Reviews

“Tim may be one of the most consistently excellent writers from project to project in our genre. Never lets a reader down.”
Gene O’Neill

“Waggoner is literally the blueprint for horror writers. He’s had a long successful career and I’m eager to keep reading his new and older titles. I’m a fan.”
Sadie Hartman, Cemetery Dance

“This is a great example of a storyteller who understands his audience, gives them what they want, and still keeps them on the edge of their seat constantly guessing.”
Becky Spratford, RA for All

Your Turn to Suffer is deliciously creepy, at times rather gory, always entertaining.”
From Belgium with Book Love

“It is a gory, wild, and unpredictable ride from beginning to end.”
Horror Oasis on Your Turn to Suffer

“A lot of people get to suffer in Your Turn to Suffer, and when it goes batshit off-the-rails crazy, that’s where the story finds its dark, bloody, shadowy heart.”
Beauty in Ruins

“If you enjoy Clive Barker-Neil Gaiman’s styles, you’ll love this book.”
FanFiAddict on Your Turn to Suffer

“By and large, The Forever House works on multiple levels. It is a meticulous character study, a well-written social commentary without becoming overtly heavy-handed, and ultimately, a terrifying horror novel filled with creatures out of nightmare that will stay with you long after its astonishingly semi-hopeful yet dread-inducing ending.”
iHorror

“The horrors inside the Eldred house are spectacularly realized . . . Waggoner’s tale delivers some solid scares.”
ublishers Weekly on The Forever House

“With new twists on vampirism and the haunted house, horror fans will find this Lovecraftian terror tale of interest.”
Booklist on The Forever House

“Waggoner’s disturbingly imaginative antagonists and creative cruelties make The Forever House an absolute must.”
Homegrown Horror

“Fast-paced, hair-raising, and with a twist ending with enough spin to make you rethink who the real monsters are, The Forever House is the sort of phantasmagorical terror that keeps you reading through gore, grit, and grime until the very end.”
Seven Jane

The Forever House . . . weaves horror and suspense in a warped reality with elements of portal fantasy and some Brothers Grimm-esque imagery.”
Grimdark Magazine

They Kill is horror in all its dark, squishy, over-the-top glory.”
Bookshine

They Kill is a cornucopia of original horror ideas and visceral graphic images and it hardly gives the reader any time to breathe, before the story comes together in an unexpected climax.”
Devoted to Thrills

“Waggoner displays a talent for surreal body horror that reminded me of the work of film director David Cronenberg. He also fills every page with an energy that is infectious. It’s like he’s made a great amusement park ride and you’re on it with him.”
SciFi and Scary

“This is gory, unsettling and definitely strange and I loved every minute. It’s what a horror story should be and has reignited my love for the genre. Brilliant.”
The Bookwormery on They Kill

They Kill plunges readers deep into the heart of pulse-pounding supernatural horror with a story that could only come from the mind of Tim Waggoner.”
This is Horror

“Bram Stoker Award winner Tim Waggoner consistently delivers the goods when it comes to hard-hitting horror fiction, with compelling characters and dangerous horrors at every turn.”
This is Horror

“. . . Completely and utterly insane, in the best way.”
The Literary Hooker

 “Bizarre, weird, and utterly intriguing . . .”
Matt Molgaard’s Horror Novel Reviews

“When Waggoner goes weird – you keep turning the pages.”
Kendall Reviews

“I can always count on Tim Waggoner to find the weird in a story and there’s plenty of that in The Mouth of the Dark. Tim has a unique voice in the horror community and is a genuine wordsmith.”
Frank Michaels Errington, Cemetery Dance

“I don’t know if I’ve ever read a story quite like Tim Waggoner’s Deep Like the River. With its high emotional and metaphysical content and weird, surrealistic imagery, it reads a bit like Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows” with Kafka collaborating and Carl Jung offering occasional advice. Or maybe it’s an adventure story that’s taken a sudden turn into The Twilight Zone. However you characterize Waggoner’s approach, the result is a fine piece of writing exploring the mysteries of a mind struggling with the guilt, pain, and terror of grief.”
Steve Rasnic Team, author of Thanatrauma: Stories

“His ability to weave the surreal with the hyper-real is his greatest talent.”
Signal Horizon

“Bram Stoker Award-winner Tim Waggoner consistently delivers the goods when it comes to hard-hitting horror fiction, with compelling characters and dangerous horrors at every turn.”
This is Horror

“‘Hell is other people,’ Jean-Paul Sartre tells us. ‘Especially the one we see in the mirror,'”‘ implicitly says Tim Waggoner. Both give us the theme of Waggoner’s splendid Dark and Distant Voices. Our children we don’t quite recognize, colleagues not all that collegial, ghosts who silently speak the Truth … They’re all here and more in Waggoner’s brilliant story collection.”
Mort Castle author of Strangers

“This is every card in the horror deck, played by someone who knows the game better than most of us ever will.”
Stephen Graham Jones author of Mongrels

“Tim may be one of the most consistently excellent writers from project to project in our genre. Never lets a reader down.”
Gene O’Neill, author of the Cal Wild Chronicles

“A fast-paced, over-the-top, blood-and-guts thriller . . . for those who like their horror bloody, their heroes tarnished and their action just this side of unbelievable.”
Publishers Weekly

“Refreshingly different from most of what’s being published in the horror genre these days.”
Cemetery Dance Magazine

Tim Waggoner has a new short story collection out called Bone Whispers. Tim has long been one of my favorites among my peers — much like Tom Piccirilli and Bryan Smith — in that when he releases a new book, I stop reading whatever else I’m reading at the time and make room for it instead. His style is very unique — evocative enough to stand quietly with Charles Grant but visceral enough to punch with Richard Laymon. Bone Whispers contains some of his strongest, most surreal work to date.” 
Brian Keene, author of The Rising

“Tim Waggoner manages to meld surreal imagery and events with strong character work and an immersive point of view, resulting in work that shocks you on the surface and unsettles you right down to your bones.”
FEARnet

“A descent into the madness of a ruined psyche, Deep Like the River puts Waggoner’s talent for the eerie, desolate, and unpredictable in the spotlight. A must-read for those who like their horror tinged with desperation and guilt.”
Ronald Malfi, author of Little Girls

“Tim Waggoner . . . has a knack for taking conventional horror tropes and giving them a deliciously bizarre spin.”
Horror Fiction Review

Eat the Night is a raw and unflinching horror novel. Tim Waggoner takes no prisoners in this novel of monsters, madness and unnatural hunger.”
Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling author of Predator One and V-Wars

 “Waggoner is in possession of a talent that should be taken seriously, and I can’t wait for his next book.”
The Horror Channel

“This novel is compelling, frightening, packed with haunting dreamlike imagery, and rich with imagination.”
—Gary A. Braunbeck, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of To Each Their Darkness.

“He supplies everything that a horror fan could want, and he delivers with style.
Hellnotes