Alexis Henderson

Alexis Henderson is a speculative fiction author with a love for cosmic horror, witchcraft and dark fantasy. She grew up in Savannah, Georgia, one of the most haunted cities in the South that instilled in her a lifelong obsession with ghost stories and gothic themes. Growing up, her standard fare was Southern Gothic folktales and ghost stories and this would influence her later career as an author. Themes from several of her favorite tales such as “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” by John Berendt and particularly the “Hamilton Turner Inn” legend inspired many of the themes in her later works. “The Year of the Witching” her debut novel was very much inspired by the gothic and eerie themes she was exposed to during this time. As for the Darkwood, she has said that the forest has always been a place of fascination. Alexis Henderson lived in a house that stood on the edge of the woods. Even though going into the forest was strictly forbidden, she still remembers standing outside her backyard staring into the brush beyond the tree line and wondering what monsters hid in it. She followed up her debut with the novel “The Dawn if the Coven,” which was the second of the “Bethel” series of novels.