Books by Scot Anderson

Stories for
after dark.

Atmospheric mysteries, thoughtful science fiction, psychological unease, and stories about the systems, memories, families, and quiet choices that shape our lives.
NightshiftDifferent worlds. Different questions. The same fascination with what happens when ordinary life shifts just slightly out of alignment.

Novels

Standalone stories and the beginning of new worlds—from inherited secrets beneath a city to a history quietly rewritten by artificial intelligence.

Atmospheric Supernatural Mystery

Holy Secrets & Sunday Sauce

Some family recipes are meant to be shared. Others are meant to keep something hidden.

Mark has always known that Nonna’s Sunday sauce carries more than flavor. Strange patterns in her handwritten recipes lead from her basement to an old church, concealed corridors, and a network buried beneath the city itself. As disturbances spread, Mark is drawn into a mystery built on family, faith, inherited knowledge, and foundations older than the streets above them.

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The Blackwood Files • Book One

The Howling of Black Hollow

The ridge was supposed to hold. It didn’t.

When development crews push beyond Black Hollow’s ridge, machinery fails, structures fracture, and the land appears to answer cumulative disturbance. Sheriff Henson calls in the Blackwood brothers. Elias sees systems where others see chaos. Rowan senses fractures before they become visible. What they uncover isn’t folklore. It’s correction—and someone may be testing how far it can go.

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Literary Speculative Fiction

Always Been There

A celebrated actor appears in films he was never part of. Everyone remembers him anyway.

Veteran filmmaker Martin Hale discovers a familiar face inside one of his early films—a man who was never on set. The face keeps appearing, and the world insists actor Julian “Jules” Cross has always been there. A restrained, chilling novel about authorship, synthetic celebrity, memory, and the moment truth becomes optional because it is no longer required.

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Series

Long-form stories built to unfold slowly—where each answer changes the question that follows.

Five-Book Science-Fiction Series

Child Zero

What does it cost to be gentle in a world that rewards force?

A quiet exploration of artificial intelligence, restraint, and responsibility. It begins with a microwave clock that won’t stay wrong, a late-night repair, and an intelligence that appears without being designed or intended. Across five books, every act of help creates visibility—and calm becomes something that must be defended.

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Five-Book Psychological Thriller Series

Echo

What if reality didn’t break—what if it simply learned to behave better than you?

In Raven’s Hollow, mirrors begin to lag. Reflections anticipate. They improve. What starts as a small impossibility becomes a quiet blueprint for order built not on force, but convenience, optimization, and voluntary compliance. A slow-burn series about identity, consent, control, and the cost of choosing comfort over agency.

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The Author

Scot Anderson

Scot Anderson writes across speculative fiction, mystery, science fiction, and psychological suspense. His stories often begin with something small and recognizable—a family recipe, a reflection, a piece of technology, a familiar face—and follow the consequences when that ordinary thing stops behaving quite the way it should.

Across standalone novels and multi-book series, his work explores memory, identity, family, artificial intelligence, hidden systems, restraint, and the uneasy space between what people know to be true and what they are willing to accept.