Long Fiction
DreamScape
Science Fiction (81,000 words). Published in October 2023.
If you fall deep enough down the rabbit hole, how will you even know when you’ve made it out?
When teenage runaway Wren Silver’s little sister gets lost in the DreamScape, a virtual world so addictive its use has been outlawed, the prognosis is bad. Nobody who’s fallen into a coma while using the DreamScape has ever recovered.
Realising her only chance to save her sister is to venture in after her, Wren logs into the DreamScape to discover a bizarre, lawless world presided over by two self-proclaimed ‘gods’. Convinced one of them has captured her sister and is using her in his attempt to attain immortality, Wren must seek the help of a cult acolyte and an elusive rock star in order to unmask the god’s true identity before her sister is lost for good.
DREAMSCAPE is a dark cyberpunk Alice in Wonderland tale full of colourful characters that merges the fantastical settings of Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus with the neon-gothic vibes of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Certain Dark Things.
Attack of the Killer Tumbleweeds
Sci-fi horror (28,000 words). Self-published in May 2023.
They came! They rolled! They shredded!
Nothing can stop the killer tumbleweeds when they descend on Las Vegas!
Starring Dean Valentine, and introducing Glitter, the most stunning showgirl on the strip. You won’t want to miss ATTACK OF THE KILLER TUMBLEWEEDS!
Showing in all good movie theaters now.
Marionette
Erotic Gothic horror (27,000 words). Published by Brigid’s Gate Press, August 2022.
Short Fiction
“Skinprint” — Sci-fi horror (2,300 words). Forthcoming in Learning to be Human by Flame Tree Press, due January 2024.
“Belonging” — Literary fiction (980 words). First published in Querencia Press Autumn 2023 anthology, October 2023.
“Personification” — Science fiction (2,500 words). First published in FISSION 3 by the British Science Fiction Association, September 2023.
“The Girl With the Golden Heart” — Dark fantasy (4,600 words). First published in The Dark Side of Purity by Band of Bards, summer 2023.
“Ondine’s Curse” — Gothic / folk horror (2,000 words). First published in Dangerous Waters: Deadly Women of the Sea by Brigid’s Gate Press, January 2023.
“Crimson Noon” — Horror Western (4,800 words). First published in Blood in the Soil, Terror on the Wind by Brigid’s Gate Press, August 2022.
“This Time” — Speculative romance (2,850 words). First published in Orchid’s Lantern’s Abyss: Stories of Depth, Time and Infinity anthology, May 2022.
“Papillion” — Historical horror (2,000 words). First published in Dark Recesses Press Webzine, April 2022.
“Spellbound” — Horror (4,700 words). First published in SLASH-HER by Kandisha Press, March 2022.
“Tending” — Supernatural / Gothic (2,500 words). First published in The Quiet Ones, Vol. 0 Issue 1, October 2021.
“How to Summon a Succubus” — Horror comedy / satire (1,000 words). First published in Dose of Dread Magazine, October 2021.
“Attack of the Killer Tumbleweed!” — Horror comedy (5,000 words). First published in Midnight from Beyond the Stars by Silver Shamrock Publishing, September 2021.
“Static” — Sci-fi horror (1,500 words). First published in COLP – Underground by Gypsum Sound Tales, May 2021.
“Transmission” — Horror (3,600 words). First published in Banned by Black Hare Press, November 2020.
“Man O’War” and “The Same Deep Water As You” — Horror (100 words each). First published in Oceans: A Dark Microfiction Anthology by Black Hare Press, April 2020.
Poetry
The Patron — Chapbook, forthcoming from Querencia Press, date TBC.
“invader”, “starlight”, “mannequin; or, the girl with the enamel eyes” and “this is a happy house” — First published in Not Ghosts But Spirits Vol. II by Querencia Press, April 2023.
“laundry” — First published in Under Her Eye by Blackspot Books, November 2023.
“happiness is a bitter fruit” — First published in The Dark Side of Purity by Band of Bards, summer 2023.
“proserpine” — First published in Under Her Skin by Blackspot Books, April 2022.
Non-Fiction
“The Fractured Woman: Identity, Neurodiversity, and Horror in Last Night in Soho and Malignant” — Personal essay (2,200 words). First published in Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror Volume 2, 2023
“Strange Bedfellows: Horror and the Erotic Through the Ages” — Non-fiction article (830 words). First published in Hear Us Scream, June 2022.
“We Are the Weirdos: My Love Affair With Horror” — Personal essay (3,200 words). First published in The Quiet Ones, Vol. 1 Issue 1, February 2022.
“Why Gothic?”: Foreword for In Somnio: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror — Non-fiction (400 words). First published in In Somnio from Tenebrous Press, November 2021.