Duncan Ralston is the author of the cult smash-hits Woom, Ghostland and Puzzle House, along with more than twenty other works of horror and transgressive fiction.
His debut collection was blurbed positively by Jack Ketchum (author of The Girl Next Door). He was nominated for the 2024 Splatterpunk Award for Best Novel, and his novel Ghostland has been adapted into an exciting co-op survival horror board game.
His influences include: Stephen King, Clive Barker, Richard Matheson, Harlan Ellison, Jack Ketchum, Roald Dahl, Irvine Welsh, Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis. He runs the small press Shadow Work Publishing, which has published the writing of Jack Ketchum, Jeff Strand, Wrath James White, Judith Sonnet, Megan Stockton, and many others.
In addition to novels and short stories, Duncan has written several screenplays and TV pilots. His adaptation of the novella Ebenezer was a quarter-finalist in the 2018 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition. His screenplay of the novella Wildfire was a BlueCat Screenplay Competition 2018 semifinalist, as well as a Fresh Voices semifinalist in 2017. The pilot script for his period comedy-drama series, The Valley, won First Place TV in the 2015 Fresh Voices Screenplay Contest.
To inquire about screenplay rights to his books, please email:
duncanralstonfiction@gmail.com.
