Angel Down

Daniel Kraus

Daniel Kraus writes horror and speculative fiction for young-adult and adult readers, moving among solo novels, formal experiments, and collaborations. He often builds narrative pressure into the form of a work. Whalefall tracks a diver’s dwindling oxygen through headings and breath-like chapter breaks, while alternating flashbacks connect the claustrophobic survival plot to unresolved grief over his father. Across Kraus’s fiction, bodily extremity becomes a way to examine family inheritance and estrangement. Rotters places grave robbing at the center of a severe father-son apprenticeship and seeks understanding and tenderness within repellent conduct. His research for Whalefall included interviews with whale scientists and diving experts. Kraus co-wrote The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro and completed The Living Dead using George A. Romero’s pages, notes, and earlier material. For the latter, he studied Romero’s films and creative rules before expanding the story into a nationwide collapse told through multiple social and undead viewpoints.