About

Ell Orvell is an author who writes cool stories for middle-grade and high-school readers. With a deep love for forgotten pulp stories and a talent for twisting them into something totally new, Ell creates creepy, fast-paced tales where kids face alien tech, haunted labs, mind-bending time loops, and cosmic mysteries that defy explanation.

Each Dark Space story is inspired by a public domain sci-fi short story—remixed, reimagined, and rewritten for brave young readers who crave the weird, the thrilling, and the unknown.

Ell writes for the kid who reads under the covers with a flashlight, who wonders what’s hiding in the shadows, and who always asks: what if the weird thing is real?

When Ell isn’t writing, they’re probably hunting down obscure vintage sci-fi, experimenting with retro horror vibes, or dreaming up the next spine-tingling twist.

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