Short stories

“Bloodbound” — Season 1 on the Shortz app, October 2021 from Zedge.

“Dead Ringer” — Season 1 on the Shortz app, June 2021 from Zedge.

“The Nanny” — Seasons 1&2 on the Shortz app, December 2020 and March 2021 from Zedge. One of the Top Ten stories of 2020 and 2021.

“Cumberbatchelor”In League with Sherlock Holmes, December 2020 from Pegasus Crime, edited by Leslie Klinger and Laurie King.

“Dangerous Deductions”Shattering Glass, June 2020 from Nasty Woman Press, edited by Heather Graham.

“Neighborhood Watchers”Tales from the Lake, Vol. 4, October 2017 from Crystal Lake Publishing, edited by Ben Eads.

“Hey, Little Sister”Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, June 2016 from Crystal Lake Publishing, edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward.

“Harvest of Flames”Halloween Tales from Omnium Gatherum, September 2014, edited by Kate Jonez.

By the Pricking: 5 Dark Tales of Passion and Perversion, December 15, 2013. A mini-collection that contains reprints of: “Veil of Skin,” “Nickelback Ned,” “Pinned,” “This Body of Death” and “Bacchus Anesti” (unabridged).

“Saturnalia” — Blood Rites: An Invitation to Horror  from Blood Bound Books. Reprinted from Left Hanging: 9 Tales of Suspense and Thrills e-anthology, August 2011 edited by Maria Alexander (The 9×9 Project).

“Revivified” — Night Terrors II: An Anthology of Horror, January 2012 from Blood Bound Books.

     **Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Volume 5.

“Nickelback Ned” Mutation Nation anthology, December 2011 from Rainstorm Press.

“Unholywood” aka “Samantha Blazes: Psychic Detective of L.A.” — in the Hastur Pussycat, Kill! Kill! anthology, from Vox13, June 2003.

     **Preliminary Ballot for the 2003 Bram Stoker Award in Long Fiction

     **Honorable Mention in Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #17

Though Thy Lips Are Pale” — Dark Delicacies III anthology, September 2009 from Running Press. Reprinted in American Horror e-anthology, July 2011, edited by Scott Nicholson (The 9×9 Project).

     **Honorable Mention in Best Horror of the Year, Volume 2, ed. Ellen Datlow

“In Her Mirrors, Dimly” — Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet anthology, from Dark Scribe Press.

“The Last Word” — Sins of the Sirens anthology, from Dark Arts Books. Reprinted in Possessed: Spine Tingling Tales by Ten Masters of Horror e-anthology, edited by Nate Kenyon (The 9×9 Project).

     **Preliminary Ballot for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award in Short Fiction

“Pinned” —  Sins of the Sirens anthology, from Dark Arts Books.

“This Body of Death” — Lost on the Darkside anthology, from ROC Books. Reprinted in The Predatory Kind e-anthology, July 2011, edited by Joe McKinney (The 9×9 Project).

     **Preliminary Ballot for the 2005 Bram Stoker Award in Short Fiction

“Veil of Skin” — Blood Surrender anthology, from Blue Moon Books.

     **Preliminary Ballot for the 2005 Bram Stoker Award in Long Fiction

“Goodnight, Marvin” — The Anthology at the End of the Universe, from BenBella Books.

“Agnus Dei” — Spooks!, a Twilight Tales anthology. A reprint from Clocktower Books and Far Sector SFFH 2003.

When Gods Die — Gothic.net 2004, 2005. Reprinted from Horrorfind.com 2001 and Brimstone Dreams: A Horror Anthology, June 2011, edited by Joseph Nassise (The 9×9 Project).

     **Honorable Mention in Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #18

“Conspiracy of One” — Horror Carousel, Issue #1 2004. Podcasted By Tales to Terrify in September 2012.

“The Dark River in His Flesh” — Paradox Magazine, Issue #4 January 2004. Reprinted in Sins of the Sirens anthology, from Dark Arts Books.

“Some Divine” — the Songs from Dead Singers & Other Eulogies anthology, from Catalyst Press, 2002. Reprinted in Gothic Blue Book V: The Cursed Edition anthology, from Burial Day Books, October 28, 2015. Also Dust & Shadows e-anthology, August 2011, edited by Kealan Patrick Burke (The 9×9 Project)

     **Honorable Mention in Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #16

The King of Shadows — Gothic.net 2001, 2005.

     **Preliminary Ballot for 2001 Bram Stoker Award in Short Fiction

     **Honorable Mention in Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #15

     **Finalist in the 2003Moondance Film Festival Short Story Competition

Black Roses and Hail Marys — Chiaroscuro Magazine 2001. Reprinted in Gothic.net 2003, 2005.

     **Preliminary Ballot for 2001 Bram Stoker Award in Short Fiction

Bacchus Anesti — Chiaroscuro Magazine, Issue #6. December 2000.

     **5-Star Rating and Named Top Story for Issue #6 by Nuketown.

Coming Home” — Gothic.net 2000. Reprinted in Chapter & Verse HWA LA Promotional Chapbook 2002, Gothic.net 2005, and Halloween Spirits: 11 Tales for the Darkest Night e-anthology, May 2011, edited by Lisa Morton.

     **One of the Top 10 Highest-rated stories of Gothic.net in 2000.

     **Produced as a One-Act staged play reading by Women-in-Theatre and performed December 21, 2003.

     **Adapted to podcast by Pseudopod.org. (Yes, that’s me narrating and singing!) December 2011.

Pen and Ink” — Unspeakable Oath, Issue 7, 1992.

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