Billy Richard Parks (born June 15, 1955) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer.
Early in his career "[h]is most popular recurring character [was] Eli Mothersbaugh, a high-tech ghost hunter based in the sleepy—and oft haunted—imaginary town of Canemill, Mississippi.
More recently he has found success with his historical fantasies featuring Yamada no Goji, a demon hunter of Heian period Japan.
Parke Godwin called Parks's first collection, The Ogre's Wife: Fairy Tales For Grownups (2002), "one of the best SF/fantasy collections I've read in years" and wrote of its author that "[l]ike any fine writer [he] doesn't label easily, which makes him hell for lazy-minded pigeonholers, but his themes are consistent and clear.
... [H]e can step imperceptibly from deadpan funny to deeply affecting truth with an utterly transparent style that has the reader racing down the page [and] has the rare ability to say profound things simply.