Halloween stories out now

Hello beautiful people,

I had a great time speaking to and with the Bottomless Book Club in Cork at the weekend. I gave an informal talk about my writing process, my work, and how my history and journalism work intersects with my horror stuff, plus a few thoughts on the subject while the club discussed Shirley Jackson’s beautiful Haunting of Hill House.

Meanwhile, I have two stories out now in Halloween anthologies from Wicked Shadow Press.

Flash of the Dead: Halloween ’24

You can read my piece of flash fiction, ‘Grave Tidings’, in Flash of the Dead: Halloween ’24. It’s about a paranormal and occult fixer, Liam Kincaid, who spends the night dealing with the ghosts in the Famine graveyard outside Skibbereen.

Halloweenthology: Witches’ Brew

Meanwhile, ‘Lantern Jack’ is out in Halloweenthology: Witches’ Brew, and is about two girls hoping to catch a glimpse of a folk figure while they watch the trick or treaters.

I’ve also got a piece of contemporary flash fiction, ‘Family Tree’, in the anthology Mono No Aware: the book is themed around the Japanese concept of the awareness of transcience and being softly sad about it passing.

Want to read my pieces but not able to buy the books? I got you. Mail me and I can send on the PDF, as the publisher has encouraged us to share.

Two more pieces have been accepted and are in the pipeline: one for CultureCult’s Haunted Haus anthology (this one also features Liam Kincaid, who is a recent creation of mine) and another for Wicked Shadow’s Petting Boo collection of animal-related horror stories.

More publishing news coming soon.