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Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven. I’m IN IT!

The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven, edited by Ellen Datlow, is out today. LOVE that cover art. It includes work by Laird Barron, Joe Hill, John Langan, and Gemma Files, among others, as well as “Golden Sun,” a novelette I co-wrote with Kristi DeMeester, Michael Wehunt, and Damien Angelica Walters. Pick up your […]

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I’m in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven!

So, wow, this is a dream come true. For the past eleven years, one of my white whales, those elusive goals, has been to make it into The Best Horror of the Year, and it’s finally happened. (I’ve been long-listed seven times.) I’ll be in Volume Eleven, out in September of this year. It’s for […]

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Gamut Magazine has EIGHTEEN stories and poems on the Best Horror of the Year Honorable Mention List!

Thrilled to announce that EIGHTEEN Gamut stories and poems made the honorable mentions list for Best Horror of the Year 9, edited by Ellen Datlow. Here is the list: Clark, Chloe N. “Like the Desert Dark,” Gamut #5. Coney, S. L. “Prey,” Gamut 10. Haskins, Maria “Metal, Sex, Monsters,” Gamut #5. Jones, Holly Goddard “Parts,” […]

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Best Horror of the Year 9 Honorable Mentions List. I MADE IT!

Thrilled that my story, “Nodus Tollens” made Ellen Datlow’s Honorable Mentions list for Best Horror of the Year 2017. Congratulations to everyone else that made it, too—so many friends. Very cool.

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BEHOLD!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders wins Bram Stoker Award!

So excited to announce that BEHOLD!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders (Crystal Lake Publishing) has won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology. Doug Murano was an excellent editor, always a pleasure to work with him. My story “Hiraeth” was really out there, and Doug worked with me on it, and even accepted the EDGIER version, […]

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