Marcus Hawke

Marcus Hawke is a writer primarily of horror and dark fiction, some fantasy and

sci-fi, and a few things that defy categorization. He was born in Toronto, moved

around quite a bit during the dreaded formative years, and finally settled in

Calgary where he studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design.

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Many moons before that, he had aspirations of becoming a filmmaker

and......well......a long story short, that didn't happen. But one thing that

wasn't curtailed in that time was his love for stories and the written word.

Starting with the likes of R.L. Stein in childhood, it grew into a full-fledged

possession thanks to the works of Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, Anne Rice, and

Ray Bradbury.

After years worth of rejections, he finally had a short story called Bump in the

Night published in Jitter magazine in 2016. Since then his work has appeared in

a number of publications from Dark Pine Publishing, Jitter Press, Lunatics

magazine, Strange Elf Press, his first full-length novel, The Miracle Sin, his

first collection, Acts of Violence: Twelve Tales of Terror which won the 2023

Godless Awards bronze medal for best collection or anthology, the novellas Grey

Noise, The Axe Remembers, You Can't Take It With You, and most recently the

second book in the Miracle Sin series: The Trouble With Faith and Other Stories.

He also edited the October Blood and Dead of Night anthologies under his imprint

Hawke Haus Books. He lives with his feline overlord in an apartment building

haunted by the type of neighbors that make a person wish a ghost would come to

visit in the cold, often gloomy great white North.

​In his spare time he reads, draws, paints, plays Dungeons & Dragons, and

rambles in third person while writing website bios.