Dollface

Lindy Ryan is an award-winning author, anthologist, and short-film director whose books and anthologies have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Several of her projects have been adapted for the screen. Ryan is the current author-in-residence at Rue Morgue. Declared a “champion for women’s voices in horror” by Shelf Awareness, Ryan was named a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2020 and, in 2022, was named one of horror’s most masterful anthology curators. She previously served on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Brothers Grimm Society of North America. Born and raised in southeast Texas, Ryan currently resides on the East Coast. She is a professor at Rutgers University and a guest faculty mentor in Western Connecticut State University’s Creative Writing MFA program.

“A whimsical, bloody, unsettling suburban slasher with an unexpected twist that will hit way too close to home for any mom who'd rather face a serial killer than a PTA meeting. I connected to the final girl on a molecular level!” — Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of Bloom and It Will Only Hurt For a Moment
“Dollface is Stepford meets Stephen King—sharp and sinister in all the best ways. A twisted joy for horror fans.” — James "Murr" Murray and Darren Wearmouth, bestselling co-authors of The Stowaway and You Better Watch Out
“A twisty, gory homage to the slasher, with a horror writer heroine who's just a little too knowledgeable about genre tropes... Dollface is a whole lot of bloody fun.” — Christina Henry, author of Alice and The Place Where They Buried Your Heart
“Lindy Ryan's suburban giallo goes for the gullet, then slices right through. Dollface stands proudly within the new slasher canon alongside the works of Stephen Graham Jones and Brian McAuley, finding fresh weapons to render the reader's imagination into the reddest of ribbons.” — Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes