Hugh Addams

Author

Hugh Addams is a born and bred Long Islander. He's told stories for as long as he's been able to form words and one day decided he should start writing them down. As if that wasn't bad enough, he decided that if he had to read them then so did you! If he isn't hunched over his keyboard like a gargoyle on a skyscraper, then Hugh can be found reading comic books, screaming into the void, or playing as the bard Griggory Gloomshire on the ttrpg...

Woodrow

Jack Watson can’t sleep.
Maybe it’s the awful nightmares of faceless specters and bloody bathtubs that haunt his dreams. Maybe it’s the bullies at school that won’t leave him alone, or his parents’ crumbling marriage. Or, maybe, it’s the neighbor girl that lives just across the street. The one who he saw murder one of those bullies.
Did he really...

Praise

ALL the Stephen King vibes! Loved it!

– C.R.R. Hillin

It’s so refreshing to be pleasantly surprised by a new author that you haven’t tried yet. Really loved this book and it gave me “Let the Right One In” vibes which says enough. Kept me interested and wanting more- will definitely be impatiently waiting for Hugh’s next book!

– Jessy SanFilippo

A Blog? In This Economy?????

May 15, 2026

A Blog? In This Economy????? #4- THE LAKE AT IKORAN Prologue

Hello all,

Have you ever lost a friendship? The short answer is, yes, of course you have. Maybe it had been a fleeting one that was born and died with summer vacation. Maybe you’d known the other person your entire life. Those friendships were beautiful, they meant something to you, and when they hit their breaking point, they did just that— they broke.

In my next book THE LAKE AT IKORAN, a group of friends found their breaking point after a terrible, awful weekend in upstate New York. Five...