Post-apocalyptic horror · 2020
Published collection
Published books. Distinct nightmares.
Horror, crime, supernatural suspense, and stories shaped by Tampa Bay and Italian roots.
Published Books
Slasher horror · 2020
“82” Year of the Monster
Tampa Bay becomes the hunting ground for a merciless killer in a nightmare inspired by the raw terror of 1980s slasher films.
Supernatural horror · 2022
When a Moon Comes Alive at Midnight
A ghost hunter enters an abandoned sanitarium and meets a mysterious woman in white whose story reaches beyond death.
Occult horror · 2020
Cursed Book of the Devil’s Dummy
An old book, a sinister ventriloquist dummy, and a curse waiting since 1959 pull Eddie Fiorentini into a murderous bargain.
Italian crime thriller · 2022
The Detailer
A man with two gold pistols enters a world of Italian blood, criminal loyalty, and betrayals that demand a price.
Psychological horror · 2022
The Dreams of Sharon Mars
Sharon Mars is haunted by nightmares that follow her into reality as the boundary between memory and waking life collapses.
Supernatural slasher horror · 2026
Camp Evergreen
Eight young adults awaken a role-playing evil tied to a summer camp’s 1967 massacre.
Folk horror · Dark suspense · 2026
Tampa Italiano: Welcome Home, Family
A free ancestry test leads Natalie Harrow to her family in Canepina, where a loving reunion hides a trap built around blood and belonging.
Adult horror · Killer-clown suspense · 2026
The House That Laughed
Forest Hills, Tampa, 1996. A shortcut past the abandoned Wrenner mansion draws a group of teenage friends into the story of Corbin Wrenner, the killer clown known as Mr. Grin. The house is full of hidden passages, old recordings, and the traces of children who never came home. What first looks like a neighborhood dare becomes a fight to survive a murderer who has learned to use fear long after his own death.
Adult 1980s crime · Action · Revenge thriller · 2026
REVENGE ’86: NO ONE GETS OUT
Tampa, summer 1986. A late-night payphone summons Danny Moreno into the unfinished war left by Victor Kane. Raymond Voss, a name buried in Calvin ‘Fearless’ Mercer’s past, has spent decades turning boxers, police officers, businesses, and missing young people into a system called Crown. When a hunted boy arrives with a warning and a black ledger points back to Danny, Calvin, Becca, and Robby, the survivors of 1985 learn that Victor was only one piece of a much larger machine.
Revenge thriller · 2026
Revenge ’85: The New Kid
Danny Russo is the new kid at Chamberlain High. When he becomes the target of a ruthless bully, a mysterious mentor teaches him how to fight back, and Danny learns how much revenge can cost.
Southern Gothic · Survival horror · Thriller · 2026
The Covingtons
In 1983 South Tampa, Mel Hayes and his friends visit the wealthy Covington family on behalf of their church. Behind the mansion’s iron gates, they discover hidden prisoners, deadly traps, and a family willing to do anything to protect its darkest secret.
Psychological horror · Thriller · 2026
The Eighth Session
In 1981 Tampa, psychiatrist Conrad Stetson drives home drunk with his partner beside him. On Armenia Avenue, their car strikes a young man. Two years later, the victim’s brother, Bill Roy, walks into Conrad’s office seeking treatment—and knows what happened that night.
Dark academia · Conspiracy thriller · 2026
The Vipers
In 2006, eighteen-year-old Brad Bennington arrives at Tampa’s Blackthorn College with a scholarship, a gift for rowing, and a black 2004 Dodge Neon SRT-4 he built himself. For a young man from Plant City, the school promises a way into a world that has always kept its doors closed. His friendship with star quarterback Antonio Smith soon brings him to the attention of the Viper Association, an exclusive society with powerful connections and limitless money.
Supernatural horror · Dark fantasy · 2026
The Permanent Installation
Tampa, 1988. Fifty-three-year-old car salesman Gene Figurino has spent years escaping into movies while his wife, Lillian, and their teenage children, Anthony and Nicole, struggle to reach him. Then a midnight visit from a salesman named Norman Dancer offers Gene the entertainment system of his dreams. The contract bears the name H. Dot Inferno. Gene signs before he understands what a permanent installation really means.New from Nightgrave
The next stories are here.
When the Rooms Learn Your Name
By Brandon Burnside
He spent his life proving ghosts were fake. Then one house learned his name.
Skeptical horror author Bram Kestrel and documentary researcher Nozomi Kuroda enter the Carroway expecting to expose a manufactured haunting. Instead, its rooms learn their names and force them to confront a house that records, rearranges, and keeps its victims.
New Meat
By Brandon Burnside
Welcome to Cypress Falls.
New Meat is a Florida cannibal horror novel set in Cypress Falls, forthcoming from Nightgrave Publishing.
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Open the professional portfolioCompleted manuscripts. One focused portfolio.
The Eighth Session leads a completed historical crime trilogy, followed by twenty-five additional complete manuscripts across horror, thrillers, and romantic suspense—including all ten novels in Ghost Hunting with Bram & Nozomi. The series now includes Book Ten, The Fourteenth Name.
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