Publications/Free Reads

POETRY:

  • “House Calls”  Love Letters to Poe, Vol. II: Houses of Usher (August 2022)
  • “Comparatively Harrowing” (an original publication to this website, 12/31/20)
  • “Occult Beverages” (an original publication to this website, 10/30/19)
  • “In Grave Condition” (an original publication to this website, 4/1/18)
  • “Cystemic” (an original publication to this website, 3/9/18)
  • “Thought Crime”  The Five-Two (January 15, 2018)  FREE READ
  • “The Gunman’s Oxymorons” (an original publication to this website, 12/28/17)
  • “Hex Machina”  Eye to the Telescope #22 (October 2016 “Ghosts” issue)   FREE READ
  • “Freak Seeker”  Grievous Angel (August 2015)  FREE READ
  • “e-ldritch”  StarLine 35.3 (July-Sept. 2012)  FREE READ
  • “Gourd Mortality”  A Handful of Stones (November 2010); reprinted in Autumn Lauds
  • “Depilatorio”  Paper Crow 1.1 (Spring/Summer 2010)  FREE READ
  • “A Trojan House”  Champagne Shivers #6 (2010)  FREE READ
  • “Cold Calling”; “Cutting Remarks”  Death in Common: Poems from Unlikely Victims (2009)  FREE READ
  • “Bed and Breakfast”  Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes (2009)  FREE READ
  • “Small Bites”  (originally posted to the Macabre Republic blog 5/14/2013)  FREE READ
  • “Deadbugs”  (originally posted to the Macabre Republic blog 7/12/2012)  FREE READ
  • “Hunger Striking”  (originally posted to the Macabre Republic blog 5/4/2012)  FREE READ
  • “Other People”  (originally posted to the Macabre Republic blog 12/31/2011)  FREE READ
  • “Babysitter Chagrin”  (originally posted to the Macabre Republic blog 7/14/2011)  FREE READ
  • “Dielect”  (originally posted to the Macabre Republic blog 1/22/11)  FREE READ

FICTION:

  • “Blood Born”  And the Dead Shall Sleep No More, Vol. II (October 2022)
  • “Theater Crowd”  Terrifying Ghosts (June 2021)
  • “Scourge to Multiply” (an original publication to this website, 9/8/20)
  • “Gothic American”  American Gothic Short Stories (May 2019)
  • “Liquor Treat” (an original publication to this website, 10/31/18)
  • “Gamechanger” (an original publication to this website, 10/8/18)
  • “Nicked” (an original publication to this website, 12/24/17)
  • “Preoccupied” (an original publication to this website, 12/1/17)
  • “Hammered Home” (an original publication to this website, 10/28/17)
  • “Clown’s Syndrome”  Clowns: The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix (2016)  FREE READ
  • “Portality”  DarkFuse Magazine: DarkBorne Muse #3 (2016)  FREE READ
  • “Beholder”  Creepy Campfire Quarterly #3 (July 2016)  FREE READ
  • “Pumpkin Chunker”  Dark Discoveries #30 [“Horror in a Hundred”] (Winter 2015)
  • “Verbapeutic”  Lovecraft eZine #22 (February 2013)  FREE READ
  • “Primal”  Poe Little Thing Presents: In Space No One Can Hear You Scream (2011)
  • “The Day After Halloween”  Jack-o’-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (2011)
  • “The Last Generation”  The Zombie Feed Volume 1 (2011)   FREE READ
  • “Bash”  Fearology  (2011)
  • “Flash Flood”  Untied Shoelaces of the Mind #3 (2011)  FREE READ
  • “Griptide”  Necrotic Tissue #14 (April 2011)  FREE READ
  • “Atrophiad”  Shroud #8 (Winter 2010)  FREE READ
  • “Two For Flinching”  DF-Underground (October 2010)
  • “Beside Himself”  52 Stitches (September 2010)  FREE READ
  • “Something There Is”  Pseudopod #166 (October 30, 2009) LISTEN HERE  FREE READ
  • “Midnights Drearier”  Damnation Books (2009)  FREE READ
  • “Eye Candy”  Three Crow Press (February 2009)
  • “Rotgut”  Harvest Hill: 31 Tales of Halloween Horror (2009)

NONFICTION:

  • “Sweeney Todd: Music to Our Fears”  Butcher Knives & Body Counts: Essays on the Formula, Frights, & Fun of the Slasher Film (2011)  FREE READ
  • “Haunting Anniversary: A Half-Century of Hill House  The Internet Review of Science Fiction (February 2010)  FREE READ

ACADEMIC:

  • Critical Carnival: Cyberpunk and the Postmodern Condition(al)  Doctoral Dissertation (defended “With Distinction,” October 2003, New York University)
  • “Marlowe in Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Revision of Chandler”  Studies in the Novel (Fall 2003)
  • “Backtrack to the Future: John E. Stith’s/John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer  Extrapolation (Spring 2001)
  • “The Horror! The Horror? The Appropriation, and Reclamation, of Native American Mythology”  Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (Fall 2000)
  • “Enter Touchstone: Manners of Comedy in James’s The Europeans  Henry James Review (Spring 1997)