We’re so ecstatic to introduce author Ruth Frances Long for our new horror anthology, Of Dread, Decay, and Doom! Ruth contributed the short story “Rules for Crossing the Woods at Night” to the anthology.

Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne writes romance and fantasy from the  heart which often strays into weird and wonderful liminal places. She works in a specialized library of rare and occasionally crazy books.

As Ruth Frances Long, she writes fantasy, often about scary fairies. In 2015, she won the European Science Fiction Society Spirit of Dedication Award for Best Author of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy for A Crack in Everything. Her latest series Feral Gods, an adult fantasy trilogy from Hodderscape featuring “an alternate-Renaissance fantasy world and inspired by the early days of printing in Europe”, begins with The Book of Gold, and continues with The Lore of Silver.

As Jessica Thorne, she writes adult fantasy women’s fiction, which wanders from Space Opera to time travel to epic fantasy, including The Lost Queen trilogy, The Water Witch, and The Bookbinder’s Daughter. The Stone’s Heart was nominated for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Romantic Fantasy novel of the year in 2020.

Learn more about Ruth via her website and follow her on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Mastodon, and Bluesky.

Our horror anthology, Of Dread, Decay, and Doom, features fantastic authors from around the world, writing unsettling tales! Available now!