Southern-fried horror & dark fantasy

I raise the dead
on paper.

Zombies, werewolves, vampires, ghosts and death magic, from the Louisiana bayous. Bloody, gory, and always about family.

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New Release · Standalone

The Skinning Season

In 1979, something took Harry off Pasaw Island and left his seven-year-old son alone in a deer stand in the dark.

Forty-seven years later, opening weekend of deer season comes to Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, and the hunters start dying. Bullets tear through the thing and it keeps coming. Whatever stalks the swamp isn't killing like an animal. It's hunting the way the hunters do.

To end it, Jed will have to walk back into the swamp that took his father and get close enough to put his hands inside the monster.

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Book 3

The Midnight Coach

New Orleans, 2032. Bodies are turning up in a railyard where no train has moved, and a ticket stub in a dead man's wallet is for a night service that stopped running six years ago.

Marcie Coopwood, one eye and a cane, comes to the yard at night to find out what is still riding the midnight coach.

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Book 2

DEADERS 2

The dead own the world now. Jacob intends to burn it clean.

Jacob lost everything when the spores came: his wife, his daughter, his home. He survived because his blood carries something no one else’s does, and that’s exactly why the most powerful people left alive want him.

The series

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Side project · Comedy

The Bagel Conspiracy

A break from the blood: a comic novel about a bored accountant, the internet, and one very suspicious everything bagel.

Steven Bynum

The author

Steven Bynum

Steven lives near a bayou and swamp in Louisiana, where the trees are most of his neighbors and he likes it that way. Born late at night, he does his best work after the sun goes down.

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