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After years of being curious about scary stories but not having the nerve to try them, Joseph Brink fell in love with the genre through books like Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener, Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co, and Kenneth Oppel’s The Nest. He's always wished there were more books like these — stories that face evil and darkness while maintaining a childlike wonder for our strange and beautiful world.
Joseph has been writing uplifting, kid-friendly stories with darker or scarier elements for 9+ years and is a graduate of the Author Conservatory, where he studied writing and business at a post-secondary level through the Author Conservatory for four years.
Joseph's short, What Lives Beneath the Skin, was published in Voices of the Future: Stories of Adventure & Imagination in December 2025.
Here's what you can expect from Joseph Brink's books:
Here's what you can expect from Joseph Brink's books:
Stories that acknowledge evil while maintaining a childlike wonder about our strange, beautiful world.
Stories with fun character dynamics and creepy atmosphere (similar to Lockwood & Co); comedic cryptidcore elements (similar to “Gravity Falls”), a powerful sense of the bewildering strangeness and brokenness of our world (similar to A Series of Unfortunate Events), and beauty in the face of darkness (similar to Narnia & A Monster Calls)
Stories where both good and evil are represented—without glorifying or celebrating the darkness—to show the full human experience of the brokenness and beauty of our world.
Stories that don’t take romance beyond crush levels, steer clear of crude jesting and swearing, and avoid gore, graphic violence, and “adult” scenes.
Stories that inspire courage and have strong themes of family, friendship, sacrifice, hope, and standing up for what’s right.
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