Benjamin Percy

Benjamin Percy is a genre-bending novelist, comics writer and screenwriter. His is the author of four novels — most recently The Dark Net. He has published three books of stories — Suicide Woods, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. He is also the author of a book of essays Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction. Benjamin Percy’s story collection Suicide Woods (Graywolf Press), is a potent brew of horror, crime, and weird happenings in the woods. A boy in his uncle’s care falls through the ice on a pond and emerges in a frozen, uncanny state. A group of people in therapy for having suicidal ideas undergoes a drastic session in the woods with fatal consequences. A body found on a train and a blood-soaked carpet in an empty house are clues to a puzzling crime in a small town. And in a pulse-quickening novella, thrill seekers on a mapping expedition into the “Bermuda Triangle” of remote Alaska are stranded on a sinister island that seems to want them dead. In story after story, which have appeared in several magazines, Percy delivers haunting and chilling narratives. The New York Times Book Review called the collection ” A small masterpiece.”