Ezra Whitlocke (born 1986) is an American horror writer whose work blends Midwestern gothic with industrial folklore. Raised in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, he studied folklore and ethnomusicology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later earned an MFA from the University of Minnesota. Before publishing fiction, he worked as an audio archivist preserving field recordings of church bells and factory whistles across the Great Lakes. His stories have appeared in regional journals and small-press anthologies, and he is the author of the novella Cold Storage Parish and the novel Salt in a Dead Clock. Whitlocke lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he volunteers with a historic cemetery society and tinkers with broken mantel clocks. He often speaks at libraries and heritage festivals about the uncanny in everyday places.
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