N O V E L S

In and Down
A 2007 Quill & Quire "Book of the Year"
(Brindle & Glass Publishing, September 2007)
Read an excerpt at the In and Down micro-site

The Distance Travelled
(Necro Publications, March 2006)

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S H O R T   S T O R Y   C O L L E C T I O N S

No Further Messages
(Delirium Books, November 2007)

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S H O R T   S T O R I E S / N O V E L L A S
"I Am Today and I Am Yesterday"
co-written with David Niall Wilson
In Delirium II (Delirium Books, December 2007)
The Distance Travelled: A Little Slice of Heaven
co-written with Gord Zajac (Burning Effigy Press, April 2007)
"Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event"
In the Dark: Stories from the Supernatural (reprint; October 2006)
  "Quiet Rapture"
Delirium Insider (October 2006)
"Messages"
Realms of Fantasy (February 2006)

Reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (October 2007)

"Wall"
Ideomancer (December 2005)

Reprinted at Suspect Thoughts (July 2006)

"Subliminal Verses"
Trunk Stories, Issue #3 (November 2005)
"Running Beneath the Skin"
Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories from the Edge (Penguin/Roc, October 2005)
Philip Nutman's Wet Work (Definitive Edition)
Editorial Consultant (Overlook Connection Press, September 2005)
My Eyes Are Nailed, But Still I See
co-written with David Niall Wilson (Delirium Books, July 2005)
 

"Bottom Drawer"
Vestal Review (January 2005)

Reprinted at Future Fire—runner-up winner of the MirrorMask Flash Fiction Competition (January 2006)

Reprinted at Rockstar Upload website—runner-up winner of the Rockstar Upload 4 Short Fiction Contest (February 2006)

"Apology"
Brutarian (November 2004)
The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three
co-edited with M. W. Anderson (Arsenal Pulp Press, October 2004)

"Shoes"
co-written with Tim Lebbon
A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror (Penguin/Roc, September 2004)
(A Year's Best Fantasy and Horror honorable mention)
"Landscape"
Trunk Stories, Issue #1 (November 2003) Romanian translation published at C.A.V.L.A SFera Online as "Viziune" (July 2003)

"Slipknot"
Borderlands 5 (Borderlands Press, November 2003)

Reprinted in From the Borderlands (Warner Books, September 2004)
(A Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology)

Denying Death
co-written with Gary W. Conner and Seth Lindberg—Prime Books (November 2003)
Includes "Silica," "Beyond the Black," "Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event," "Walking," and "The Collective"
  "The Pig and the Pendulum"
co-written with David Niall Wilson—Gothic.Net (October 2003)
"A Diamond of Skin and Love"
Vivisections, Catalyst Press (March 2003)
"Freshets"
Queer Fear II, Arsenal Pulp Press (December 2002)
(A Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology)
"Mad Jack and the Widow Henley"
co-written with Brian A. Hopkins—Space & Time, Issue #96 (July 2002)

"Chamber of the Gods"
co-written with Gord Rollo—Fangoria.com (June 2002)

Reprinted in Dark Wisdom #9 (June 2006)

"Mr. Chumbly"
Dreaming of Angels, Prime Books (April 2002)

"Danny Boy"
The Asylum ... Bedtime Stories for the Criminally Insane, Vol. 2: The Violent Ward, DarkTales Publications (April 2002)

Reissued by Prime Books in February 2003

"The Time Between Lights"
Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox—Irrational Press (December 2001)

The Distance Travelled
Prime Books (November 2001)
(A Year's Best Fantasy and Horror honorable mention)
The Smoke of the Seven Hells
Undaunted Press 'flipbook' (October 2001)
  "Twelve Great Black Pigs, and One Red One"
co-written with David Niall Wilson—Gothic.Net (August 2001)
  "Jimmy Dale"
Gothic.Net (April 2001)
Filthy Death, the Leering Clown
co-written with Joseph Moore—DarkTales Publications (October 2000)
  "Ribbons of Darkness Over Me"
co-written with David Niall Wilson—Twilight Showcase (#15, February 2000)
  "Silica"
Gothic.Net (January 2000) reprinted at Imaginary Worlds Press website (August 2000)
  "Epicure"
co-written with Patricia Lee Macomber—Cassandra's Crypt, Goddess of the Bay Publications (January 2000)
  "Fucking Fear Factory"
co-written with David Niall Wilson—Gothic.Net (September 1999) reprinted at Twilight Tales (December 1999)
  "First Child of the New World"
co-written with Geoff Cooper and Ray Wallace—Errata (#5, August 1999)

"A Room of Incense"
co-written with Dan Lee—The Three-lobed Burning Eye (#2, July 1999)

Reprinted in The Three-lobed Burning Eye—Annual, Volume 1 anthology
(Legion Press, October 2002)

  "Poland's Anguish"
The Goddess of the Bay (#7, Summer 1999)

"Jewels"
The Asylum . . . Bedtime Stories for the Criminally Insane, Vol. 1: The Psycho Ward, DarkTales Publications (1999)
  "Solstice"
co-written with Sandra DeLuca—Twilight Showcase (#4, March 1999)
"That's Some Pig!"
co-written with David Niall Wilson
Of Pigs and Spiders, Bereshith Publishing (Shadowlands imprint, March 1999)
Reprinted at HorrorFind.com (October 2000)

"The Neath"
Twilight Showcase (#3, February 1999)

Reprinted in Gord Rollo's Unnatural Selection: A Collection of Darwinian Nightmares anthology (LTDBooks, October 2000; Cosmos Books, August 2001)

  "Pop! Goes the Weasel"
co-written with Brian A. Hopkins
Bad Dreams (#8, 1999)
  "Honour Thy Father and Mother . . ."
Dark Muse (October 1998)

Reprinted in Bloody Muse (February 1999)

Reprinted in Bad Dreams (#7)

  "Age of Faith"
The Goddess of the Bay
(#3, October 1998)
"Stars"
The Goddess of the Bay
(#2, Fall 1998)

N O N - F I C T I O N

"The Rise of Peter Straub"—Rue Morgue #57 (June 2006)

"Podcasting poised to be the newest trend in horror fiction"—Rue Morgue #54 (March 2006) [co-written with Monica Kuebler]

"Don't Read the Label"—Quill & Quire (January 2006)

"In the Shadow of the Old Ones"—Rue Morgue #50 (October 2005)

"Livin' On the Edge"—Quill & Quire website (September 2005)

"Sympathy for the Outsider"—Quill & Quire (October 2004)

"Afterword" (co-written with M. W. Anderson)—The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three (Arsenal Pulp Press, October 2004)

"A Warm, Secure Place"—Twilight Showcase (#28, August 2001)

Serial Killer or Simply Storyteller?: Giving the Little Mutants the Benefit of the Doubt—Twilight Showcase (#27, June 2001)

"House of 1,000 Cowards"—Twilight Showcase (#26, March/April 2001)

"Observations on the Immediacy of Death"—Twilight Showcase (#25, February 2001)

"The Devil Most Assuredly Did Not Make Me Do It"—Twilight Showcase (#24, January 2001)

"Zombie Allure"—Twilight Showcase (#23, December 2000)

"A Ghost on an American Highway, a Ghost in a Canadian Closet"—Twilight Showcase (#22, November 2000)
     reprinted (slightly modified) in Lone Wolf Publications' Personal Demons anthology (May, 2001)

"Being Bound With Rope and Chain and Suspended From the Ceiling With a Big Fat Hook in Your Anus is Probably Not as Fun as Necon Was This Year"—Twilight Showcase (#20, August 2000)

Music reviews: Rollins Band's Get Some, Go Again, Kittie's Spit It Out, and Slipknot's SlipknotGothic.Net (June 2000)

"Press Your Face Against the Glass—Suffer!"—Twilight Showcase (#15, February 2000)

"My Green Mile"—Twilight Showcase (#14, January 2000)

"Fear and Understanding"—Twilight Showcase (#13, December 1999)

"Edward Lee vs. H. P. Lovecraft: Death-cage Match"—Twilight Showcase (#12, November 1999)

"The Straw That Broke Stephen King's Back"—Twilight Showcase (#10, September 1999)

"The Screaming Birds of Necon"—Twilight Showcase (#9, August 1999)

"Yea, Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Grease"—Twilight Showcase (#8, July 1999)

"The Perfection of Baby Food"—Twilight Showcase (#7, June 1999)

"Drinking Death and Fucking Glass Elevators"—Twilight Showcase (#6, May 1999)

"Emotion, Imagination, Experience, Talent, and the Reader"—Twilight Showcase (#5, April 1999)

"Bludgeoning, and Maiming, and Strangling, Oh My!"—Twilight Showcase (#4, March 1999)

"Nasty Little Dude with a Pipe"—Twilight Showcase (#3, February 1999)
     reprinted in HWA Newsletter, vol. 10, issue #3

"The Quasi-corpse of Horror Fiction"—The Chiaroscuro: Those Who Walk Alone (1998)

"I Will Not Play Nicely with Others . . ."—Writers' Hall (#2, [date unknown])


R U E   M O R G U E   B O O K   R E V I E W S

Destinations Unknown by Gary A. Braunbeck—Issue #60 (September 2006)

Dark Arts edited by John Pelan—Issue #59 (August 2006)

The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey—Issue #57 (June 2006)

Tarra Khash: Hrossak by Brian Lumley—Issue #56 (May 2006)

Fear: A Ghost Hunter's Story by Kriss Stephens—Issue #53 (January 2006)

The House of Cthulhu by Brian Lumley—Issue #50 (October 2005)

The Brian Lumley Companion, eds. Brian Lumley and Stanley Wiater—Issue #49 (September 2005)


P O E T R Y

"Different"—frisson: disconcerting verse (#12, Winter 1998)

"Descent" (with Dan Lee)—The Goddess of the Bay (#2, Fall 1998)

"My Dying Bride" (with Dan Lee)—Xpressions Journal
     Reprinted in The Goddess of the Bay (#2, Fall 1998)

"Night"—The Goddess of the Bay (#2, Fall 1998)