Complete List of Stories in Print

Here is a complete list of all of my stories that are in print, or digital-only format.
It’s in reverse chronological order. Enjoy!

UPDATED: December 19, 2024

And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel
“Naomi Ascends”
(PB Books)

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The Earth Bleeds at Night
“Supplication”
(Eerie River Publishing)

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The Off-Season
“Sunk”
(Dark Matter Ink)

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Lightspeed
“The Darkness Between the Stars”

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye
“Kuebiko”

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Qualia Nous 2
“Choose Your Own Demise”
with Repo Kempt
(Written Backwards)

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Deathrealm: Spirits
“Ripples in a Pond”
(Shortwave Publishing)

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Azathoth: Ordo ab Chao
“An Unusual Pedigree”
(Journalstone)

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The Fiends in the Furrows III: Final Harvest
“The Keeper of the Light”
(Nosetouch Books)

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Pulp Literature #38
“The Caged Bird Sings in a Darkness of Its Own Creation” (reprint)

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Cemetery Dance #78
“Battle Not With Monsters”

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Alternative Holidays
“Chrysalis” (reprint)
(B Cubed Press)

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Shallow Waters, Volume 9 (Halloween Edition)
“Shackled to the Shadows” (reprint)
(Crystal Lake Publishing)

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Nightmare
“The H Word: Pacing in Horror”
(non-fiction)

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Weird Horror Stories
“From Within” (reprint)
(Flame Tree Press)

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Spontaneous Human Combustion
BRAM STOKER FINALIST
(Turner Publishing / Keylight Books)

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The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors
“Peripheral Vision”
(Bad Hand Books)
WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY

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Liminal Spaces
“Rotten to the Core”
(Cemetery Gate Media)

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Prisms
“Saudade”
(PS Publishing)

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Nightside Codex
“In His House”
(Silent Motorist Media)

Christmas Horror, Volume Three
“Chrysalis” (reprint)
(Dark Regions Press)

XVIII: Stories of Mischief, Stories of Mayhem
“How Not to Come Undone” (reprint)
(Underland Press)

Cossmass Infinities
“Little Red Wagon” (reprint)

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Shallow Waters: A Flash Fiction Anthology
“Maker of Flight” (reprint)
(Crystal Lake Publishing)

The Seven Deadliest
“Ring of Fire” novelette
(Cutting Block Books)

The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven
“Golden Sun” novelette
with Kristi DeMeester, Damien Angelica Walters, and Michael Wehunt
(Prime Books)

Shallow Creek
“The Caged Bird Sings in a Darkness of Its Own Creation”
(STORGY)

Grease Paint and .45s
“Clown Face”
(Down and Out Books)

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Nightmare
“The H Word: How The Witch and Get Out Helped Usher in the New Wave of Elevated Horror”
(non-fiction)
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When the Clock Strikes 13
“Open Waters”
(In Your Face Books)

It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life
“The Many Faces of Horror: Craft Techniques” (non-fiction)
(Crystal Lake Publishing)

Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations
“Golden Sun” novelette
with Kristi DeMeester, Damien Angelica Walters, and Michael Wehunt
(Written Backwards)

Mythos Magazine
“White Picket Fences”

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Gorgon: Stories of Emergence
“Undone”
(Pantheon)

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Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road
“Requital”
(Crystal Lake Publishing)

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Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre
“Storytelling Techniques” (non-fiction)
(Crystal Lake Publishing)

Tales from the Shadow Booth: Volume 1
“White Picket Fences”

Deciduous Tales (Debut Issue)
“Nodus Tollens”

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Behold! Oddities Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders
“Hiraeth”
(Crystal Lake Publishing)
WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY

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The Soul Standard
Golden Geese
(novella)
(Dzanc Books)

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Blue Monday Review, Vol. 3, No. 2
“How Not to Come Undone”

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Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories
“Repent”
(Crystal Lake Publishing)

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Tribulations
(Crystal Lake Publishing / Cemetery Dance)

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Chiral Mad 3
“The Offering on the Hill”
(Written Backwards)

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Blue Monday Review, Vol. 2, No. 3
“Twenty Reasons to Stay and One to Leave”

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Gaia: Shadow & Breath Vol. 2
“Asking for Forgiveness”
(Pantheon)

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Slave Stories
“From Within”
(Omnium Gatherum)

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Cemetery Dance #72
“Chasing Ghosts”

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XIII: Stories of Transformation
“Chrysalis”
(Resurrection House)

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“Little Red Wagon”

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Truth or Dare?
“Shackled to the Shadows”
(Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)

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22 More Quick Shivers
“Homecoming”
(Daily Nightmare)

Dead Harvest
“Bringing in the Sheaves”
(Scarlett Galleon Publications)

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Qualia Nous
“The Jenny Store”
(Written Backwards)

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Pantheon Magazine
(Ares Issue)
“The God of War”


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Penumbra Magazine
(Pain Issue)
“Balance Sheet”

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Horror 101: This Way Forward
“The Journey of ‘Rudy Jenkins Buries His Fears” (non-fiction)
(Crystal Lake Publishing)

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Shadows Over Main Street
“White Picket Fences”
(Hazardous Press / Cutting Block Books)

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Gaia: Shadow and Breath
“Flowers for Jessica”
(Pantheon Magazine)

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Vignettes from the End of the World
“This is How It Ends, My Love”

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Pantheon Magazine
(Aphrodite Issue)
“Rapture”

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Trouble in the Heartland
“Because the Night”
(Gutter Books)

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Pantheon Magazine
(Dionysus Issue)
“Head Like a Hole”

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Chiral Mad 2
“Playing With Fire”
(Written Backwards)

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Fear the Reaper
“The Culling”
(Crystal Lake Publishing)

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The Best of the Horror Society 2013
“Victimized”

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Reloaded: Both Barrels, Volume 2
“Trinity”
(One Eye Press)

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Bleed
“Death Knell”
(Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)

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Cipher Sisters
“Dance, Darling”
(Thunderdome Press)

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Booked Anthology
“Surrender”
(Booked Podcast)

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Staring into the Abyss
(Kraken Press)


Daddy Cool
“Bloodline”
(Artistically Declined Press)

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Best of Surreal Grotesque
“Vision Quest”

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Midwestern Gothic
“Garage Sales”


Arcadia Magazine
“Chrysalis”

“Transmogrify”

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Sanitarium Magazine
“Bringing in the Sheaves”


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“Flowers for Jessica”

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Into the Darkness
“The Wastelands”
(Necro Publications)Darkness
Nova Parade
“On a Bent Nail Head”
(Solarcide)


NovaTerror Scribes
“Transmogrify”
(Dog Horn Publishing)

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One Buck Horror
“Wicker Park Pause”


OBHGargoyle Magazine
“Tinkering With the Moon”
(Paycock Press)

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Curbside Splendor – “Divining”


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“Rudy Jenkins Buries His Fears”
(Dark Moon Books)

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In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words
“The Jenny Store”
(Thunderdome Press)

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Dark Moon Digest Presents: Vampires!
“Transmogrify”
(Dark Moon Books)

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Warmed and Bound
“Say Yes to Pleasure”
(Velvet Press)

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Speedloader
“Herniated Roots”
(Snubnose Press)

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“Victimized”

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Shivers VI
“Stillness”
(Cemetery Dance)

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