Terence Taylor

Terence Taylor lives and writes in Gowanus, Brooklyn, with Shuri, his black cat and part-time muse. After years of comforting kids with award-winning children’s television written for PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney, among others, he turned to scaring their parents in print. His short story "Plaything" appeared in Brandon Massey’s "Dark Dreams", the first horror-suspense anthology of African American authors. Terence’s work was in the next two volumes, and his short stories and nonfiction essays have since appeared in "Lightspeed", "Fantastic Stories of the Imagination", "Nightmare Magazine", "What the #@&% Is That?: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre", "The Canterbury Nightmares", "Out There Screaming" and more. His first novel, "Bite Marks", was a modern-day Grand Guignol about the unintended but catastrophic creation of an undead infant. Graced with a starred review by Publishers Weekly that described it as “a gritty, screenworthy supernatural noir set in 1980s New York,” it was followed by "Blood Pressure". Twenty years later, a new menace endangers the humans and vampires that survived book one. Terence will soon conclude his trilogy with "Past Life", set in 2027, as that rising horror threatens to end the world.