Scott Nicolay (born April 16, 1963) is an American author of weird fiction.
Nicolay hosts The Outer Dark, a weekly podcast about weird fiction.
At the age of 26, he moved to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, where he later taught school.
Nicolay spent time as an active caver and archaeologist.
He used the name Ana Kai Tangata, a cave he had studied on Easter Island, for the title of his first book of collected short fiction.