Short Story Collections
Now It’s Dark, Swan River Press, 2023
You’ll Know When You Get There, Swan River Press, 2016
The Moon Will Look Strange, Karōshi Books, 2013
The Moon Will Look Strange, Undertow Publications, 2019
a limited edition hardcover reprint, first in their “Contemporary Classics” line
Awards and Nominations
Nominated, British Fantasy Award for Best Nonfiction, 2021 “Notes from the Borderland,” Black Static column, 2020
Nominated, British Fantasy Award for Best Nonfiction, 2020 “Notes from the Borderland,” Black Static column, 2019
Winner, Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story 2015 The Dying Season, Aickman’s Heirs, Undertow Press, edited by Simon Strantzas, May 2015
Reprinted in Nightmare Magazine, February 2017 (click to read for free)
Juries
Juror for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Awards
As Editor
Uncertainties III, Swan River Press, 2018
Essays
“Introduction,” Terrible Things, by David Surface, Black Shuck Books, 2020
“Introduction,” Uncertainties III, edited by Lynda. E. Rucker, Swan River Press 2018
“Introduction,” Resonance and Revolt, by Rosanne Rabinowitz, Eibonvale Press, 2018
“Introduction,” A Suggestion of Ghosts: Supernatural Fiction by Women, edited by J. A. Mains, Black Shuck Books, 2017
“On Wishing for a Nigel Kneale Childhood,” We are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale, PS Publishing, 2017
“Finding Your Voice,” Writers on Writing, vol. 4, Crystal Lake Publishing, 2016
“The Dirty South,” The H Word, Nightmare Magazine, May 2015 (click to read for free online)
“Notes from the Borderland,” Black Static column, 2013-2023 (Nominated for a British Fantasy Award, nonfiction, 2020 and 2021)
Comics
“Last Call,” OUTSIDE: An Anthology, story co-written with Sean Hogan, illustrated by Matthew Dunn, edited by Doron Hamburger and Amir Naaman, 2017
Plays
#goddess, a playlet comprising one part of The Ghost Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, performed at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London, March 7-19, 2016
Short Stories
Knots. Now It’s Dark, Swan River Press, 2023.
The Spirit and the Dust. Supernatural Tales #50, edited by David Longhorn. 2022
The Lovers. Great British Horror: The Major Arcana, edited by Steve Shaw, Black Shuck Books, September 2022
Chalk. Sea. Sand. Sky. Stone. Isolation: The Horror Anthology, edited by Dan Coxon, Titan Books, September 2022
The Dead Ways, Nightmare Abbey #1, May 2022
Der Geisterbahnhof, Beyond the Veil, edited by Mark Morris, Flame Tree Press, 2021
The Anchoress, Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Mysteries, edited by Nate Pedersen, Chaosium, 2021
Encore For an Empty Sky, Prisms, edited by Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle, PS Publishing, 2021
Miasmata, Crooked Houses, edited by Mark Beach, Egeaus Press, July 2020
This Hollow Thing,Apostles of the Weird, edited by S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing, 2020
Read on YouTube for Dead of Winter, a selection of ghost stories for Christmas, December 2021
So Much Wine, Supernatural Tales 42, edited by David Longhorn, Winter 2019
The Vestige, Nowhereville: Weird is Other People, edited by Scott Gable and C. Dombrowski, Broken Eye Books, 2019
This Crumbling Pageant, The Far Tower: Stories for W.B. Yeats, edited by Mark Valentine, Swan River Press, 2019
The Sideways Lady, Terrifying Tales to Tell At Night, edited by Stephen Jones, Sky Pony Press, 2019
Water Gate, co-written with Sean Hogan, The Lovecraft Squad: Dreaming edited by Stephen Jones, Pegasus Books, 2018
Every Exquisite Thing, The Scarlet Soul: Stories for Dorian Gray, edited by Mark Valentine, Swan River Press, 2017
Reprinted at The Dark, October 2019 (click to read for free online)
The Dublin Horror, Darker Companions, (a Ramsey Campbell tribute anthology), edited by Joe Pulver and Scott Aniolowski, PS Publishing, 2017
Stolen, A Walk on the Weird Side, edited by Joe Pulver (a charity anthology in support of Necronimicon Providence), 2017
The Unknown Chambers, Gothic Lovecraft, Cycatrix Press, edited by S.T. Joshi and Lynne Jamneck, 2017
The Old Roads, Burrow Press, October 2016 (click to read for free online)
One Little Mouth to Kiss You Goodnight, Ten Tall Tales, edited by Ian Whates, NewCon Press, September 2016
The Other Side, written with Joel Lane, Something Remains, edited by Peter Coleborn and Pauline E. Dungate, September 2016
The Haunting House, You’ll Know When You Get There, Swan River Press, 2016
Who Is This Who Is Coming? You’ll Know When You Get There, Swan River Press, 2016
Reprinted in Best New Horror #28, edited by Stephen Jones
The Seance, Uncertainties I, edited by Brian Showers, Swan River Press, August 2016
Testimony XVI, Tomorrow’s Cthulhu, Broken Eye Books, January 2016
Yellow Bird, Cassilda’s Song, Chaosium, edited by Joe Pulver, 2015
The Seventh Wave, TERROR TALES OF THE OCEAN
Reprinted in The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3, Undertow Press, edited by Simon Strantzas
Reprinted in Best New Horror, Vol. 27, PS Publishing, edited by Stephen Jones
An Element of Blank, Supernatural Tales, special anniversary 30th issue, Autumn 2015
The Secret Wood, Soliloquy for Pan, Egaeus Press, June 2015
The Dying Season, Aickman’s Heirs, Undertow Press, edited by Simon Strantzas, May 2015
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story 2015
Reprinted in Nightmare Magazine, February 2017 (click to read for free)
The Corner Lot, Dreams of Shadow and Smoke: Tales for J.S. Le Fanu, edited by Jim Rockhill & Brian J. Showers, 2014
The Receiver of Tales, Little Visible Delight, 2013
Reprinted in You’ll Know When You Get There, 2016
This Time of Day, This Time of Year, Postscripts 30/31, 2013
Reprinted in You’ll Know When You Get There, 2016
The Queen in the Yellow Wallpaper, The Burning Circus anthology from the British Fantasy Society, 2013
Reprinted in You’ll Know When You Get There, 2016
Read on YouTube for Winter Tales, December 2022
The Burned House, The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, volume 25, edited by Stephen Jones
Reprinted at Nightmare Magazine March 2015 (click to read for free online)
These Foolish Things, The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
In Death’s Other Kingdom, The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
The Wife’s Lament, Supernatural Tales #24, August 2013
Reprinted in You’ll Know When You Get There, 2016
The House on Cobb Street, Nightmare Magazine, June 2013
(Click the above link to read it for free online.)
Reprinted 2014 in Best Horror of the Year, volume 6, edited by Ellen Datlow
Reprinted in You’ll Know When You Get There, 2016
Widdershins, Shadows and Tall Trees #5, Summer 2013
Reprinted in You’ll Know When You Get There, 2016
Red at the End of the World, Daily Science Fiction, October 31, 2012
(Click the above link to read it for free online.)
Reprinted in the British Fantasy Convention Program Book 2015, edited by Peter Coleborn
Where the Summer Dwells, F&SF, September/October 2012
Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, volume 24, edited by Stephen Jones
Reprinted in You’ll Know When You Get There, 2016
The Moon Will Look Strange, Black Static #16, April 2010
Reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
Reprinted in The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
These Things We Have Always Known, Black Static #8, December 2008
Reprinted 2009 in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, volume 20, edited by Stephen Jones
Reprinted in The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
Ash-Mouth, Black Static #2, December 2007
Reprinted in The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
The Last Reel, Supernatural Tales #10, 2006
Reprinted 2007 in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18
Reprinted 2010 in Wielka Ksiega Horroru 1 (Fabryka Slów, Poland)
Podcast October 2012 at Pseudopod
Reprinted in The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
The Chance Walker, The Third Alternative #33, 2003
Reprinted in The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
No More A-Roving, Darkness Rising #1, 2001
Reprinted 2002 in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: No. 13
Reprinted in The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
Beneath the Drops, The Third Alternative #25, November 2000
Reprinted in The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
Different Angels, The Third Alternative #19, March 1999
Reprinted in The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
Reprinted in Nightmare Magazine, January 2018 (click to read for free online)
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