Kathleen Palm is a little light, a little dark, and a lot weird. Living in an old (sadly not haunted) house in Indiana, she watches horror movies, reads scary books, drinks chocolate milk, and plots how to spread light through the darkness. Her short stories have appeared in several anthologies and on the Tales to Terrify podcast. But her truest creepy love is middle-grade horror, where we find power and face our fears wrapped up in family and friends. Into the Gray and Within the Black, books one and two of The Nowhere Series, are out from Undertaker Books, and book three is coming in August 2026.

Carousel is book three in the Bite--Sized Frights series, short books with big scares.