I write ghost stories of haunted minds: memories that won’t stay quiet, people pushed past the edge, and realities beginning to fracture.

Tyler Schuetze writes dark speculative fiction: psychological horror braided with emerging technology and emotional damage that refuses to stay quiet. His stories begin where a person’s grip on reality starts to slip.

His work blends psychological horror, speculative technology, emotional trauma, and character-driven tension. His current novel, LUCID, explores the ethical and psychological consequences of neural implant technology through the story of a young woman whose inner demons begin bleeding into waking reality.

By day, Tyler has worked at the edge of emerging technology — the unglamorous machinery behind electric vehicles and energy systems, where ambitious engineering keeps colliding with grief, failure, and ordinary human need. It left him permanently suspicious of clean-tech utopias, and it shows: in his fiction, the tools meant to save us never arrive clean.

His earlier nonprofit work with teenagers around purpose, resilience, and mental health continues to shape the emotional core of his fiction.

Before writing LUCID, Tyler self-published The Awkward List: Finding The Epic Story In Your Life, an earlier project about purpose, risk, and living with intention. It was his first full book and part of the road that led him toward darker, more ambitious fiction.