Portrait of Lanson Wells
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Writer, librarian, and musician.

Horror fiction, musicology, poetry, and the quieter work of helping people find what they're looking for.

About

Lanson Wells is a staff member at Indiana University’s Department of Folklore, a librarian, a classical musician, and the assistant editor of the Journal of the American Viola Society. He has published several musicology papers, and his horror poetry, flash fiction, and short stories have been published or accepted for publication by Black Hare Press, Dreamweaver Press, Iron Fang Press, Timber Ghost Press, Trembling with Fear Press, Twisted Dreams Press, and Wicked Shadow Press.

Lanson holds degrees in Music Performance, Library and Information Science, and Online & Blended Learning and Teaching.

Books

Musicology · 2025

ALL STRINGS ATTACHED

Fretted and Multi-Stringed Bowed Instruments in the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Eras

Poetry chapbook · 2023

Two Months and Two Years

Recent Publications

  • October 2026 · Trembling With Fear

    Blackwood Penitentiary

    in Halloween Special Edition

  • October 2026 · Wicked Shadow Press

    One Must Always Be Left

    in Flash of the Dead: Halloween '26

  • September 2026 · Iron Fang Press

    The City of A Hundred Spires

    in Wish You Were Here!: Terrifying Tales of Travel

All published and forthcoming work →

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Horror Fiction

Short stories, flash fiction, drabbles, and horror poetry.

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Other Writing

Musicology and poetry outside the horror shelf.

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Library Work

Folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington.