Miranda Renae
State: Utah
Miranda Renae was not born with a love of books. As a child, she danced around their pages as though they might bite or worse, bore her. Words were chores, and stories lived only on flickering screens. But one day, her father placed a book in her hands. It whispered secrets. It was thrilling. It was terrifying. It lingered. And from that moment on, the words had her.
She became a collector of stories, a seeker of anything that made her feel. No genre was safe. But she always found herself drawn to the dark corners, where fear tangled with desire, where monsters wore familiar faces, and where love was both the weapon and the wound.
By day, Miranda is trapped in a gray cubicle jungle, knee-deep in bureaucratic nonsense. But come night, she dives into the weird, scary, beautiful places inside her mind, building strange new worlds with nothing but paper and ink. Remembering what it's like to be afraid and to fall in love. In a world full of longing, secrets, and the kind of truths that only come out when the lights go out.
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Audiences: Adult, Young Adult
Books by Miranda Renae
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Wonderland
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Young Adult
Tags: Dark Fantasy, Dystopian Sci-Fi, Fairytale Retelling, Sci-Fi Fantasy, Sci-Fi Thriller
Nothing Stays Hidden Forever
Kaleb "Rabbit" White despises his job at Red Queen Inc. and is counting down the days until he can quit. That is until a company experiment goes horribly wrong and he watches a room full of people die... Except for one.
Alice.
It's been four years since Alice survived the outbreak of the WonderLand virus. She is doing her best to live a normal life even though she's barely keeping the viruses savage side effects under control. Then a simple camping trip turns her world upside down...
Looking Glass
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Young Adult
Tags: Dark Fantasy, Dystopian Sci-Fi, Fairytale Retelling, Sci-Fi Fantasy, Sci-Fi Thriller
Kaleb is settling into his life without Alice, spending his days working at his oldest brother's coffee shop and nights taking courses at a community college. Sure, Red Queen Inc. is still up to its old tricks, this time releasing WonderLand on an entire city, but Kaleb is out no matter how many times Markus asks him to come back. That is until Linc shows up, letting him know that not only is Alice alive, but she's in trouble.
Alice wakes up behind a walled-up Salt City. The WonderLand virus is running rampant, and she is being hunted. If that wasn't bad enough, she has no memory of how she got there or what's happened in the last six months. Kaleb sent her on a crazy scavenger hunt to find him, telling her to trust no one.
Will Kaleb and Alice find each other before Salt City is destroyed, killing everyone inside?
This Isn't the Place
Genre: Horror
Audience: Adult
Tags: Anthology
The restless dead linger where you least expect them.
These 24 stories and poems will take you outside of the house to new locations full of unsettling spirits and weirdness that will crawl under your skin. You’ll find abandoned theme parks, sinister assisted living facilities, dark woods, terrible toys, and even pollution that creeps in ways most unnatural. Find out why it’s not safe to stray too far from home and rethink your travel plans, because This Isn’t the Place.
Peaks of Madness
Genre: Horror
Audience: Adult
Tags: Anthology
The Horror Inside will drive you mad!
Some will resist. Others will give in willing. You may even find that you like the psychosis, of original Utah Horror. Thirty lunatics have come together to produce the finest and most original unpublished writings, since losing their minds. Experience the delusion and insanity of this new collection of horror in poetry, flash, and short fiction.
Hypnotic flesh eaters, ghosts of the past, ritual killings, time loops in hell, Ted Bundy's murder-sex, sub-dermal insects, homicidal hauntings, and asylum wanderers will thrill and fascinate you on the way out of sanity.
Lovecraft's typewriter will type out your last words as you lose your mind, proclaiming the stories within, the best to have ever been penned.