The Disappearance of Tom Nero
(Spooky House Press, May 2023)
During an investigation into the impossible disappearance of a friend, a young man searches for answers—as he learns more about the circumstances of his friend’s vanishing, the re-emergence of a metatextual horror from legend puts not just him and his new lover in jeopardy . . . but might also endanger even the reader screbselves . . .
[out of print; reissue coming soon. contact author for more details.]
short stories
THE GLORIOUS
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Ninth Letter
(Featured Writer #127, March 2026)
The story you are about to read may have been generated by an LLM, which, for those of you who don’t know, is a Large Language Model, or what most people refer to as “A.I.,” or Artificial Intelligence. The problem is that you can’t tell the difference. You can guess, analyzing your own experience with the stilted, formulaic tone of AI against the feeling you get when you read great literature—that swelling of emotion which only comes from experiencing true human art. You can count em dashes, like a monkey attempting to count stars by how they smell. You can even try to clock ridiculous similes or metaphors, like the ones that strain the limits of association to sheer absurdism...
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We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower
(independently published, October 2025)
In the face of the cochineal ruin, I stumbled backward and fell to my knees before it, unwillingly. Any casual observer might’ve labeled it supplication, or obeisance, but it was neither of these things. I simply froze in this position, afraid to move further for fear I would draw its attention, for fear it would move again, perhaps this time even crushing me entirely with its bulk . . .
The Nightmare-Eater
Cosmic Horror Monthly
(Issue #49, July 2024)
reading advisory: suicide
There is nothing like the deep, venison-red cut of bad dreams . . .
Heavy Rain
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PseudoPod
(Episode #915, April 2024)
reading advisory: suicide
Howls from the Wreckage
(HOWL Society Press, June 2023)
It lasts for approximately ten minutes before the body parts stop raining from the sky, but it takes much, much longer than that to get over the shock of what’s happened. . .
Lack
Collage Macabre: an Exhibition of Art Horror
(Future Dead Collective, April 2023)
It was then the thought occurred to me that I was not in control of my expression, nor of my reaction, to the painting. My grimace was being drawn out of me by the painting itself. It goaded me, prodded at me, with an invisible poker, as if its primary goal was to elicit some sort of pain in the viewer. . .
Old Man Vreen
The Old Ways: Volume 1
(Eerie River Publishing, February 2023)
“So, the mayor got together all the men in the whole town and they went into them woods, and they done dragged Old Man Vreen out by the scruff. Hanged him right out there.” The bartender pointed past Colson, toward the door. “Right in front of town hall, on that big oak. No cops, no courts. Just a rope, and Old Man Vreen at the end of it . . .”
flash fiction & poetry
Chosen
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PseudoPod
(Episode #955, December 2024)
Howls from the Scene of the Crime
(HOWL Society Press, May 2024)
Chosen (voices)
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(performed by Chris O’Halloran, Jessica Peter, Erik McHatton, Timaeus Bloom, and Eliza Broadbent; May 2024)
limited booklet, for StokerCon 2026
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What we did . . . was it a crime, if we couldn’t remember it?
Stasis
The NoSleep Podcast
(Season 19, Episode 6; March 2023)
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(begins at 1:03:20)
Out of curiosity, you try to lift your left hand. You can see where it lays, pudgy and fleshy, a white-pink lump, quiescent, on your thigh. You communicate with your brain to your fingers, to your pinky, to twitch, to spasm, but nothing happens . . .
(originally published in Coffin Bell Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 1; January 2021)
such small crimes
pidgeonholes (January 2023)
. . . and I went slam-shut quiet and something turned in my stomach like a key in a lock and something hot grew in my throat and my face started to prickle . . .
dread (poem)
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Nightmare
(Issue #135, December 2023)
I do not know if it is a curse, or a lullaby.
Perhaps it is both…
O My Heart, Curled Like a Fist Around Ropes of Blood
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Crow & Cross Keys (February 2023)
three poems: “the seafarer’s wife,” “dissever,” and “harvest”
and the blank-eyed men
are out again,
pious saints of discord
with melted-wax faces
& grasping fingers . . .
microfiction & hybrid work
Exhibits…
Brave New Weird, vol. 4
(Tenebrous Press, July 2026)
Archive of the Odd
(Issue #5: Cogito Error, March 2025)
Full title: Exhibits; or, a Scrap of Paper (Found in Room 2 of the Tyche Motel1, Discovered Clenched in the Charred Fist of the Body of Minor Ames, 64, Male, of Haveland, CT (deceased)) Beginning in Mid-Sentence, and Ending Mid-Word, the Rest Burned and Unreadable2), a Miscellanea of Physical Evidence Associated with the Crimes Committed by the Accused, and Selected & Relevant Entries from the Journal of the Accused3
The Burglar
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Terrify Me! (Halloween special, October 2022)
It wasn’t until my sister discovered that one of her dolls was missing that I realized what had been stolen that night . . .
Cherry-Grief Soup (Chilled)
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Deathcap & Hemlock (September 2022)
Only use family heirloom spoons to eat, and between each mouthful, make sure you whisper the appropriate prayer (see Great-Aunt Lois’ Book of Prayers for the Hours . . .)
Some Verses Regarding the Township (and Immediate Environs) of Bear Creek
archived here
The Bear Creek Gazette
(Issue #10, July 2022)
As to the fifth verse, we can only guess at what is meant. There is an ominous quality about the word “harrowhound,” though we have heard the baying in the woods around Bear Creek at night, and we do sometimes wonder what creature’s throat could possibly conjure up that noise . . .
a robbery
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Complete Sentence (November 2021)
. . . he digs through the drawers*; he rifles through the shelves†; even steals the keys to the apartment‡ . . .
The Creative Writing Assignment
Drabbledark II
(Shacklebound Books, May 2022)
The paper’s face is as barren as a clock’s. I can hear my eyes ticking in my skull.
other
What the Dead Can Say
by Philip Graham
Narration of an excerpt from Chapter 18, “His Own Waldo,” for Philip Graham, as part of the Jennyverse Chorus.