About
Chris Kauzlarich is the author of the horror short story collection Menagerie in the Dark and the novellas LAZARUS and Moody Road. A member of the Horror Writers Association, the International Thriller Writers, the Authors Guild, AWP, and the Chicago Writers Association, he writes dark fiction that unsettles precisely because it lives so close to home. A graduate of Purdue University, Chris lives with his husband and daughter between Chicago, IL, and Naples, FL — or somewhere on the open road in their RV, where the best and worst ideas tend to find him.
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Featured Work
Moody Road: A Novella
You don’t find Moody Road. Moody Road finds you.
Walker Herbert is lost. Lost in himself. Lost in the spaces between who he is and who the people he loves need him to be. When an old local legend pulls him and his closest friends into the dark of a rural Indiana night, the hunt they bargained for becomes something far more personal—and far more predatory.
Moody Road is a slow-burn horror novella about the demons we carry into dark places—and about what happens when something out there decides to hold the door open for them.
Other Works
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Menagerie in the Dark: Stories
2025
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Lazarus
2023
