The Woodwose and His May Queen (first published in Terror Tract) has now been included alongside Magic in Book 23 of Demain’s Short Sharp Shocks! series. That’s double the horror! … Continue reading Magic now has bonus material!

The Woodwose and His May Queen (first published in Terror Tract) has now been included alongside Magic in Book 23 of Demain’s Short Sharp Shocks! series. That’s double the horror! … Continue reading Magic now has bonus material!
Books
Magic (pub. by Demain Publishing 2022). Chapbook featuring two folk horror stories: Magic (first pub. Demain Publishing 2019), and The Woodwose and his May Queen (first pub. Terror Tract 2020).
Magazines and Online Journals
The Memory of Hannah Babinski – Coffin Bell: Journal of Dark Literature, Vol 5 Issue 1, (2022)
Wounds are Lips Waiting to be Kissed – Ghostlight, the Magazine of Terror, (2021)
The Woodwose and his May Queen – Terror Tract, (April 2020)
Jake – Horla Horror: home of intelligent horror, (2019)
Holding Hands – Mythic: a quarterly science fiction and fantasy magazine, Issue 3, (2017)
Anthologies
The Christmas Tree published in Kitchen Sink Gothic 2, ed: David & Linden Riley, pub: Parallel Universe Publications (2022)
Rewilding published in Call of the Wyld, ed: Mark Bilsborough, pub: Wyldblood Press (2021)
April Showers published in Aggregate: stories at the intersection between science fiction and horror, ed: Scott Grant, pub: Writerfield (2020)
The Red Spot Murders published in Ghosts, Spirits, Specters Vol 1, ed: Xtina Marie, pub: HellBound Books (2019)
Hypnos published in Monsters Among Us, ed: Claire Fitzpatrick, pub: Oscillate Wildly Press (2017)
The Banshee’s Gift published in Speculative Valentine Drabbles, ed: Roy C. Booth & Jorge Salgado-Reyes (2015) pub: Indie Author Press
Poseidon’s Standing Stones published in From the Corner of Your Eye, ed: David F. Kramer, pub: Great Old Ones Publishing (2015)
What You Wish For published in Trysts of Fate, ed: Lee Ann Story Sikora, pub Alban Lake (August 2015)
Pigeon published in Wrapped in Black: Thirteen Tales of Witches and the Occult, ed: Jennifer L. Greene, pub: Sehkmet Press (2014)
The Handwritten Journal published in The Serial Killers Quattuor, ed: James Ward Kirk, pub: JWK Fiction (2014)
Felicity Cinch published in The Rogues Gallery: The Illustrated Police News, ed: Alex Scully pub: Firbolg Publishing (2014)
Bruce, Wayne and Mike published in Changes, ed: Dorothy Davies, pub: Horrified Press (2014)
A Persuasive Argument… published in 22 More Quick Shivers ed: pub: Cosmonomic Multimedia (2014)
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