We’re finishing up September with two all-new stories in two fantastic anthologies!

First is “The Hollow Ones Weep Greasepaint.” I was immediately drawn to Fear of Clowns by its mission statement of not wanting stories about people dressing as clowns for a killing spree. Mine is a dour story about family trauma and isolation in a world where showing sympathy for clowns can lead to a terrible fate.

Next is The Darkest Night, an anthology of winter horror. It includes my grief horror tale “The Vermin Moon,” which is kind of like Willard meets Laurel Hightower’s Crossroads along with something else I won’t spoil.

Both these books are stuffed with talented authors and incredible stories.

I should have at least one more short story coming out this year in Old Moon Quarterly, so I’ll be sure to share about that once issue 7 is released. And we’re less than 3 weeks until the release of my vampire novel All the Hearts You Eat.

My first short story of the year is out!

It actually came out last week, but for various reasons I haven’t been able to update about it until now. “Modern Art Curse, Mixed Media” appears in the new anthology Scissor Sisters, a book of villainous sapphic stories, a theme both salacious and delightful. My story tells of a murder, an unfinished painting, and the answer that lies within the art.

Check it out!

December surprise time: I have one more short story out this year! I truly thought everything was finished with last month’s tale, but Back 2 OmniPark is out this weekend.

Follow-up to the Bram Stoker Award-nominated original anthology, Back 2 OmniPark gathers stories of OmniPark’s origins, from its construction to how its strange sections came to be.

My story “One Is the Only Number” opens on the construction site, where a worker is digging a hole only to find another man looking up from inside. He says they’re building a park on his side, too. Wouldn’t you like to see it?

That should certainly do it for short stories this year. It’s been a wild one. Eager to share what’s coming in 2024!

I have two more stories out this lovely Halloween season!

The first is “Midnight Bang,” which shows up in Literally Dead: Tales of Holiday Hauntings, which explores stories taking place throughout the winter holidays. My story picks up on New Year’s Eve, when a drug trip at a nightclub turns sour at the haunting of a girl who died one year before.

Second, Cullen Bunn’s new anthology Swords in the Shadows offers a battlecry of sword-and-sorcery horror, the perfect place to unleash a new story from the world of No Gods for Drowning. “Wolfen Divine” takes place during the Holy War and tells of Mero, a half-wolf, half-god, who pretends he’s a war refugee, but in secret, he has a blood promise to keep.

I think I have one new story left this year, but for all I know I’ve forgotten something. Keep an eye out. Next week, Even the Worm Will Turn releases in audiobook!