Albert
Key
Dread from the swamps, bayous, and back roads of the Deep South.
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A business trip to the river parishes. Every hotel booked. One room left, in a mansion that shouldn't exist.
Southern Gothic Horror · 2026
Whiteface
A trader brings bamboo to a Chickasaw village. Generations later, four friends go hunting in the Delta.
Southern Folk Horror · 2026
The Forgotten Coast
Two college friends. A fish camp with no website. A guide who was the only survivor last time.
Horror Novella · 2021
The Black Hat and Other Tales of Horror
A recurring dream. A cursed place. A desert ritual. A cryptid in the Appalachian foothills. Six tales of dread.
Story Collection · 2021“Maybe he has something to hide. Maybe he has no choice.”From the author’s note to The Forgotten Coast
What waits in the woods and water
Albert Key is a bestselling novelist from the Gulf Coast of Alabama. He knows the woods and water of the South, the river swamps, the marsh, the hunting camps at the end of dirt roads. In these books, he writes about what waits in them.
His stories start small: a rainy weekend in a half-empty fishing town, a stand of bamboo where it shouldn’t be, a house too fine for the street it sits on. Then he asks what if, and keeps asking until the answer is something you wish you hadn’t read.