Published Work

Novels

The Star-Stained Soul. Tor Nightfire, 2025. (forthcoming)

Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars. Publisher TBA, TBA. (forthcoming)

Devils’ Field. Publisher TBA, TBA. The fourth book in the Jessie Shimmer series. (forthcoming)

Sister, Maiden, Monster. Tor Nightfire, February 21 2023.

Switchblade Goddess. Del Rey, December 2011. The third book in the Jessie Shimmer series.

La Lame de la Sorcière. Panini France, December 2013. A French edition of Switchblade Goddess translated by Lise Capitan.

Shotgun Sorceress. Del Rey, October 2010. The sequel to Spellbent (second book in the Jessie Shimmer series).

Le Baiser de la Sorcière. Eclipse, September 2011. A French edition of Shotgun Sorceress translated by Noé Le Blanc.

Spellbent. Del Rey, December 2009. A dark urban fantasy. Nominated for the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.

Liens Infernaux. Eclipse, February 2011. A French edition of Spellbent translated by Noé Le Blanc.
Opasnaya Magiya. Azbooka, December 2011. A Russian language hardcover edition of Spellbent translated by Irina Kolesnikova.

Novellas

New Blood. In Halloween Beyond: Piercing the Veil (Dark Tide Mysteries and Thrillers Book 4), Crystal Lake Publishing, October 2022.

Earthshine Ciphers – The Challenge From Beyond 2021, Forbidden Futures, October 2021.
A Lovecraftian round-robin tale co-written with Matthew Bartlett, Polly Schattel, Curtis M. Lawson, and Michael Alan Carlyle.

A Glimpse of Darkness. Del Rey, December 2010.
An urban fantasy co-written with Lara Adrian, Harry Connolly, Kelly Meding, and Stacia Kane.

Collections

Exposed Nerves. Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.
A collection of dark speculative and mainstream poetry.
Nominated for the 2022 Elgin Award. Nominated for the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry.

Halloween Season. Raw Dog Screaming Press, October 2020.
A collection of fiction and poetry set during autumn with a focus on Halloween.

Garden of Eldritch Delights. Raw Dog Screaming Press, October 2018.
A collection of weird horror, fantasy and science fiction stories. Tales of Lovecraftian madness, unusual protagonists, and new twists on traditional monsters.
Nominated for the 2018 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. Nominated for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection.

While the Black Stars Burn. Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.
A collection of horror, fantasy and science fiction stories.
Winner of the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Soft Apocalypses. Raw Dog Screaming Press, July 2014.
A collection of horror, dark fantasy and dark science fiction tales featuring the Bram Stoker Award-winning story “Magdala Amygdala”.
Winner of the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection.

Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide. Post Mortem Press, June 2014.
A nonfiction book on successfully living and working as a writer in a world that often doesn’t value creative professionals.
Winner of the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction.

Orchid Carousals. CGP, August 2013.
A collection of speculative fiction erotica.

Chimeric Machines. CGP, March 2009.
Introduction by Tom Piccirilli. A collection of 36 poems.
Winner of the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry

Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. CGP, October 2007.
A trade paperback collection of 12 humor stories about computers and the forces of evil.

Sparks and Shadows. HW Press, May 2007.
Introduction by Nalo Hopkinson. A trade paperback collection of 17 cross-genre stories and 7 poems. Reprinted by CGP, May 2010. Introduction by Christopher Golden.
Winner of the 2008 Editors’ Choice Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Collection.

Blood Magic. Eggplant Literary Productions, October 2001.

As Editor

Chiral Mad 4. Written Backwards, October 2018.
An anthology of collaborative dark fiction co-edited with Michael Bailey. Nominated for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for Edited Anthology.

Dark Planet. An online magazine of science fiction, fantasy, horror, nonfiction and poetry that ran from 1995 through 2001.

Short Fiction

“Auon Dēwā” – Enter Boogeyman, Acheron International, 2024. (forthcoming)

“Death Beneath the Dread Sleeper” – Mystery, Murder, Madness, Mythos, PS Publishing, December 2023.

“Everything After We Kissed” – Shadows Over Main Street, Vol 3, Bad Hand Books/Bleeding Edge Books, September 2023.
First appeared in Borderlands 7, Borderlands Press, November 2020. Reprinted in The Best of Abyss & Apex (Vol. 4), Abyss & Apex Publishing, LLC, October 2021.

“madOddyssey” – Novus Monstrum, Dragon’s Roost Press, October 2023.

“White Meat” – Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising, Crystal Lake Publishing, June 2023.

“The Mountain Witch” – Never Too Old to Save the World, Outland Publications, February 2023.

“Rainbow” – Strange Tales of Terror, Independent Legions, December 2022.

“Avocation” – That Which Cannot Be Undone: An Ohio Horror Anthology, Cracked Skull Press, September 2022. First appeared in Stitched Lips, Dragon’s Roost Press, March 2021.

“The Viscount and the Phantom” – Classic Monsters Unleashed, Crystal Lake Publishing and Black Spot Books, July 2022.

“While The Black Stars Burn” – Weird Horror Short Stories, Flame Tree Publishing, June 2022.
First appeared in Cassilda’s Song, Chaosium, August 2015. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015, in Turn to Ash, September 2016, and Apex Magazine, September 2017. Produced for Pseudopod, December 22, 2017. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 8.

“Magdala Amygdala” – Figli del Buio, Independent Legions Publishing, April 2022.
First published in Dark Faith: Invocations, Apex Publications, October 2012. Produced for the Pseudopod podcast, July 19, 2013. Reprinted in Mister October, Volume II, Journalstone, 2013. Podcast by Tales to Terrify on May 31, 2013. Reprinted in the April 2014 issue of Nightmare Magazine; Soft Apocalypses, July 2014; Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women, Night Shade Books, May 2015; For Mortal Things Unsung, Escape Artists Inc., March 2017. Supernatural Horror, Flame Tree Publishing, June 2017. She’s Lost Control, Post Mortem Press, February 2019.
Translated into Japanese in Night Land, Trident House, September 2013. Translated into Czech in XB-1, October 2015. Translated into Italian in Sogni del Diavolo, Independent Legions Publishing, September 2015. Translated into Spanish in Dark Fantasies: Antología de Fantasía Oscura, Terror y Horror Internacional, Sportula Publishing, May 2017.
Reprinted in Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5, Night Shade Books, September 2013.
Winner of the 2012 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.

“The Specter in the Closet” – 99 Tiny Terrors, Pulse Publishing, November 2021.

“Munchies” – Attack From the 80s, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2021.

“Tiger Girls Vs. The Zombies” – Weirdbook Annual: Zombies!, Wildside Press, September 2021. First appeared in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014.

“Station By Station” – Origins!, Origins Game Fair, Inc., September 2021.

“Ruby Soul, Bone Moon” – New Maps of Dream, PS Publishing, August 2021.

“Navigational Error” – Fireside Quarterly, Autumn 2020.

“The Glitch” – Eyedolon Magazine, Broken Eye Books, May 2020.

“Abandonment Option” – The Dystopian States of America, Haverhill House Publishing, March 2020.
First appeared in What Fates Impose, Alliteration Ink, September 2013. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014; Night Land Quarterly, December 2016; Lost Souls, Flame Tree Publishing, September 2018.

“My Knowing Glance” – Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, Written Backwards, February 2020.

“A Simple Plan” – Eyedolon Magazine, Broken Eye Books, November 2019.

“The Porcupine Boy” – The Porcupine Boy and Other Anthological Oddities, Crossroad Press, October 2019. Reprinted in Halloween Season.

“That Which Does Not Kill You” – Come Join Us By The Fire, Tor Nightfire Books, October 2019.
First appeared in Looming Low, Dim Shores, September 2017. Reprinted in Garden of Eldritch Delights, October 2018.

“Living Dead Space” – Eyedolon Magazine, Broken Eye Books, August 2019.

“An Adventure in Badger Country” – Tales of Excellent Cats: A Monarchies of Mau Anthology, Onyx Path Publishing, June 2019.

“The Dogs of Summer” – Mythical!, Origins Game Fair, Inc., June 2019.
First appeared in Blood Magic, Eggplant Literary Productions, October 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“Approaching Lavender”– American Gothic, Flame Tree Publishing, June 2019.
First appeared in Chiral Mad 2, Written Backwards, December 2013. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.

“Visions of the Dream Witch” – A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, Pulse Publishing, April 2019. Reprinted in Halloween Season.

“A Noble Endeavor” – Weirdbook Annual #2, February 2019.
First appeared in Steampunk Universe, Alliteration Ink, January 2018. Reprinted in Garden of Eldritch Delights, October 2018. Reprinted in On Wings of Steam, Winter Wolf Publications, May 2022.

“Diamante and Strass” – The Drabblecast, episode 393, December 2018.
First appeared in Fictionvale, March 2014. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014.

“The Kind Detective” – Ashes and Entropy, Nightscape Press, December 2018. Reprinted in Halloween Season.

“In the Family” – Tales From The Lake Vol. 5, Crystal Lake Publishing, November 2018. Reprinted in Halloween Season.

“Dark of the Moon” – Garden of Eldritch Delights, Raw Dog Screaming Press, October 2018.

“Cosmic Cola” – What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween, Celaeno Press, September 2018. Reprinted in Halloween Season. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 11.

“A Hero of Grünjord” – Hath No Fury, Outland Entertainment, August 2018.
Reprinted in Garden of Eldritch Delights, October 2018.

“The Flechette” – Eyedolon Magazine, Broken Eye Books, June 2018.

“The Abomination of Fensmere” – MYSTERY! Origins Game Fair Anthology, Down and Out Books, June 2018.
First appeared in Shadows Over Main Street, Hazardous Press, January 2015. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 8.

“The Tingling Madness” – The Cackle of Cthulhu, Baen Books, January 2018. Reprinted in Halloween Season.

“Antumbra” – The Beauty of Death 2: Death By Water, Independent Legions Publishing, December 2017. First appeared in Apex Magazine, February 2014. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014.
Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 10.

“Fraeternal” – Gamut Magazine, December 2017. Reprinted in Garden of Eldritch Delights, October 2018.

“Sunset on Mott Island” – Shadows Over Main Street, Vol. 2, Cutting Block Books, October 2017. Reprinted in Garden of Eldritch Delights, October 2018. Translated into Italian in Horror Academy Vol. 2, Independent Legions, December 2022.
Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 10.

“Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars” – Ride The Star Wind, Broken Eye Books, September 2017. Reprinted in Garden of Eldritch Delights, October 2018.

“Hazelnuts and Yummy Mummies” – Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, Crystal Lake Publishing, July 2017. Reprinted in Halloween Season.

“A Simple Storm-Calling” – DRAGONS! Origins Game Fair Anthology, Rio Grande Games, June 2017.

“Devoured” – NASTY: Fetish Fights Back, Flash Fiction Online LLC, May 2017.

“The Gentleman Caller” – Return of the Old Ones, Dark Regions Press, February 2017. Reprinted in Garden of Eldritch Delights, October 2018.

“The Great VüDü Teen Linux Zombie Massacree” – Funny Horror, UFO Publishing, February 2017. First appeared in Spacesuits and Sixguns, Spring 2007. Reprinted in Voices For The Cure, January 2008; Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, 2007; Death, Be Not Proud, Dark Quest, September 2011. Produced for The Drabblecast on April 7 2015.

“Executive Functions” – You, Human, Dark Regions Press, December 2016. Reprinted in Garden of Eldritch Delights, October 2018.

“What Dwells Within” – Shadowed Souls, Penguin Random House, November 2016. Reprinted in Halloween Season.

“Along the Scenic Route” – X-Files Vol. 3: Secret Agendas, IDW Publishing, October 2016.

“Moon Palace, Serpent Sea” – Shadowrun: Drawing Destiny: A Sixth World Tarot Anthology, Catalyst Game Labs, September 2016.

“The House That Couldn’t Clean Itself” – ROBOTS! Origins Game Fair Anthology, Rio Grande Games, June 2016. Reprinted in Halloween Season.

“The Warlady’s Daughter” – Champions of Aetaltis, Mechanical Muse, April 2016. Reprinted in Garden of Eldritch Delights, October 2018.

“A Boy’s Guide to Neoteny” (prose version) – recompose, Alliteration Ink, December 2015.

“Mostly Monsters” – While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.

“The Toymaker’s Joy” – Naughty or Nice: A Holiday Anthology, Evil Girlfriend Media, November 2015. Reprinted in Halloween Season.

“The Yellow Death” – Seize The Night, Gallery Books, October 2015. Reprinted in Garden of Eldritch Delights, October 2018. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 8.

“Cthylla” – The Library of the Dead, Written Backwards, May 2015. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.

“Spinwebs” – Not Our Kind, Alliteration Ink, January 2015. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.

“Kudzu” – A Darke Phantastique: Encounters with the Uncanny and Other Magical Things, Cycatrix Press, October 2014. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 7.

“Demonized” – What Lies Beneath, Circlet Press, October 2014. First appeared Orchid Carousals, CGP, August 2013.

“The Girl With The Star-Stained Soul” – In The Court of the Yellow King, Celaeno Press, September 2014. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.

“Santa Muerte” (co-written with Daniel R. Robichaud) – Streets of Shadows, Alliteration Ink, September 2014. Reprinted in Garden of Eldritch Delights, October 2018.

“Dura Mater” – Qualia Nous, Written Backwards, August 2014. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.

“The Leviathan of Trincomalee” – Steampunk World, Alliteration Ink, August 2014. First appeared in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014. Reprinted in Life After Ashes, Alliteration Ink, February 2015. Reprinted in On Wings of Steam, Winter Wolf Publications, May 2022.

“The Good Girl” – Soft Apocalypses, July 2014.

“Functionality” – Jamais Vu Issue #2, Post Mortem Press, April 2014.

“The Strange Architecture of the Heart” – Bless Your Mechanical Heart, Evil Girlfriend Media, March 2014. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.

“Through Thy Bounty” – LampLight Magazine, March 2014. First appeared in The Midnighters’ Club anthology, June 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007, in Apex Online in 2008, and in LampLight Vol. 2 in 2014. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.
Honorable mention, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 15.

“Miz Ruthie Pays Her Respects” – Piercing the Darkness, Necro Publications, February 2014. First appeared in Dark Faith, Apex Publications, May 2010. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014.

“Jessie Shimmer Goes To Hell” – Manifesto UF, Angelic Knights Press, September 2013. Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.

“At the Royal Orchid” – Orchid Carousals, CGP, August 2013.

“Biscuit” (co-written with Kaysee Renee Robichaud) – Orchid Carousals, CGP, August 2013.

“How Linux Boy Met the Mistress of the Beast with Two Backs” – Orchid Carousals, CGP, August 2013.

“How To Get A Goth Out of a Tree” – Orchid Carousals, CGP, August 2013.

“Fragment” – Orchid Carousals, CGP, August 2013.

“The Dominatrix Confesses” – Orchid Carousals, CGP, August 2013.

“The Lonely Ones Will Find Each Other by the Heat of Their Bodies” – Orchid Carousals, CGP, August 2013.

“Spare The Rod” – Eulogies II: Tales From The Cellar, Horror World, July 2013.
Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014.

“I Fuck Your Sunshine” – Vampires Don’t Sparkle, Seventh Star Press, March 2013. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014. Translated into Japanese in Night Land Quarterly, May 2015. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 6.

“The Cold Blackness Between” – Once Upon A Curse, Dragonwell Publishing, December 2012. First appeared in Aoife’s Kiss, March 2008. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014.

“Repent, Jessie Shimmer!” – Appalachian Undead, Apex Publications, November 2012. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014.

“However ….” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Hellbound Hearts, Pocket Books, September 2009. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014. Honorable mention, Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 2.

“Burning Bright” – Maiden, Mother, Crone, Drollerie Press, 2009. First published in Sparks and Shadows, HW Press, May 2007.

“A Preference For Silence” – Escape Pod, March 31, 2009. First published at Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Issue #5, November 1999. Reprinted in the August 12, 2000 edition of Dark Matter Chronicles and in the February 2001 issue of Writer Online. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007. Reprinted in Halloween Season.

“Faery Cats: The Cutest Killers” – PodCastle, March 20, 2009. First published at Strange Horizons, February 27, 2006. Reprinted in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger in 2007.

“The Cold Gallery” – Legends of the Mountain State 2, September 2008. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014.

“Podophyllum sidhe” – A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, Two Cranes Press, July 2008.

“In The Shadow of the Fryolator” – The Town Drunk, October 2007. Reprinted in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, 2007.

“Trolls Gone Wild” – Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, Creative Guy Publishing, 2007.

“Fable Fusion” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague, Big Finish Productions Ltd., June 2007.
Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.

“Roses of Gomorrah” – Sparks and Shadows, HW Press, May 2007.

“Boxlunch” – Sparks and Shadows, HW Press, May 2007.

“Feel the Love” – Sparks and Shadows, HW Press, May 2007.

“Wake Up Naked Monkey You’re Going To Die” – First published in Horror World, March 2007. Reprinted in Halloween Season. Honorable mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 (#21).

“Authorities Concerned Over Rise of Teen Linux Gangs” – The Town Drunk, December 2006. Reprinted in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger in 2007.

“Graveyard Shift” – The Town Drunk, November 2006. Reprinted in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger in 2007:
· “Dead Men Don’t Need Coffee Breaks”
· “Business Insourcing Offers Life After Death”
· “Corporate Vampires Sink Teeth Into Business World”
· “Unemployed Playing Dead To Find Work”

“Sara and the Telecats” – Farthing #4, September 2006. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“The Sheets Were Clean And Dry” – Masques V, Gauntlet Press, June 2006. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“Your Corporate Network and the Forces of Darkness” – Strange Horizons, June 20, 2005. Podcast at Escape Pod November 2005. Reprinted in Dark Jesters: The Best in Underground Comedic Horror, October 2006 and in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger in 2007.

“The Dickification of the American Female” – Clean Sheets, June 15, 2005. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“So Lonely As The Grave” – Dark Lurkers, Double Dragon Press, May 2004. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User’s Notes” – Strange Horizons, April 5, 2004. Reprinted in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger in 2007. Honorable mention, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 18.

“Fall of Darkness” – Apocalypse Fiction Magazine, July 2003. Reprinted in Orchid Carousals, August 2013.

“Carnal Harvest” – 1000 Delights, December 2001. Reprinted in Soft Apocalypses, July 2014.

“… And Her Shadow” – Blood Magic, Eggplant Literary Productions, October 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“Flesh and Blood” – Blood Magic, Eggplant Literary Productions, October 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“Homecoming” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – The Further Adventures of Xena: Warrior Princess, Ace Books, September 2001.

“The Dolls’ Hearts” – The Midnighters’ Club anthology, June 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“La Niña” – Quantum Muse, April 2001.

“Souls To Take” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Villains Victorious, DAW Books, April 2001.

“In The Wilderness” – Clean Sheets, March 2001. Reprinted in Orchid Carousals in 2013.

“… Next on Channel 77” – Guardian Angels, Cumberland House Publishing, November 2000. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“News From The Long Mountains” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Civil War Fantastic, DAW Books, July 2000.

“Forgetting” – Jackhammer E-Zine, Vol. 3 Number 17, April 2000. Reprinted in the Best of Jackhammer E-zine Anthology in Feb. 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“Darwin’s Children” – Snow Monkey, Vol.1 Number 2, Ravenna Press, Seattle, December 1999. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“The Still-Life Drama of Passing Cars” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Bedtime Stories To Darken Your Dreams (edited by Alan Clark and Bruce Holland Rogers), IFD Publishing, May 1999. Reprinted in The Little Orange Book of Odd Stories, Wildside Press, 2003.
Reprinted in While the Black Stars Burn, Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2015.
Honorable mention, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 13.

“Soul Searching” – Cosmic Visions, Fall 1997. Reprinted in Blood Magic in October 2001. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“Thirteen’s Revolution” – Midnight Zoo, Vol. 3 Number 1, 1993.

“Toy Gun” – Oasis Literary Magazine, Vol. 3, 1992.

“A Storm in May” – Oasis Literary Magazine, Vol. 1, 1990.

Games

“Claustro Cave” – Fish Wrangler, October 2020.

“Breakfast Bay” – Fish Wrangler, June 2020.

“An Adventure in Badger Country” – Tales of Excellent Cats: A Monarchies of Mau Anthology, Onyx Path Publishing, June 2019.

“Monsoon Lagoon” – Fish Wrangler, July 2019.

“Roperian Ocean Cleanup” – Fish Wrangler, November 2018.

“Innsmouth Island Adventure” – Fish Wrangler, October 2018.

“Big Love Island Adventure” – Fish Wrangler, February 2018.

“Moon Palace, Serpent Sea” – Shadowrun: Drawing Destiny: A Sixth World Tarot Anthology, Catalyst Game Labs, September 2016.

“The Warlady’s Daughter” – Champions of Aetaltis, Mechanical Muse, April 2016.

“Jessie Shimmer Campaign Setting” – D6xD6 Expanded Game, Popcorn Press, February 2015.

Flavor text – Dollars & Sense: The Complete Financial Planning Game, Franklin University, 2014.

Poetry

“A Note From Your Secret Admirer” – Shakespeare Unleashed, Monstrous Books and Crystal Lake Publishing, September 2023.

“The Grim Wives” – Poetry Showcase Volume IX, Horror Writers Association, October 2022.

“Faith” – Chiral Mad 5, Written Backwards, September 2022.
First appeared in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“At the Downtown University” – Chiral Mad 5, Written Backwards, September 2022.
First appeared in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“In Spite of It” – Of Horror and Hope, Horror Writers Association, July 2022.
First appeared in Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“The Wrong Daughter” – NeurodiVERSE, Flapjack Press, March 2022.
First appeared in Weirdbook #34, February 2017. Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“It Only Hurts When I Dream” – Tales of the Lost (Vol. 3), Plaid Dragon Press, Dec. 2021.

“Cowboy Shot” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“The Invisible Woman” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“A Dream of You” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“January” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“It’s Fine” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Chronic” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“A Leggy Bestiary” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Low Tea” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Exit Signs” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Imagine My Brain Is Barbados” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“(In)Jest” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Making Light” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Lessons” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“The Friend Defense” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“My Neighbor Posts to the Apartment Page” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“My Neighbor Defends Her Champion” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“(Sis)yphus” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Maturity” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“After She Slams the Door Behind Her” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Romantic Overture #6” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“The Disney Gap” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Serpents” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Mythical” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“When the War Ended” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Mission Commander’s Log” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Navigational Error” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Dirty Americans” – Exposed Nerves, Raw Dog Screaming Press, September 2021.

“Dawn” – Bright Sides, Silver Linings, and Making Lemonade, Raw Dog Screaming Press, March 2021.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“Fragile” – Weirdbook #44, 2021.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“The Unforgiving King” – Haiku Cthulhu, Pulse Publishing, 2021.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“October” – Tales of the Lost (Vol. 2), Plaid Dragon Press, October 2020.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“Silences” – Vastarien: A Literary Journal, Summer 2019.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“Beggars’ Night” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Halloween: New Poems, Cemetery Dance Publications, May 2010.
Reprinted in Halloween Season, 2020.

“Permian Basin Blues” – Do Not Go Quietly, Apex Books, May 2019.
First appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Issue #7, October 2000. Portions appeared in The Indifference of Heaven by Gary A. Braunbeck (Obsidian Press, 2000). Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“bad night” – Weirdbook #39, July 2018.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“Salty” – Weirdbook Annual #1, October 2017.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“November” – The Fat Damsel, August 2017.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“Shore Leave” – Illumen, Autumn 2016.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“The Scientist’s Paramour” – Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, October/November 2016.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“Scary” – Scary Out There, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, August 2016.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“Dangerous” – Scary Out There, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, August 2016.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“turnt” – Scary Out There, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, August 2016.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“Wolf Waltz” – HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. III, August 2016.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“Employee Recognition Day” – Star*Line, Summer 2016.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“February” – The Pitkin Review, June 2016.
Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“Worm and Memory” – Nightmare Magazine, October 2015.
First appeared in Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Recreation” – The Cutting Room, Tachyon Publications, October 2014.
First appeared in A Sea of Alone: Poems for Alfred Hitchcock, Dark Scribe Press, July 2011. Reprinted in Exposed Nerves, 2021.

“True Romance” – Orchid Carousals, CGP, August 2013.

“Cougar” – Orchid Carousals, CGP, August 2013.

“Fright-Night Triple Feature” (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Halloween: New Poems, Cemetery Dance Publications, May 2010.

“Home for the Holidays” – Weird Tales, Fall 2009.

“And There in the Machine, Virginia Finally Stood Up” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Tech Support” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“After the Funeral” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Mute Birth” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Terror White” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Cissy Cocalus” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Ari, Pushing Forty” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Gigantic” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Internal Combustion” – Chimeric Machines, 2009. Reprinted in Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine Issue 5, Winter 2009.

“At The Rec Center” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Squidliquor” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Sofa Nervosa” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Looped” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Book Smarts” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Dumb” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“A Boy’s Guide to Neoteny” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Infinite Loop: Girl With Black Eye” – Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Crete, Kentucky: Passie Fay’s Lament” – Full Unit Hookup Magazine, August 2008. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines, 2009.

“Babel’s Children” – Star*Line, May 2008. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“Subtlety” – Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine, Spring 2008. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“The Evil Overlord’s Lament” – Beyond Centauri, January 2009.

“Uncanny Valley Girl” – Raven Electrick, November 30, 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“Dime Novel” – Sparks and Shadows, HW Press, May 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“The Fish and the Bicycle” – Sparks and Shadows, HW Press, May 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“The Jarred Heart” – Sparks and Shadows, HW Press, May 2007.

“glowfish” – Sparks and Shadows, HW Press, May 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“Flyboy” – Strange Horizons, April 30, 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“Sympathy” – Strange Horizons, November 2006. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“Trepanation” – Strange Horizons, July 2006. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“Prometheus” – Scared Naked, September 2003. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“The Celebrant” – Deviant Minds, Summer 2003.

“Modernism” – Snow Monkey, Ravenna Press, Seattle, Spring 2002. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“soft armies” – Full Unit Hookup Magazine, Spring 2002

“Searching For Signs of Life In the Bottom of a Cup of Cold Coffee” – First published as “Real Life” in Full Unit Hookup Magazine, Spring 2002. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“The Monster Between The Sparks” (previously titled “Dark Matter”) – Chiaroscuro, January 2002. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“White” – Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Issue #8, May 2001.

“Photograph of a Lady, Circa 1890” – Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Issue #7, October 2000. Portions appeared in The Indifference of Heaven by Gary A. Braunbeck (Obsidian Press, 2000). Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007 and in Chimeric Machines in 2009.

“Marionette” – Oasis Literary Magazine, Vol. 3, 1992.

“Hemispheres” – Oasis Literary Magazine, Vol. 2, 1991.

“Ambivalence” – Oasis Literary Magazine, Vol. 1, 1990.

Nonfiction/Essays

“Building Worlds and Creating Mood and Atmosphere” – CrimeReads.com, February 21, 2023.

“A Slippery World: Writing Poetry About Gender and Sexuality” – Writing Poetry in the Dark, Raw Dog Screaming Press, October 2022.

“Creating Compelling Characters” – Writers Workshop of Horror 2, Hydra Publications, September 2021.

“Introduction” – Meaningless Cycles in a Vicious Glass Prison: Songs of Death and Love, Dragon’s Roost Press, July 2020.

“A Good Story” – The Horror Writer: A Study of Craft and Identity in the Horror Genre, HellBound Books, January 2020.
First appeared in Nightmare Magazine, October 2015.

“Fund Your Writing With Patreon” – Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market 2020, Writer’s Digest Books, December 2019.
Originally appeared in Writer’s Digest, October 2018.

“Manuscript Critiques For Fun and Profit” – SFWA Bulletin, Spring 2018.

“The Poetry of Flash Fiction” – Writer’s Digest, January 2018.

“Kickstart Your Book” – Writer’s Digest, November/December 2017.
Reprinted in Writer’s Yearbook 2019, November 2018.

“Surviving as a Freelancer” – Abyss & Apex, October 2017.

“Fractured Souls: The Evolution of the Gothic Double from Stevenson to King” – Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, Apex Publications, December 2016.

“The Braided Novel” – Horror World, Nov. 20, 2016.

“A Horror Writer Pursues an MFA” – Horror World, Nov. 2, 2016.

“The Pox Party” – Horror World, Oct. 16, 2016.

“The Fix-Up” – Horror World, Oct. 12, 2016.

“On Short Story Collections” – Horror World, Oct. 11, 2016.

“X-Files: Secret Agendas” – Horror World, Oct. 10, 2016.

“The Red Tree” – Horror World, Oct. 2, 2016.

“World Building the Machine” – Horror World, Oct. 2, 2016.

“Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” – Horror World, Oct. 1, 2016.

“The Horror at Red Hook” – Horror World, Oct. 1, 2016.

“Kindred” – Horror World, Sept. 25, 2016.

“The Ballad of Black Tom” – Horror World, Sept. 22, 2016.

“Scary Out There and Rot & Ruin” – Horror World, Sept. 5, 2016.

“New (and Old) Lovecraftian Fiction” – Horror World, August 27, 2016.

“Locke & Key: Head Games” – Horror World, July 26, 2016.

“Advice For New Writers ” – Horror World, June 5, 2016.

“Existential Terrors” – Horror World, June 5, 2016.

“Alabaster: Wolves” – Horror World, May 1, 2016.

“Welcome to Lovecraft” – Horror World, April 17, 2016.

“Anna Dressed in Blood” – Horror World, February 28, 2016.

“An Exploration of Racism in Heart of Darkness” – Apex Magazine, January 2016.

“The Intersection of Science Fiction and Horror” – Nightmare Magazine, August 2014.
Reprinted in Spacelore: A Short Story Collection by Jacob Zimmerman, Modern Parlance Press, December 2015.

“Peculiars and Monsters” – Horror World, December 28, 2015.

“Sticky Beginnings” – Horror World, November 21, 2015.

“The Waste Lands” – Horror World, November 7, 2015.

“The Hunger Games” – Horror World, November 7, 2015.

“Choke Hold” – Horror World, November 7, 2015.

“The Drawing of the Three” – Horror World, November 1, 2015.

“The Gunslinger” – Horror World, November 1, 2015.

“On Being Nineteen” – Horror World, October 31, 2015.

“Well, That Escalated Quickly: Adventures in Teaching Creative Writing” – Writers On Writing Vol. 2, Crystal Lake Publishing, October 2015.

“Dead But Dreaming: A Lovecraftian Libation” – Horror World, October 24, 2015.

“Unintentional Horror in Wild at Heart” – Horror World, October 17, 2015.

“Dead Paper, Live Paper” – Horror World, October 14, 2015.

“Unreliable Narrators in Kiernan and Chambers” – Apex Magazine, October 2015.

“Weird Fiction” – Horror World, October 4, 2015.

“Queers Destroy Horror” – Horror World, October 3, 2015.

“The Thief of Always by Clive Barker” – Horror World, October 3, 2015.

“Growing Up Bookish and Southern” – Horror World, September 24, 2015.

“Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates” – Horror World, September 6, 2015.

“Description and ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter'” – Horror World, August 23, 2015.

“The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom” – Horror World, August 8, 2015.

“The Shadow Over Innsmouth” – Horror World, July 25, 2015.

“Masque of the Red Death” – Horror World, July 13, 2015.

“The Drowning Girl: A Memoir” – Dark Discoveries #31, April 2015.
First appeared at Horror World, February 14, 2015.

“The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad” – Horror World, May 31, 2015.

“Mr. Hyde” – Horror World, April 20, 2015.

“The Turn of the Screw by Henry James” – Horror World, April 5, 2015.

“‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne” – Horror World, March 22, 2015.

“Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad” – Horror World, March 8, 2015.

“Story Idea Generation: Local Hauntings” – Horror World, February 21, 2015.

“The King in Yellow” – Horror World, February 5, 2015.

“The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman” – Horror World, January 29, 2015.

“The Grace of Dice and Glossy Cardstock” – Chicks Dig Gaming, Mad Norwegian Press, November 2014.

“Women Destroy Horror: A Historical Overview of Classic Novels” – Nightmare Magazine, October 2014.

“The Old School” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Finding Time to Write” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Q&A: Why Aspiring Novelists Should Write Short Stories” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“On Plot” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“On Sales vs. Publications” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“The Most Difficult Part of the Story: Beginning, Middle, or End?” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Setting: How Much Is Too Much?” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“World Building: The City, its Magic, and its Monsters” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Characterization and Mary Sues” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“What Can Happen If You Accidentally Commit Plagiarism” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Dealing with Rejection” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“On Self-Publishing” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“On Collaborations” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Book Signings and Basic Book Promotion Steps” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“How Books Get Into Libraries” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Book Advertisements” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Signature Sheets” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“On Crowd-Funding” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Tuckerizations” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“On Author Interviews” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Horror” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Tripping the Dark Fantastic” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Paranormal Romance” – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Post Mortem Press, June 2014.

“Networking At Conventions” – Horror 101: The Way Forward, Crystal Lake Publishing, April 2014.
First appeared in Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, Headline Books, May 2011. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“On Meeting Chuck Palahniuk” – Jamais Vu Issue #2, Post Mortem Press, April 2014. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Introduction” – An Inheritance of Stone, Alliteration Ink, September 2013.

“The Gen Con Writer’s Symposium” – Horror World, September 2013.

“Kindle Fire HD Review” – Horror World, May 2013.

“Interview With Ursula K. Le Guin” – The Writers’ Workshop of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Seventh Star Press, April 2013. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014 and NewMyths in December 2014.

“Alpha Males and the Reader’s Suspension of Disbelief” – Horror World, November 2012. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“On Urban Fantasy” – Horror World, August 2012. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Friends For Your Fiction” – Horror World, May 2012. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Is LinkedIn Useful to Horror Writers?” – Horror World, February 2012.

“On NaNoWriMo” – Horror World, November 2011.

“On Working Graveyard Shift” – Horror World, August 2011.

“A Guide to Binge Writing” – Horror World, May 2011. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Introduction” – Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia, Woodland Press, October 2010.

“More on Amazon Rank Tracking and Ebook Sales” – Horror World, October 2010.

“iPad Review” – Horror World, June 2010.

“Reading in the 21st Century” – Horror World, February 2010.

“Tech Bits” – Horror World, October 2009.

“It’s All Part of the Fun: An Interview With Clive Barker” – Writers Workshop of Horror, Woodland Press, August 2009. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Exploring Amazon” – Horror World, June 2009.

“Art and the Artist: An Interview With Clive Barker” – Strange Horizons, March 16, 2009. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Sprinting For The Deadline” – Horror World, February 2009. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“The Care and Feeding of a Convention Writing Workshop Track” – Horror World, October 2008. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Digital Power Controllers” – Electronic Products, October 2008.

“High-Performance, Energy-Efficient IGBTs” – Electronic Products, August 2008.

“Scratching the Seven-Year Itch” – Horror World, June 2008.

“Energy-Efficient Resonant Power Controllers” – Electronic Products, April 2008.

“Improving Data Center Efficiency” – Electronic Products, March 2008.

“Manuscript Tracking Tools” – Horror World, February 2008. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Integrated Power Switches” – Electronic Products, December 2007.

“Advice to Beginning Fiction Writers” – Horror World, November 2007. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Synergistic MOSFET Solutions” – Electronic Products, October 2007.

“A Brief Guide to Money Fairies” – Horror World, August 2007. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Selecting a Power-Entry Module” – Electronic Products, June 2007.

“How to Make A Living Writing Short Fiction” – Horror World, May 2007. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Why I Can’t Stay Out of My Husband’s Pants” – Sparks and Shadows, HW Press, 2007.

“Understanding Mechatronics” – Electronic Products, April 2007.

“Meeting the Little Dragon” – Horror World, February 2007.

“Keep Your Stories Safe (Part 2)” – Horror World, November 2006.

“Technical Training for Working Engineers” – Electronic Products, November 2006.

“Keep Your Stories Safe” – Horror World, August 2006.

“Reducing Design Time” – Electronic Products, June 2006.

“Power over Ethernet: Chips and Chipsets” – Electronic Products, May 2006.

“Meeting Mr. P. Espee” – Horror World, May 2006.

“Secret (Literary) Agent Man” – Speculative.ca, March 2006. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“Tools for the Wandering Writer ” – Horror World, February 2006.

“Asia” – The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.

“Future Wars” – The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.

“Intelligence” – The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.

“Miniaturization” – The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.

“Dark Fantasy” – The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.

“Birds” – The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.

“Curses” – The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.

“Plants” – The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.

“Introduction” – Amityville House of Pancakes Vol. 2, Creative Guy Publishing, 2005.

“Camp Songs: Innocent Fun or Diabolical Brainwashing Plot?” – Full Unit Hookup Magazine, #7, Summer 2005. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“The Manhunt for the Red Dragon” – Full Unit Hookup Magazine, #6, Winter 2004.

“Menstruation For Men” – Horror Quarterly, #3, Autumn 2004. Reprinted in the Horror Quarterly Anthology, 2005. Reprinted in Sparks and Shadows in 2007.

“Jack the Ripper Revisted: Murder by Decree” – Full Unit Hookup Magazine, #5, Spring 2004.

“Fairy Tales With Fangs: The Company of Wolves” – Full Unit Hookup Magazine, #5, Spring 2004.

“The Portrayal of Scientists in Science Fiction” – Strange Horizons, May 24, 2004.

“Finding or Creating a Writers’ Workshop Group” – Brady Magazine, November/December 2003. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“California Noir: The Salton Sea” – Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, November, 2003.

“Stripping in the Midwest”, Clean Sheets, April 2003. Reprinted in Orchid Carousals in 2013.

“The Poetry of Hill House”, What Walks Alone: A Creative Tribute to Shirley Jackson’s Novel The Haunting of Hill House, Succubus Press, March 2002. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

Afterword: “An Interview With The Author”, Sorties, Cathexes, and Personal Effects, Lone Wolf Publications, February 2003. Preprinted in the July 9, 2001 update of Strange Horizons. Reprinted in Strange Horizons: The Best of Year One, Lethe Press, September 2003.

“Ocean” – Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Issue #6, May 2000. Reprinted in SALT, Naked Snake Press, October 2007. Reprinted in Chimeric Machines in 2008.

“A Chat With William Peter Blatty”, Dark Planet Webzine, August 1999. Reprinted in Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide in June 2014.

“An Interview With Nancy Collins”, SF Site, February 1999.

“A Conversation With Neil Gaiman”, SF Site, February 1999.

Review of Luz, The Art of Ciruelo by Ciruelo Cabral, SF Site, 1997.

Review of Fair Peril by Nancy Springer, SF Site, 1997.

Review of The Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander, SF Site, 1997.

Review of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, SF Site, 1997.

“Newsgroup Glossary”, HMS Beagle, February 1, 1997.

“Kirkwood Observatory Has Long History at IU”, Indiana Daily Student, April 17, 1995.

“ISEC Shows Off Endangered Felines”, IDS, Sept. 24, 1994.

“IU E-Mail Becomes More Complex”, IDS, Aug. 29, 1994.

“Sunglasses Shown To Protect Eyes From Harmful UV Rays”, IDS, March 1994.

“Natural Substances Power Perfume”, IDS, Feb. 28, 1994.