Kristi DeMeester books

Anthologies

Best Horror of the Year Reading Order

Collections

Standalone Novels

Kristi DeMeester is a horror writer whose work spans short fiction, novels, and anthology contributions. Her first novel, Beneath, was published in 2017, the same year she released the short story collection Everything That’s Underneath. She followed Beneath with Such a Pretty Smile (2022) and Dark Sisters (2025), so her novel output is deliberate and spaced out, roughly one every three to four years.

Where DeMeester’s name appears most frequently is in anthologies. She has contributed to numerous multi-author horror collections, including several volumes of The Best Horror of the Year, Screams from the Dark, and smaller press anthologies like Nightscript, Looming Low, and Nox Pareidolia. The Best Horror of the Year series, edited by Ellen Datlow, runs to seventeen volumes from 2009 through 2025, and DeMeester’s stories have appeared in multiple installments.

Her catalog of 36 titles is split between those anthology appearances and her own original work. Readers looking for her fiction specifically should start with Beneath or Everything That’s Underneath, while the anthologies offer her shorter pieces alongside other writers in the genre.