Brandon Greer: Humor and Horror Writer
NoSleep Podcast S23E18 featured a performance of Brandon Greer’s short story “Straight through the Backyard Gate.” The episode was produced by Phil Michalski and stars Elie Hirschman, Mary Murphy, Kristen DiMercurio, and Mike DelGaudio.
Kenny is a ghost only his senile grandmother can see, but the return of the cousin who accidentally drowned him threatens their idyllic life.
Meet the Author
Brandon Greer is a writer originally hailing from West Texas. His work has been featured in Allegory Ezine, Aphelion Ezine, Creativity Webzine, and Phantasmagoria Magazine. He also wrote the 2023 interactive fiction game Top Villain: Total Domination. He leads a local writing group in Beaumont called Scribes, a writing group of 50+ members, and he is also a member of the Disciples of Christ Church. In his rare spare time, he acts in local community theater productions, sings karaoke, and invades your nightmares.
Works
2025
Phantasmagoria Magazine featured the Brandon Greer short story “One of the Bad Kids” in its Winter 2024/2025 issue.
Michael, a high school student, tries to befriend Lacey Keyes, a social outcast at his school, but finds that the more he delves into her life, the more violent she becomes.
2024
Creativity Webzine featured the Brandon Greer short story “Tell-Tale” in its March 2024 issue.
In this short story based on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, a young woman accidentally kills her abusive boyfriend, she must deal with the one witness to the crime: her nonverbal next-door neighbor.
2023
Top Villain: Total Domination is a 228,000-word interactive comedy supervillain novel by Brandon Greer.
You are the world’s most villainous supervillain, heck-bent on conquering the world. Carrying on your parents’ villainous legacy, you have built your ideal secret lair and filled it with loyal and (mostly) competent henchpeople. Life is good. (Or evil. Which is good.) With your powers, smarts, and good looks, what can possibly stand in your way?
But there is a thorn in your side, a valiant yellow-clad thorn, with rippling muscles and chiseled jaw: the interplanetary hero Matchless Man. How will you bring this horrible hero down: will you turn him into a villain like you, negate his powers, or just fight him? Then there’s the intrepid reporter that your henchpeople caught snooping on your secret lair: will you suborn them with your seductive wiles, or will you become the scoop of a lifetime? On top of that, the supervillain organization Multitude of Murderous Malcontents has all of these silly rules about world domination, and they’re conducting a surprise inspection! And, wait, are your henchpeople going on strike?
Can’t a villain just build a giant world-destroying doomsday weapon in peace?
2021
Aphelion Magazine featured the Brandon Greer short story “Buffalo Gals” in its May 2021 issue.
Werewolves stalk the nights of the town of Buffalo, TX, and Police Captain Rutledge is one of them. But the death of his wife brings his mysterious sister-in-law to town, and she seems to believe she has found the cure for lycanthropy.
