My own special “Robert Swartwood” theme at Swedish Zombie concludes today with the publication of an original short story called “The Hunter.” As I noted before, the story takes place in the world of The Dishonored Dead and is, in many ways, a “prequel of sorts” to the novel. It delves more into Philip’s backstory [...]
The Best of Every Day Fiction Three is now available, which features my story “Multiplicity” along with 99 other fine stories published last year at Every Day Fiction, including stories by K.C. Ball, Gay Degani, Ben Loory, Aaron Polson, and many more. Many thanks to Camille Gooderham Campbell and Steven Smethurst and Carol Clark for [...]
I have a new story up at Dark Sky Magazine called “The Honeymooners.” It’s a story inspired by this news article. A few weeks ago Kevin Murphy, the editor and publisher of Dark Sky Magazine, emailed me asking if I would be interested in participating in a kind of, well, literary experiment. As he said: [...]
ChiZine has recently gone through a major revamp, and to celebrate, this month they’re offering a mega-issue, an issue so large that they’re releasing sets of fiction and poetry every week. The stories and poems in this particular mega-issue have been donated by previous contributors. Some are rare reprints, others are originals. So far they’ve [...]
My story “In the Land of the Blind” won the 10th Annual Chiaroscuro Short Story Contest and was published at ChiZine in 2004. It was reprinted just last year in the first volume of The Best New Zombie Tales, edited by James Roy Daley. Most importantly, it was the inspiration for my forthcoming nontraditional zombie thriller The [...]
The March issue of PANK has gone live, featuring a slew of writers and poets, including me with my story “Crash Test Dummy.” The story is literally about a crash test dummy. It was also a runner-up last year for PANK‘s second annual 1,001 Awesome Words Contest. So be sure to check it out. Below I [...]
Yesterday I announced the new website where you can read my pulpy horror novelette Through the Guts of a Beggar for free. Well, it’s funny how things work out sometimes. I was talking to David B. Silva about him posting an announcement on Hellnotes about the new site, and we got to talking and as [...]
