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Vivian Shaw was born in Kenya and spent her early childhood at home in England before relocating to the US at the age of seven. She has a BA in art history and an MFA in creative writing, and has worked in academic publishing and development while researching everything from the history of spaceflight to supernatural physiology. In her spare time, she writes fan fiction under the name of Coldhope.
Genres: Horror
New and upcoming books
Series
Dr. Greta Helsing
1. Strange Practice (2017)
2. Dreadful Company (2018)
3. Grave Importance (2019)
Bitter Waters (2024)
Strange New World (2025)
1. Strange Practice (2017)
2. Dreadful Company (2018)
3. Grave Importance (2019)
Bitter Waters (2024)
Strange New World (2025)
Vivian Shaw recommends
Someone You Can Build a Nest In (2024)
John Wiswell
"John Wiswell's remarkable ability to turn expectations upside down and present new, delightful, gruesome, thoughtful viewpoints on narrative is on full display in this debut. Someone You Can Build a Nest In is the best kind of horrifying, beautiful, by turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, and entirely unforgettable: a story about what makes a monster, what makes a person, the scars of trauma, and the transformative (and sometimes traumatic) act of falling in love."
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy (2022)
(Hart and Mercy, book 1)
Megan Bannen
"Warm, compassionate and compelling."
Mexican Gothic (2020)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"So powerful I sometimes had to look away . . . plays all the classic Gothic tropes with deft confidence while weaving in a much more modern and visceral strain of horror."
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