Catherine Cavendish

Catherine Cavendish is a British horror writer specializing in gothic and supernatural fiction, drawing inspiration from childhood reading of M. R. James and Edgar Allan Poe. Her novels favor atmospheric, character-driven hauntings, including The Haunting of Henderson Close, The Second Wife, and the Ancients series — Waking the Ancients, Wrath of the Ancients, and Damned by the Ancients — collected under the Nemesis of the Gods banner. She is a member of the British Fantasy Society, the Horror Writers Association, and the Society of Authors, and her work has drawn praise from World Fantasy Award winners including Ramsey Campbell and Priya Sharma. Reviewers have called her prose immersive and unsettling, comparing her atmosphere to classic gothic literature.