Ellis Vale

Ellis Vale writes queer backstage mysteries about haunted theatres, buried records, complicated love, and the people who know where the bodies, receipts, and spare keys are kept.

The Ghost Light Mysteries begins with Final Dress, a theatrical mystery set inside Harborlight Theatre, where old secrets, messy archives, and unfinished performances refuse to stay buried.

When not writing about ghost lights, locked rooms, and suspiciously well-labeled evidence, Ellis is drawn to stories about theatre people, chosen family, institutional memory, and the dangerous things communities call “tradition.”

Leave the ghost light on.