Two pieces of awesome news in one here! First up, Surreal Nightmares II (published by James Ward Kirk Publishing) – containing my short story The Dog Walker – is now available on Amazon in print and on kindle. It sits in good company beside other surrealist horror stories and mind-bending poetry. Secondly, The Dog Walker … More Read The Dog Walker in Surreal Nightmares II / Editor’s choice award
It’s been a good start to 2018 for me, with a horror short story of mine, The Dog Walker, being accepted for the second volume of the Surreal Nightmares anthology by James Ward Kirk Fiction. Surreal Nightmares II is a collection of surrealist horror stories and poetry, and is sure to be full to the … More Surreal Nightmares II
Around summertime I joined up with fantasy website Aether & Ichor as a guest editor. Now, one of the first pieces I worked on with them has been published, and you can check it out on the A&I website here. The Tattoo by Rick Brooks is the story of slimy corporate fixer, womaniser, and all-round … More The Tattoo by Rick Brooks on Aether & Ichor
Hera sat beneath the reindeer skeleton. It was made of aluminium and flashing fairy lights; its innards were red and gold baubles. It towered three metres above, from bolted-down hoof to the tip of its great antlers, where the electric cable fed into the window of the department store. And in the space between its … More The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
McKinney got the football for Christmas. It arrived on the 24th, last post till after New Year. John got chocolate and a card. He ate half the bar in one go, then gave the rest away, brick by brick. He kept the card under his tin hat. They sang hymns that morning, Christmas Day. They … More War is Over
I was in New York last December on holiday. Following both guide book recommendations and obvious curiosity I visited McSorley’s Old Ale House on East 7th Street in Manhattan. There’s no relation here, just coincidence. Inside, it hasn’t changed much since John McSorley (my father’s name, another coincidence) opened it in 1854. The unvarnished wooden … More Folktale of New York
Unfortunately, Pista was also a weedy kid. He was poor, wore ragged second-hand clothes, had sallow skin like a Romani, had no parents, and lived in the orphanage on Rubik Utca in the eighth district. Each of these alone was reason enough to make him a target. But, unfortunately, Pista was also a weedy kid. … More Miracle on Rubik Utca
Ho! Ho! Ho! In the sprit of the season I’m releasing a free ebook of Christmas horror stories. In a tradition that dates back to the Victorians – and mostly carried on today in films – people would gather around the fireplace on Christmas Eve and terrify each other with tales of ghosts and goblins … More Something was Stirring: Seasonal Tales of Horror
A copy of the new issue of Grasslimb Journal dropped through my door today, and you can now have one too! My short story, Green Fire, appears on then back page of the current issue, Vol. 15 No. 2, along with other great stories, poems and cartoons. Click here to read it.
I’m excited to be joining fantasy story site Aether & Ichor as a guest editor! Based in Edinburgh, they publish short stories from writers all over the world and back in October 2016 they were kind enough to publish one of mine – Naoko. Now on the other side of the desk, I’m looking for urban fantasy … More Aether & Ichor
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