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Bibliography

  • “The Scare Groom,” short story reprint, Best Horror of the Year Vol. 16, edited by Ellen Datlow, Skyhorse Publishing, November 2024

  • “Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Maxwell I. Gold on Dante Alighieri,” interview feature, Shortwave Magazine, November 2024

  • “The Nature Lady and Those Weird Little Guys,” short story, Maudlin House, October 2024

  • “Gone to Texas: 50 Years of Chainsaw Massacre,” non-fiction essay, Interstellar Flight Magazine, October 2024

  • “Go West, Young Ma’am: Mia Goth’s Manifesting Destiny in the X Trilogy,” non-fiction essay/review, Interstellar Flight Magazine, October 2024

  • “Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Nat Cassidy on William Shakespeare,” interview feature, Shortwave Magazine, October 2024

  • “Don’t Go in the Woods…or Do, See If I Care!” short-story reprint, Illustrated Worlds Magazine, Autumn Issue, October 2024

  • “Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: L. Marie Wood on Ira Levin,” interview feature, Shortwave Magazine, September 2024

  • The Great Angel Deluge and How It (Nearly) Ruined My Special Day, novelette reprint, Farthest Star Publishing, September 2024

  • “Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Stephen Graham Jones on Philip K. Dick,” interview feature, Shortwave Magazine, August 2024

  • “Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Paula D. Ashe on Clive Barker,” interview feature, Shortwave Magazine, July 2024

  • “Ant!” short story, Readings from Cursed Room 301, Mad Axe Media, July 2024

  • The Children’s Horror: Cursed Episodes for Doomed Adults, short-story collection, Northern Republic Press, July 2024

    • Forewarning by Clay McLeod Chapman

    • “The Children’s Horror,” short story

    • “The Final Choice of Peter Chu,” short story

    • “The Dogcatcher,” short story

    • “Two Rare Specimens,” short story

    • “Your Selkie Lover,” short story

    • “The Middle Sister’s New Situation,” short story

    • “The Big Good Boy,” novelette

  • “Rat Suit King,” short story, Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Vol. 2 Issue 2, July 2024

  • “Don’t Go in the Woods…or Do, See If I Care!” short story reprint, Tales to Terrify, June 2024

  • “Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Gwendolyn Kiste on Shirley Jackson,” interview feature, Shortwave Magazine, June 2024

  • “Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Brian Evenson on Franz Kafka,” interview feature, Shortwave Magazine, June 2024

  • “Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Ai Jiang on Toni Morrison,” interview feature, Shortwave Magazine, May 2024

  • “The Black Hole Over Bartholomew’s Head”,” short story, The Writer’s Retreat, January Ember Press, May 2024

  • “And Contributions from Viewers Like You,” short story, Shortwave Magazine, April 2024

  • “The Mommy, The Daddy, The Brother, and The Me Outside My House,” Broken Olive Branches, February 2024

2023 Publications

  • “…” Dead Letters, Crystal Lake Publishing, December 2023

  • “Don’t Log-Off, It’s Only the End of the World,” flash fiction, Pyre Magazine, Fall/Winter Issue, November 2023

  • “Skin-a-Max,” short story, Cult Horrotica Magazine, October 2023

  • “The Witch of the A&P,” short non-fiction, Interstellar Flight Magazine, October 2023

  • “The Dream Weavers,” short story, The Nightmare Never Ends, Exploding Head Fiction, October 2023

  • “The Mash-Up Mythos: A Parent’s Guide to the Monsters Your Kids Are Obsessed With,” short non-fiction, Interstellar Flight Magazine, October 2023

  • “The Scare Groom,” short story,” Come October, Chthonic Matter Press, October 2023 [Selected for Best Horror of the Year Volume 16, edited by Ellen Datlow]

  • Pre-Approved for Haunting and Other Stories, short-story collection, Keylight Books/Turner Publishing, September 2023

    • Foreword by Richard Thomas

    • “Rose from the Ashes,” flash fiction

    • “Putting Down Roots,” short story

    • “Iggy Crane and the Headless Horse Girl,” short story

    • “Shattered,” short story

    • “The Giallo Kid in the Cataclysm’s Campgrounds,” short story

  • “Red Rovers,” short story, The Darkness Beyond the Stars, Salt Heart Press, August 2023

  • “So Quiet, So White,” novelette, Split Scream Vol. 3 (with J.A.W. McCarthy), Dread Stone Press, July 2023

  • Haunting Lessons, chapbook, Shortwave Publishing, July 2023

  • “Head Games,” short story, Two-Thousand Word Terrors, Rooster Republic Press, June 2023

  • “The Wolf in the Witch’s House,” short story, Chthonic Matter Magazine Vol. 1 Issue 2, June 2023

  • “All the Other Toys Faced the Walls,” Cellar Door: Forbidden Magic, Dark Peninsula Press, April 2023

  • “Under the Mountain Their Coven Grows,” short story, The Crow’s Quill Magazine, March 2023

  • “Slip into My Fur,” short story, PULP Literature Issue 37 Winter 2023 , March 2023

  • “The Other David,” short story, Cosmic Horror Monthly, February 2023

  • “The Treasure Map Inside Your Face is Covered in Bees,” short story, The Old Ways Vol. 1, Eerie River Publishing, February 2023

  • “The End of the Horror Story,” short story/novelette, AHH! That’s What I Call Horror, PIT, January 2023

2022 Publications

  • The Nut House, serialized novella, Cosmic Horror Monthly, July–December 2022

  • “The Shark in Her Belly,” short story, Dark Recesses Webzine, December 2022

  • Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare, novelette, Spooky House Press, November 2022

  • “Unraveling,” flash fiction, Tales from Between: Words and Pictures, Tales from Between, November 2022

  • “Her Sisters, The Stars,” short story, Nightmare Sky, Death Knell Press, November 2022

  • “The Dark Fantasies of Suspiria and The Beyond,” short non-fiction, Interstellar Flight Magazine, October 2022

  • “Have You Seen My Missing Pet?” short story, Nobody Reads Short Stories, October 2022

  • “Don’t Go in the Woods…or Do, See If I Care!” short story, It Was All a Dream, Hungry Shadows Press, October 2022

  • Turn, novella, Alien Buddha Press, October 2022

  • “Help, Satan!” short story, Tales to Terrify, October 2022

  • Gargantuana’s Ghost, novella, Emergent Expressions Signature Series, Grey Matter Press, October 2022

  • “Who Are You Supposed to Be?” flash fiction, Campfire Macabre II, Cemetery Gates Media, October 2022

  • “Haunting Lessons,” flash fiction, The Arcanist, Runner-up, Rest in Peace Contest, October 2022

  • “Dream, Girl,” short story, Cosmic Horror Monthly, October 2022

  • “It Goes Without Saying,” short story, Nightscript Vol. 8, October 2022

  • “Lakeside Ceremonials,” short story, Tales from Between Issue 1, August 2022

  • “Regarding the Influx of Skeletons Crawling Out from the Soil in Our Community Garden,” flash fiction, On Spec, July 2022

  • “Black Out,” short story reprint, Tales to Terrify, July 2022

  • “The King of the Beach,” short story, Amazing Offer!, Brigids Gate Press, June 2022

  • “Post-Apocalyptic Saturday,” drabble, Drabbledark II, edited by Eric Fomley, Shacklebound Books, June 2022

  • “The King of Youth vs. The Knight of Death,” short story, Howls from the Dark Ages, HOWL Society Press, May 2022

  • “Behold! The God at the Top of the Hill,” short story, Let the Weirdness In: A Tribute to Kate Bush, Heads Dance Press, May 2022

  • “Vegetable Mommy,” flash fiction, “Diabolical Pots” issue, Diabolical Plots, May 2022

  • “Hook-Hand Man’s Last Night on Lovers’ Lane,” short story reprint, Tales from Between, March 2022

  • “The Sudden Discovery of Your Near Invincibility While Falling from an Exploded Plane,” flash fiction, 206 Word Stories, Bag of Bones Press, March 2022

  • “When I’m #64,” short story reprint, The Dread Machine, February 2022

  • “The Pig-Men’s Mud Motel,” short story, ANTIFA SPLATTERPUNK, Cursed Morsels Press, January 2022

2021 Publications

  • “Woof,” short story, Humans are the Problem, Weird Little Worlds, November 2021

  • “The Three Tails of the Poisoned Dart,” short story, The Dire Circle, D&T Publishing, October 2021

  • “The Decimations of Corn-Silk Sally,” flash fiction, Dose of Dread, Dread Stone Press, October 2021

  • “There is No Bunk #7,” flash fiction reprint, Tales from Between, October 2021

  • “Return to Voodoo Village,” short story, Diabolica Americana, October 2021

  • “The Great Angel Deluge and How It (Nearly) Ruined My Special Day,” novelette, Tales to Terrify podcast, October 2021

  • “My Dad the Monster King,” short story, Boneyard Soup Magazine, October 2021

  • “The Mermaids of the Seaside Second-Run Cinema,” flash fiction, Merfolk, Iron Faerie Publishing, October 2021

  • “The Other Half of the Battle,” short story, Tales to Terrify podcast, September 2021

  • “A Rock ‘n’ Roll Elder God’s Big Comeback Show,” drabble, Rock Band: Hundred Word Horror, Ghost Orchid Press, August 2021

  • “Pre-Approved for Haunting,” short story, Boneyard Soup Magazine, July 2021

  • “Deep in the Pit of His Stomach,” drabble, The Deep: Hundred Word Horror, Ghost Orchid Press, July 2021

  • “LIVE NUDE DEATH,” flash fiction reprint, MetaStellar, July 2021

  • “Casual,” short story, Not One of Us #67, July 2021

  • “The Crack in the Ceiling,” flash fiction, Dose of Dread, Dread Stone Press, June 2021

  • “Reaching for the Stars,” drabble, Cosmos: Hundred Word Horror, Ghost Orchid Press, May 2021

  • “The Farm,” short story, Sci-Fi and Scary, May 2021

  • “There is No Bunk #7,” flash fiction, Shallow Waters Vol. 7, edited by Monique Snyman, Crystal Lake Publishing, April 2021

  • “A Portrait of the Artist as an Angry God (in Landscape)”,” short story, Boneyard Soup Magazine, April 2021

  • “Melvin and the Murder Crayon,” flash fiction, Pulp Modern Flash, April 2021

  • “Black Out,” short story, Twisted Anatomy, Sci-Fi & Scary, February 2021

  • “The Four-Armed Man Kept Under the Steps,” drabble, Home: Hundred Word Horror, Ghost Orchid Press, February 2021

  • “I Will Not Read Your Haunted Script,” short story, Divination Hollow Reviews, 2nd Place “Horror in Hollywood” Contest, January 2021

  • “A Few Cold Tall Ones,” short story, Shiver: A Chilling Horror Anthology, edited and published by Nico Bell, January 2021

2020 Publications

  • “Over the Hills of Snow,” flash fiction, Santa Claws is Coming to Deathlehem, Grinning Skull Press, December 2020

  • “Lost Boy Found in His Bear Suit,” flash fiction, Pyre Magazine, December 2020

  • “Son of the Hook,” short story, Hookman and Friends, edited by Zach Friday, DBND Publishing, August 2020

2019 Publications

  • “Hook-Hand Man’s Last Night on Lovers’ Lane,” flash fiction, Shallow Waters Vol. 4, edited by Joe Mynhardt, Crystal Lake Publishing, December 2019

  • “When I’m #64,” short story, Across the Universe: Tales of Alternative Beatles, edited by Michael A. Ventrella and Randee Dawn, Fantastic Books, December 2019

  • “Clown Car,” comic short, with Ross Radke and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, October 2019

  • “And Our Next Guest…,” short story, Deep Fried Horror ezine, August 2019

  • “She Doesn’t Get Too Many Visitors These Days,” micro-fiction, Nothing’s Sacred Vol. 5, 2019

  • “LIVE NUDE DEATH,” flash fiction, Factor Four Magazine Issue 5, April 2019

2018 & Earlier Publications

  • Most Likely To, comic one-shot, with Mike Short, Mark Dale, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, self-published via Comixology, July 2018

  • “Devilociraptor,” with Scott Sackett and Wes Locher, comic short, The Gathering: Horror Vol. 4, GrayHaven Comics, October 2014

  • “Cal,” with Mike Short and Christy Sawyer, comic short, self-published digitally, October 2014

  • “The Farm,” with J. Travis Smith and Christy Sawyer, comic short, self-published digitally, October 2014

  • “Todd Vigilante,” with Claire Connelly, comic short, self-published digitally, August 2014

  • “The Magic Man Returns,” with Jason Copland and Shawn Aldridge, comic short, self-published digitally, June 2014

  • “The Monster Club,” with Josh Skeel and Christy Sawyer, comic short, self-published digitally, June 2014, remastered July 2019

  • “The Moonshine,” with Justin Fox, comic short, self-published digitally, June 2014

  • “Final Exam Day at Evil Clown College,” short story, Spinetinglers, January 2013

  • “Giant Radioactive Ant…in Love (Excerpt),” humor, Yankee Pot Roast, May 2010

  • “So You Want to Hunt and Kill a Care Bear,” with Julia McCloy, humor, Yankee Pot Roast, April 2009

  • “Instructions on Nana,” with Julia McCloy, short story, Monkeybicycle, March 2009

  • “Economic Crisis Hits the Street—Sesame Street,” with Julia McCloy, humor, Yankee Pot Roast, October 2008

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