KC Grifant | Author of Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Weird West Stories
Welcome!
KC Grifant is a Southern Californian author who writes internationally published horror, fantasy, science fiction and weird west stories for podcasts, anthologies and magazines. She is a member of SFWA and HWA.
Her writings have appeared in magazines and podcasts including: Andromeda Spaceways Magazine (cover story for issue #70), Unnerving Magazine, Aurealis Magazine, Fission Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Dark Matter Magazine, Tales to Terrify, the Lovecraft eZine, Sley House Podcasts, and many others.
In addition to a Weird West horror novel, MELINDA WEST: MONSTER GUNSLINGER (Feb 2023), she has also written stories for dozens of anthologies, including: Chromophobia; Dancing in the Shadows: A Tribute to Anne Rice; Musings of the Muse; Field Notes from a Nightmare; The One That Got Away; Six Guns Straight From Hell; Trembling with Fear: Year One; Shadowy Natures; Beyond the Infinite: Tales from the Outer Reaches; and the Stoker-nominated Fright Mare: Women Write Horror.
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News Highlights
- Pandemic horror story “All Aboard” in ORCHARD 34 magazine
- Weird West action story “The Fall of Denafas Manor” out in SNAFU: DEAD OR ALIVE anthology
- Introducing the cover for MELINDA WEST: MONSTER GUNSLINGER
- Scifi story “Cynscout” in the British Science Fiction Association magazine
- FREE dramatic radio production of cosmic weird horror story “U Train” in Sley House Publishing
- Scifi horror story “Odd Colleagues” published in DARK MATTER MAGAZINE issue 010
- Book deal announced – MELINDA WEST: MONSTER GUNSLINGER
- “Unrest” published in gothic horror tribute to Anne Rice anthology
- “Crab Man” published in COSMIC HORROR MONTHLY
- Color-themed horror anthology CHROMOPHOBIA available in summer 2022
- “Death’s Horse” published in SIX GUNS STRAIGHT FROM HELL 3
- FREE short audio horror scifi story “The Peerlings” available on TALES TO TERRIFY