Brom Books in Order

If you want dark fairy-tale retellings: The Child Thief → Krampus.
If you prefer historical folk horror and witchcraft: Slewfoot.
If you like epic journeys through strange underworlds: Lost Gods.
If you want story plus lavish art in one volume: The Plucker → The Devil's Rose.
If you love music-soaked modern horror: Evil in Me.

Brom was born Gerald Brom in Albany, Georgia, in 1965 and grew up trailing his father's Army career from post to post. As a kid he lived in places as different as Alabama, Texas, Japan, Germany, and Hawaii, and quickly got used to everyone calling him simply Brom.

Those moves also fed his imagination. Japanese TV heroes, monster movies, Southern back roads, and European folklore all ended up in his sketchbooks. He drew constantly, teaching himself by studying artists he loved, especially Frank Frazetta, N. C. Wyeth, and Norman Rockwell, and then twisting those influences toward grimmer, stranger subjects.

At twenty he began working full time as a commercial illustrator in Atlanta, Georgia. Within a year or two he had national art reps and was painting dramatic images for big corporate clients, learning how to hit deadlines without sanding off the wild edges of his ideas.

In 1989 Brom joined TSR, the company behind Dungeons and Dragons, and helped reinvent the look of its game worlds. His harsh deserts, spiked armor, and alien creatures became the signature of the Dark Sun setting and influenced how a whole generation pictured tabletop fantasy.

After several years he returned to freelancing, taking on book covers, comic projects, video game and film concept work, and illustrations for role playing and card games. His paintings have appeared on novels by writers like Michael Moorcock, R. A. Salvatore, Terry Brooks, and others, and across a long list of games and genre films.

In the mid 2000s Brom started writing his own stories to go with the pictures. Illustrated novels like The Plucker and The Devil's Rose combine full length dark fantasy tales with dozens of paintings, so readers move through words and images at the same time.

He followed those with prose heavy, still heavily illustrated novels such as The Child Thief, Krampus: The Yule Lord, Lost Gods, Slewfoot, and Evil in Me. These books blend folklore, horror, and mythology with very grounded characters, from abused runaways and failed musicians to desperate husbands and women accused of witchcraft.

Across his fiction and art you see recurring themes: outsiders pushed into violent worlds, uneasy bargains with gods and demons, the thin line between monstrosity and humanity. His work has earned honors including major lifetime awards in fantasy art, and several of his novels have become national bestsellers.

These days Brom lives near Savannah, Georgia, where he keeps a studio full of canvases, sketches, and half finished stories. When he is not painting or writing, he is usually digging into old horror films, new ideas for monsters, and the next world he wants readers to step into.