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“What the Girls Are Doing” in The Ghastling; audio book announcement

The Ghastling #11 has released with a bang! Fully illustrated, beautiful artwork surrounds each story, one of them being “What the Girls Are Doing.” Some moms can be smothering, even beyond the grave

Check it out in The Ghastling #11.

And …

Coming this summer to an audio book store near you: The Possession of Natalie Glasgow, narrated by the multi-talent Gemma Amor, beloved author, artist, and voice actor. I’ll post about it again closer to release, but late July looks likely, near the one-year anniversary of the paperback’s release. It’s going to be an exciting summer!

“Fitting Room for Two” in Not Just a Pretty Face

Posted on 2020-05-16 by Hailey Piper short story

It’s been a long time coming, but Not Just a Pretty Face is out today from Dead Light Publishing. All women, all horror.

My story “Fitting Room for Two” follows a strange discovery in a Manhattan clothing boutique in the 1930s. It was written around the time of An Invitation to Darkness, when I tried to match style to time period, so it may seem odd from my usual, but the horror is fresh meat.

“Jormungandr’s Dance” in The Arcanist

Posted on 2020-05-08 by Hailey Piper flash fiction short story

Flash fiction Friday!

Over at The Arcanist, “Jormungandr’s Dance” tells of a city under attack and a man eager to save his girlfriend, but … it’s complicated.

Read or listen to it over at The Arcanist!

“Feast for Small Pieces” in Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 5

Posted on 2020-05-01 by Hailey Piper flash fiction reprint short story

In a rare instance of punctuality this year, I’m posting about a release on release day. Can you imagine?

Today Red Room Press releases The Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 5: Going Global, a stunning anthology of 2019’s hardest hitting, most gruesome, and darkest horror short stories. My flash fiction “Feast for Small Pieces” is the first story you’ll see inside, followed by a host of wonderful horror.

This is the first time one of my works has been included in any Best of anthology, so it’s extra special to me for that. Available in ebook and paperback, with an audiobook on the way!

Also, the first Hailey’s Comments newsletter went out today. If you’re not already subscribed, change that for the better here.

“Without a Face” in Not All Monsters: Special Edition

Posted on 2020-04-21 by Hailey Piper short story

Time is so strange that months ahead of the standard edition, a special edition of Not All Monsters has released from Rooster Republic via Strangehouse Books!

Get the special illustrated edition in paperback or hardcover here!

My story of a school reunion gone wrong, “Without a Face,” joins stories by some of horror’s fiercest women writing today, an anthology of the monstrous feminine edited by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil’s Dreamland, Sara Tantlinger.

A standard, non-illustrated edition will release in October, but this version is out now.

“Endless Parade” in Flash Fiction Online; An Invitation to Darkness in paperback

Posted on 2020-04-04 by Hailey Piper flash fiction novelette short story

Welcome to April, our latest geological era of 2020, and I have a new story out! A flash fiction of post-apocalyptic folk horror, “Endless Parade,” is up on Flash Fiction Online.

In less new news, but still new-ish, my LGBT Gothic horror story An Invitation to Darkness, published as a standalone novelette in digital form by Demain Publishing in September 2019, is now in paperback! With the worldwide paper/publishing situation as it is, I’m not sure how availability will be, but it is there. It exists!

Paperback link

“All the Hated Creatures” in Dream of Shadows

Posted on 2020-03-15 by Hailey Piper flash fiction short story

I have a new horror flash fic over at Dream of Shadows. You can read “All the Hated Creatures” right now, and then imagine what it’s like to be loved by beautiful, prismatic Aartaan of the Nine Sky-Worms.

“Candyland” in Twisted Love

Posted on 2020-02-15 by Hailey Piper short story

Bronzeville Books has released a new anthology, Twisted Love, stuffed with tales of affection gone wrong. Plenty of fantastic authors on this TOC!

My story tackles glamor, ambition, and puts a critical eye to how adolescent girls are cast in ominous shadows. Check out “Candyland” in Twisted Love.

Also:

Small update, for those who want to support indie bookstores, here are links to my available novellas on Bookshop.org: The Possession of Natalie Glasgow and Benny Rose, the Cannibal King.

“Song of Silver, Tooth and Claw” in The J.J. Outre Review

Posted on 2020-02-03 by Hailey Piper flash fiction short story

Happy Women in Horror Month! There are loads of incredible women writing horror stories, so seek them out!

We’re three days in, and I have a new story out in The J.J. Outre Review, Volume 5, Issue 1. A folk horror flash fic, “Song of Silver, Tooth and Claw,” sees Svetlana flee from her father’s home and into the dark woods on a night like no other.

“Demons of Particular Taste” in The Arcanist

Posted on 2020-01-17 by Hailey Piper audio flash fiction short story

My first fiction of 2020 appears is a horror-comedy flash fic appearing today on The Arcanist! It’s a little saucy and a lot of love … and possession, too. They have it up on audio as well. Check it out!