Susan Elizabeth Stokes-Chapman (born 1985) is a British author of gothic historical fiction, particularly set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
She took part in the 2019–2020 Room 204 cohort, a Writing West Midlands development programme, and also worked on their Spark Young Writers initiative.
[6] Pandora debuted at #1 on The Sunday Times hardback fiction bestseller list[7][2][8] and was shortlisted for the 2023 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award.
[10] In the interim, Stokes-Chapman contributed a short story titled "Widow's Walk" to the December 2023 Christmas-themed collection The Winter Spirits from Sphere Books alongside Laura Purcell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Elizabeth Macneal, and Catriona Ward.
[14] Set in 1783 and weaving together Welsh folklore and the occult, this darker gothic novel follows London physician Henry Talbot who moves to Penhelyg, a fictional coastal village in northern Wales, upon being hired by Lord Julian Tresilian after the previous physician's death.