His earlier works, such as Via Dolorosa (2007) and Passenger (2008) explored characters with lost or confused identities, wherein Malfi experimented with the ultimate unreliable narrators. His novels Little Girls (2015) and The Night Parade (2016) explore broken families forced to endure horrific and extraordinary circumstances, which has become the hallmark for Malfi's brand of intimate, lyrical horror fiction. It has been optioned several times for film.īone White (2017), about a man searching for his lost twin brother in a haunted Alaskan mining town, was touted as 'an elegant, twisted, gripping slow-burn of a novel that burrows under the skin and nestles deep,' by RT Book Reviews, and has also been optioned for television by Fox21/Disney and Amazon Studios. In 2015, this novel was awarded the Beverly Hills International Book Award for best suspense novel. In interviews, Malfi has expressed that this is his most autobiographical book to date. Ghostwritten received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called the book a 'wonderfully meta collection.vibrantly imagined,' and that 'Malfi makes reading about the perils of reading a terrifying delight.'Īmong his most popular works is December Park, a coming-of-age thriller set in the '90s, wherein five teenage boys take up the hunt for a child murderer in their hometown of Harting Farms, Maryland. These novels were followed by Ghostwritten (2022), a collection of four subtly-linked novellas about haunted books and the power of the written word.

Both books have been critically praised, with Publishers Weekly calling Black Mouth a 'standout' book of the year. His most recent novels, Come with Me (2021) and Black Mouth (2022), tackle themes of grief and loss, and of the effects of childhood trauma and alcoholism, respectively.

and sticks the landing with a powerful denouement. His most recent novel, Come with Me (2021), about a man who learns a dark secret about his wife after she's killed, has received stellar reviews, including a starred review from BookPage, and Publishers Weekly has said, 'Malfi impresses in this taut, supernaturally tinged mystery. In 2011, his novel, Floating Staircase, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for best novel by the Horror Writers Association, and also won a gold IPPY award.

Ronald Malfi is the bestselling, award-winning author of many novels and novellas in the horror, mystery, and thriller genres.

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