Michael Sellars
Michael Sellars
Michael was born in Oldham and moved around the North West, settling in Liverpool at the age of three, where he’s lived ever since.
Via the gateway drug of 70s era Doctor Who, he developed an appetite for the creepier elements of his local library’s catalogue, and devoured everything assembled by Mary Danby, Christine Bernard and Richard Davis. Aged eleven, an encounter with a mis-shelved copy of Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot introduced him to the hard stuff.
Although he’d always enjoyed writing stories, it wasn’t until his early 30s that it occurred to him other people might want to read them. He subsequently published short stories in the magazines Fusing Horizons, Nocturne, Forgotten Worlds, Murky Depths, and Morpheus Tales, as well as the anthologies From the Trenches and Best Tales of the Apocalypse.
He went on to self-publish the cosmic horror novella Things Not Made and collected his published fiction (as well as a few new tales) in Heartfelt Horrors.
He has signed his debut book deal with Northodox Press and Hyenas was published in 2022.
Praised by British Fantasy Award-nominated author Peter Atkins as a superb spin on post-apocalyptic nightmares, Hyenas is a relentless, disturbing, and moving read with terrifying monsters, sympathetic characters, and a zombie-fighting militia led by a Beatles obsessive, as we follow Jay through a post-apocalyptic city, helped by The Book Club, a group of seven previously illiterate survivors.