Publications

My work has been published in the following places, in chronological order (oldest-newest)

Short Story Collections:

“Sing Your Sadness Deep” – Undertow Publications (August 2019) [Winner of the 2020 British Fantasy Awards in the ‘Best Collection’ category]

Novellas:

“Naming the Bones” – Dark Minds Novella (Dark Minds Press) – July 2017 (reviewed in Locus Magazine, February 2018) [Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards 2018 in the ‘Best Novella’ category]

“On The Shoulders of Otava” – Absinthe Books (PS Publishing) – December 2020

Short Fiction:

“Red Rabbit” – Shadows and Tall Trees #4 (Undertow Publications) – Autumn 2012

“When Charlie Sleeps” – Black Static #37 (TTA Press) – November 2013. [Reprinted in Best British Horror 2014 (Salt Publishing) – May 2014]

“Ptichka” – Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease (Gray Friar Press) – September 2014 [Shortlisted for 2 British Fantasy Awards in 2015 in the ‘Best Short Story’ and ‘Best Newcomer’ categories]

“The Grey Men” – Black Static #45 (TTA Press) – March 2015

“The Fragility Of Flesh” – Wild Things: Thirteen Tales of Therianthropy (Black Shuck Books) – August 2015

“Obsidian” – Obsidian: A Decade Of Horror Stories By Women (NewCon Press) – January 2016

“The Looking Glass Girl” – Ten: Thou Shalt Not (Tickety Boo Press) April 2016

“Terry In The Bed By The Window” – The Black Room Manuscripts Volume Two (Sinister Horror Company) July 2016

“Strange As Angels” – Great British Horror 1: Green and Pleasant Land (Black Shuck Books) – September 2016

“Sun Dogs” – Shadows & Tall Trees vol. 7 (Undertow Publications) May 2017 [Reprinted in Best British Horror 2018 (Newcon Press)] [Reprinted in The Dark Magazine] [Reviewed at Kirkus Reviews] [Shortlisted for the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award in the Novelette category]

“In The Marrow” – Imposter Syndrome (Dark Minds Press) – November 2017

“Looking for Laika” – Interzone #273 (TTA Press) – November 2017 [Longlisted for the BFSA Awards 2017 in the ‘Best Shorter Fiction’ category] / [Reprinted in Best of British Science Fiction 2017 (Newcon Press)] / [Winner of the 2018 British Fantasy Award in the ‘Best Short Story’ category]

“Nightswimming” – Primogen: Origin of Monsters (Stitched Smile Publications) – February 2018

“Letters from Elodie” – New Fears 2 (Titan Books) – September 2018

“人間” (“Ningen”) – standalone Kindle short (Darker Worlds Publishing) October 2018

“Lady Grinning Soul” – Burdizzo Mix Tape Volume One (Burdizzo Books) – August 2019

“In The City of Bones” – original to Sing Your Sadness Deep (Undertow Publications) – August 2019

“The Pain-Eater’s Daughter” – original to Sing Your Sadness Deep (Undertow Publications) – August 2019 [Reprinted in Best Horror of the Year 12] [Winner of the 2020 British Fantasy Awards in the ‘Best Short Story’ Category] [translated into Spanish at Cuentos para Algernon]

“The Night Parade” – Wonderland (Titan Books) – September 2019 (reprinted in Dreamland by Black Shuck Books)

“Lonely Souls in Quiet Houses” – Out of the Darkness (Unsung Stories) – September 2021

“The Recidivist” (with Chris Kelso) – Punk Noir magazine, September 2021

Academic Essays:

““A Substance as Jelly”: Helen Vaughan as Infectious Pathogen and femme fatale in The Great God Pan” (co-written with Loredana Salis) – Arthur Machen: Critical Essays ed. Antonio Sanna (Lexington Books) – May 2021