Lisa Kröger is the author of Monster, She Wrote, Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult, and the forthcoming Something in the Water, as well as co-host of the Know Fear and Monster, She Wrote podcasts. She’s won the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award. Her books have been featured in Time magazine, The New York Times, Book Page, and Rue Morgue.

She’s contributed fiction and nonfiction to Fear of Clowns, Mother Knows Best, Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From the Road, EcoGothic, The Encyclopedia of the Vampire, and Horror Literature through History. Her essay collections include Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences and Spectral Identities: The Ghosted and the Ghostly in Film and Literature.

She’s on the Board of Trustees of the Horror Writer's Association, and she collaborates with the Nyx Horror Collective. Most recently, she produced 13 Minutes of Horror: Folklore, and the sequel 13 Minutes of Horror: Sci Fi Horror, both of which streamed on Shudder. The second installment won the Rondo Hatton Award for Best Short.

Lisa is represented by Ann Leslie Tuttle at Dystel, Goderich, & Bourret. 

She's also a host on the Monster, She Wrote and Know Fear podcasts, biweekly casts that dissects the horror genre. Visit the Know Fear website for more details.  

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