I’ve had some fine people accept my twisted fiction this year.

Back in the Spring, writer and editor L Andrew Cooper accepted The Imposter Syndrome for Horrific Scribblings, his online archive of the provocative, scary, and the strange. The story features an artist, an unwanted visitor or two, and a chance of winning.

The tagline: “It’s about living with yourself afterwards, isn’t it?”

Read the story here.

The archive has grown considerably since March, and if transgressive dark fiction is your thing it may pay to linger there and explore the other stories.

Cooper also chose to include The Imposter Syndrome in the anthology Invasions of World, Home, Body, and Mind which was published this month and is available in various places.

About the book: “So many boundaries to violate. Invaders threaten us from above, below, within, and beyond. Not scared enough yet? This anthology offer[s] a wide array of perspectives on invasion, many of them unfamiliar. They stretch and cross the boundaries of horror, sci-fi, and other speculative fiction with dark edges.”

In October, editors Tricia Urlaub and Carlos R Savournin accepted When Darkness Falls for the online Halloween issue of Tales From the Moonlit Path. This quick, woe-ridden tale hopefully packs a punch. Read now.

This month Angelique Jordonna and Donna A Latham of Bludgeoned Girls Press included my festive jolly, Want, in their seasonal publication, Christmas House: an anthology of holiday horror. “The horror is gift-wrapped at the Christmas House!” Available here.

Before the year was out, I received news that I had made it onto a new anthology to be published by the mighty Undertaker Books. More about that next year.

What’s next? For the past twelve months, I’ve been busy with the initial stages of curating my second collection, and 2026 will see this book take shape. While Corpse Road Blues focussed on ghosts and on how grief haunts us, my next collection aims to go darker exploring the monstrous around us, and within.

See you on the other side.