Published Work

 

Collections  

 

Everywhere is a Horror Story (Grimscribe Press, forthcoming 2025)

 

La Desintegracion de lo Relativo (Dilatando Mentes Editorial, November 2024) (The Dissolution of Small Worlds Spanish translation)

Enternamente, en pedazos (Dilatando Mentes Editorial, June 2023) (Forever, in Pieces Spanish translation)

  

We are Happy, We are Doomed (Grimscribe Press, December 2021) Buy it here

 

 

The Dissolution of Small Worlds (Lethe Press, July 2018) Buy it here or here. 

Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications, December 2013) Buy it here.


Novellas

Burning Witches, Burning Angels (Dunhams Manor Press, August 2016) Buy it here.


Chapbooks

The Thirteen Ways We Turned Darryl Datson into a Monster (Dim Shores Publishing, February 2024) 

The Man in the High Chair and Other Tyrannies (Dim Shores Publishing, October 2020)

Problems in River Heights (Unnerving Press, June 2019)

Pwdre Ser (Dim Shores Publishing, February 2019)


Short stories

"The Tailors" in Nightmare (forthcoming 2025)

"The Book of Odexsys: Extant Fragments" in Cosmic Horror Monthly (forthcoming 2025)

"A Good Time, to Be Sure" in Weird Fiction Quarterly, Masks & Masquerades (November 2024)

"Consider the Jelly Doughnut" in Cursed Cooking (Cat Eye Press, October 2024)

"Greendam" in Strange Locations (Apex Book Company, September 2024)

 "Such a Beautiful Day" in Weird Fiction Quarterly, Trips & Travels (August 2024)

"Four Stars, Would Book Again" in Weird Fiction Quarterly, Folk Horror (June 2024)

"Hart" in The Pinworm Factory: A Tribute to David Lynch's Eraserhead (Plutonian Press, June 2023)

"Accidents, of a Sort" in Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories (Vermillion2One Press, October 2022)

"Radius Unknown" in Looming Low Volume 2 (Dim Shores Publishing, October 2022)

"Flushed" in 2022 NecronomiCon Providence Souvenir Book (August 2022)

"This Story Will Kill You" in Vastarien Vol. 4, Issue 2 (December 2021)

"Apocalypse, Ignored" in We are Happy, We are Doomed (Grimscribe Press, December 2021)

"To the Ravine" in We are Happy, We are Doomed (Grimscribe Press, December 2021)

"Preface to Mitchell D. Gatz's Revelation of the Unpetting Hand: The Apocalyptic Visions of Domesticated Canidae" in We are Happy, We are Doomed (Grimscribe Press, December 2021)

"The Richview Massacre" in We are Happy, We are Doomed (Grimscribe Press, December 2021)

"Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1" reprinted in Spanish translation in Supersonic (September 2021)

"Homeownership and You" in Vastarien Vol. 3, Issue 2 (Grimscribe Press, December 2020)

"Workday" on Pseudopod Podcast (December 2020)

"Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1" in Nightmare Issue 98 (November 2020)

"How the Next War Started, How the Next War will Never End" in The Man in the High Chair and Other Tyrannies (Dim Shores, 2020)

"A Brief Press Conference with the Chief of Police" in The Man in the High Chair and Other Tyrannies (Dim Shores 2020)

"The Senator's Modest Announcement" in The Man in the High Chair and Other Tyrannies (Dim Shores 2020)

"The State of the Union on the Last Day" in The Man in the High Chair and Other Tyrannies (Dim Shores 2020)

"The Man in the High Chair" reprinted in The Man in the High Chair and Other Tyrannies (Dim Shores 2020)

 "The Gods in Their Seats, Unblinking" reprinted in Polish translation in Sny umarlych: Polski rocznik weird fiction 2020 (Wydawnictwo Phantom Books, June 2020)

"Workday" in Shadows & Tall Trees Vol. 8 (Undertow Publications, March 2020)

"A Children's Tour of the Facilities" in Horror for RAICES (Nightscape Press, January 2020)

"Parturition" in Weird Whispers (Nightscape Press, January 2020)

"The Myth of You" reprinted in Nightmare Issue 87 (December 2019)

"Merge Now" in Nox Pareidolia (Nightscape Press, November 2019)

"The Bleeding Maze" in Nightmare Issue 83 (August 2019)

"Shale Creek" in 2019 NecronomiCon Providence Souvenir Book (August 2019)

"Dermatology, Eschatology" in Pluto in Furs (Plutonian Press, July 2019)

"The Convexity of Our Youth" reprinted in Italian translation in Edizioni Hypnos Numero 9 (July 2019)

"The Convexity of Our Youth" reprinted in Lightspeed Issue 108 (May 2019)

"A Plague of the Most Beautiful Finery" in 32 White Horses on a Vermilion Hill, Vol. 2 (Planet X Publications, December 2018) 

"The Rules and Regulations of White Pines, Vermont" in Vastarien Vol. 1, Issue 3 (Grimscribe Press, November 2018)

"Extinction in Green" in Test Patterns Vol. 2 (Planet X Publications, October 2018)

"The Convexity of Our Youth" reprinted in Year's Best Weird Fiction Vol. 5 (Undertow Publications, October 2018)

"The Final Correspondence of Sabrina Locker" in The Dissolution of Small Worlds (Lethe Press, July 2018)

"The Myth of You" in The Dissolution of Small Worlds (Lethe Press, July 2018)

"The Carolers" in The Dissolution of Small Worlds (Lethe Press, July 2018)

"The Gods in Their Seats, Unblinking" in Vastarien Vol. 1, Issue 1 (Grimscribe Press, April 2018)

"The Convexity of Our Youth" in Looming Low (Dim Shores Publishing, September 2017)

"The Man in the High Chair" in Resist and Refuse #1 (September 2017)

"Opus Manuum Artificis" in Xnoybis #0 (June 2017)

"Marrowvale" reprinted in Best New Horror #27 (PS Publishing, January 2017)

"The White Factory" in Turn to Ash Vol. 2 - Open Lines (January 2017)

"Etch the Unthinkable" in Gamut Issue 1 (January 2017)

"Special Collections" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Nov./Dec. 2016

"A Silence of Starlings" in Nightscript 2 (Cthonic Matter Press, October 2016) Buy it here or here.

"All That is Thrown Away" in Strange Aeons #20 (October 2016) Buy it here.

"The Cone of Heaven" in the Lovecraft eZine #37 (Summer 2016) Read it here.

"Etymology of the Adjective 'Divine'" in Xnoybis #2 (Dunham's Manor Press, December 2015) Buy it here.

"Marrowvale" in The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Volume 2 (Spectral Press, October 2015) Buy it here.

"The Kindness of Surrender" in Midian Unmade (Tor, July 2015) Buy it here.

"From the Ground, the Souls Burnt Clean" in Visiak's Mirror (May 2015) Read it here.

"An Interview with Samuel X. Slayden" in Enter at Your Own Risk: Dreamscapes into Darkness (Firbolg Publishing, April 2015) Buy it here.

"The Waves from Afar" in Weird Tales #362 (Summer 2014)

"Every Weeknight at Seven and Seven-thirty" in Desolation: 21 Tales for Tails (Dragon's Roost Press, April 2014) Buy it here.

"Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot" Reprint. Morpheus Tales: The Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4 (2014) Buy it here.

"Rub-a-Dub-Dub" in Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications, December 2013)

"With a Ribbon on Top" in Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications, December 2013)

"The Binary Must Prevail: A Brief History" in Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications, December 2013)

"A Nuzzle, Inverted" in Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications, December 2013)

"Four is Enough" in Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications, December 2013)

"Critical Theory" in Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications, December 2013)

"Prologue to a Phantasmagorical Tragedy" in Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications, December 2013)

"Ensoulment" in Into the Darkness (Necro Publications, November 2012) Buy it here.

"The Bottom Line" in Fortune: Lost and Found (Omnium Gatherum Books, September 2012)
Buy it here.

"Proposal" in 100 Horrors (Cruentus Libri, February 2012) Buy it here.

"Brief Repose Moments Before a Gruesome and Certain Death" in Daily Frights 2012 (Pill Hill Press, December 2011) Buy it here.

"Lessons" in Daily Frights 2012 (Pill Hill Press, December 2011) Buy it here.

"Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot" in Morpheus Tales #12 (March 2011) Buy it here and preview it here.

"In Full Bloom" in Seasons in the Abyss (Blood Bound Books, February 2011) Buy it here or here.

"For the Unhaunted" on NPR.org as a finalist for a Three-Minute Fiction contest (October 2010)
Read it here

"Bolt" in Zombie Nation: St. Petersburg (Zombie Nation Publishing, October 2010)

"Complete Me" in Dark Things: A Horror Anthology (Pill Hill Press, September 2010)

"Birth Day" in Encounters #2 (Black Matrix Pub., April 2010)


Critical work

"Why Weird, Why Now?: On the Rationale for Weird Fiction's Resurgence" (Thinking Horror Issue 1, October 2015) Buy it here.

"The 'Whirling Darkness' of Now: Unconventional Apocalypse in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony" (LiNQ Special Issue: Apocalypses, 2015)

"The Utopia of Sameness: Erasure of Hierarchy in the Work of Toni Morrison" (Diesis 2.2, 2012)

"Massacres of Meaning: The Semiotic Value of Silence and Scream in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Halloween" (Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies 10, October 2011)  read it here

"We All Go a Little Nerdy Sometimes: On the History and Popularity of Comi-Cons" in Cult Pop Culture Vol. 3  (Praeger 2011)

"Psychic Fiends and Little Girls: Nabokov's Lolita as Vampire Tale" (Notes & Queries, Oxford U.P. March 2011)  read it here

"Present-ly Safe: The Anthropocentricism of Time in H.P. Lovecraft's Fiction" (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 20.2, 2009)


Awards

Shirley Jackson Award nominee, fiction collection - We are Happy, We are Doomed (2021)

Bram Stoker Award nominee, short fiction - "Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1" (2020)

Shirley Jackson Award nominee, novelette - Pwdre Ser (2019)

Shirley Jackson Award winner, short story - "The Convexity of Our Youth" (2017)