Brandon Burnside

Completed manuscript · Not yet released

The Covingtons

In 1983 South Tampa, Mel Hayes and his friends visit the wealthy Covington family on behalf of their church. Behind the mansion’s iron gates, they discover hidden prisoners, deadly traps, and a family willing to do anything to protect its darkest secret.

Completed manuscript

Completed manuscript · Not yet released

The Eighth Session

In 1981 Tampa, psychiatrist Conrad Stetson drives home drunk with his partner beside him. On Armenia Avenue, their car strikes a young man. Two years later, the victim’s brother, Bill Roy, walks into Conrad’s office seeking treatment—and knows what happened that night.

Completed manuscript · 19 chapters

Complete manuscript · Forthcoming

The Vipers

In 2006, eighteen-year-old Brad Bennington arrives at Tampa’s Blackthorn College with a scholarship, a gift for rowing, and a black 2004 Dodge Neon SRT-4 he built himself. For a young man from Plant City, the school promises a way into a world that has always kept its doors closed. His friendship with star quarterback Antonio Smith soon brings him to the attention of the Viper Association, an exclusive society with powerful connections and limitless money.

Approximately 85,000 words

Complete manuscript · Forthcoming

The Permanent Installation

Tampa, 1988. Fifty-three-year-old car salesman Gene Figurino has spent years escaping into movies while his wife, Lillian, and their teenage children, Anthony and Nicole, struggle to reach him. Then a midnight visit from a salesman named Norman Dancer offers Gene the entertainment system of his dreams. The contract bears the name H. Dot Inferno. Gene signs before he understands what a permanent installation really means.

Approximately 100,000 words

Newest Nightgrave title · Book One

The House That Laughed

In 1996 Tampa, six friends enter the abandoned Wrenner mansion and discover that the killer clown of local legend has never stopped hunting children.

Forthcoming · Dark academia

Blood on the Honor Roll

Tampa, 1996. Sixteen-year-old Benedetto “Benny” Corsico has spent most of his life fighting—for respect, for survival, and against the future everyone says he deserves. One final arrest leaves him with a choice: juvenile detention or Blackthorne Preparatory Academy, an elite boarding school where wealth buys silence and cruelty hides behind tradition. At Blackthorne, Benny collides with the Crown Eight, a ruthless circle of privileged students who rule through humiliation and violence. With brilliant outsider Milo Bellini, compassionate teacher Mr. Weather, and Veronica DeLuca beside him, Benny uncovers a buried legacy of blood beneath the school’s polished halls. As secrets surface and revenge turns deadly, he must decide whether surviving Blackthorne is worth becoming the monster it tried to create.

Available now · Psychological horror

I’ll Sign Your Name When You’re Dead

Alexander knows how to make danger feel inevitable on the page. Working late at his typewriter while the watchful Robert remains close, he begins to understand that the names entering his manuscript carry consequences beyond fiction. As authorship turns into obsession and every new page tightens the trap, Alexander must discover who is truly controlling the story—and whose name will be signed when it ends.