Kickstarting Cthulhu!

My Lovecraftian tale, Inspiration, is just one of those appearing in Cthulhu Awakens, which is Kickstarting now.

Giving Holmes a Kickstart!

Beyond the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a forthcoming anthology from Belanger Books featuring stories that are sequels to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and features my story, The Death Below the Beeches.

The anthology is currently on Kickstarter.

Something ParABnormal...

My third story featuring psychic investigator Harry, The Asylum Investigation, has been published in the latest issue of ParABnormal Magazine. If you want more, another of Harry's adventures was recently reprinted in Home Sweet Horror II.

Humour and Poems

New issues of Phenomenal Literature and Verbal Art are now available and free to read online. My latest comical tale of Michael Davenport-Rowndes is in the new issue of Phenomenal Literature, whilst Verbal Art has two of my poems.

For links to more of Michael's misadventures, visit Characters and scroll down...

Have a Horrific Early Christmas...

Flame Tree's Christmas Horror Short Stories is available to order now. As well as classics by such authors as Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, and a variety of modern terrors, the anthology reprints my festive horror, White Christmas.

Scifaikuest...

I have two scifaiku in the new issue of Scifaikest, the first of which I'm especially pleased with. With contributors such as Nicholas De Marino, John H. Dromey, Matthew Wilson, and the late David C. Kopaska-Merkel, this is a great magazine for those enjoy minimalist speculative poetry.

In addition, I have two scifaiku on the current issue of Scifaikuest Online...

Cthulhu Kickstarter!

The Kickstarter for the forthcoming anthology of Lovecraftian fiction, Cthulhu Awakens, launches on September 11th...

A Darker Continent...

...is an anthology of weird fiction set in Europe during the Second World War. It includes my Roseate Mythos story Blood and Soil and is available in hardcover, paperback and on the Kindle from Amazon.

With Borrowed Eyes...

...is reprinted in the latest issue of Lovecraftiana Magazine.

The End is Nigh!

No, don't worry, it's not the end of the world... However, the anthologies Us/Them and Crunchy With Ketchup from Wolfsinger Publications will be going out of print at the end of 2026. So, if you don't yet have a copy and would like one, now is the time to consider making a purchase!

Marching Toward Dystopia...

The new issue of Sublimation has arrived with a dystopian theme and includes two of my poems, As One and Emerald Lies. It is available in paperback and on the Kindle from Amazon.

The future is... plastic!

My speculative poem, New World, is amongst those published in the Summer 2026 issue of Illumen. The magazine can be ordered directly from Hiraeth Publishing in print, epub, and pdf. It is also available in print from Amazon.

Going a little dadakuku...

Anyone who loves absurd short poems will love dadakuku, and I've now had two little bits of nonsense published on the site. Read them here.

Christmas has come early...

...with this Waterstones pre-order offer for Christmas Horror Short Stories from Flame Tree Publishing, available online from now till the 24th.

The Arcanist to expand?!

You may have seen that I have had poems and a story in The Arcanist's Literary Fantasy Magazine. Well, The Arcanist has announced a Backerkit campaign starting on the 24th of July that, if successful, will allow them to pay contributors, expand their Literary Fantasy Magazine to a quarterly release schedule and start a Swords and Sorcery Magazine...

You can find out more and back the campaign here.

More Morphrog

Two of my longer poems are in the latest issue of Morphrog - read them here for free.

Up in the North Slope!

My superhero tale Up in the North Slope has been reprinted in volume 5 of Gaslamp Pulp - available to order in paperback and on the Kindle.

Madness meets the Elgin Award!

My mythos poetry collection, Madness Rides The Star-Wind (Island of Wak-Wak) has been nominated for the Elgin Award.

The Stars Darken...

The new anthology of dark sf drabbles from Shacklebound Books, Darker Stars, is now available from Amazon and includes five of my drabbles.

Food and Fantasy!

A new story featuring Watch Sergeant Axel appears in the new anthology from Third Flatiron with a fantastic food theme. Baker's Dozen is just one of the stories in SciFi To Go: Food For Thought, out now on the Kindle. The paperback is now also available.