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Once again proud to have one of my stories read by the great Drew Blood as part of his channel, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights. You can listen here.

 

Hey, my first con visit is booked! I’m going to the first annual Zervcon, hosted by WB Zervis of The Zervis Department. Zervis recently published The Terrousel of Unimaginable Horror and the Egregious Dismanting of Reality, which features stories from Coy Hall, Matt Wildasin, and Michael Sellars.

The con takes place in Cape Cod on October 5th and 6th. I’ll be there slinging books and I hope to see you there! Also, this portrait was made as a promotional image for the con and goddamn it, I love it.

It’s here! You can pick up the sequel to Apartment 239, which also acts as a standalone novel, everywhere books are sold! Seriously, you name. Ingram Sparks and beyond! Here’s some deets:

The end starts here! High Strangeness is a standalone tale of cosmic horror that also continues the story of Apartment 239. The lone survivor of a massacre and a trio that buy and sell haunted houses must team up to stop the apocalypse. Before you start the novel grab the FREE short story and get introduced to Haze, the Corpse Walker!

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I got the chance to be interviewed on a brand-new horror podcast called Unveiling Nightmares! The host, Crystal Baynam, is fantastic and a huge fan of all things dark and strange. It was a lot of fun, here’s a link!

Every year horror author Patrick Tumblety unleashes his audio series, The October Children. Stories and poems all centered around Halloween and the spooky season. My short Halloween Heretics was featured in the season finale, check it out here.

Did you know I wrote a children’s book? Not only that, it’s being published through Cemetery Gates Media, a publisher I so excited to work with. For ages 5 to 9, this follows a girl named Hazel who is dared to cross a cemetery on Halloween night. She’s guided along the way by four strange stories, and some unexpected friends. There’s a lot of personal things here, I grew up by Desert Creek, and the The Zookeeper location is based on an area where my friends and I played in the early 90s. Pet Spider was written years ago for my kids, and I made a book of it for them. There’s on crumbling copy remaining at my house of that one. Honestly, a walk around the cemetery was something I often did with family as a kid. Seemed perfectly normal to me, but my wife, who is amazing and helped with tons of advice on this book, informed it was in fact not that normal. Anyway, the closest comparison I can give this is Alvin Schwartz’s In A Dark, Dark Room. I hope you enjoy it! Paperback and eBook available here.

Hungry Shadow Press has another killer anthology coming out! This one features stories about the first minutes of the apocalypse, the immediate seconds after the shit hits the fan. I have a story in it title When the Horizon Burns, and it’s the darkest thing I’ve written (so far at least). Plus, stories from Taryn Martinez, Carson Winter, D. Matthew Urban, Sara Tantlinger, Alex Fox, Tiffany Michelle Brown, Angela Sylvaine, M. Lopes da Silva, Andrew Cull, Ruth Anna Evans, Wendy N. Wagner, Gwendolyn Kiste, Olen Crowe, Brittany Johnston, Elou Carroll, Nick Bouchard, L. Marie Wood, W. Dale Jordan, Elford Alley, Chris Mason, Matthew M. Bartlett, Madison McSweeney, Rae Knowles, RJ Joseph, Emma E. Murray, V. Castro, Eoin Murphy, and J.A.W. McCarthy.

That’s a lot of awesome! You can preorder right here. Plus, that cover. Damn. Brandon Applegate edits a mean anthology, and you should read his short story collection too.

I’ve been dying to check out this anthology and it’s finally here! This contains my story The Knock-Knock House, but it also contains fiction and nonfiction from an incredible selection of authors. It’s also edited by Joe Sullivan and Joe Provine, who have been assembling this for the past year-and-a-half. Provine has written a ton of Oklahoma ghost story books, which I have obsessively read since relocating there. Seriously, if you love ghost stories, spooky folklore, and urban legends, this is a must-read.