Ben Farthing

Ben Farthing is an American horror author known for the Horror Lurks Beneath series, a connected sequence of short horror novels exploring claustrophobic, hidden-away settings such as sealed apartment floors, abandoned amusement parks, and forgotten tunnels. Titles including They Cling to the Hull, It Waits on the Top Floor, We Hide Our Faces, and The Piper's Graveyard each stand largely alone while sharing a house style built on slow-building dread and confined, unsettling locations. Farthing has also released the horror-story collection Crowded Chasms and continued expanding the series with later entries such as The Twitching House and The 31st Trick-or-Treater. His prolific output, spanning more than two dozen short novels, situates him within the independently published horror scene oriented toward quick, atmospheric reads. Detailed public biographical information beyond his bibliography is limited.