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Ronald Kelly

Biography

Ronald Kelly was born November 20, 1959 in Nashville, Tennessee where he was raised a Southern Baptist. He attended Pegram Elementary School and Cheatham County Central High School (both in Ashland City, Tennessee) before starting his writing career.

Ronald Kelly began his writing career in 1986 and quickly sold his first short story, "Breakfast Serial," to Terror Time Again magazine. His first novel, Hindsight was released by Zebra Books in 1990. His audiobook collection, Dark Dixie: Tales of Southern Horror, was on the nominating ballot of the 1992 Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album. Zebra published seven of Ronald Kelly's novels from 1990 to 1996. Ronald's short fiction work has been published by Cemetery Dance, Borderlands 3, Deathrealm, Dark at Heart, Hot Blood: Seeds of Fear, and many more. After selling hundreds of thousands of books, the bottom dropped out of the horror market in 1996. So, when Zebra dropped their horror line in October 1996, Ronald Kelly stopped writing for almost ten years and worked various jobs including welder, factory worker, production manager, drugstore manager, and custodian.

Where to find Ronald Kelly online

Website: http://www.ronaldkelly.com
Blog: http://www.ronaldkelly.blogspot.com/

Where to buy in print

http://store.crossroadpress.com

Books

The Saga of Dead-Eye, Book Three: Man-Eaters, Mummies, & Murderous Maniacs by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 51,090. Language: English. Published: March 27, 2024 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Horror » General
Driven by the desire to rescue his abducted son and a relentless thirst for retribution, the zombified gunfighter, Dead-Eye, continues his search for the renegade vampire, Jules Holland, and his unholy entourage. Accompanying him on his journey is the Louisiana mojo man, Job, who is hellbent on putting an end to his daughter Evangeline's wicked shenanigans.
Tales from the Southern-Fried Crypt by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 44,520. Language: English. Published: April 28, 2023 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Below the pale orb of a full moon, a lone boat navigates the dark channels of the Louisiana bayou, moving between ancient cypress and the heave mats of Spanish moss that dangle from their gnarled limbs. Who are the two who brave the swamp at night? One is a lanky Cajun man by the name of Pierre, while the other is his visiting cousin from Tennessee. The man folks call... THE OLD STORYTELLER.
Fear: Author's Preferred Edition by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 161,900. Language: English. Published: January 10, 2023 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
It was a legend in Fear County…a hideous creature—part snake, part earthbound demon—that feasted on the blood of innocent children in the cold black heart of the Tennessee backwoods. But ten-year-old Jeb Sweeny knows the horrible stories are not simply tall-tales, but true. Jeb knows that no one has ever had the courage to go after the monster and put an end to its raging, bestial hunger.
The Saga of Dead-Eye, Book Two: Werewolves, Swamp Critters, & Hellacious Haints! by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 45,750. Language: English. Published: November 4, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Horror » General
Following the brutal murder of former Confederate officer, Joshua Wingade, the pursuit for the renegade vampire, Jules Holland, and his hellish followers continues across a war-torn South. The newly resurrected gunfighter, Dead-Eye, accompanied by Louisiana mojo man, Job, find themselves hot on the trail, eager to rescue an abducted child and put an end to the death and destruction.
Hell Hollow by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 121,290. Language: English. Published: May 12, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
From out of a shadowy backwoods hollow, echoes a dark threat from the past, nearly a century lost and forgotten. The rural town of Harmony, Tennessee, possessed a disturbing secret; a secret so ancient that most of its residents were completely unaware of it. The last survivors of a vigilante raid long ago have filed the tragic events of that autumn night away, unaware of the evil that remains.
The Essential Sick Stuff by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 99,480. Language: English. Published: April 25, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
In the foul and fetid darkness, it awakens. Vile, unstable, brimming with ill intent, like pus on the verge of eruption. Repulsive to gaze upon and even more disturbing to comprehend. It reaches out and discovers that the others—its siblings—have abandoned this cancerous womb long ago. Angry and alone, it thrashes violently…tearing, clawing its way from dormancy into daylight…
The Saga of Dead-Eye, Book One: Vampires, Zombies, & Mojo Men by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 41,460. Language: English. Published: April 17, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Undead
The bloody War Between the States and a harrowing confinement in an enemy prison camp had turned Joshua Wingade into a broken man. His nerves and spirit shattered by the barbarity of battle, and demoralized by a cause that his heart secretly despised, Wingade returns home in hope of finding peace and healing. But, upon his arrival, he discovers that Hell had come to call.
Haunt of Southern-Fried Fear by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 36,560. Language: English. Published: April 17, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Pull up a tombstone and join your host, The Old Storyteller, as he shares nine tales of ghostly horror that will run a shiver down your spine! Tour a backwoods graveyard, neglected and forgotten…a cemetery haunted by restless spirits and wayward souls. Some are earthbound by sorrow and remorse…others by an unearthly hunger for vengeance! Now enter…the Haunt of Southern-Fried Fear!
Irish Gothic: Tales of Celtic Horror by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 38,370. Language: English. Published: February 24, 2021 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Ireland... Sweet Erin... The Emerald Isle. In the bright and bonnie light of day, it is a place of beauty, history, and good humor. Of rolling green hills and stone walls at every step of a mile. A kind blessing for health and happiness, and a pint in your hand at the village pub... as well as the sound of life and fiddle, the lilting tune of laughter, and the cheerful dance of a jig.
The Buzzard Zone by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 87,460. Language: English. Published: December 15, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
When the buzzards took flight, Levi Hobbs knew his family's only hope of survival was to escape. They were coming, the Biters, the dead, risen as zombies, infested by parasites and transformed into shambling, ravenous monsters. As the family flees their home in the Smoky Mountains, they head eastward to the Carolinas in search of refuge.
Midnight Tide & Other Seaside Shivers by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 24,210. Language: English. Published: April 4, 2016 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
During the daylight hours: sun and fun, sandy beaches, laughing children, and sparkling waters that seem to merge with the cloudless sky above. But at night, in the darkness, at the stroke of midnight, things change. Sand castles crumble and the seashore shifts slightly beneath your bare feet, belying the things that lurk, buried there, out of sight. A full moon looms over a dangerous sea.
Burnt Magnolia by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 132,520. Language: English. Published: August 31, 2015 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Horror » Occult
As a young girl, Laura Locke ignored the warnings of local superstition and played among the burnt-out ruins of Magnolia; a Tennessee plantation that had been forcibly occupied by the Union Army and then laid to waste during the bloody Battle of Franklin in 1864. She had always thought the ghost stories and tall tales to be untrue… until the night when she witnessed it for herself.
Blood Kin by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 118,700. Language: English. Published: March 16, 2015 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Josiah Craven had been all but forgotten for nearly a hundred years. To his descendants, he was nothing more than an imposing image in an old tintype photograph and the subject of stories told in hushed tones before the fireplace at night. A traveling mountain preacher who had returned from his wanderings and died by mysterious circumstances, buried in an unmarked grave with a wooden stake.
Pitfall by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 102,160. Language: English. Published: July 7, 2014 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
They were called diablos hoyos. Vicious black-furred beasts that fought in the pit with the raw fury and savage ferocity of Satan himself. For their owners, they were a lucrative investment. For the people of Sulphur Springs, Texas, they were the best entertainment they'd had in a long while. For Bowie Kane, they were his darkest nightmare come true.
Restless Shadows by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 89,410. Language: English. Published: March 15, 2014 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
He’s back! That was the first thought that crossed Cindy Biggs’ mind when she heard of the brutal triple-murder in her hometown of Coleman. Yes, the awful crime was nearly identical to the one performed during her hard-scrabble childhood at the time of the Great Depression. And, strangely enough, it had taken place in the same place… the ruins of the old tobacco barn near the edge of Green Creek.
Long Chills by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 115,250. Language: English. Published: September 28, 2013 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
In Long Chills, acclaimed horror author Ronald Kelly explores the dark hills and hollows of his native South, as well as other disturbing places, with this new collection of thirteen novellas and long fiction stories. The scares are intense and the shadows long and deep as Kelly takes you on lengthy journeys of darkness and depravity, as well as madness and the macabre.
Hindsight by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 87,010. Language: English. Published: January 3, 2013 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Ghost
Including the bonus novella "Potter's Field" SIGHT UNSEEN Little Cindy Ann knew things no one else knew; saw things no one else saw. Ever since she'd nearly died of fever, the gift of second sight had been hers. Only it didn't seem like such a gift when the other children called her a witch and wouldn't play with her. Or when her visions resembled nothing so much as her worst nightmares.
The Dark'Un by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 128,440. Language: English. Published: November 27, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
It was passed down from generation to generation. The legend of The Dark'Un, the strange beast that roamed Pale Dove Mountain. The dark monster that no one had ever seen — at least not and lived to tell about it — except, so it was said, old Fletcher Brice who lived at the foot of the mountain. No one really believed in The Dark'Un. It was just a story to make a child's flesh crawl. Until Old
Undertaker's Moon by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 139,340. Language: English. Published: October 28, 2011 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
As the residents of Old Hickory, as well as the local police, begin to fall victim to an unknown evil, four individuals—the town nerd, a high school jock, a widowed gunsith, and a mysterious transient from a distant shore—find themselves facing what could possibly be a hellish lycanthrope from ancient Ireland … the legendary Arget Bethir … the Silver Beast.
Unhinged - Tales of Darkness and Terror by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 36,510. Language: English. Published: February 27, 2011 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
In Unhinged: Tales of Darkness and Depravity, Southern Horror author, Ronald Kelly, explores the blackest recesses of the human psyche in eleven chilling tales of dark suspense and terror. Serial killers, mass murderers, and other no-account folks stalk these pages, ready to leap from the shadows and chill the stoutest heart.
Twilight Hankerings - Things That Go Bite in the Night by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 26,900. Language: English. Published: February 19, 2011 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Stories of hunger - of "hankerings" - deep south monsters, vampires, werewolves and more from dixie horror writer Ron Kelly, bringing the darkside of the south to his own flavor of horror. This is a brand new collection, only available in digital.
Dark Dixie I by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 21,850. Language: English. Published: January 3, 2011 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
Previously available on audio cassette from Darkscribe Press, this collection was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1992. Dark Dixie collects the following works of southern horror by author Ronald Kelly. This book includes all the stories from the audio book and several more.
The Sick Stuff by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 27,710. Language: English. Published: January 3, 2011 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
Dark southern horror from a true master: An old man’s living fluids reveal a horrible secret from his past…A mentally-unstable woman uses a sexual obsession to take an unwilling hostage…Parasites from within, self-vampirism, and spontaneous decay… all stem from a voodoo curse cast upon the unfortunate survivors of a Louisiana family… This is the sick stuff.
Cumberland Furnace & Other Fear Forged Fables by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 26,310. Language: English. Published: January 2, 2011 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
Seven tales of terror that could only beat in the dark, diseased heart of Dixie… - An abandoned furnace stands as a monument to cruelty and torture…as well as a gathering place for old ghosts… - Grandma’s culinary gifts of comfort and compassion contain a special ingredient conjured from the very depths of Hell… And much much more!
Flesh Welder by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 12,970. Language: English. Published: January 2, 2011 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
Chaos reigns supreme. Social and economic upheaval, rampant terrorism, and nuclear annihilation have turned the earth into a vast wasteland. And, in Texas, the gates of Hell have been cracked open, unleashing its evil and fury upon the undeserving.
Dark Dixie II - Tales of Southern Horror by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 53,460. Language: English. Published: October 21, 2010 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
From the dankness and decay of the Louisiana swamps, to the dust and sweat of Texas, and into the author's own, the mossy gloom of the Tennessee backwoods, as well as the turned earth of its fertile farmland. Creatures lurk within these pages as well. Spiders and gators, things dwelling within jars and the currents of the wind, and the abominations of Hell, let loose to run rampant in the night.
Timber Gray by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 52,580. Language: English. Published: March 19, 2010 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Western
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After his family is killed by a pack of rabid wolves, Jefferson Gray survives the horrid disease himself, with the aid of a Cherokee medicine man. But, unfortunately, he can not banish his animosity toward dangerous game, particularly timber wolves. 15 years later, he tackles his greatest challenge… a pack of fifty wolves led by the legendary Cripplefoot. Can he survive?

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