Marie O'Regan

Marie O’Regan is a screenwriter and a British Fantasy, Aurealis and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author and editor, based in Derbyshire, and the co-chair of the Horror Writers Association’s UK Chapter. In 2022, she was co-recipient of the British Fantasy 'Legends of FantasyCon' award. 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 and Great British Horror: Dark Satanic Mills (2017). She has also published three collections (Mirror Mere, In Times of Want and The Last Ghost and Other Stories), and a novella, Bury Them Deep. She was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Short Story in 2006, and Best Anthology in 2010 (Hellbound Hearts) and 2012 (Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women). 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. Her first novel, Celeste, was published by Encyclopocalypse Publications in February 2022. 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 and Cursed, from Titan Books, plus editor of bestselling The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women and Phantoms. Her short script, ‘Valentine’s Day’, was longlisted in the 50 Kisses screenplay competition, and she has reached the final stages of BBC Writersroom Drama submission process twice (once for a short, SUICIDE BRIDGE, once for a pilot, FAE). Marie is currently working on a novel, three further anthologies that are due for release in 2023 from Titan Books, some short stories and a number of screenplay projects. She was also Co-Chair of ChillerCon UK, a horror convention that took place in May 2022 in Scarborough, UK, with Guests of Honour Mick Garris, Grady Hendrix, Gillian Redfearn, Kim Newman, and Special Guests Mike (M.R.) Carey and Robert Lloyd Parry.