Chris Kelso (born 22 March 1988, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland) is a British Fantasy Award-nominated^[1][2] writer, illustrator, and anthologist from Scotland.

Kelso has also been printed frequently in magazines such as Interzone, Black Static, 3:AM, Locus, and Evergreen Review. He and Garrett Cook are the co-creators of 'The Imperial Youth Review'.^[3]

Fiction

• Last Exit To Interzone (Black Dharma Press)
• Schadenfreude (Dog Horn Publishing)^[4]
• A Message from the Slave State (Western Legends Books)^[5][6]
• Moosejaw Frontier (Bizarro Pulp Press)^[7][8]
• Transmatic (MorbidbookS)^[9][10][11]
• The Black Dog Eats The City (Omnium Gatherum)^[12][13][14]
• Terence, Mephisto and Viscera Eyes (Journalstone)^[15]
• The Dissolving Zinc Theatre (Villipede)^[16]
• The Folger Variation (Shoreline of Infinity)
• Wire & Spittle (Omnium Gatherum)
• Rattled by the Rush (Journalstone)
• The Church of Latter Day Eugenics (with Tom Bradley)^[17]
• I Dream of Mirrors' (The Sinister Horror Company)^[18][19]
• The DREGS Trilogy (Black Shuck Books)
• Voidheads (Schism)

Non-Fiction

• Burroughs and Scotland: Dethroning the Ancients (Beatdom)
• Interrogating the Abyss (Apocalypse Party)

Anthologies edited

• Caledonia Dreamin – Strange Fiction of Scottish Descent (by Chris Kelso and Hal Duncan)^[20]
• This is NOT an Anthology (Onieros Books)^[21]
• Slave Stories - Scenes of the Slave State (Omnium Gatherum)
• I Transgress' (Salo' Press)
• Children of the New Flesh: The Early Films and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg (11:11)