M. Kevin Hayden
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Horror, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
M. Kevin Hayden is a novelist from the South Side of Chicago, where he grew up surrounded by storefront churches, corner stores, and the echo of stories waiting to be told. His work blends emotional realism with speculative mystery, always rooted in place, memory, and the magic tucked inside ordinary lives. Hayden’s fiction explores what it means to belong to a person, a time, or a world that might be slipping away. Inspired by the works of Emily St. John Mandel, Stephen King, and Audrey Niffenegger, his debut novel An Old Soul is a slow-burn mystery of love, memory, and unraveling reality, set against the backdrop of 1996 Chicago. He writes for anyone who has ever felt out of place in their own life, and hopes to remind them they’re not alone. He now lives somewhere quiet, surrounded by trees and the occasional flash of something beyond the veil.
M. Kevin Hayden's books
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
For lovers of Stephen Graham Jones, Jeff VanderMeer, and Nick Cutter, Willow Rose is a compulsively readable, literary ode to the terror of the unknown that comes for all of us in the depths of night. A knock on the cabin door on indigenous land in the wintry woods of Minnesota. Tap tap tap. Driving down the boreal roads of rural Minnesota to his one-room cabin after a long ER shift, Dr. Alder’s eyes snap open, his old Civic screaming to a stop in front of a massive bull elk, its head tilting back unnaturally, its maw open. Comet Goodwin, the closest comet to Earth in history, lights up the sky in an otherworldly greenish tint with its long, jagged tail of fire. Tap tap tap. Alder’s world ignites in a blinding white flash. The car windows shatter inward. The elk is gone. If he can get...