Heavy Oceans

Tyler Jones is the author of Criterium, The Dark Side of the Room, Almost Ruth, Turn Up the Sun, Burn the Plans (an Esquire Best Horror Book of the Year), Heavy Oceans, Midas, and Night of the Glass Knives.

His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Flame Tree Press: Chilling Crime Stories, Burnt Tongues (edited by Chuck Palahniuk), Campfire Macabre, Paranormal Contact, and in Cemetery Dance, LitReactor, PsuedoPod, Tales to Terrify, and The NoSleep Podcast.

He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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