Author
Daniel Kraus
Birth Date
June 7, 1975
(51 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Daniel Kraus is an American novelist known for his dark, imaginative fiction that blends horror, fantasy, suspense, and emotional realism. Raised in the American Midwest, Kraus developed a reputation for writing atmospheric stories that explore fear, grief, isolation, and human resilience. His work spans adult, young adult, and middle-grade fiction, often combining literary depth with elements of the supernatural.
Kraus gained recognition with novels such as Rotters, Scowler, and The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, a historical horror series. He is also known for collaborations with Guillermo del Toro, including The Shape of Water and Trollhunters. In addition, Kraus completed The Living Dead from unfinished material by filmmaker George A. Romero.
In addition to novels, Kraus has written comics, adaptations, and works for younger readers. His fiction is widely praised for its vivid imagery, psychological intensity, and inventive storytelling, establishing him as a distinctive voice in contemporary horror and speculative fiction.
Kraus gained recognition with novels such as Rotters, Scowler, and The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, a historical horror series. He is also known for collaborations with Guillermo del Toro, including The Shape of Water and Trollhunters. In addition, Kraus completed The Living Dead from unfinished material by filmmaker George A. Romero.
In addition to novels, Kraus has written comics, adaptations, and works for younger readers. His fiction is widely praised for its vivid imagery, psychological intensity, and inventive storytelling, establishing him as a distinctive voice in contemporary horror and speculative fiction.
Books
Angel Down 2025
Private Cyril Bagger has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of the Great War through his wits and deception. But his survival instincts are put to the ultimate test when he and four other...
The Shape of Water 2025
It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito—mute her whole life, orphaned as a child—is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research...
Pay the Piper 2024
Young Renée Pontiac has heard stories of “the Piper”—a murderous swamp entity—her entire life. But now the legend feels real: children are being gruesomely slain in Pontiac’s Louisiana bayou hometown...
Whalefall 2023
Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only...
Wrath 2022
Wrath is the story of Sammy, a lab rat instilled with human genes whose supersized intelligence helps him to engineer his escape into the world outside the lab: a world vastly ill-equipped to deal...
The Living Dead 2021
In a Midwestern trailer park, an Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a...
Bent Heavens 2021
Liv Fleming is done with childhood fantasies. Done pretending she believes her missing father’s absurd theories about alien abduction. Done going through the motions of checking the traps he set just...
Blood Sugar 2019
In a ruined house at the end of Yellow Street, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge for all the wrongs he has suffered. With the help of three alienated kids, he plans to hide razor...
Empire Decayed
Zebulon Finch, Book 2
Zebulon Finch has faced more violence, lust, and heartbreak than any other seventeen-year-old in history. But nothing can prepare him for what is coming next.
Half a century has passed since Zebulon...
At the Edge of Empire
Zebulon Finch, Book 1
May 7, 1896.
Dusk. A swaggering seventeen-year-old gangster named Zebulon Finch is gunned down by the shores of Lake Michigan. But after mere minutes in the void, he is mysteriously resurrected.
His...
Scowler 2014
Imagine your father is a monster. Would that mean there are monsters inside you, too?
Nineteen-year-old Ry Burke, his mother, and little sister eke out a living on their dying family farm. Ry wishes...
Rotters 2011
Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made...