Short Stories – Print Category
New Story Out—”Naomi Ascends” in Neutral Milk Hotel anthology, And One Day We Will Die
Posted on January 14, 2025 Leave a Comment
It’s release day for this amazing Neutral Milk Hotel-inspired anthology. My story, “Naomi Ascends” is in here—a puritanical witch story with a twist ending. Pick up your copy today. Congratulations, Patrick Barb! https://patrickbarb.com/and-one-day-we-will-die-order Featuring fiction by: Lillah LawsonHelen Victoria MurrayM. Lopes da SilvaCamila HamelBriar Ripley PageJoe KochTiffany MorrisD. Matthew UrbanChristi NogleTim MajorDan CoxonMatthew KresselLindz McLeodErin […]
New Story Out in The Off-Season
Posted on October 29, 2024 Leave a Comment
Today, The Off-Season is out. It contains my 2,001-word, one sentence story, “Sunk.” A great TOC. Pick up your copy today. Thank you, Marissa van Uden and Dark Matter. Pick up your copy today.
Summation Mention in Best Horror
Posted on February 2, 2024 Leave a Comment
Finally got my copy of BEST HORROR last week, and it’s always nice to see my name in Ellen Datlow’s Summation. I had one original story out in 2022, and that was “Peripheral Vision,” in Doug Murano’s excellent anthology, The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors. (Bad Hand Books) Always nice to be in such great […]
Christmas Horror, Volume Three, Cover Reveal
Posted on April 22, 2020 Leave a Comment
Check out this awesome cover reveal for Christmas Horror, Volume 3 (Dark Regions Press) out later this year. I’ll have a reprint in here, my story, “Chrysalis.” Love the art, by Zach McCain. Very cool. Here is what Chris Morey had to say about the project on his Facebook post: We are excited to reveal […]
Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven. I’m IN IT!
Posted on September 3, 2019 2 Comments
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 […]
The Seven Deadliest RELEASES TODAY!
Posted on May 7, 2019 Leave a Comment
Out today! Pick up your copy now. Reviews have been great. And I think my novelette, “Ring of Fire” is one of the best stories I’ve ever written. Edited by Patrick Beltran and D. Alexander Ward, with an introduction by Mercedes M. Yardley. Throughout history, there have been certain moral evils so entangling, so alluring, […]
Cover Reveal for The Seven Deadliest Anthology
Posted on March 27, 2019 Leave a Comment
Here is the cover reveal for The Seven Deadliest, edited by Patrick Beltran and D. Alexander Ward, for Cutting Block Books. It features seven novelettes from an amazing group of authors—John F.D. Taff, Bracken MacLeod, Rena Mason, Brian Kirk, Kasey Lansdale, John Foster, and myself. Yes, of course I GOT LUST! It’s titled “Ring of […]
I’m in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven!
Posted on February 20, 2019 8 Comments
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 […]
Lost Highways Anthology is Now Out! With My Story, “Requital.”
Posted on July 22, 2018 Leave a Comment
Brand new anthology out today! Very excited to be a part of this book, so many talented authors and friends in here. My story, “Requital” is inspired by the David Lynch film, Lost Highway, and it also (hopefully) taps into the idea of justice, karma, death, and purgatory. Hope you enjoy my work, and the […]
PRISMS Table of Contents Announced, at PS Publishing, with My Story “Saudade.”
Posted on April 23, 2018 4 Comments
Thrilled to be a part of this excellent anthology. Announcement today from Michael Bailey: I am proud to announce the official line-up for PRISMS, the next dark science-fiction anthology co-edited by Darren Speegle and yours truly, to be released by PS Publishing. WE COME IN THREES – B.E. Scully ENCORE FOR AN EMPTY SKY – […]
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