Rob Smales

When asked what he does, Rob Smales tends to answer “I write words.” When feeling particularly full of himself, he may go so far as “I write the words that occur to me at the time.” Groupings of these words, referred to as stories, have appeared in about four dozen publications and anthologies, been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, won a couple of readers’ choice awards, and appeared three times in Ellen Datlow’s honorable mentions list regarding her Best Horror Of the Year anthologies.

His most recent works include the novellas Spearfinger and Monkey Bones, and he hails from Salem, Massachusetts, where you can bet he’s currently writing something either funny or scary, but probably dark.

He likes the dark.