A winter call...

 ...from Siren's Call ezine. I have two poems and a story in the latest issue, which can be downloaded for free.

Take a much-needed vacation...

 ...to The Rock Pool of the Gods in Demonic Vacations: Go Back Home Already! available in paperback and on the Kindle from Amazon.

Schlock!

 Find an Amoral Detective story, Features of Clay, in the October 2021 issue of Schlock! magazine.

Unintended Consequences of going out of print...

Unintended Consequences (Wolfsinger) will be going out of print at the end of December, so if you want to grab a copy of the anthology, you'd best do so now!

Using the coupon code LeavingSoon you can get 25% off the book by ordering it from the publisher's site.

Festive Crime Investigation!

Join Holmes and Watson as they investigate mysteries with a festive element in the latest MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories. The volume is available in hardcover and softcover and contains my story, The Purloined Present.

Us/Them...

 ...is the new anthology from Wolfsinger Publications and explores the way that groups can turn against one another. It features my fantasy story of a ruined idyll, The Long and the Short of It.

The anthology is available direct from the publisher or from Smashwords, each with a 15% off voucher code valid until 15th January 2022 - Holidays2021 (for Wolfsinger) or LE32N (for Smashwords).

In addition, it is available in paperback and on the Kindle from Amazon.

Fear of the Other breeds hatred of the Other

Hallowe'en horrors are here!

The Sirens Call ezine has given itself over to the horrors of Hallowe'en, including two of my drabbles and three of my poems! No tricks, just lots and lots of horrific treats!

Find a Hallowe'en flash, Desire, on Circlet.com, and another, Soulling, on the Reflex Press website.

I also have a drabble in Halloween Frights.

The Trickster tricked!

 Things don't go according to plan for Rumpelstiltskin in my poem on Enchanted Conversation...

The tale of a haunted ball...

 ...is my contribution to the new issue of parABnormal magazine - available now from the publishers and from Amazon.

The Pale Queen...

 ...of the Dark Tower is the title of my Yellow Mythos fantasy story published in Bleakest Towers from Rogue Planet Press. Available in paperback and on the Kindle.

Congeries...

 ...is the title of my contribution to 666 Dark Drabbles from Black Hare Press - available now from Amazon on the Kindle and in paperback.

The Pandemic has been unleashed!

 Yes, it's here, in both print and on the Kindle...

Bluebells in bloom

The darkly-summery The Bluebells is now online on Tales from the Moonlit Path.

Enter the Spectral Realms of Carcoza...

 ...where you will discover my Yellow Mythos poems, Carcoza and In the Court of the Dragon.

The Pandemic will be unleashed!

 Yes, Pandemic Unleashed will be here on Friday the 13th of August with my tale, Everything Had Been Normal - and, you can preorder the Kindle version now!

Terrifying Ladybirds!

Ladybirds (ladbybugs, if you're American) are best-known in their red with black spots form, so it may come as no surprise that they have crawled and fluttered their way into my Black and Red Mythos in the form of a story with that insectoid title in an anthology called Phobia!

This anthology of horrors (from Pixie Forest Publishing) is available in paperback and on the kindle and well worth reading - assuming you can stifle your fears...

Follow the Siren's Call...

A new issue of Siren's Call ezine is available to download for free and it contains one of my stories, plus five of my poems.

Forthcoming...

 

Preliminary cover design for Crunchy with Ketchup from Wolfsinger Publications.

Join in an Enchanted Conversation...

My fairy tale poem, Dark Heartwood, is one of desperation and tricksy enchantment.

From the editorial introduction on the site: This poem has a delightfully eldritch feel to it. And just what future will be revealed for this family?  I wonder. A memorable read.

Read it now for free.

Strangely Funny VIII

There's something strangely funny about my story Portney Abbey... find out what in the new volume from Mystery and Horror, LLC, available now in paperback and on the Kindle.

More Holmes and Watson

My story, The Key in the Snuffbox, appears in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XXVI: 2012 Annual, 1889-1897 - available in both hardback and paperback.

Interview

 

You can read an interview I did with Gemini Wordsmiths (publishers of The Trench Coat Chronicles) here.

The anthology is available in print and on the Kindle.

The Siren's Call...

The Spring 2021 issue of Siren's Call is now online for you to read and it contains two pieces of fiction and five poems of mine, alongside all the other brilliant contents.

A Fae Rebellion!

The forces of faery have reconquered the world, through glamour and might of arms in this new volume, Insurgence: A Fae Rebellion, which includes my story, Pixies Lead. Available in paperback and on the Kindle.

Pulp SF Adventure!

 

An interrupted distress call. Contact lost with the colony world of Red Eden. A strange energy signal detected. Vinn Mazell must investigate and solve the mystery of The Angry Planet - in the 2021 issue of Startling Stories Magazine!

Yarr!

Yarr! , an anthology of space pirate tales from Martinus Publishing, will be discontinued later this year, so if you want a copy (paperback or Kindle), now's the time to grab it!

Kinurie Mist-ery

 

 

After mysteries featuring an antiquity and New Orleans' Mardi Gras, here comes one themed around a trench coat - Kinurie Mist.

The Trench Coat Chronicles are now available on Kindle and in paperback, as well as on the Nook and in print from Barnes and Noble, and in ebook formats from Smashwords.

Mardi Gras Mysteries

My story A Prayer to Momus appears in Mardi Gras Mysteries from Mystery and Horror, LLC, available now in paperback and on the Kindle.