He currently lives in the rural farming community of Brush Creek, Tennessee with his wife, three children, and a Jack Russel terrier named Toby.
He also collaborated with classmate Lowell Cunningham, who later became the creator of the Men In Black comic book series, which spawned several major motion pictures.
His audiobook collection, Dark Dixie: Tales of Southern Horror, was on the nominating ballot of the 1992 Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album.
Ronald's short fiction work has been published by Cemetery Dance, Borderlands 3, Deathrealm, Dark at Heart, Hot Blood: Seeds of Fear, and many more.
In early 2009, Cemetery Dance Publications released a limited edition hardcover of his first short story collection, Midnight Grinding & Other Twilight Terrors.
During that time, Thunderstorm published Kelly regularly, releasing two additional hardcovers, "After the Burn", a post-apocalyptic horror story collection, and "Restless Shadows", the sequel to his first novel, "Hindsight".
The Essentials were published in the following order: Stories include: "Introduction" "Mister Glow-Bones" "The Outhouse" "Billy's Mask" "Pins & Needles" "Black Harvest" "Pelingrad's Pit" "Mister Mack & the Monster Mobile" "The Halloween Train" "The Candy in the Ditch Gang" "Halloweens: Past & Present "Monsters in a Box" The following have not had a physical re-release since their original printings (some have been released digitally): Bad Moon Books reprinted the following Ronald Kelly titles as mass market trade paperbacks: After the Burn Timber Gray Cumberland Furnace & Other Fear-Forged Fables Sinister Grin Press reprinted the following Ronald Kelly titles as mass market trade paperbacks: Undertaker's Moon Fear Hell Hollow David Niall Wilson's Macabre Ink Digital/Crossroad Press has released digital editions (PDF, Kindle, etc.)