He attended the University of Notre Dame, and has an MA in Theatre from SUNY Stony Brook.
Reese's first novel, The Book of Shadows (William Morrow and Company, 2002),[2] appeared on the extended New York Times bestseller list.
Indeed, Reese cites the early Gothicists as his prime models, and The Book of Shadows incorporates supernatural elements with a mix of history and horror.
[4] In the former novel, Herculine arrives in Richmond, Virginia, in the years prior to the American Civil War and befriends a young Edgar Allan Poe and his sister, Rosalie.
[5] Reese's books have been published in Russian, Romanian, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, and Spanish.