Meet the author

Jennifer Killick.

Writer · United Kingdom

Jennifer Killick: the reigning name in funny-scary middle-grade horror, whose Crater Lake and Dread Wood series pair genuine chills with laugh-out-loud banter — reluctant-reader catnip for 9–12s who like to read, scream, repeat.

Jennifer Killick is a British author of funny-scary horror for confident middle-graders, who lives in Uxbridge in a house full of children, animals and Lego. She wrote her first novel during a creative-writing MA at Brunel University London, then broke through with Crater Lake, an alien body-snatcher nightmare set on a Year Six residential trip where the golden rule is: don't fall asleep. Her hugely popular Dread Wood series — Dread Wood, Fear Ground, Flock Horror, Deadly Deep, Fright Bite and Terror Tower — pits a gang of mismatched misfits, Club Loser, against engineered monsters and a pair of sinister caretakers. Her trademark is genuine chills served with laugh-out-loud banter and a friendship group readers root for. A brilliant fit for reluctant readers aged 9–12 who like their scares fast, gross and funny.