Dean Lappi
Award-Winning Author
Horror, Thrillers, Fantasy, Short Stories.
Dean Lappi is an award-winning author of five novels and a collection of short stories.
His latest novel is DEEPSTONE, the
IAN 2025 Book Of The Year Awards FINALIST.
DEEPSTONE is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Holiday Hodgepodge - Stories to make you laugh, cry, and cringe is a collection of holiday-inspired short stories that released on November 16, 2025.
Dean was born and raised in northern Minnesota. He specializes in creating stories with strong characters, action that immediately pulls you in, and a healthy dose of the eerie and ominous to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Dean enjoys engaging with readers and a lively community of horror lovers and literary aficionados. He attends conventions, book events, and craft shows where he sells autographed books and meets amazing people.
Check out Dean's books on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
Discover Dean Lappi's Books
DEEPSTONE - A SAFEWELL MISSION: Book One
Not even your worst nightmares can prepare you for the EVIL that rises from the darkness 4000 feet underground.
DEEPSTONE, the deepest underground iron ore mine in the United States, has been a popular tourist destination for decades.
Tour Guide John Lukkinen leads a small group down to Level 32 on the final tour of the day. But things do not go as planned when blasting from a new open-pit mine knocks the power out, trapping them thousands of feet beneath the surface.
And they are not alone.
A nearly indestructible creature from a world 46,000 feet below the mine hunts John and the tourists as they try to find their way through each dark and unused level.
Two well-equipped military teams are sent into the mine. One team is sent to kill everyone, the other to rescue them.
Can everyone escape the mine alive?
Read the horror thriller DEEPSTONE today!
HOLIDAY HODGEPODGE
Stories to make you laugh, cry, and cringe
Stories of the holidays have filled us all with wonder from a young age.
Santa, snow, and elves.
Monsters, kids in costumes, and trick-or-treaters.
Cheesy movies, chocolates, and beautiful romances.
These are what we think of with Christmas, Halloween, and Valentine’s Day.
These are not those stories.
Stories make up our lives, and like life, these stories will make you laugh, cry, and cringe.
Read Holiday Hodgepodge today!
BLACK NUMBERS
The Aleph Null Chronicles:
Book one
In a land where real magic is nothing but myth, Sid is something special, for his awakened sexuality and genius-level mastery of advanced mathematics combines to create a power beyond anything before seen in the world.
Sid must elude a dangerous and seductive creature called the Korpor who hunts him relentlessly for his power of numbers.
Sid’s journey propels him to the center of a 1000-year-struggle between the forces of good and evil, with an outcome obscured by the darkness known as Black Numbers.
Sid must learn to control the chaotic and darkly sexual powers growing within him before it is too late.
BLOOD NUMBERS
The Aleph Null Chronicles:
Book Two
Sid's power of Black Numbers have awakened, but he cannot yet manipulate those numbers. He journeys with his friends Crowdal, Melinda, Mrs. Wessmank, Maelon and Writhgarth to a faraway land that may hold the key to his powers.
Along the way he meets a powerful woman who awakens his first feelings of true love, but who may also be the one destined to destroy him.
BROKEN NUMBERS
The Aleph Null Chronicles:
Book Three
Trith, Circle, Zranh, Raith, Death
With those enigmatic words from the Black Manuscript, Sid begins his journey to the Trith Nation where he hopes to find clues to help him regain his power of Numbers.
He is joined by Crowdal, who agrees to take Sid and his friends back to his home, a place he does not want to go.
But to get there they must travel through the dangerous and unexplored lands of the north where there are things that are better left undisturbed.
BEYOND NUMBERS
The Aleph Null Chronicles:
Book Four
Beyond Numbers, the conclusion to the Aleph Null Chronicles.
Follow this final epic journey to the farthest reaches of the Land where strange, horror-filled, and wondrous things await.
