Shaun Hutson (born 1958) is a British novelist in the horror and crime genres.

A native of Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire, England,[1] Hutson now lives and writes in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

According to his own website, Hutson was expelled from school and worked a number of odd jobs from which he was fired, before becoming a professional writer.

Hutson began his writing career in the early 1980s with the horror novel The Skull.

Hutson wrote the UK film novelization of The Terminator, which was published in early 1985.