I didn’t set out to write a villain people would lose sleep over. I set out to write the truth. And the truth is this: evil is not a costume, and it is not a special effect. Real evil — the kind Scripture describes and the kind I believe walks this world — is ancient, […]
The first time I drifted through Caddo Lake on a boat, I understood why people go missing there. Not the kind of missing you read about in police reports — though that happens too. I mean the other kind. The kind where something old and watching pulls your attention off the path, off the road, […]
A friend called and asked me to come. She believed something was in her house. Something she couldn’t explain and couldn’t ignore. She needed someone who wouldn’t laugh, wouldn’t dismiss it, and wouldn’t be undone by it. So she called me. I walked into a particular room and felt it immediately — a pressure against […]
Maybe it’s happened to you. Two in the morning. The house is quiet. You meant to stop reading an hour ago. But something in the story has you. It doesn’t have you by the throat, exactly, but by something deeper. Something that feels almost like recognition. You close the book and sit in the dark […]
Darkness is real. If you’ve watched the news lately, you don’t need me to convince you of that. But here’s what I know with everything in me: darkness is never the final word. That truth is at the heart of why readers of faith are drawn to supernatural fiction — not in spite of their […]
These days, it doesn’t take long. You open the news, glance at your phone, overhear a conversation — and something in the air feels heavier than it used to. The world seems louder. More unsettled. And for many of us, that weight is hard to shake. I’ve felt it too. I won’t pretend otherwise. But […]
It never happens the way you think it will. There’s no warning. No clear moment where everything suddenly falls apart. It’s quieter than that. One thing stops working. Then another. The answers you relied on don’t hold. The certainty you had begins to slip, almost unnoticed at first. Until you realize you’ve run out of […]
People sometimes ask me how a woman of faith writes about demons, dark spirits, and ancient evil. Some ask with curiosity. Some ask with concern. And every now and then, someone asks as though writing about darkness is itself a kind of surrender to it. I want to set the record straight. Writing about darkness […]
There are nights when sleep does not come easily. The room is quiet. The lights are off. Everything should feel calm. And yet something inside you refuses to settle. Your body is still, but your mind is alert. A thought lingers. A feeling you cannot quite explain stays just beneath the surface, pressing gently but […]
There is a difference between darkness that exists to shock and darkness that exists to reveal something deeper. Not all stories treat darkness the same way. Some use it as an end in itself. The goal is to disturb, to unsettle, to leave an impression that lingers in discomfort long after the story ends. And […]
Mary Ann Poll, America’s Lady of Supernatural Thrillers, is the award-winning author of the Ravens Cove series. Born in Texas and shaped by its wide skies and stubborn spirit, Mary Ann called Alaska home for over forty years — and though her boots are back on Texas soil, her heart never left the Last Frontier. That love for both lands breathes through every page — from the sun-baked spirit of Texas to the eerie perpetual light of the Alaskan solstice and the rich traditions of Alaska’s Indigenous peoples.
Her love for a spine-tingling story and her love for Christ come together in her writing. Mary Ann’s own spiritual journey — from a lifelong fascination with the supernatural to a deep and abiding faith — gives her novels their distinctive voice: suspenseful, grounded in real spiritual stakes, and rooted in hope.
When she’s not writing, Mary Ann enjoys gardening, swimming, and time with her beloved family and pets — who have a habit of finding their way into her stories.