Author: D. Scott Calhoun

Literary Fiction

The Tenth Muse

Book cover for 'The Tenth Muse' by D. Scott Calhoun, featuring a grayscale illustration of a man looking at a surreal landscape with a castle, moon, and stairs, with text indicating it is an advanced reading copy of the novel.

The dead have been guiding history all along.

When a young professor enters a mysterious Mexican castle, his obsession with a forgotten 19th-Century poet draws him into a civil war among the literary dead—and forces him to confront the ghosts of his own past…

The Tenth Muse is a completed, 98,000-word Gothic fantasy that blends dark academia with speculative literary fiction.

Step into a world of haunted corridors, secret stairwells, and vengeful dead poets.


Memoirs of a Skeleton Valet


Mallory was an author—once. Now he's half the man he used to be. Literally. He's a walking, talking skeleton. And yet, he's still alive. How it happened is, well...complicated.

“It’s clear I’m little more than a jester to this crowd. Heck. Whatever it takes to survive.”

—Mallory, Memoirs of a Skeleton Valet