brady allen
Brady Allen is the author of Back Roads and Frontal Lobes, a collection of 23 short stories in the genres of horror, dark fantasy, surrealism, crime, sci-fi, dark comedy, the road story, and others. Brady has published numerous stories in the U.S. in magazines, journals, and anthologies, and some in England and Northern Ireland, as well.
Some of his tales have won an Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction from the Ohio Arts Council and honorable mentions in St. Martin’s Press’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. As well, he’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and two other stories were long-listed for honorable mention in The Year’s Best Horror.
He taught writing, including creative writing, at a college near Dayton, Ohio, for nearly 25 years and lives in Dayton with his youngest of two daughters and their dog. Born and raised in rural southwestern Ohio, he misses it out there and wishes he had enough room to hit baseballs in his backyard. He loves Reds baseball on a transistor radio, Steelers football, Waylon Jennings and AC/DC, and the wail of a train whistle in the dark of night.
Originally published by Post Mortem Press in 2012, Back Roads and Frontal Lobes will be reprinted in July 2023 by Cemetery Dance Publications, with a bonus story written with his father, Harley Allen–a weird Western called “Crap-Covered Diamonds.”
Brady is at work on more short stories, a novel rewrite, and a speculative/dystopian book series.
*Brady’s preferred methods of contact are Facebook/Messenger and email.
Brady Allen 