No longer actively writing, Ryan Henry still enjoys reading the far-superior work of real authors. He blames his dabbling in "the craft" on the influence of Cormac McCarthy, R.E. Howard, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert Heinlein, Peter Straub, Garth Ennis, Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Arthur C. Clarke, and Richard Matheson. His favorite works in the horror genre include The Hellbound Heart, Julia, Pet Sematary, The Turn of the Screw, “The Premature Burial,” and The Haunting of Hill House.

He also draws inspiration from film, and counts Alien, Fight Club, and The Deer Hunter as his cinematic favorites. Ryan has compulsively watched thousands of horror films, but he believes very few live up to classics such as The Thing, The Changeling, Hellraiser, The Exorcist, The Shining, and Robert Wise’s version of The Haunting. His all-time favorite vampire movie is Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark.

Before he tried his hand at writing speculative fiction, Ryan played in the doom/death metal band Necare, which was eventually signed to Finland’s Firebox Records for a single album, entitled Ruin. In 2004, he struck out on his own and created a funeral doom metal project called Reclusiam.

Ryan’s first self-published work was the post-apocalyptic novella Omega Zero, which garnered enough praise to goad him into writing the action-packed sci-fi romp Betrayal on Triton. The latter won the 2014 Cygnus Award for Best Military Science Fiction Novel. However, he counts his collaborations with Matthew Heilman on Come Forth in Blood and Lie Still The Dead as his best work.

In 2016, Ryan became severely ill and was eventually diagnosed with Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.