...is an Idaho-based author of horror, fantasy, and other speculative fiction.
With his stories, which focus on the strange, the wonderful, and the horrific, he seeks to explore the idea that, even amongst the most suffocating of darkness, it is possible to see light.

Coming soon: The Antiquary...

"You should've stayed out in the snow..."When 5 strangers—a young woman fleeing college after a nervous breakdown, a trucker smuggling drugs across state lines, two snowboarders living in their van, and an old crone who’s a few dimes short of a dollar—are forced to seek shelter from a massive Idaho blizzard inside a sprawling, maze-like antique shop, they soon learn that some of the dusty antiques may just have a lust for blood.
By then, it’s too late.A claustrophobic, frozen nightmare, The Antiquary is the debut novella from author Colby Coles.Coming Summer 2026.

Stay tuned for more updates, discoveries, and stories from the berkeley archive

The truth behind the berkeley archive:

While clearing out his grandpa’s storage unit, Colby found a strange box filled with unpublished manuscripts, artifacts, and notes belonging to someone named Rick Berkeley.The thing is, nobody in his family knows who Rick Berkeley is...Most of the stories are in bad shape. Several aren’t even finished. A few probably shouldn’t have been written in the first place.Colby is working diligently to restore, rewrite, and publish as many of the stories from this archive as he can, all while trying to make sense of the man who wrote them and the darkness within.

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