Mord McGhee

Mord McGhee is a two‑time Bram Stoker Award nominee, Harriet Beecher Stowe Prize nominee, Maya Angelou Book Award nominee, and winner of the Dan Poynter Science Fiction Award. His work has earned praise from George Romero, NYT bestselling author Steve Alten, and cultural figures across horror, adventure nonfiction, and cryptozoology.

A pioneer of early cyberpunk, McGhee writes at the intersection of psychological horror, speculative technology, and historical mystery. His novels—including Murder Red Ink, Ghosts of San Francisco, Ghosts of the Golden Triangle, Ghosts of the Girl: Anna's Odyssey, Ironblood, The Seven Children of God, Old Flames and Heroes, and De Lawd's Watah—explore the dark architecture of human consciousness and the shadows cast by history, trauma, faith, and machine intelligence.

In addition to his literary career, McGhee is an associate executive producer, executive investor, and financier on multiple feature films. His IMDb‑verified credits include work on Fackham Hall (2025), My Dead Friend Zoe (2024), The Man in the White Van (2023), You Can Call Me Bill (2023), and the upcoming Fade to Black. His film collaborations include projects starring Morgan Freeman, Edward Norton, Sean Astin, John Carroll Lynch, Zosia Mamet, Karan Soni, Betty Gabriel, Joseph Lee, Max Carver, and Ali Larter, extending his storytelling influence into cinema.

McGhee’s work has been described as “intense, graphic, provocative” (Steve Alten), “a badass page‑turner” (George Romero), and “a uniquely intellectual American novel” (Loren Coleman). With forty years in speculative fiction, a background in Ripperology, and a lifelong fascination with paleontology and AI, he continues to build a body of work that bridges literature, film, and the evolving frontier of genre storytelling.

Mord McGhee is cataloged in the Library of Congress Name Authority File under LCCN no2026060728.