ABOUT ME
Rachel M. Martens is the writer of the Poe gothic thriller series, including Poe: Nevermore (2013), a First Place winner in Chanticleer Book Reviews and Media’s Paranormal Awards, as well as the short horror collection Midnight Hour (2017), the YA romantic thriller Metalhead (2019), and the conspiracy thriller Patriots' Dance (2024). Her short fiction has also appeared in the anthologies Twisted Love (2021), Stranger Than Truth (2021), and Anthology of Campfire Stories (2025). Martens resides in Wisconsin and travels extensively, taking inspiration from the locales she has visited and the books she has read along the way. Her favorite time to write is in the midnight hours with a storm as background music and a mug of tea close at hand. Of her writing, Chanticleer Book Reviews and Media has said, "Ms. Martens succeeds at painting dark, suspenseful, sometimes horrific pictures. It is the kind of psychological horror that locking the doors and windows and reading with the lights on will not keep out."
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