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Eden Royce

Eden Royce is a black gothic horror writer from Charleston, South Carolina. She references the local Gullah-Geechee culture in her writing. As a short story writer her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, as well as two collections of her work.

Awards: Jackson (2024), Stoker (2024) see all

Genres: Horror, Children's Fiction

Series

Spook Lights
1. Spook Lights (2015)
2. Spook Lights II (2017)

Novels

   Root Magic (2021)
   Conjure Island (2023)
   The Creepening of Dogwood House (2024)
   Psychopomp and Circumstance (2025)

Collections

Who Lost, I Found (2023)

Series contributed to

Selected Papers from the Consortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena
5. Hollow Tongue (2024)

Books containing stories by Eden Royce

Of Dread, Decay, and Doom (2026)
edited by
Scarlett R Algee, Jendia Gammon and Gareth L Powell

Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Fiction 2023 (2024)
edited by
Vajra Chandrasekera

Why Didn't You Just Leave (2024)
edited by
Nadia Bulkin and Julia Rios

More books

Awards

	2024 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella : Hollow Tongue
	2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel : The Creepening of Dogwood House

Award nominations

	2026 Locus Award for Best Novella (finalist) : Psychopomp & Circumstance
	2026 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella (nominee) : Psychopomp & Circumstance
	2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Middle Grade (nominee) : The Creepening of Dogwood House
	2024 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Anthology or Collection (nominee) : Who Lost, I Found
	2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Hollow Tongue
	2022 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature (nominee) : Root Magic
	2021 Andre Norton Award (nominee) : Root Magic

Eden Royce recommends

This Cursed House (2024)
Del Sandeen
"An enthralling, twisty Southern Gothic historical full of family secrets and century-spanning sins. A remarkable debut."

Midnight Rooms (2024)
Donyae Coles
"A hallucinatory Gothic nightmare, at once beautiful, cruel, and feral."

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