Gary William Crawford

Gary William Crawford (January 1, 1953 – July 9, 2020) was an American writer and small press publisher.

He was the founder and editor of Gothic Press, which since 1979 has published books and periodicals in the field of Gothic fiction. From 1979 to 1987, Crawford produced six issues of the journal Gothic, which features articles on Gothic fiction from 1764 to 1986. Later, the press published the horror poetry magazine Night Songs. In recent years, the press has published The Gothic Chapbook Series, which features pamphlets of fiction, poetry and scholarship.

He had numerous poems, stories, and articles in the small press. He had an essay and bibliography on modern horror fiction in Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide.

Crawford later began the online journal, Le Fanu Studies, about ghost and mystery story writer Sheridan Le Fanu,