Eric J. Guignard is a writer and anthologist of dark and speculative fiction, operating from the shadowy outskirts of Los Angeles, where he also runs the small press Dark Moon Books. He’s twice won the Bram Stoker Award, won the Shirley Jackson Award, and been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and International Thriller Writers Award.

He has over 100 stories appearing in publications around the world and has edited and published nine anthologies, most recently A World of Horror and Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, each a showcase of international horror short fiction.

He currently publishes the acclaimed series of author primers created to champion modern masters of the dark and macabre, Exploring Dark Short Fiction. He is also publisher and acquisitions editor for the renowned +Horror Library+ anthology series. Additionally he curates the series, The Horror Writers Association Presents: Haunted Library of Horror Classics, through SourceBooks with co-editor Leslie S. Klinger.

His latest books are Last Case at a Baggage Auction; Doorways To The Deadeye; and short story collection That Which Grows Wild: 16 Tales of Dark Fiction (Cemetery Dance).

Coming in 2025 is his second collection, A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts and Dark Matters (Cemetery Dance) and the anthology Scaring and Daring Adventures (HarperCollins).