Eric J. Guignard is an accomplished American author and editor, specializing in dark and speculative fiction. He has received significant recognition for his work, including winning the Bram Stoker Award twice, as well as being a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award and the Pushcart Prize. Guignard's writing has also been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award.
Guignard's reputation extends beyond his short stories and non-fiction works, as he is also well-known for his editorial work. He has over one hundred stories and non-fiction author credits appearing in various publications around the world. As an editor, Guignard has published multiple fiction anthologies, including "Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror" and "A World of Horror," which showcases international horror short fiction.
Additionally, Guignard has created an ongoing series of author primers through his press, Dark Moon Books, which champions modern masters of the dark and macabre. He is also the publisher and acquisitions editor for the renowned +Horror Library+ anthology series. Guignard has recently curated the series, "The Horror Writers Association Presents: Haunted Library of Horror Classics" through SourceBooks with co-editor Leslie S. Klinger. His latest books include "Last Case at a Baggage Auction," "Doorways to the Deadeye," and short story collection "That Which Grows Wild."
Outside of his writing career, Guignard is a technical writer and college professor. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, children, dogs, and a terrarium filled with mischievous beetles. Guignard can be found online through his website, blog, or Twitter.
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Doorways to the Deadeye
2019
2
Last Case at a Baggage Auction
2020
3
Last Case at a Baggage Auction (With: Steve Lines)
2020
Collections
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
That Which Grows Wild
2018
2
A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts and Dark Matters
2025
Exploring Dark Short Fiction Books (with Michael A. Arnzen, with Han Song, with Michelle Prebich, with Michael Arnzen, with Nathaniel Isaacson)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
A Primer to Steve Rasnic Tem
2017
2
A Primer to Kaaron Warren
2018
3
A Primer to Nisi Shawl
2018
4
A Primer to Jeffrey Ford
2019
5
A Primer to Han Song
2020
Exploring Dark Short Fiction Books (with Han Song, with Michael Arnzen)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
A Primer to Steve Rasnic Tem
2017
2
A Primer to Kaaron Warren
2018
3
A Primer to Nisi Shawl
2018
4
A Primer to Jeffrey Ford
2019
5
A Primer to Han Song
2020
Campfire Macabre Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Campfire Macabre
2020
2
Campfire Macabre: Volume 2
2022
Short Stories/Novellas
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Dreams of a Little Suicide
2014
Journalstone's DoubleDown Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Only the Thunder Knows – East End Girls (By: Gord Rollo)
2013
2
Paleo - The Doomsday Prepper
2015
3
Smog - Baggage of Eternal Night (With: Lisa Morton)
2013
4
Dog Days - Deadly Passage (By: Joe McKinney, Sanford Allen)
2013
5
Biters / The Reborn ( By: Harry Shannon)
2014
6
Secrets / Outcast (By: John R. Little, Mark Allan Gunnells)
2014
7
Paleo - The Doomsday Prepper (By: David Liss, Eileen Curtright)
2015
8
Frozen Shadows/WildWoman (By: Gene O'Neill, Chris Marrs)
2015
Eric J. Guignard Anthologies
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations
2012
2
A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine
2012
3
Slices of Flesh
2012
4
Bigfoot Terror Tales Vol. 1: Stories of Sasquatch Horror
2012
5
Chiral Mad
2012
6
Wandering Weeds: Tales of Rabid Vegetation
2012
7
Crossing the Path of Tellers
2012
8
100 Doors to Madness
2013
9
After Death...
2013
10
After Death
2013
11
Horror Library, Volume 5
2013
12
Dark Discoveries - Issue #28
2014
13
Night Terrors III
2014
14
All The Better
2015
15
Ain't Superstitious: Third Flatiron Anthologies, Volume 4, Fall/Winter 2015 #13
2015
16
Nightscript Volume 1
2015
17
Chiral Mad 3
2016
18
Mark of the Beast
2015
19
Third Flatiron's Best of 2015
2015
20
Shock Totem 10: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted
2016
21
Dark Little Dreams
2016
22
Cemetery Riots
2016
23
Horror Library, Volume 6
2017
24
Haunted Nights
2017
25
The Five Senses of Horror
2018
26
A World of Horror
2018
27
The Fiends in the Furrows
2018
28
Birthing Monsters
2018
29
Pop the Clutch
2019
30
100 Word Horrors Part 2
2019
31
The Horror Collection: Black Edition
2019
32
Strange Tales of the Macabre: Stormy Weather
2019
33
Strange Tales of the Macabre: Haunted Journeys
2019
34
Strange Tales of the Macabre: Post-Apocalyptic
2019
35
100 Word Horrors Book 3
2019
36
Tales of the Lost, Volume 1
2019
37
100 Word Horrors: Book 4
2019
38
Horror for the Throne: One-Sitting Reads
2021
39
Laughing at Shadows
2020
40
Unthinkable Tales Anthology Three December 2020
2020
41
Campfire Macabre
2020
42
Paranormal Contact
2021
43
Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology
2021
44
Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World