E. R. Bills is an award-winning author and freelance journalist. His nonfiction works include Texas Obscurities: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional and Nefarious (2013), The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas (2014), Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror (2015), Texas Far and Wide: The Tornado with Eyes, Gettysburg’s Last Casualty, the Celestial Skipping Stone and Other Tales (History Press 2017), The San Marcos 10: An Anti-War Protest in Texas (2019), Texas Oblivion: Mysterious Disappearances, Escapes and Cover-Ups (2021), Fear and Loathing in the Lone Star State (2021), 100 Things to Do in Texas Before You Die (2022) and Tell-Tale TexasL Investigation in Infamous History (2023). Bills has also written for the Austin American-Statesman, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Co-Op Power magazine, Fort Worth Magazine and Fort Worth Weekly.

    Bills's fiction work includes Pendulum Grim (2020) and he was the co-creator and is the current executive editor of the annual Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, the first anthology of Texas horror, featuring works from Joe. R. Lansdale, Stephen Graham Jones, Robert E. Howard, Katherine Anne Porter, O. Henry, Madison Estes, Bret McCormick, etc. His horror fiction has been compared to that of Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon and others.

    He currently lives in North Texas with his wife, Stacie.