From Intelligence Briefings to Zombie Apocalypses - Meet "Wyrd Kid" Scott Baker

Some writers imagine the end of the world.Scott M. Baker prepares for it.

Scott was born and raised in Everett, Massachusetts, and spent twenty-three years in Northern Virginia working for the Central Intelligence Agency—a life built on analysis, investigation, and asking the questions most people would rather not know the answers to. Retirement didn’t soften that instinct. It just gave it a new direction.

These days, instead of classified briefings, Scott dissects monsters.

He’s traveled extensively through Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and those places don’t simply serve as scenery in his fiction. They inform it. Cultures, terrain, tactics, and the way people behave when the rules fall apart all find their way onto the page. The result is horror and science fiction that feels less imagined and more… uncomfortably plausible.

Scott now lives in southern New Hampshire with his dog, Fred, and two cats who view him not as an author, but as their full-time human support staff.

From the CIA to the Cemetery

What sets Scott M. Baker apart isn’t just what he writes—it’s how he thinks.

Scott doesn’t ask whether monsters exist.He asks what happens when they do.

That intelligence mindset runs through everything he creates. When zombies overrun society or vampires stalk Washington, D.C., the terror doesn’t come from theatrics. It comes from logistics. From systems failing. From plans unraveling. From governments hesitating.

From people panicking—or making the wrong call at the wrong moment.

The horror lives in the details.

And that’s why it lingers.

A Bibliography Built for Survival

Scott’s body of work spans horror, science fiction, and post-apocalyptic storytelling, with multiple long-running series and stand-alone novels that explore what happens when the world breaks—and who we become when it does.

Highlights include:

• Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies and The Chronicles of Paul — ongoing zombie apocalypse sagas where survival horror collides with deeply human stakes

• Frozen World — a non-zombie post-apocalyptic novel centered on environmental collapse and endurance

• The Shattered World Series — a five-book young adult post-apocalypse thriller

• The Vampire Hunters Trilogy — tactical, human-led resistance against the undead in Washington, D.C.

• Yeitso — a heartfelt homage to the giant monster movies of the 1950s Scott grew up loving

• Along with numerous zombie novellas and anthology contributions

Across genres and age ranges, his work shares a single truth: the impossible is treated seriously, and survival is never guaranteed.

Scott Baker & Wyrd Realities

As a cornerstone of the Wyrd Realities collective, Scott brings that same sharp, analytical edge to our conversations—especially on Watching Wyrd.

If you’ve watched the show, you’ve seen him:

• Interrogate plots like evidence

• Treat subtext as motive

• Identify plot holes as prosecutable offenses

• And argue—passionately—about whether an ending actually earned its resolution

Scott reminds us that loving stories doesn’t mean accepting them without question.

Sometimes the most respectful thing you can do is challenge them.

That’s the heart of being a Wyrd Kid: curiosity without fear, critique without cruelty, and a willingness to look straight into the dark and ask, okay—but what happens next?

Why We Keep Reading

Scott M. Baker’s stories work because they make the impossible feel possible.

By stripping away fantasy gloss and replacing it with an investigator’s mindset, he pulls monsters closer, deepens the shadows, and makes survival feel fragile. His fiction doesn’t ask you to suspend disbelief.

It asks you to consider consequences.

And once you do, there’s no unseeing it.

Welcome to the circle, Scott.You’re among your people now.

🖤Wyrd Realities — Stories. Debate. A Little Chaos.