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Publication Review 2025

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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.

Traps, Hauntings, Invasions, and Distortions

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The Imposter Syndrome has made it onto the first Exhibit over at the Horrific Scribes archive.

Scribes’ editor, Andrew L. Cooper, has “arranged this Exhibit into four Galleries that emphasize commonalities: Traps, Hauntings, Invasions, and Distortions”. My story is included in the Invasion category, and has received great praise on the website: “[The Imposter Syndrome features] doppelgängers of the creepiest kind, in the tradition of Poe’s “William Wilson” but with a twist all Nash’s own. This one really got to me.”

There are 16 dark stories in total, and all are available to read for FREE.

Best Horror of the Year

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I’ve just realised that I never posted this lovely news when it happened, so here it is better late than never.

My story, Saving the World, was included in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Recommendations vol. 16. The story was published in Horror Library vol. 8 by Dark Moon Books, edited by Eric J. Guignard. Including my story, Horror Library 8 picked up a whopping ten mentions on Elen Datlow’s list.

Saving the World in Horror Library, Volume 8

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Saving the World started off about a man who digs holes to relieve stress. It became so much more. The initial idea came to me a few years back, after a chat with my builder. He said that whenever he had a problem, or life got a little too much, he’d pop out to his back garden with a spade and dig and dig and dig. His yard ended up a treacherous place!

I was reminded of this again last night, when watching a German TV series called Schlafende Hunde (Sleeping Dog). The main character was supposed to be preparing soil to plant tomatoes, but he was also working out a specific problem in his head. He found the answers he wanted after he had dug a six-foot hole.

Saving the World has become a story about a family who feeds their captive devil the sorrows of neighbours, and I’m honoured that editor, Eric J. Guignard, has included it in volume 8 of his series, the Horror Library. This volume is packed with a wealth of fantastic stories from talented authors.

Here’s a little more about the book published by Dark Moon Books:

Since 2006, the +Horror Library+ series of anthologies has been internationally praised as a groundbreaking source of contemporary horror short fiction stories—relevant to the moment and stunning in impact—from leading authors of the macabre and darkly imaginative.
 
Filled with Fears and Fantasy. Death and Dark Dreams. Monsters and Mayhem. Literary Vision and Wonder. Each volume of the +Horror Library+ series is packed with heart-pounding thrills and creepy contemplations as to what truly lurks among the shadows of the world(s) we live in.

Containing 31 all-original stories, read Volume 8 in this ongoing anthology series, and then continue with the other volumes.

Shamble no longer through the banal humdrum of normalcy, but ENTER THE HORROR LIBRARY!

Included within Volume 8:

•   In “Saving the World,” a family feeds their captive devil the sorrows of neighbors.

•   In “We Can’t Let Go,” a welfare check by a child services worker proves that not all in life is as expected.

•   In “Only the Stones Will Hear You Scream,” a man meets his nightmares while caving through narrow underground passages.

•   . . . and more!

**Also including a special guest-artist’s gallery of Jana Heidersdorf!

Preorder now via Dark Moon Books where you’ll find all their books and links to popular shopping outlets, or here at Amazon UK.