11/29/2025 Fall & Winter Author Spotlight Series: Jeremy Megargee
- Candace Nola
- 2 hours ago
- 3 min read
This series will be showcased on my Patreon first, every Friday this fall and winter, through early 2026. If you are not a patron, look for the new author spotlight to appear here on the blog every Saturday! These will be for incredibly talented, but lesser known, authors that truly deserve a spotlight on their work!
As is our mission here at Uncomfortably Dark, we want to be a community support and while how we do that may change over time, we will always find a way to shed light on the many wonderfully talented people in this space. Please check out their interviews, click on their links, and check out their work for yourself. I promise you will not be disappointed.
Jeremy Megargee is one of the best authors I know. Take a few dashes of poetry, a heap of charisma, two tablespoons of sensuality, and a pitcher of darkness, and he is what you will get. His talent knows no boundaries, he has a very wide reach, and his prose is breathtaking.
Get to know him below and please check out a book or two of his asap!
MEET JEREMY MEGARGEE
-Introduce yourself in 4 sentences or less.
My name is Jeremy Megargee, author of Appalachian dark fiction. If it's depraved & disturbing, chances are, I like it.
-Describe your style of writing in 2 sentences or less.
A deep dive into introspective trauma. Intricate poetic prose.
- What is your favorite type of horror to write?
Psychological horror & folk horror.
-What is your favorite book or character you’ve written so far?
Favorite book would be my werewolf novel Old Hollow.
Favorite character would be my antagonist Merrill Sade from Crown of Carrion.
-Who are your top 5 favorite authors?
Clive Barker - Cormac McCarthy - Nick Cutter - Stephen King - Jack London
-What most inspires you to keep writing when imposter syndrome hits the hardest?
The feeling that my soul demands this excision. If I do not write, the alternative is a strait- jacket and a padded room.
-Is there a genre, sub-genre, or trope you’ve not written, that you’d like to try?
Pure erotica. I've written erotica adjacent stuff, but never a full send.
-What is your hope for your writing career for the next five years? As in where do see yourself?
I want to continue to create until I have a bibliography that I can look back on and be proud of. I don't care if it's one person or one million people that read my work. As long as one person reads it and says "I get it, I relate, I feel seen" then I have done my job as a fiction writer and I am content.
-Pitch your current WIP in three sentences or less
Intense Appalachian dysfunction. Personal hells in the holler. Deep character development.
-Where can we find you online and where can readers see you next?
I'm most active on Instagram at xbadmoonrising.
BIO:
Jeremy Megargee has always loved dark fiction. He cut his teeth on R.L Stine’s Goosebumps series as a child and a fascination with Stephen King, Jack London, Algernon Blackwood, and many others followed later in life. Jeremy weaves his tales of personal horror from Martinsburg, West Virginia with his cat Lazarus acting as his muse/familiar. He is a member of the West Virginia chapter of the Horror Writer’s Association, and you can often find him peddling his dark words in various mountain hollers deep within the Appalachians.
Check out his work here:
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