Caitlin Starling

Caitlin Starling is an American author of science fiction and horror whose debut novel, The Luminous Dead (2019), a claustrophobic story of a solo cave diver on an alien world, established her reputation for tense, psychologically driven genre fiction. She followed it with The Death of Jane Lawrence (2021), a gothic horror novel blending marriage-plot conventions with body horror, and has since published further novels including Last to Leave the Room and The Starving Saints, alongside the game tie-in Vampire: The Masquerade — Walk Among Us. Starling's fiction frequently explores isolation, unreliable perception, and bodily transformation within claustrophobic settings, drawing a following among readers of literary horror and dark science fiction. Her work has been reviewed in outlets such as Strange Horizons and praised for its unsettling atmosphere.