Victoria Dougherty

VICTORIA DOUGHERTY is the author of the Cold War thrillers, THE BONE CHURCH, THE HUNGARIAN, and WELCOME TO THE HOTEL YALTA, and the epic historical fantasy series, A THOUSAND LIVES — BREATH, OF SAND AND BONE, and SAVAGE ISLAND. Her current series, the APPALACHIAN MOON WITCH CHRONICLES — NIGHT OF THE MOON WITCH, NIGHT OF THE MOTHER, and NIGHT OF THE OTHERS, is gothic folk horror. Readers and reviewers have called her fiction "breathtaking," "beautifully written," and "captivating."

Her work has graced the pages of the New York Times, USA Today, and The International Herald Tribune, while her blog COLD earned recognition from WordPress as one of the Top 50 Recommended Blogs by writers. You can also visit her on Substack and follow her newsletter, Cold Eye. Warm Heart. Gothic Everything, which offers gothic fiction and personal essays.

She lives in Virginia, in a two-hundred-year-old former train depot, with her family, and her dog.