Ronald Kelly

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1991
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • Something Out There

    It was passed down from generation to generation. The legend of the Dark 'Un, the strange beast that roamed Pale Dove Mountain. The dark monster that no one had ever seen -- at least not and lived to tell about it -- except, so it was said, old Fletc...

  • Father's Little Helper

    BLACK CHRISTMAS The citizens of Cedar Bluff, Tennessee have never recovered from the Christmas Massacre of 1978…that tragic day when Richard McFarland, armed with a shotgun, abandoned his wife and son and selected a local church as the stage for...

  • The Possession

    1864: A Confederate soldier named Braxton Heller returns home from battle to find his beloved wife has been brutally murdered and buried at some unknown location on the plantation of Magnolia. For days he digs the battle-scarred earth, but succumbs t...

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  • Blood Kin

    PRAY FOR THE DAWN The vampire curse of the Cravens ended over a century ago when Josiah Craven was buried in an unmarked grave and a stake driven through his heart. But tonight, his ancestors have awakened their Great-Grandpa Craven. They're plannin...

  • Fear

    It was a legend in Fear County... a hideous, flesh-eating creature - part snake, part earthbound demon - that feasted on the blood of innocent children in the cold black heart of the Tennessee backwoods. But ten-year-old Jeb Sweeny knows the horri...

  • Midnight Grinding

    It's dark. Crickets chirp in the black of night, accompanied by the lonesome call of a whippoorwill. On the front porch of a ramshackle house, pale moonlight reveals two forms in rocking chairs, facing one another. Just you and the storyteller. Yo...

  • Dark Dixie

    Volume Two of Dark Dixie: Tales of Southern Horror, the follow on to the immensely popular Dark Dixie: Tales of Southern Horror.Dark Dixie II is darker in nature, wandering into shadowy places where the first book never ventured. The Southern-fried f...

  • Dark Dixie II

    Volume Two of Dark Dixie: Tales of Southern Horror, the follow on to the immensely popular Dark Dixie: Tales of Southern Horror.Dark Dixie II is darker in nature, wandering into shadowy places where the first book never ventured. The Southern-fried f...



  • Twilight Hankerings

    A collection of Southern-fried horror short stories from Ronald Kelly. Contents include: Peacemaker, The Boxcar, Consumption, Then Came a Woodsman, Oh, Sordid Shame, The Thing at the Side of the Road, Whorehouse Hollow, Thinning the Herd...

  • Hell Hollow

    The rural town of Harmony, Tennessee possessed a disturbing secret; a secret so ancient that most of its residents were completely unaware of it. Even the last survivors of a vigilante raid long ago have filed the tragic events of that autumn night a...

  • Cumberland Furnace & Other Fear Forged Fables

    Seven tales of terror that could only beat in the dark, diseased heart of Dixie…- An abandoned furnace stands as a monument to cruelty and torture…as well as a gathering place for old ghosts…- Grandma’s culinary gifts of comfort and compassio...

  • Dark Dixie I

    Previously available on audio cassette from Darkscribe Press, this collection was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1992. Dark Dixie collects the following works of southern horror by author Ronald Kelly. This book includes all the stories from the aud...

  • Flesh Welder

    2017… the not-so-distant future.Chaos reigns supreme. Social and economic upheaval, rampant terrorism, and nuclear annihilation have turned the earth into a vast wasteland. And, in Texas, the gates of Hell have been cracked open, unleashing its evi...

  • The Sick Stuff

    Repulsive.Disgusting.Beyond the realm of good taste…A serial killer records the abominations he has committed… on the only journal he has in his possession.A man moves into a new abode that is plagued with a spider problem… or is it the other w...

  • Twilight Hankerings: Things That Go Bite in the Night

    CONTENTS:PeacemakerThe BoxcarConsumptionThen Came a WoodsmanOh, Sordid Shame!The Thing at the Side of the RoadWhorehouse HollowThinning the HerdFrom the Author:Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “appetite” as: a) any of the in...

  • Unhinged: Tales of Darkness and Terror

    It usually happens by chance. You are alone in a deserted parking lot or at an interstate rest stop, when a man approaches you out of nowhere. An average-looking fellow with a good-natured smile; a man who, in your opinion, certainly couldn’t harm ...

  • After the Burn

    This collection of two novellas and six short stories follows the exploits of a handful of survivors in a nuclear-devestated world ruled by the dregs of the earth; serial killers, child molesters, rapists, and cannibals, as well as radiation-evolved ...

  • The China Doll

    The summer of 1932 was a troublesome one for Jack Alder. His grandmother's health was fairing poorly, they were having a difficult time making ends meet during the Great Depression, and the town banker was threatening foreclosure on the family farm. ...



  • Undertaker's Moon

    A graveyard feast beneath the summer moon… The rural town of Old Hickory, Tennessee was a quiet, picturesque community… until the O’Sheas came to town. Becoming the new proprietors of the town’s only funeral parlor, with the help of their cha...

  • The Dark'Un

    It was passed down from generation to generation. The legend of The Dark'Un, the strange beast that roamed Pale Dove Mountain. The dark monster that no one had ever seen -- at least not and lived to tell about it -- except, so it was said, old ...

  • Long Chills

    A teenage girl with second sight is brought to an abandoned farmstead to locate the bodies of several abducted children, only to find an entire graveyard beneath her feet. A detour on a rural road reveals a horrifying presence that both deceives and ...

  • Restless Shadows

    He’s back!That was the first thought that crossed Cindy Biggs’ mind when she heard of the brutal triple-murder in her hometown of Coleman. Yes, the awful crime was nearly identical to the one performed during her hard-scrabble childhood at the ti...

  • Mister Glow-Bones and Other Halloween Tales

    From the introduction:Halloween is more than a holiday; more than a fun time of candy and costumes for the young. It is inoculated into our very being at an early age and there it remains. As we grow old, it grows dormant… but it is still there. Fo...

  • Mr. Glow-Bones and Other Halloween Tales

    From the introduction:Halloween is more than a holiday; more than a fun time of candy and costumes for the young. It is inoculated into our very being at an early age and there it remains. As we grow old, it grows dormant… but it is still there. Fo...

  • Twelve Gauge

    The citizens of Cedar Bluff, Tennessee, have never recovered from the Christmas Massacre of 1978. that tragic day when Richard McFarland, armed with a shotgun, abandoned his wife and son and selected a local church as the stage for a bloody, murde...

  • Burnt Magnolia

    (Originally published as The Possession)As a young girl, Laura Locke ignored the warnings of local superstition and played among the burnt-out ruins of Magnolia; a Tennessee plantation that had been forcibly occupied by the Union Army and then laid t...

  • An Octet of Vampires

    An Octet of Vampires, part of the Box-Set Collection from Crossroad Press, is an omnibus of eight horror novels with a vampire theme. This collection includes classic novels, such as The Light at the End, and voices new to the horror genre. Clockin...

  • Midnight Tide & Other Seaside Shivers

    During the daylight hours: sun and fun, sandy beaches, laughing children, and sparkling waters that seem to merge with the cloudless sky above. But at night, in the darkness, at the stroke of midnight, things change. Sand castles crumble and the seas...



  • The Buzzard Zone

    When the buzzards took flight, Levi Hobbs knew his family's only hope of survival was to escape. They were coming, the Biters, the dead, risen as zombies, infested by parasites and transformed into shambling, ravenous monsters. As the family flees t...

  • The Essential Sick Stuff

    Winner of the 2021 Splatterpunk Award for Best CollectionIn the foul and fetid darkness, it awakens.Vile, unstable, brimming with ill intent, like pus on the verge of eruption. Repulsive to gaze upon and even more disturbing to comprehend. It reaches...

  • The Halloween Store and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve

    When you first enter The Halloween Store, things seem normal. Fun and frightful decorations, ghastly costumes and masks of the season, and bags of candy galore. Then, as you travel farther into its shadowy depths, things begin to change. The air smel...

  • Season's Creepings

    O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree... what lurks among thy branches...Christmas can be the most wonderful time of the year. Candy canes and hot cocoa. Snowmen and sleigh rides. The love and hope that the Nativity brings. Cold milk and warm cookies fo...

  • Irish Gothic

    When Irish eyes are dyingBreath chills till time is over,Death pulls slowly gravewardTo rest 'neath sod and clover...Ireland... Sweet Erin...The Emerald Isle. In the bright and bonnie light of day, it is a place of beauty, history, and good humor. Of...

  • Haunt of Southern-Fried Fear

    Down below the Mason-Dixon Line, deep in the shadowy hills and hollows of Tennessee, lives a teller of terrifying tales and a spinner of dark yarns unlike any you have ever heard before. Stories to chill your bones and pepper your flesh with goose bu...

  • The Saga of Dead-Eye

  • Vampires, Zombies, & Mojo Men

    ALIVE, YET DEAD... The bloody War Between the States and a harrowing confinement in an enemy prison camp had turned Joshua Wingade into a broken man. His nerves and spirit shattered by the barbarity of battle, and demoralized by a cause that his hear...

  • The Saga of Dead-Eye, Book Two

  • Werewolves, Swamp Critters, & Hellacious Haints!

    Across the Bloody Mississippi... Following the brutal murder of former Confederate officer, Joshua Wingade, the pursuit for the renegade vampire, Jules Holland, and his hellish followers continues across a war-torn South. The newly resurrected gunfig...



  • Tales from the Southern-Fried Crypt

    Below the pale orb of a full moon, a lone boat navigates the dark channels of the Louisiana bayou, moving between ancient cypress and the heave mats of Spanish moss that dangle from their gnarled limbs.Who are the two who brave the swamp at night? On...

  • The Shrouded Tome

    Within this dark crypt, lie stories long untold...These are the forgotten fables... tales that have suffered the fate of premature burial. Shrouded and unceremoniously laid to rest. Stories that languish in deep shadow and tattered cobweb, abandoned ...

  • The Devil's Backbone

    Join three of horror's finest storytellers on a journey through the dark heart of Appalachia... AFOOT IN THE NETHERWILD by Ronald Kelly: When the children of Bowden Ayres mysteriously disappear in the woods near their homestead, he enlists the aid of...

  • Hindsight

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    Sight Unseen Little Cindy Ann knew things no one else knew: saw things no one else saw. Ever since she'd nearly died of fever, the gift of second sight had been hers. Only it didn't seem like such a gift when the other children called her a witch an...

  • Moon of the Werewolf

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    Their kind once ruled the Emerald Isle - with black terror. They spilled hot gore under the full moon and cracked human bones to feast on the living marrow. But Ireland cast these wolf-beasts out and the shapechanging clan of the Howler was forced to...

  • Pitfall

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    They were called diablos hoyos. Vicious black-furred beasts that fought in the pit with the raw fury and savage ferocity of Satan himself. For their owners, they were a lucrative investment. For the people of Sulphur Springs, Texas, they were the bes...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ronald Kelly has published 45 books.

Ronald Kelly does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Devil's Backbone, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Ronald Kelly, Something Out There, was published in March 1991.

No. Ronald Kelly does not write books in series.
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