Leverett Butts teaches American literature at the University of North Georgia. He is the author and frequent co-author with Dacre Stoker of several short stories which have appeared in various horror anthologies and the magazine Weird Tales. He also wrote Guns of the Waste Land, a four-volume epic retelling the myths of King Arthur as an American Western. Finally, Leverett has written or edited several scholarly books on H.P. Lovecraft, the television series American Horror Story, and the Kentucky author Robert Penn Warren.