Anthology Appearances

It's always a lovely moment to have an acceptance email land in your inbox, and it is with great pleasure that I can say that I have three short stories going to good homes in the near future. An announcement of one of these is at present embargoed (to be officially announced a little later this year) , but I can verify that 'May I Borrow You For A Moment?' - a queasy tale of patriarchal manipulation - will be appearing in the mighty Maris Morris' FEVER DREAMS published by Flametree Press , and that 'Barren' - an archeoolgical tale of folk horror - will appear in the wonderful C.M. Muller's HARVEST THE NIGHT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FOLK HORROR. All three books are scheduled for release in October 2025, and the pre-order details and Table of Contents for FEVER DREAMS and HARVEST THE NIGHT are given below.

I've always loved autumn - now here's three good reasons to anticipate the witching season in 2025!

FEVER DREAMS, (ed. Mark Morris)

Out in October 2025. Pre-order from https://www.flametreepublishing.com/fever-dreams-isbn-9781787588745.html

Table of Contents:

'May I Borrow You For A Moment?' by Tracy Fahey

'Enter, Kill, Exi't by Tim Waggoner

'At Black Rock Beach' by Gary McMahon

'Piglet' by Priya Sharma

'The Mummified Corpse Of Reece Witherspoon' by Philip Fracassi

'The Wind Telephone' by A.K. Benedict

'All In The Game' by Craig DiLouie

'Not All Stones Mean Murder' by Kaaron Warren

'The Adjutant's Dinner Guest' by Jeffrey Ford

'Sideways' by Lucy A. Snyder

'Forty Below' by Caolán Mac an Aircinn

'By The Skin Of His Teeth' by Chad Lutzke

'The Shadow Of His Vibrance' by Kay Chronister

'At The Bottom, She Rots' by Ryan Cole

'Silent Wounds' by Clay McLeod Chapman

'Agony Street' by Rebecca Harrison

'Watch The Skies' by Alan Baxter

'The Sitter' by Rob Francis

'It Has Eyes Now' by Christopher Golden and Tanya Pell

'Midnisht Disease' by C.J. Leede

HARVEST THE NIGHT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FOLK HORROR

Out in October 2025. Pre-orders via https://chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/

Table of Contents:

“And in the Firelight I Will Find You” — Luke F. Shepherd

“Our Lady of the Grain” — H.V. Patterson

“Barren” — Tracy Fahey

“Harmless Pretty Things” — Renae Rhoads

“The Bone Maiden” — Douglas Ford

“Like They Look at Stars” — K. Wallace King

“Feathers” — Shannon Scott

“By The Witchroot, By The Dawn” — Joe Koch

“The Skid-Steer” — EC Dorgan

“Haint-Blue and Weresnake Green” — Lisa Moore-Smith

“Unburnt Offerings” — Dexter McLeod

“The Darkness Inside Her” — Abigail Kemske

“Tall Philip’s House” — Katherine Traylor

“The Last Straw” — Sam DawsonA sincere thank you to Mark Morris for including my 'May I Borrow You For A Moment?' i