Celebrating Women’s History Month 2025 with Monster Complex female authors!
To join in Women’s History Month, Monster Complex wants to share several of the women authors we’ve talked about on the site. Find out more about these ladies—plus links to find them online.
Urban Fantasy: 32 Notable Women Authors
Here at Monster Complex, lots of our readers are regularly checking in for the next great urban fantasy series. Check out a list of notable female authors whose fiction combines a realistic urban setting with far-out elements like vampires, werewolves, and faeries.
14 Great Women Comic Book Writers
Celebrating Women’s History Month with some great comic book writers. Whether you’re talking about those who write for the major comics publishers or an indie publisher, any list of great comic book writers would include several women.
Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson Series in Order
This urban fantasy series from Patricia Briggs stars the shape-shifting mechanic who can take the form of a coyote. “I actively avoid power creep. I think that underpowered characters make much better protagonists.”
Season’s Bleedings: 13 Christmas Horror Anthologies with stories from Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Seanan McGuire, and more!
Want a look at the scary side of Christmas? Check out these collections with Christmas horror stories from Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Simon R. Green, Seanan McGuire, Neil Gaiman, Daphne du Maurier, Mercedes Lackey, Arthur Conan Doyle and more!
Discover Urban Fantasy: 101 Must-Know Authors and Their Best Works
Meet some of the most popular authors who combine the supernatural with the world out your window! Their fiction mashes together the complexities of modern life with vampires, werewolves, and other magic details.
Top 61 Monster Complex posts in 2022 about authors and books
Here at Monster Complex we explore the pages of urban fantasy, horror, supernatural thrillers, paranormal, zombie, vampire, magic and other kinds of monster fiction. Here are the most popular articles about horror fiction that folks were reading on Monster Complex last year…
Top 40 Vampire Posts on Monster Complex in 2022
We cover a lot of vampire fiction here on Monster Complex. As we enter 2023, we thought it’d be nice to highlight the most popular “vampire” articles from the past year.
13 Christmas Horror Anthologies
Want a look at the scary side of Christmas? From Krampus and ghosts to zombies and killers, these anthologies offer dozens of authors raising a lot of questions about the season…
200+ Monster Book Series
List of book series that feature monsters, magic, folklore, urban fantasy, science gone wrong, alien invasions, zombies, vampires, and the supernatural.
Wizard Writers: Jim Butcher + 31 More
Here are more than two-dozen authors who write about magic, magic practitioners, and those who live in a world of magic.
Patricia Briggs Complete Alpha and Omega Series
Set in the same world as the Mercy Thompson series, the Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs. The urban fantasy author talks about the books in her Mercy Thompson spin-off series.
If You Like Kim Harrison: 25 More Authors
Kim Harrison’s series is set in a universe where supernatural beings live among the human population. Want to discover more authors who write about the fantastical among the everyday?
Top 20 Authors Who Write About Werewolves
Including L.A. Banks, Patricia Briggs, Kelley Armstrong, Nalini Singh, Maggie Stiefvater, Quinn Loftis, Jessica Cage, and more.
60+ Special Vampire Book Series—from Anne Rice, L.A. Banks, Charlaine Harris, more
Vampire fiction has captivated readers and audiences for more than a hundred years. Some of these vampire novels lean into horror or paranormal romance, while others fall in between.
Author Panel: Anne Bishop, Patricia Briggs
In this SYFY Wire panel, authors Anne Bishop and Patricia Briggs discuss their work, including their books Wild Country and Storm Cursed.
Urban Fantasy author Patricia Briggs: “I think that underpowered characters make much better protagonists.”
Patricia Briggs is the bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series and the Alpha and Omega novels. The top-selling urban fantasy author explains how working with animals helps her write about people. (Who are also animals.)