Short Fiction, Writing

Showcasing my Dark Fiction

As it is Women in Horror Month, I thought I might celebrate of my own dark fiction stories and provide a "behind the scenes look" at the folklore, legends and history that inspire my writing and a few live readings from some of my work. Let's kick this off with my paranormal story "Hunting Shadows"… Continue reading Showcasing my Dark Fiction

Short Fiction, Writing

Forthcoming: Paranormal Anthology

Bones (Five Hundred Fiction, #4) Pleased to announce my flash fiction story "The Bones of a Dead God" will feature in Bones (Five Hundred Fiction, #4) to be published in 2021 by Black Hare Press! All flash fiction in this anthology is inspired by dark pagan themes. My story โ€œThe Bones of a Dead Godโ€… Continue reading Forthcoming: Paranormal Anthology

Short Fiction, Writing

Forthcoming: Supernatural Anthology

Haunt (Five Hundred Fiction, #6) Pleased to announce my flash fiction story "The Haunted Ones" will feature in Haunt (Five Hundred Fiction, #6) to be published in 2021 by Black Hare Press! All flash fiction in this anthology is inspired by the theme of hauntings. Release dates and how to purchase a copy of the… Continue reading Forthcoming: Supernatural Anthology

Short Fiction, Writing

Forthcoming: Horror Microfiction

Very pleased to announce the acceptance of two Horror microfictions into April Horrors anthology to be published by Raven and Drake Publishing. If youโ€™re curious about the folklore I have researched for my microfiction pieces โ€œNeropantsโ€and โ€œThe Devlโ€™s Fool.โ€, you can find out more here! More details will follow soon on the release date for… Continue reading Forthcoming: Horror Microfiction

Short Fiction

Horror, History & Folklore

While itโ€™s Women in Horror Month, Iโ€™ve been researching gothic and dark folklore themes. Hereโ€™s a few of the diverse research topics I encountered including the history of witchcraft and an Icelandic folklore sure to make your skin crawl. Witchcraft: the Devilโ€™s Influence Accusations of witchcraft have a long history. The era of associated with… Continue reading Horror, History & Folklore

events, Writing

Women in Horror Month

February is Women in Horror Month! What began, and essentially still is, a movement to celebrate and highlight female creators in the horror genre. There has been a tradition of women writing horror long before Mary Shelleyโ€™s Frankenstein but female horror writers continue to remain in the shadows compared to their male counterparts. There are… Continue reading Women in Horror Month

Short Fiction

Forthcoming: Horror Anthology

Pleased to announce my next psychological horror short story "The Monster" will feature in Gluttony (Seven Deadly Sins, #6) to be published in 2021 by Black Hare Press! All short fiction in the anthology is inspired by the theme of gluttony "an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires." Gluttony (Seven Deadly… Continue reading Forthcoming: Horror Anthology

Short Fiction

The Wendigo & Dark Fiction

Another of my recent work-in-progress short fiction pieces, has been a dark fiction story inspired by wendigo psychosis an unusual form of โ€˜cultural psychosisโ€™ specific to First Nations peoples of Canadian-North American Great Lakes regions where belief in a supernatural being, the wendigo, provides a unique cultural framework for a psychosis. This psychosis has specific… Continue reading The Wendigo & Dark Fiction

Recent Reads

Mexican Gothic

From the Blurb: โ€œAfter receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemรญ Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. Sheโ€™s not sure what she will findโ€”her cousinโ€™s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemรญ knows little about… Continue reading Mexican Gothic

Short Fiction

Forthcoming: Horror Anthology

I am pleased to announce my horror story "Them" will feature in Wrath (Seven Deadly Sins, #7) Anthology published by Black Hare Press. As with other stories in this anthology, Wrath is the common theme. My short story "Them" is a psychological horror, inspired by history of criminal theory and demonic possession where aberrant psychology… Continue reading Forthcoming: Horror Anthology