Keith R.A. DeCandido
Keith R.A. DeCandido has written more than 60 novels, more than 100 works of short fiction, more than 50 comic books, and more nonfiction than he’s entirely comfortable counting.
He’s written extensively in the media tie-in realm, having penned tales in more than thirty different licensed universes from Alien to Zorro, and having also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his body of work in licensed fiction. His oeuvre includes fiction based on TV shows (Farscape, Star Trek, Supernatural), movies (Cars, Kung Fu Panda, Serenity), games (World of Warcraft, Resident Evil, Dungeons & Dragons), comic books (Spider-Man, Thor, X-Men), and literary characters (Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger, Joe Ledger). He’s also written bunches of work in milieus of his own creation, including fantastical police procedurals set in the fictional cities of Cliff’s End and Super City and urban fantasy set in the somewhat real locales of New York and Key West. He’s been writing pop-culture commentary for web sites, magazines, and essay collections since 1989.
Recent and upcoming work includes the 2025 debut of the Supernatural Crimes Unit series of urban fantasy novels from the Weird Tales Presents imprint of Blackstone Publishing; the Resident Evil graphic novel Infinite Darkness: The Beginning, a prequel to the Netflix animated series; Phoenix Precinct, the latest novel in his fantasy/police procedure series; one of the stories in the Farscape 25th Anniversary Special comic book; Feat of Clay, Book 2 of the Bram Gold Adventures; Animal, the graphic novel adaptation of the serial-killer novel Keith wrote with Dr. Munish K. Batra; the urban fantasy short story collection Ragnarok and a Hard Place: More Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet; and short fiction in several issues of Star Trek Explorer magazine, in the anthology series Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight, Forgotten Lore, Phenomenons, and Thrilling Adventure Yarns, and in the single anthologies Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, Sherlock Holmes: Eliminate the Impossible, Joe Ledger: Unbreakable, Green Hornet: Detroit Noir City, A Trove of Legacies, and The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny, as well as in two anthologies he co-edited, Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (with Jonathan Maberry) and The Four ???? of the Apocalypse (with Wrenn Simms). He writes regularly about pop culture for the award-winning web site Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com), for his Patreon (patreon.com/krad), and for various essay collections published by Becky Books, Crazy 8 Press, ATB Publishing, and Sequart.
Keith is also a fourth-degree black belt in karate (he not only trains regularly, but also teaches to both kids and adults), a professional musician (currently percussionist for the parody band Boogie Knights), and a professional editor of more than 35 years’ standing (though he usually does it sitting down). Find out less at his mediocre web site at DeCandido.net.