David Niall Wilson (born 1959 in Clay County, Illinois) is an American writer primarily known for his works of horror, science fiction, and fantasy fiction.

[1] He is also the founder and CEO of Crossroad Press, a publishing house for horror and science fiction/fantasy.

He is the former President of the Horror Writers Association of America and a two time Stoker Award winning author (Short Fiction, Poetry Collection).

Scholars such as A. Asbjørn Jøn, at the University of Canterbury, have positively received Wilson's The Grails Covenant Trilogy (1997–1998) - even noting the way that it fits within a continuum of shifting popular culture portrayals of vampires.

[2] His short stories have appeared in more than thirty anthologies, in magazines, and on websites.