Marie O'Regan
Writer. Joined LPP in 2018.
MARIE O’REGAN is a Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadows and British Fantasy Award-nominated author and editor, based in Derbyshire. Last year she was awarded the British Fantasy Society ‘Legends of FantasyCon’ award. Her short fiction has appeared in many genre magazines and anthologies in the UK and abroad, she is the author of three collections: Mirror Mere, In Times of Want, and The Last Ghost and Other Stories, as well as a novella, Bury Them Deep, and her first novel, the internationally best-selling Celeste, was published in 2022. Her genre journalism has appeared in magazines like The Dark Side, Rue Morgue and Fortean Times, and she co-authored an interview book with prominent figures from the horror genre, Voices in the Dark. 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, Wonderland, Cursed, Twice Cursed, The Other Side of Never, and In These Hallowed Halls, as well as the charity anthology Trickster’s Treats #3. She is also the editor of bestselling The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women and Phantoms. Marie is also Managing Editor of PS Publishing’s novella imprint, Absinthe Books, and she ran ChillerCon UK, which took place in Scarborough in May 2022. See more at her