Simon Avelin

Simon Avelin writes horror from the tree line — stories about what lives where the maps go vague. He has spent two decades hiking and camping in the deep woods of the Pacific Northwest, collecting local legends, missing-person reports, and the kind of campfire stories people only tell after midnight.

His HOLLOW COUNTY series follows a disgraced wildlife officer who hunts the cryptids the government won't admit exist, in a county that seems to breed them.

When he's not writing, Avelin is usually somewhere with no cell service. He lives with his dog at the edge of a national forest, and he still won't go into the woods alone at night.