Author introduction

S M Henley was brought up in an English seaside town singing to Echo and the Bunnymen and worshipping Siouxsie Sioux.

She now lives in rural Alberta, Canada, with more pets than people, where everyone is friendly, winters are long, cheese is bright orange, and the occasional moose wanders through her yard.

Her writing spans Urban Fantasy through Horror. The UF is darker than average. It dips a toe into Dystopia and splashes blood freely. The Horror is a little darker and is written under the pen name, Ellis Marsh. Still paranormally themed, characters run from flawed to freaky, blood is optional.

Why darkish fiction?

S M Henley writes to explore the shadows where urban grit meets supernatural chaos and where rural pathways meet the twisted undergrowth of the hedgerows—these places are always dark yet lit with patterns from sunlight, imagination, and the people who live there. It’s a space where the past still makes itself felt and the future is showing its face. Not fully dark. Only darkish.

Inspired by landscapes and folklore from Britain, Europe, and her adopted home of Canada, her childhood fascination for the strange lives on in these works and more yet to come. She writes for fun and an enthusiastic intention to share a mature fantasy world of half-shadow and resilience, drawing not a little on a life-long experience of the paranormal.

As Digger says, that’s probably biography enough.