Dana McSwain

Award-Winning Author

2025 Pushcart Prize Nominee

Bestseller

Roseneath

Georgia Pritchard's dream house has a dead child in the attic and a monster in the basement but, she can't tell her husband because she's not sure it's really him anymore.

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An unsettling psychological terror…This is exactly what horror should be.

Indie Reader Discovery Awards

Praise & Reviews

Dana McSwain is the Queen of Horror.

Cleveland Magazine

A Gothic tale of horror with a touch of fantasy, Roseneath reads like a beloved book from your childhood that you've just rediscovered in your mother's attic. McSwain's prose is poetry, smooth jazz, and oftentimes charming even when describing the darkest terrors.

James Renner, author of The Man From Primrose Lane

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Shirt Factory Book and Comic Expo
9.28.24
10-5pm
The Shirt Factory, 71 Lawrence St | Glens Falls, NY 12801

Connecticut Literary Anthology Book Release and Reading
10.20.24
2pm
Mark Twain House and Museum
Hartford, Connecticut

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Horror on the Hudson
Overlook Lodge
Bear Mountain, NY
11.2.2024

Author reading and signing, dinner, wine party book swap, and ten minute ghost stories to wrap it all up- Dana McSwain will be appearing Saturday only from 1pm-11pm at Horror Reader Weekend's Horror on the Hudson.

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Appearances

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About Dana McSwain

Dana McSwain is the author of the Gothic genre-bender Roseneath, winner of four national independent press awards. Her previous books include Winter's Gambit and Winter's Roulette, a cult-favorite action-adventure series set in the Rust Belt. Her work has been published in Belt Magazine, The Atherton Review, Literary Cleveland, Scene Magazine, and Medium.