Media Kit
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Standard Bio:
Chris Kauzlarich is the author of the horror short story collection Menagerie in the Dark and the novellas LAZARUS and Moody Road. A member of the Horror Writers Association, the International Thriller Writers, the Authors Guild, AWP, and the Chicago Writers Association, he writes dark fiction that unsettles precisely because it lives so close to home. A graduate of Purdue University, Chris lives with his husband and daughter between Chicago, IL, and Naples, FL — or somewhere on the open road in their RV, where the best and worst ideas tend to find him.
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/33207090.Chris_Kauzlarich
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My Books/ Buy Links
Moody Road cover files are available here.
Moody Road description:
You don’t find Moody Road. Moody Road finds you.
Walker Herbert is lost. Lost in himself. Lost in the spaces between who he is and who the people he loves need him to be. When an old local legend pulls him and his closest friends into the dark of a rural Indiana night, the hunt they bargained for becomes something far more personal—and far more predatory.
Moody Road is a slow-burn horror novella about the demons we carry into dark places—and about what happens when something out there decides to hold the door open for them.
For fans of Paul Tremblay’s unflinching psychological dread, Josh Malerman’s suffocating rural atmosphere, and the quiet domestic terror of Shirley Jackson.
Moody Road buy links available here: https://books2read.com/u/4Aqqoq
Menagerie in the Dark cover files are available here.
Menagerie in the Dark buy links available here: https://books2read.com/u/bPjALJ
Menagerie in the Dark description:
Life often appears darkest just before the dawn of a new day.
In Menagerie in the Dark, Chris Kauzlarich immerses us in a speculative journey that explores the darker aspects of the human condition before bringing us back to the surface with the light of a new day. Through fourteen stories, this menagerie of characters faces trials of sorrow, death, loneliness, regret, deception, murder, delight, wonderment, and bliss, revealing what will either strengthen them enough to survive or plunge them to their demise. A boy’s home burns down, forcing him to confront a terrifying new world. A man enters a door where he witnesses his wife’s death, leaving him devastated; yet, he cannot stop returning to the scene, convinced he can save her. A nurse’s patients continue to perish under her care, but she harbors a dark secret—an administered cocktail for nefarious purposes.
These and other stories will stretch the limits of your emotions, from heartbreak to horror, leaving you yearning for more.
LAZARUS cover files are available here.
LAZARUS buy links available here: https://books2read.com/u/mZqYG5
LAZARUS description:
They promised a world free of disease and suffering, but at what cost?
Kami was strong, stronger than the others, but she couldn't outrun them. Taken and bled for one purpose, she holds on, following the spark and whispers of hope...
Ruth's life is no longer her own, memories becoming as intangible as smoke, her fingers never able to grasp what had been. That is, until the elixir. The clock has turned back, but a flashing specter remains...
Jarum was determined to succeed, founding Lazarus to find the key to immortality no matter the consequences. With ruthless determination, he was on the cusp of infamy until the lights. Until the dark...
In a showdown between predators and prey, their stories will become interwoven in a near-future landscape where science at its zenith can't escape its bloody origins, their desires reflecting back at them in the glow of fireflies.