Maura McHugh

writing dark visions from the West of Ireland

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  • ABOUT MAURA
    • Art & Photography
    • Press
    • Credits
    • Education
    • Events
    • News
    • Reviews
    • WOMEN IN COMICS
  • BOOKS
    • Psyche
    • The Boughs Withered
    • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
    • Twisted Fairy Tales
    • Twisted Myths
  • COMICS
  • FICTION
    • Bone Mother
    • For Rob
    • The Garden of Death
    • Jennifer Wilde
    • The Love of Small Appliances
    • Pay the Toll
    • Tattoo Destiny
    • Water
    • Who Hears Our Cries in Forgotten Tongues?
  • Contact

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Maura McHugh

A writer of prose, comic books, plays, non-fiction and other media, specialising in horror/science fiction.

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  • Folklore Horror Anthology

    1 April 2026 /

    My short story ‘Face me. In Darkness.’ will appear in the Flame Tree Publishing Folklore Horror antholgoy.

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  • ‘Raptor’ nominated for World Fantasy Award

    8 July 2025 /

    My story 'Raptor' has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award in the Best Short Fiction category. It was published in Heartwood, an anthology edited by Dan Coxon and published by PS Publishing.

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  • Heartwood

    20 July 2024 /

    My story 'Raptor' is in the forthcoming anthology, Heartwood, a tribute to the Mythago Wood novels by Robert Holdstock.

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  • Life Pay

    11 May 2022 /

    My story 'Life Pay' is available to read online in the 'Futures' section of Nature magazine.

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  • One of the Shadow Voices

    21 October 2021 /

    My short story 'The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams' will be reprinted in the forthcoming anthology, Shadow Voices: 300 Years of Irish Genre Fiction: A History in Stories, edited by John Connolly.

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  • Gravedirt Mouth

    14 September 2021 /

    My short story 'Gravedirt Mouth' is in The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror, edited by Stephen Jones and published by Skyhorse Publishing.

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  • Story in Night Land Quarterly 25

    11 August 2021 /

    My story, 'The Light at the Centre', has been translated into Japanese and appears in the journal, Night Land Quarterly, volume 25.

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  • Pay the Toll

    29 December 2020 /

    My flash horror story, 'Pay the Toll', is the 29th of December entry in the Sinister Horror Company's creepy Advent Calendar.

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  • The Best of British Fantasy 2019 is out now

    30 June 2020 /
    The Best of British Fantasy 2019

    My story ‘Wake the Dead' is in The Best of British Fantasy 2019, edited by Jared Shurin, which is published today.

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  • ‘Wake the Dead’ in The Best of British Fantasy 2019

    17 April 2020 /
    The Best of British Fantasy 2019

    My short story 'Wake the Dead' has been selected for The Best of British Fantasy 2019, edited by Jared Shurin. It is now available for pre-order.

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