Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw (born 31 August 1984) is a Malaysian writer of horror and science fiction. They also create video games and tabletop games, and formerly wrote about them as a games and tech journalist.

Cassandra Khaw
Born	Zoe Khaw Joo Ee (1984-08-31) August 31, 1984 (age 41) Malaysia
Nationality	Malaysian

Biography

Cassandra Khaw was born in Malaysia on 31 August 1984 as Zoe Khaw Joo Ee. They work as a horror and science fiction writer for video games, tabletop RPGs, short stories, and novels. Their articles and stories have been published in such magazines as Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Fireside Fiction, Uncanny Magazine, and Nature. Their video game writing appears in Eurogamer, Ars Technica, The Verge, and Engadget. Khaw works for Ubisoft as a scriptwriter.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} Khaw has stated they use they/them pronouns.^[8]

Awards and nominations

Year	Work	Award	Category	Result	Ref.
2017	Hammers on Bone	British Fantasy Award	Best Novella	Nominated	[9]
		Locus Award	Best Novella	Nominated	[10]
2018	Food of the Gods		Best Horror Novel	Nominated	[11]
2021	Nothing but Blackened Teeth	Bram Stoker Award	Best Long Fiction	Nominated	[12]
		Shirley Jackson Award	Best Novel	Nominated	[13]
2022		British Fantasy Award	Best Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)	Nominated	[14]
		Ignyte Award	Best Novella	Nominated	[15]
		World Fantasy Award	Best Novella	Nominated	[16]
	The All-Consuming World	Locus Award	Best First Novel	Nominated	[17]
	Breakable Things	Bram Stoker Award	Best Fiction Collection	Won	[18][19]
		Shirley Jackson Award	Best Single-Author Collection	Nominated	[20]
2023		British Fantasy Award	Best Collection	Nominated	[21]
		Locus Award	Best Collection	Nominated	[22]
		World Fantasy Award	Best Collection	Nominated	[23]

Bibliography

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Novels

• The All-Consuming World (2021)^[25]
• The Dead Take the A Train (with Richard Kadrey) (2023)^[26]
• Critical Role: Bells Hells–What Doesn't Break (2024)^[27][28]
• The Library at Hellebore (2025)^[29]

Gods & Monsters: Rupert Wong

• Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef (2015)
• Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth (2017)
• The Last Supper Before Ragnarok (2019)
• Food of the Gods (2017)

Anthologies

• Southeast Asian Urban Anthologies

• Flesh: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology (2016) with Angeline Woon
• A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers (2023)

Chapbooks

• Bearly a Lady (2017)

Born to the Blade

• Baby Shower (2018)
• Dreadnought (2018)

Persons Non Grata

• Hammers on Bone (2016)
• A Song for Quiet (2017)

Collections

• Breakable Things (2022)

Short fiction

• "Disconnect" (2014)
• "What the Highway Prefers" (2015)
• "Red String" (2015)
• "An Ocean of Eyes" (2015)
• "In the Rustle of Pages" (2015)
• "Her Pound of Flesh" (2015)
• "The Man Who Buys Giggles" (2015)
• "When We Die on Mars" (2015)
• "Clown Shoes" (2016)
• "Every Instance of You" (2016)
• "The Games We Play" (2016)
• "Breathe" (2016)
• "Some Breakable Things" (2016)
• "Speak" (2016)
• "The Price of Small Joys" (2016)
• "Degrees of Beauty" (2016)
• "And in Our Daughters, We Find a Voice" (2016)
• "For the Things We Never Said" (2016)
• "Hungry Ghosts" (2016)
• "What to Do When It's Nothing but Static" (2017)
• "Goddess, Worm" (2017)
• "The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires" (2017)
• "Radio Werewolf" (2017)
• "The Day They Found the Train" (2017)
• "Saudade" (2017)
• "Bearly a Lady" (2017)
• "Custom-Made" (2017)
• "I Built This City for You" (2017)
• "Masterclass" (2017)
• "These Deathless Bones" (2017)
• "The Truth That Lies Under Skin and Meat" (2017)
• "Degrees of Ellision" (2017)
• "Don't Turn on the Lights" (2017)
• "Kiss, Don't Tell" (2017)
• "A Secret of Devils" (2017)
• "Landmark" (2017)
• "The Quiet Like a Homecoming" (2018)
• "A Priest of Vast and Distant Places" (2018)
• "You Do Nothing but Freefall" (2018) with A. Maus
• "She Who Hungers, She Who Waits" (2018)
• "How the Spider Got Her Legs" (2018)
• "Four Revelations from the Rusalka Ball" (2018)
• "Recite Her the Names of Pain" (2018)
• "And Was Jerusalem Builded Here?" (2018)
• "Shooting Iron" (2018) with Jonathan L. Howard
• "Bargains by the Slant-Light" (2018)
• "Monologue by an unnamed mage, recorded at the brink of the end (2018)
• "Unbowed" (2018)
• "Nepenthe" (2019)
• "What We Have Chosen to Love" (2019)
• "Mighty Are the Meek and the Myriad" (2019)
• "Nothing But Blackened Teeth" (2021)
• "The Salt Grows Heavy" (2023)
• "Cinders" (2023)

Poems

• Protestations Against the Idea of Anglicization (2017)
• My Mama (2017)
• Apathetic Goblin Nightmare Woman (2017)
• Found Discarded: A Love Poem, Questionably Addressed. (2018)
• Octavia's Letter to Marcus Anthony on the Discovery of His Faithlessness (2018)
• A Letter from One Woman to Another (2019)
• Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can (2019)
• Exorcism (2025)

Tabletop games

• Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (writer, Wizards of the Coast, 2021)^[30]
• Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep (writer, Wizards of the Coast, 2022)^[31]

Video games

• She Remembered Caterpillars (2017)^[32]
• Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (2018)^[33]
• Sunless Skies (2019)^[34]
• Falcon Age (2019)^[35]
• Hyper Scape (2020)^[36]
• Wasteland 3 (2020)^[37]
• Gotham Knights (2022)^[36]
• World of Horror (co-writer, 2023)^[38]