Marie O'Regan

Marie O’Regan is a Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadows and British Fantasy Award-nominated author and editor, based in Derbyshire. She was awarded the British Fantasy Society ‘Legends of FantasyCon’ award in 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of genre magazines and anthologies in the UK, US, Canada, Italy and Germany, including Best British Horror 2014, Great British Horror: Dark Satanic Mills (2017), and The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of genre magazines and anthologies in the UK, US, Canada, Italy and Germany, including Best British Horror 2014, Great British Horror: Dark Satanic Mills (2017), and The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories. Her first novel, Celeste, was published in February 2022.

Marie was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Short Story in 2006 (‘Can You See Me’), and Best Anthology in 2010 (Hellbound Hearts), 2012 (Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women), and 2019 (Wonderland). Wonderland was also shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson award for Best Anthology. Her genre journalism has appeared in magazines like The Dark Side, Rue Morgue and Fortean Times, and her interview book with prominent figures from the horror genre, Voices in the Dark, was released in 2011. An essay on ‘The Changeling’ was published in PS Publishing’s Cinema Macabre, edited by Mark Morris. She is co-editor of the bestselling Hellbound Hearts, Mammoth Book of Body Horror, A Carnivàle of Horror – Dark Tales from the Fairground, Exit Wounds (four stories from which have been shortlisted for a CWA dagger for Best Short Story), Wonderland (nominated for a Shirley Jackson award and BFS award), and Cursed, as well as the charity anthology Trickster’s Treats #3 (nominated for an Aurealis award). She is also the editor of bestselling The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women and Phantoms. Marie was on the British Fantasy Society Committee from 2001 to 2008, editing both Prism and Dark Horizons before becoming Chair in 2004, and worked on several FantasyCons over the years, sometimes as Chair. She recently ran ChillerCon UK, which took place in Scarborough in May 2022. Three further anthologies (Twice Cursed, The Other Side of Never and In These Hallowed Halls) are currently slated for release in April, May and September, 2023, with more in progress beyond that. Marie is also Managing Editor of PS Publishing’s novella imprint, Absinthe Books. Absinthe has so far published novellas by SJI Holliday, George Mann, Laura Mauro, Cavan Scott, Jen Williams, Angela Slatter, M.R. Carey, Louise Carey and  Priya Sharma, with the next three titles being released in Autumn 2023.

Marie is represented by Meg Davis