014)
   We Are All Completely Fine (2014) (with Darryl Gregory)
   Spoonbenders (2017)
   The Album of Dr. Moreau (2021)
   Revelator (2021)
   When We Were Real (2025)
   The Porcelain Sisters (2026)

Collections

Unpossible (2011)

Novellas and Short Stories

I'm Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe: A Tor Original (2024)

Series contributed to

Planet of the Apes Graphic Novels
   Planet of the Apes Vol. 1 (2011)
   Planet of the Apes Vol. 2 (2012)
   Planet of the Apes Vol. 3 (2012)
   Planet of the Apes Vol. 4 (2013)
   Planet of the Apes Vol. 5 (2014)

Tor.Com Original
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth (2018)

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Books containing stories by Daryl Gregory

The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time 5 (2025)
(Year's Top Tales of Space and Time, book 5)
edited by
Allan Kaster

New Year, New You (2024)
A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention
edited by
Chris Campbell

The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Fourth Annual Collection (2023)
(Year's Top Robot and AI Stories, book 4)
edited by
Allan Kaster

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Awards

	2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella : We Are All Completely Fine
	2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella : We Are All Completely Fine
	2009 Crawford Award : Pandemonium

Award nominations

	2025 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : When We Were Real
	2025 Locus Award for Best Novelette (finalist) : I'm Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe
	2022 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Album of Dr. Moreau
	2022 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : Revelator
	2022 Edgar Award for Best Paperback original (nominee) : The Album of Dr. Moreau
	2022 Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : Revelator
	2019 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
	2019 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
	2019 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
	2018 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Spoonbenders
	2018 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Spoonbenders
	2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Spoonbenders
	2016 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel (nominee) : Harrison Squared
	2015 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : We Are All Completely Fine
	2015 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : We Are All Completely Fine
	2015 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Afterparty
	2014 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : We Are All Completely Fine
	2012 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Raising Stony Mayhall
	2012 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Unpossible: And Other Stories
	2010 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : The Devil's Alphabet
	2010 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Devil's Alphabet
	2009 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Pandemonium
	2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Pandemonium
	2009 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : Pandemonium
	2009 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Pandemonium
	2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Second Person, Present Tense

Daryl Gregory recommends

Wife Shaped Bodies (2026)
Laura Cranehill
"Laura Cranehill is brilliant and has written the best debut novel I've read in years. Wife Shaped Bodies is strange and disturbing, told with forceful, gorgeous prose, and full of terrifying beauty. I keep telling people, you must read this, and when they ask what it's about, I only say, you have to experience this on the page. Cranehill is the writer we've been waiting for."

The Circumference of the World (2023)
Lavie Tidhar
"Can we just all admit now that Lavie Tidhar's a genuis?"

Saturnalia (2022)
Stephanie Feldman
"Saturnalia is a tense, supernatural tour through a magic-bent, paganized Philadelphia -- that also manages to be heartfelt and beautifully written. I wolfed this down, and Feldman's talent left me spinning. Don't miss this."

The Silverberg Business (2022)
Robert Freeman Wexler
"Robert Freeman Wexler never fails to knock me out, and The Silverberg Business hits like a hurricane--there's strangeness and beauty on every page. The novel is that rare thing, a weird western that's truly weird, set in a Texas that's simultaneously gritty, violent, and real, yet soaked in myth. Don't miss this."

Unity (2021)
Elly Bangs
"Unity is a killer debut by a thrilling new writer. Trust me, you're all going to be hearing a lot about Elly Bangs and this gleaming and gritty world she's created. And cyberpunk fans? Put down the game controller and read this now. This is the real stuff."

Sea Change (2020)
Nancy Kress
"Nobody is better at destroying the world?see one of my favorite novellas, the multi-award-winning After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall?but here Nancy Kress dives into the science of genetically modified plants and shows us how we just may need them to save the planet. And this brilliant, thoughtful story is also a page-turner! I don’t know about you, but a thriller about a fear-mongering, anti-science government and the smart, brave people resisting it was exactly the story I needed right now."

Longer (2019)
Michael Blumlein
"This is why i read science fiction."

Miranda in Milan (2019)
Katharine Duckett
"I'm so jealous of Katharine Duckett. She's taken my favorite Shakespeare play and made Miranda the heroine she always should have been. This beautifully written fantasy is full of court intrigue and family secrets, marking Duckett as a writer you're going to read for years to come."

The Chaos Function (2019)
Jack Skillingstead
"Relentless, terrifying, and affecting, this book left me feeling like I’d been strapped to the front of the car like Mad Max in Fury Road—not realizing that it was taking me to an emotional ending that would leave me gutted. I’ve been a huge fan of Skillingstead’s work for years, but in The Chaos Function he’s outdone himself!"

Blackfish City (2018)
Sam J Miller
"A wildly inventive post-cyberpunk ride that also has real things to say about community and family. Sam Miller’s drowned future is vivid and fully real, even as he throws in the weird and the fantastic. Sam Miller is a fiercely strong writer, and this book is a blast."

Master Assassins (2018)
(Fire Sacraments, book 1)
Robert V S Redick
"A blazingly smart thrill-ride of an adventure. The world of Master Assassins is deep, mysterious, terrifying, and utterly real, and I'll follow Redick's heroes, the mismatched brothers Kandri and Mektu, wherever they go in it. I can't recommend this book highly enough."

Windswept (2015)
(Windswept, book 1)
Adam Rakunas
"Windswept is a zippy ride, with more fast turns than a Wild Mouse rollercoaster. Buckle the hell up!."

Pandora's Gun (2015)
James Van Pelt
"The breadth of his imagination is stunning."

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