John Fram
The Midnight Knock (2025)
A locked-room mystery meets white-knuckle horror in this mind-bending thriller, where strangers must survive a deadly night in a remote Texas motel.
No Road Home (2024)
In this “whip-smart, horror-tinged whodunnit in the style of early Stephen King” (Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author), a young father must clear his name and protect his queer son when his wealthy new wife’s televangelist grandfather is found murdered.
The Bright Lands (2020)
The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, an unremitting fear grips this remote corner of Texas.
John Fram hasn’t just revolutionized a genre with his delicious and diabolical debut novel…He may have invented a totally new one all his own.
John Fram delivers with his mix of Southern Texas humidity, mystery and dread – along with police corruption and toxic masculinity…[The Bright Lands] gives us the queer thriller in the age of Grindr we’ve been waiting for.
John Fram is the author of several queer supernatural thrillers such as The Bright Lands and The Midnight Knock. As Jack Friday, he writes about the bisexual private detective Peter Key, beginning with KILLER VIBES. He lives in Austin, where he does as little as possible.
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