A. B. Watts writes dark, weird speculative fiction about damaged minds, moral justifications, and the strangely comforting light that can only exist in the shadow of bleak darkness.
Drawn to psychology, professional wrestling, horror, fantasy, and an eclectic range of genres, Watts is fascinated by what makes people think, break, fight, perform, and excuse themselves. Their stories often explore the darker side of life: trauma, power, obsession, cruelty, survival, and the ways people explain their own evil to themselves.
Away from fiction, Watts has performed in professional wrestling, a world of controlled violence, flamboyant characters, athletics, and crowd control that feeds into their interest in character psychology.
Rather than writing darkness for its own sake, Watts is interested in contrast: tenderness inside horror, humour inside pain, and brightness within the dark.