Brian McNaughton (23 September 1935 – 13 May 2004) was an American writer of horror and fantasy fiction who mixed sex, satire and black humour.
Born at Red Bank, New Jersey, McNaughton attended Harvard and worked for ten years as a reporter for the Newark Evening News.
Several of his novels were first published by Carlyle Books under editorially imposed titles implying that they were part of a series.
Although Worse Things Waiting follows on from Downward to Darkness, the other books featured completely unrelated characters and situations.
His work includes literary nods to writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and Bram Stoker.