A. L. Butcher

A. L. Butcher is a fantasy author best known for the Tales of Erana series, a collection of interconnected fantasy stories and novellas centered on shifting casts of gods, monsters, and mortals, beginning with The Light Beyond the Storm Chronicles. She is also a prolific short-fiction and anthology contributor, with work appearing in the Heroes in Hell shared-world series, the Heroika military-fantasy anthologies, and the horror-themed Shiver collections, alongside her own Here Be — Myth, Monsters and Mayhem anthology line, which includes titles such as Here Be Elves, Here Be Trolls, and Here Be Zombies. Her fiction favors episodic, myth-inflected storytelling, and she has built her career largely through small-press and self-published short fiction rather than a single long-form series.