Director · Writer · Author

Topher
Chambers

Independent horror from the heart of Indiana, on screen and on the page.

Books

Rowe's Realm of Horror

Newest Release

The Marshalltown Series · Book 3 · 2025

Rowe's Realm of Horror

Where nightmares come to life… literally.

For decades, thrill-seekers have flocked to Rowe's Realm of Horror, the backwoods haunt where the scares feel a little too real. When drifter and ex-soldier Daniel Martin takes a job there, he learns why: the lifelike displays aren't props. They're victims. Now Daniel has to escape the Realm before he becomes its next exhibit.

Beneath the Bayou Moon

Stand Alone Stories · 2024

Beneath the Bayou Moon

Southern Gothic meets cosmic horror.

Deep in the Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana State Police detectives Allie Legrasse and Thomas Hale investigate a death eerily like a case her late father closed decades ago. The trail leads through a string of unsolved murders to a swamp cult that worships something ancient, and may be the same darkness that claimed her father.

The Dread Veils

The Shrouded Realms · Book 2 · 2023

The Dread Veils

Ten tales from beyond the veil.

The second volume of The Shrouded Realms. Ancient evils awaken, sanity slowly unravels, and forbidden knowledge waits in dusty tomes for curious souls to find it. Ten tales of cosmic horror that pull you deeper into a realm where the familiar turns grotesque and the unknown becomes all-consuming.

The Forbidden Shadows

The Shrouded Realms · Book 1 · 2023

The Forbidden Shadows

Fifteen tales from the Cthulhu Mythos.

Fifteen original stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Spectral towns teeter on the edge of reality, ancient gods stir beneath the sea, and scholars reach for knowledge they were never meant to hold. These aren't stories for the faint of heart. Once you step into the shadows, you may never truly leave.

Letters from Marshalltown

The Marshalltown Series · Book 2 · 2022

Letters from Marshalltown

You've never heard of Morris County, Indiana. There's a reason.

Nobody's heard of Morris County, but its history is thick with hauntings, disappearances and high strangeness: a marching band that saw a UFO, Bigfoot outside of town, ghosts walking the streets. Letters from Marshalltown collects the first-hand accounts of the residents who lived through it.

The Black Book

The Marshalltown Series · Book 1 · 2020

The Black Book

Ever read a book that sucks you in?

A cursed book straight out of Lovecraft, holding thirteen stories of the strange and unusual: innocent objects that make people vanish, the dark web, the woods at night, the hazards of dating. The anthology that launched the feature film and comic series, with stories by Topher Chambers, Joe Herbert, Angelica R. Hill, Stuart Wahlin and more.

Full Filmography

18 titles
  1. 2026 Rowe's Realm of Horror Feature · Rutledge Productions Actor: Jerk Passenger · Director · Writer · Producer
  2. 2025 The Signal Short · Rutledge Productions Story
  3. 2024 Night Talkers Feature · Rutledge Productions Actor: Uber Driver (Land Grab) · Director · Writer · Producer · Editor
  4. 2021 The Black Book Feature · Rutledge Productions Actor: Helpful Moving Man · Producer · Editor · Writer (segments: Wrapper, The Woods, Date Night) · Cinematographer (segment: The Woods) · Director (segments: Wrapper, The Woods, Giving Up the Ghost) · Assistant Director (segment: Date Night) · Grip (segment: Ocularis) · Location Manager (segment: Ocularis)
  5. 2020 Game of Chance Short · Rutledge Productions Writer (Screenplay & Story)
  6. 2019 Search for Justice Short Director · Writer · Executive Producer · Editor · Cinematographer · Actor: Arnold Banks
  7. 2019 The Tube Feature · Rutledge Productions Director · Writer · Editor · Cinematographer
  8. 2017 And Justice for All: Indiana's Federal Courts TV Actor: Former IPS Supt. George Ostheimer
  9. 2017 Homecoming Short · First Assistant Director · Production Manager
  10. 2016 Richard Watson Files Short Director · Producer · Executive Producer
  11. 2016 The Rowboat Props
  12. 2015 Finders Keepers Short Producer · Assistant Director
  13. 2015 Flicker Short Director · Writer · Producer · Executive Producer
  14. 2015 Withdrawn Short · Rutledge Productions Production Assistant
  15. 2014 Old Dogs Never Die Short · Rutledge Productions Grip
  16. 2014 The Death Chair Short Director · Writer · Producer · Executive Producer
  17. 2013 Work Days: The Delivery Short Director · Producer · Actor
  18. 2012 Country Road Short Co-Writer (as Chris Chambers) · Producer (as Chris Chambers) · Executive Producer · Makeup Artist · Special Makeup Effects Artist (as Chris Chambers) · Production Manager (as Chris Chambers) · Location Manager (as Chris Chambers) · Production Assistant (as Chris Chambers) · Script Supervisor (as Chris Chambers)

Interviews & Appearances

  1. 2024 IN the Loop TV Show TV Self - Guest, 1 episode
  2. 2022 Talking Music and Entertainment with Dove and Dragon Podcast Self, 1 episode
Topher Chambers

About

Topher Chambers is an author and filmmaker from Alexandria, Indiana, and the creator of Marshalltown, a fictional Indiana town where the history is thick with hauntings, disappearances and high strangeness. His books include The Marshalltown Series (The Black Book, Letters from Marshalltown and Rowe's Realm of Horror), The Shrouded Realms anthologies of cosmic horror, and the Southern Gothic thriller Beneath the Bayou Moon.

As founder of Rutledge Productions, he has written and directed features including The Black Book, Night Talkers (starring Bill Moseley and available on Tubi and Prime Video) and Rowe's Realm of Horror, a 2026 nominee at the Cinema Scares Film Festival. He also produces under Dog Dayz Studios, and brings Marshalltown to audio through the podcast Marshalltown After Midnight.

With a background in psychology and anthropology, he looks at the world a little differently than most people, and he writes horror that follows you home.