Charles R. Rutledge

Charles R. Rutledge writes horror and pulp-adventure fiction, frequently in collaboration with James A. Moore. Their Griffin & Price series, including Congregations of the Dead, follows a pair of occult investigators confronting supernatural threats in a hardboiled register. Rutledge also writes Carnacki stories continuing William Hope Hodgson's classic occult-detective character, and has contributed Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak tie-in fiction, reflecting his engagement with established pulp and horror-detective traditions. His Jonathan Crowley series and the vampire-focused Dracula's Return, Dracula's Ghost, and Dracula's Revenge extend his catalog into further gothic-horror territory. Rutledge's work situates him within the small-press horror and weird-fiction community alongside frequent collaborators.