In his award-winning debut collection of short horror fiction, Keep You Cold: Chilling Tales, author AJ Franks took readers through what Red City Review called “A frisson of voyeuristic pleasure...”
Colder in Hell: More Chilling Tales marks his return to the depths of darkness with twelve new stories ranging from grim and grotesque to psychotic and surprising. Explore a new twist on Gothic horror; toy with modern technological horrors; and discover what hell is really like.
AJ Franks is an American author and playwright. He has authored more than thirty short stories, including "We All Scream" which is featured in Shallow Waters Volume 6: A Flash Fiction Anthology by Crystal Lake Publishing.
His debut horror collection, Keep You Cold: Chilling Tales, was a multi-category finalist in the American Book Fest 2019 Best Book Awards. The follow-up collection, Colder in Hell: More Chilling Tales is now available.
He wrote the stage play, Bereavement, which debuted at the 2015 Fertile Ground Festival and was a semi-finalist in FiLMLaB’s 2013 Script-to-Screen contest with his original short screenplay, Sometime Over Coffee. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and currently resides in Portland, Oregon.