• A Cursed Story

    18 October 2019 /

    I'll have a story in the forthcoming Cursed anthology, edited by Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan, coming from Titan Books in March 2020.

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  • The Boughs Withered Launch

    29 July 2019 /

    My collection, The Boughs Withered (When I Told Them My Dreams), will be part of a launch at Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon of a number of NewCon Press titles, from 17.30 to 18.30 on Saturday, 17 August. It's taking place at the Point Square Dublin, Warehouse 2 performance space. All members of Worldcon are welcome!

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  • The 70s & 80s Horror Mixtape

    25 February 2019 /

    For Mark West's 70s & 80s Horror Mixtape I picked 'In The Squalus' by Kit Reed, which was originally published in 1972 in The Transatlantic Review.

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  • New collection from NewCon Press

    17 January 2019 /

    NewCon Press in the UK will be publishing the first collection of my original short stories. It will contain a mixture of previously published work along with new stories, with an introduction by Kim Newman. The collection is called The Boughs Withered (When I Told Them my Dreams), and is scheduled to be launched at Worldcon in Dublin in August 2019.

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  • Best New Horror #28

    10 November 2017 /

    Here’s the cover for Best New Horror #28, edited by Stephen Jones. My short story ‘The Light at the Centre’ is in it – the story was originally published in Uncertainties Vol. 1, edited by Brian J. Showers, and published by Swan River Press. Here’s the table of contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Horror in 2016 – The Editor Pale Tree House – Angela Slatter The Light at the Centre – Maura McHugh En Plein Air – J.T. Glover India Blue – Glen Hirshberg Walking with the Cross – Peter Bell Bedtime Story – Richard Christian Matheson The Symphony of the Normal – Darren Speegle The Ballet of Dr. Caligari – Reggie…

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  • ‘Y’ in Eyedolon 1

    1 November 2017 /

    I’m really pleased to say that my short story ‘Y’ is appearing in issue 1 of Eyedolon (‘Toward a Weirder Tomorrow’), a new online anthology series from Broken Eye Books, edited by Scott Gable. If you wish to read the work and/or subscribe to the series, you can join its Patreon. Here’s the ToC for the first issue: “It’s 84 pages with four stories: Maura McHugh’s “Y,” a very personal apocalypse S.P. Miskowski’s “Patio Wing Monsters,” a quizzical tale of convalescence Matthew M. Bartlett’s “Who Beareth the Body,” mindbending small-town horror (part 1 of the serial The Obsecration) Joe Pulver’s “The Package from Desertshore,” a surreal and poetic novelette (part…

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  • The Light at the Centre in Best New Horror #28

    3 August 2017 /

    My short story ‘The Light at the Centre’ has been selected by editor Stephen Jones for his Best New Horror #28 anthology. I’m delighted! It was first published in Uncertainties Vol. 1 by editor Brian Showers for Swan River Press (and still available for purchase).

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