About marie
‘I’m incredibly impressed. It’s beautifully crafted, elegant work. She’s extraordinarily talented.' Clive Barker
Marie O'Regan is an award-nominated writer and editor of horror and dark fantasy fiction, and her short fiction has been published in such places as The Alsiso Project, When Darkness Comes, Terror Tales 2, Terror Tales of London, Best British Horror 2014 and Great British Horror #2: Dark, Satanic Mills, among others. Her first collection, Mirror Mere, was published in 2006. She is also the co-editor of Hellbound Hearts (Pocket Books), The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (Constable & Robinson/Running Press) and A Carnivàle of Horror: Dark Tales From the Fairground (PS Publishing), Exit Wounds,Wonderland, Cursed, Twice Cursed, The Other Side of Never, In These Hallowed Halls (all Titan Books) and Beyond & Within Folk Horror (Flame Tree Press) along with her husband, Paul Kane; Trickster's Treats #3, co-edited with Lee Murray, and the solo-edited anthologies The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women (Constable and Robinson/Running Press) and Phantoms (Titan Books). Marie and Paul's non-fiction interview book Voices in the Dark was published early in 2011. Marie's collection, In Times of Want, was launched at FantasyCon 2016, and a novella, Bury Them Deep, was launched at FantasyCon 2017. Her latest collection, The Last Ghost and Other Stories, was launched at FantasyCon 2019. Her first novel, Celeste, was published in February 2022 by Encyclopocalypse Publishing. Excerpts of her fiction together with details of where it can be found are elsewhere on this site. Marie is also Managing Editor of Absinthe Books, an award-winning imprint of PS Publishing devoted to the novella. In 2022, she was awarded the British Fantasy Society 'Legends of FantasyCon' award. She was Chair of the British Fantasy Society from 2004 to 2008, and Co-Chair of the Horror Writers Association UK Chapter from 2015 to 2022, as well as Co-Chair of ChillerCon UK, which took place in May 2022.
Marie is represented by Meg Davis of Ki Agency Ltd.
Latest book
Marie's latest book, Beyond & Within: Folk Horror, is out now.
