About Loni Sullivan

Loni Sullivan is a fiction writer, Army veteran, tiny-wildlife photographer, fluid artist, storyteller, and collector of fictional bodies. The bodies aren't real, of course. The mysteries surrounding them have a habit of becoming his problem anyway.

Loni Sullivan is my nom de plume, a small act of literary mischief with a sentimental heart. My mother, who died when I was thirteen, had a habit of writing “Loni” on the backs of my childhood photographs. Decades later, I’ve stolen that name for myself—not that she can object—and put it to work creating mysteries and generally making trouble on paper. It’s my way of bringing her along for the adventure, one story at a time.

Loni is drawn to small towns, peculiar people, Gothic houses, unsettling folklore, and places where something feels slightly off. Loni writes mysteries, thrillers, horror, and psychological suspense. His stories are populated by complicated characters, secrets that refuse to stay buried, and ordinary places that probably shouldn't be visited after dark.

Loni lives in Arden, Delaware, an actual single-tax arts colony, which he has, without apparent remorse, turned into the setting of a murder mystery series. The neighbors have been very understanding. So far.

When he isn't writing, Loni can be found photographing wildlife small enough to escape notice, exploring the mysteries of the natural world, haunting used book barns and independent bookstores, creating fluid art, or adding yet another idea to a collection of novel outlines that has long since escaped reasonable supervision. He has enough stories in development to keep him busy for years, which is fortunate, because apparently his imagination has never learned the meaning of "enough".

His outline folder currently contains, among other things, the uncanny town of Gravity, Maine, with its mysterious “hum,” four women solving a string of Hawthorne-inspired murders in Salem, Massachusetts; the small town of Atherton, Vermont, hiding speculative secrets; and an Irish lane of five old houses with a haunting that keeps them indoors at night. The folder escaped reasonable supervision years ago. He has given up trying to recapture it.

A fan of mysteries, folklore, haunted places, and stories that leave a few questions lingering after the final page.

Loni believes the world is far more interesting when you look a little closer, preferably before something looks back