Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Flesh and Bone: Rise of the Necromancers |
2010 |
Buy |
| Bloody Carnival |
2010 |
Buy |
| Daily Flashes of Erotica Quarterly |
2010 |
Buy |
| Sinisterotica of Erotic Horror |
2011 |
Buy |
| Steamy Screams |
2011 |
Buy |
| Dreams of Steam III |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Big Bad |
2013 |
Buy |
| In the Bloodstream |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Grotesquerie |
2014 |
Buy |
| 60 Black Women in Horror Fiction |
2014 |
Buy |
| Dark Gothic Resurrected Magazine Summer 2014 |
2014 |
Buy |
| Torched |
2014 |
N/A |
| Dark Voices |
2018 |
Buy |
| Cooties Shot Required |
2021 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Spook Lights |
2015 |
Buy |
| Spook Lights II |
2017 |
Buy |
| Who Lost, I Found |
2023 |
Buy |
Selected Papers from the Consortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Bleak Houses: Safer & Family Solstice |
TBD |
N/A |
| Bleak Houses |
2023 |
Buy |
| 12 Hours |
2024 |
Buy |
| Asylum |
2024 |
Buy |
| His Unburned Heart |
2024 |
Buy |
| Hollow Tongue |
2024 |
Buy |
| Errant Roots |
2024 |
Buy |
| Blood Cypress |
2025 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Root Magic |
2021 |
Buy |
| Conjure Island |
2023 |
Buy |
| The Creepening of Dogwood House |
2024 |
Buy |
| Psychopomp & Circumstance |
2025 |
Buy |
Eden Royce grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, as a member of the Gullah-Geechee nation, and her writing draws heavily on that heritage. She now lives in Kent, England, but her fiction stays rooted in the American South, its folklore, and the conjure traditions she learned from family and community. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a bridal consultant, reptile handler, and stockbroker.
Her middle-grade novels include Root Magic (2021), about two siblings learning rootwork in 1963 South Carolina, which won the Mythopeic Fantasy Award and was a Nebula Award finalist. The Creepening of Dogwood House (2024) won the Bram Stoker Award. On the adult side, her Spook Lights collections bring Southern Gothic horror steeped in Black folklore, and her novella Hollow Tongue won the 2024 Shirley Jackson Award. Her most recent novel, Psychopomp & Circumstance (2025), is a historical fantasy set during Reconstruction.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Eden Royce written?
Eden Royce has written 29 books across 4 series.
What was Eden Royce's first book?
Eden Royce’s first book is Bloody Carnival, published in 2010.
What is Eden Royce's writing about?
Eden Royce writes horror and middle-grade fantasy grounded in Gullah-Geechee culture and Southern conjure traditions. Her work draws on root working, folklore, and the experiences of Black communities in the American South, from the Sea Islands to Reconstruction-era South Carolina.