Christian Chillers, Supernatural Thrillers, and Spiritual Warfare Novels

I don't know if the readership reached by traditional Christian publishers is or will ever be ready for Christian horror. However, we all like a good fright now and again, and these authors bring it in spades.

I've already listed Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker so I won't list them again here, though they certainly belong in this category. It could be argued that they helped invent it.

Wendy Alec

Wendy's first supernatural novel, The Fall of Lucifer, was the fourth novel we launched Realms with. Her visions of heaven and hell, of Christos and Lucifer, are fresh and exciting, as are her depictions of what is going on in the heavenlies in direct parallel with events on earth. You'll never read the Scriptures the same again.

John Aubrey Anderson

I haven't read John's Black or White Chronicles, but they appear to be spiritual warfare fiction.

Theodore Beale

Theo, who is an American living in Switzerland, writes very creepy supernatural thrillers for the Christian and secular markets.

Theo's fantasy novel, Summa Elvetica, helped launch Marcher Lord Press.

Lisa T. Bergren

Lisa is best known for her historical novels, but The Begotten is a fun spiritual warfare novel. It was praised by Publisher's Weekly and earned a starred review in Booklist.

Vernon Buford

Vernon is an author with Destiny Image.

Sue Dent

A Christian vampire and werewold horror novel? Why not? This novel is said to be for young adult readers.

    Shaunti Feldhahn

    Shaunti first hit the Christian reading public as a Y2K expert, back in the day. She and I actually wrote a Y2K sourcebook together, then I went on to edit the year-long newsletter called Countdown Y2K that was Shaunti's vehicle for dissemenating preparedness news.

    Shaunti is a sweet lady and a good writer. Her For Women Only and For Men Only books with Multnomah have done very well.

    Shaunti has also written two spiritual warfare novels. The first takes place at Harvard University, from which institution Shaunti is a graduate.

    Sharon K. Gilbert

    These appear to be spiritual warfare novels or supernatural thrillers. The first is book 1 in The Laodicea Chronicles and the second is book 1 in The Countdown series.

    Book 2 of The Laodicea Chronicles is available from Lulu.com, as is Iron Dragons, a fantasy novel by Sharon's husband, Derek.

    Jane Hamilton

    I'm not familiar with this author, but a site guest recommended this book of hers. It appears to be a novel about an angel moving from grief to joy.

    T. L. Hines

    T. L. Hines (who is male, and not to be confused with T. L. Higley, who is female), is a promising new author with a fun speculative title from Bethany House.

    James Byron Huggins

    Byron writes some for Christian publishers and some for secular houses. But his speculative fiction is always...creepy.

    Shane Johnson

    Shane's Chayatocha was the first novel I've read that I would consider almost Christian horror. It's a fabulous premise and a good read. Shane's speculative fiction has been nominated for a Christy Award.

    Jeffrey Leever

    Jeffrey is a Christian writing for a secular publishing house. His first novel is what he calls "Christian-influenced Thrill-Horror." It's a PG-13 novel about a terrifying killer (or killers) haunting a small Indiana town. Set for a September 15, 2007 release.

    Robert Liparulo

    I've known Bob for years. He once reviewed some of my speculative fiction for New Man magazine. Now he's an author in his own right, with all kinds of movie deals always circling around him and his books. Awesome covers, too.

    Kathryn Mackel

    Kathy has a wonderfully creepy speculative mind. She's got screenwriting experience (including working on Peretti's Hangman's Curse) in addition to her fiction credits.

    I credit Kathy with introducing me to the term "Christian chillers."

    Watch for a new series from Kathy through Realms.

    Paul McCusker

    Paul is best known for his pioneering and prolific work writing and directing hundreds of the Adventures in Odyssey radio series for children from Focus on the Family, where he is Writer in Residence.

    But Paul is also a gifted speculative novelist for adults, which can be seen in his inspired idea for Twilight: a grieving private detective is hired by a new set of clients with one thing in common--they're all dead.

    Paul is also the author of the Time Twisters trilogy of time travel novels for youth.

    Greg Mitchell

    Greg bills himself as a Christian horror author. This trilogy is "a monster hunter epic about demons descending upon small town middle America and the ordinary people who must overcome their misconceptions about the Christian faith in order to take up arms and make their last stand."

    Bill Myers

    Bill has a great speculative mind. He's written Christian speculative fiction for the adult audience, but he's got much more for the young adult market. His Forbidden Doors series is groundbreaking (see listing for these under Christian Chills).

    John Olson

    D. Brian Shafer

    Brian's Chronicles of the Host series is good speculative fiction about how the great struggle between God and Satan may have been, is being, and will be fought.

    Melanie Wells

    Melanie writes chillers (with awesomely creepy covers) for Multnomah/Waterbrook.

    Eric Wilson

    Eric is a talented young writer whose expertise covers Christian speculative fiction from both the writing and reviewing perspectives. His canny Amazon reviews have earned him a name as a knowledgeable critical reader.

    All of Eric's novels are full of supernatural thrills and chills.

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