Avalon Brantley (1981-2017) was an American neo-decadent author primarily published by small press, mostly Zagava in Germany. She also used pseudonym Lockett Hollis. Her writing was heavily influenced by literature of "mythology, folklore, alchemy and esoterica", and by writers like William Hope Hodgson, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Clark Ashton Smith, Thomas Owen, Walter de la Mare, Lord Dunsany, Robert W. Chambers, Ray Bradbury, Seabury Quinn, Ramsey Campbell, Mark Valentine, Reggie Oliver and D.P. Watt, as well as by various other literary traditions which include authors like Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, George Eliot, Sir Walter Scott, Jakob Boehme, Thomas Taylor, Robert Graves, J.G. Frazer and more.