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Novels

Arkham Horror: Herald of Ruin (The Sanford Files #2), from Aconyte, July 2024.

The Knife and the Serpent (Nigh-Space #1), from Angry Robot, June 2024.

Arkham Horror: The Ravening Deep (The Sanford Files #1), from Aconyte, August 2023.

The Veiled Masters (Twilight Imperium #3), from Aconyte, June 2022.

Prison of Sleep (Journals of Zaxony Delatree #2), from Angry Robot, April 2022.

The Necropolis Empire (Twilight Imperium #2), from Aconyte, August 2021.

Doors of Sleep (Journals of Zaxony Delatree #1), from Angry Robot, January 2021.

The Fractured Void (Twilight Imperium #1), from Aconyte, November 2020.

The Forbidden Stars (Axiom #3), from Angry Robot, October 2019.

The Dreaming Stars (Axiom #2), from Angry Robot, September 2018.

The Wrong Stars (Axiom #1), from Angry Robot, November 2017.

Closing Doors (Marla Mason #10), from The Merry Blacksmith Press, January 2017.

Liar’s Bargain (Rodrick & Hrym #3), from Paizo, June 2016.

Queen of Nothing (Marla Mason #9), from The Merry Blacksmith Press, December 2015.

Liar’s Island (Rodrick & Hrym #2), from Paizo, August 2015.

Lady of Misrule (Marla Mason #8), from The Merry Blacksmith Press, March 2015.

The Deep Woods, from PS Publishing, February 2015.

Reign of Stars (Alaeron & Skiver #2), from Paizo, September 2014.

Heirs of Grace (novel), from 47North, February 2014.

Bride of Death (Marla Mason #7), from The Merry Blacksmith Press, December 2013.

The Stormglass Protocol, with Andy Deemer, from Stormglass Ventures, September 2013.

Liar’s Blade (Rodrick & Hrym #1), from Paizo, March 2013.

The Constantine Affliction (A Pimm and Skye adventure, written as T. Aaron Payton), from Night Shade Books, August 2012.

City of the Fallen Sky (Alaeron & Skiver #1), from Paizo, May 2012.

Forgotten Realms: Venom In Her Veins, from Wizards of the Coast, March 2012.

Grim Tides, (Marla Mason #6), serialized online, 2012; print edition from The Merry Blacksmith Press.

Briarpatch (novel), from ChiZine Publications, September 2011.

The Nex (novel), serialized online and self-published as an e-book, 2010.

Broken Mirrors (Marla Mason #5), serialized online, 2010; print edition from The Merry Blacksmith Press.

Bone Shop (Marla Mason prequel), serialized online, 2009.

Spell Games (Marla Mason #4), from Bantam Spectra, March 2009.

Dead Reign (Marla Mason #3), from Bantam Spectra, November 2008.

Poison Sleep (Marla Mason #2), from Bantam Spectra, April 2008.

Blood Engines (Marla Mason #1), from Bantam Spectra, October 2007.

The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, from Bantam Spectra, December 2005.

Collections

The Alien Stars (an Axiom collection), from Angry Robot, May 2021.

Miracles & Marvels: Stories, from Merry Blacksmith Press, November 2019.

Do Better: The Marla Mason Stories, from Merry Blacksmith Press, December 2018.

The Christmas Mummy and Other Carols (holiday story collection with Heather Shaw), from Merry Blacksmith, December 2017.

Antiquities and Tangibles and Other Stories (story collection), from Merry Blacksmith, January 2013.

Hart & Boot & Other Stories (story collection), from Night Shade Books, January 2007.

If There Were Wolves (poetry collection), from Prime/Aegis, September 2006.

Little Gods (story collection), from Prime Books, November 2003.

Anthologies Edited

Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales, original anthology edited by Melissa Marr & Tim Pratt, from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Fall 2013.

Sympathy for the Devil, reprint anthology edited by Tim Pratt, from Night Shade Books, August 2010.

Stories

“The Sweetest Honey” via Patreon, September 2024.

Five Inadvisable Strategies for Coping with a Broken Heart” via Patreon, August 2024.

Matters of Taste” via Patreon, July 2024.

The Nome King and the Shroud” via Patreon, serialized April – June, 2024.

“The Liminal Space Dating Agency” via Patreon, March 2024.

“A Scandal in Barrow Ferrum”  via Patreon, February 2024.

“Love Is in the Cards” via Patreon, January 2024.

“King Skylar and the Cronosolon” via Patreon, December 2023.

“Skipping Christmas” with Heather Shaw in Podcastle, December 2023.

“Overclocked Holmes” with Sarah Day in The Reinvented Detective, December 2023.

“The Only Way Out Is Through” via Patreon, November 2023.

“Exuberant Arthropod Assault” via Patreon, October 2023.

“Elsie in Space”  via Patreon, September 2023.

“Inextinct”  via Patreon, August 2023.

“Did You Ever Play The Sims?”  via Patreon, July 2023.

“The City of the Endless Yes”   via Patreon, June 2023.

“Journeys End in Lovers Meeting” via Patreon, May 2023.

“Lisette Tells All”  via Patreon, April 2023.

“Soraya Catches Her Breath” via Patreon, March 2023.

“Hungafter” via Patreon, February 2023.

“Convenient Parking” via Patreon, January 2023.

“The Christmas Conurbation” via Patreon, December 2022.

“Defiler’s Reef” in The Stars Beyond, November 2022.

“Auntie Elsie’s Compleat Guide to Heartbreak” in Unidentified Funny Objects 9, November 2022.

“I See the Light” via Patreon, November 2022.

“The Salvage Sirens” with Sarah Day in Farther Reefs, October 2022.

“Roadside Attraction” via Patreon, October 2022.

“Six Moments of Lucidity” via Patreon, September 2022.

“What the Heart Wants” via Patreon, August 2022.

“Celestial Shores” with Sarah Day in Pseudopod, August 2022.

“Fame, Foam, and Fantasy” via Patreon, July 2022.

“Distributed Denial of Sexytimes” in Drabblecast, July 2022.

“Basement Games” via Patreon, June 2022.

“Homeshare” via Patreon, May 2022.

“Harrisburg Wrecks His Bike” via Patreon, April 2022.

“Call to Adventure: Please Hold” via Patreon, March 2022.

“The Parallel Park” via Patreon, February 2022.

“Pelham Runs an Errand” via Patreon, January 2022.

“How Crapsey Saved Christmas” via Patreon, December 2021.

“Say Grace” via Patreon, November 2021.

“The Chthonic Op” in Shapers of Worlds: Volume II, November 2021.

“Invidiosa vs. the Repentant Revenant” via Patreon, October 2021.

“Crow and Lion See the World” via Patreon, September 2021

“Thanatosis” via Patreon, August 2021

“The Voyage of the Unknown” via Patreon, July 2021.

“Elspeth Makes Up a Room” via Patreon, June 2021.

“If You Don’t Watch Yourself” via Patreon, May 2021.

“Jason Gets Devoured” via Patreon, April 2021.

“Darrin Picks Up a Hitchhiker” via Patreon, March 2021.

“Dooryard” via Patreon, February 2021.

“Midnight Clear, or, How Santa Claus Killed the Sun” in Drabblecast, January 2021.

“Six Things That Happened the Moment You Were Gone” via Patreon, January 2021.

“A Grace Family Wedding”  via Patreon, December 2020.

“The Cursed Noel” in Podcastle, December 2020.

“Outside and In” via Patreon, November 2020.

A Princess of Nigh-Space” in Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology, November 2020.

  • Reprinted in Escape Pod, September 2021.

“Last Halloween” via Patreon, October 2020

“Revenance” via Patreon, September 2020.

“Beneath a Black Moon” via Patreon, August 2020.

“Meanwhile, Outside the Vault of Static Time” via Patreon, July 2020.

“Spheres and Harmonies” in The Dystopia Triptych: Or Else the Light, June 2020.

“Cacophony” in The Dystopia Triptych: Burn the Ashes, June 2020.

“Glasslands” in The Dystopia Triptych: Ignorance is Strength, June 2020.

“Petrichor” via Patreon, June 2020.

“Three Good Things” via Patreon, May 2020.

“The Stillness” via Patreon, April 2020.

“An Inventory of  the Property of the Escaped Suspect, Confiscated at the Time of Her  Arrest Following the Incident on Ash Street, with Annotations by Acting  Sheriff Helena Fairwind” via Patreon, March 2020.

“Love Among the Shadow Dragons” via Patreon, February 2020.

“Comfort and Joy” at Drabblecast, January 2020.

“Elsie At 30,000 Feet” via Patreon, January 2020.

“River’s Giving” (with Heather Shaw & River Shaw) at Podcastle, December 2019.

“A Grace Family Christmas” via Patreon, December 2019.

“A Door Is the Difference Between Outside and In” via Patreon, November 2019.

“The Bodies” via Patreon, October 2019.

“Nick and Will and the Door in the Hill” via Patreon, September 2019.

“The Sleeping Warrior” via Patreon, August 2019.

“This Is Your Lot” via Patreon, July 2019.

“Six Ways Without You” via Patreon, June 2019.

“Sunday Drive” via Patreon, May 2019.

“A Champion of Nigh-Space” via Patreon, April 2019.

“Blood and Sleep” via Patreon, March 2019.

“In the Dungeon of Heart’s Desire” via Patreon, Febuary 2019.

“The Door of Sleep” via Patreon, January 2019.

“Twelve Days at Christmas” via Patreon, December 2018.

“Dirty Santa” in Drabblecast, December 2018.

“Hosting the Solstice” in Podcastle, December 2018.

“Through the Woods” via Patreon, November 2018.

“Steal Away” via Patreon, October 2018.

“Pages Recovered from a Partially Burned Volume, Bound in Goat Skin,  Discovered in a New Hampshire Cave” via Patreon, September 2018.

“Orchard of Worlds” via Patreon, August 2018.

“The Four Horsepersons of the Eucatastrophe” via Patreon, July 2018.

“The Tale of Crow and Lion” via Patreon, June 2018.

“Adaptive Traits” via Patreon, May 2018.

“The Death of Grace” via Patreon, April 2018.

“The Cat in the Black Striped Hat” via Patreon, April 2018.

“Sometimes You Get the Bear” via Patreon, March 2018.

“Thank You For Joining Our Clinical Trial” via Patreon, February 2018.

“The Pentachoron Key” via Patreon, January 2018.

“Murmured Under the Moon” in Robots vs. Fairies, January 2018.

“The Gift of the Anthropophagi via Patreon, December 2017.

“Thankful” via Patreon, November 2017.

“Invidiosa vs. the Resurrected Man” via Patreon, October 2017.

“But You Can’t Stay Here” in Mixed-Up, October 2017.

“The Christmas Abomination from Beyond the Back of the Stars” (with Heather Shaw) via Patreon, September 2017.

“A Door of My Own”, via Patreon, August 2017.

“To Seek and Understand” via Patreon, July 2017.

“Anna and Marisol in Time and Space” via Patreon, June 2017.

“Cascade Wonderland” via Patreon, May 2017.

“Firecracker” via Patreon, April 2017.

“Three Petitions to the Queen of Hell” via Patreon, March 2017.

“Reaping a Whirlwind” via Patreon, February 2017.

“Background and Foreground” via Patreon, January 2017.

“It’s a Wonderful Carol” (with Heather Shaw) in Podcastle, December 2016.

“Under the Tree” via Patreon, December 2016.

“Sophie of Two Worlds” via Patreon, November 2016.

“Invidiosa vs. the Chamber of the Dead” via Patreon, October 2016.

“Stray” via Patreon, October 2016.

“Kaylee the Huntress” in Unidentified Funny Objects 5, September 2016.

Barrow of Ulthar in: The Tomb of the Bibliophage via Patreon, September 2016.

“Hunters in the Wood” in What the #@&% Is That?, August 2016.

“Heavy Game of the Pacific Northwest” in Associates of Sherlock Holmes, August 2016.

“Six Jobs” via Patreon, August 2016.

“Bound By Grace” via Patreon, July 2016.

“Soft Open” via Patreon, June 2016.

The Downstairs Neighbor via Patreon, May 2016.

“The Doorman” via Patreon, April 2016.

“A Pathway Up and Down” via Patreon, March 2016.

“The Witch and the Womanizer” via Patreon, February 2016.

“The Atheist in the Garden” [chapbook], February 2016.

“Unfollowed” via Patreon, January 2016.

“Winter Jinni” (with Heather Shaw) in Podcastle, December 2015.

“Who Has Everything” via Patreon, December 2015.

“The Soul Broker” via Patreon, November 2015.

“Project Disaster” in Unidentified Funny Objects 4, October 2015.

“Fool’s Fire” via Patreon, October 2015.

“First and Last Breaths” via Patreon, September 2015.

“The Wilderness Within” via Patreon, August 2015.

“Not a Miracle but a Marvel” via Patreon, July 2015.

“North Over Empty Space” via Patreon, June 2015.

“A Wedding Night’s Dream” via Patreon, May 2015.

“The Maiden’s Kiss” in Exalted: Tales from the Age of Sorrows, March 2015.

“Elf Employment” (with Heather Shaw) in Podcastle, December 2014.

“The Real and the Really Real” in Unidentified Funny Objects 3, October 2014.

“Those Who Hunt Monster Hunters” in Phantasm Japan, September 2014.

“Care and Feeding” in Daily Science Fiction, August 2014.

“LARPing the Apocalypse 2: The Nano-Plague” in Help Fund My Robot Army, July 2014.

“Ghostreaper, or, Life After Revenge” in Nightmare, January 2014.

“That Time Hell Froze Over” [chapbook], January 2014.

“Manic Nixie Dream Girl” [chapbook], January 2014.

“Sorcerer’s Honeymoon” [chapbook], January 2014.

“Mother of the Bride” [chapbook], January 2014.

“Happy Old Year” in Drabblecast, December 2013.

“Seasonal Disorder”(with Heather Shaw) in Podcastle, December 2013.

“The Retgun” in Unidentified Funny Objects 2, October 2013.

“The Cold Corner” in Rags and Bones, October 2013.

“Revels in the Land of Ice” in Glitter and Mayhem, August 2013.

“Secrets in Storage” (with Greg van Eekhout) in Whispers from the Abyss, Summer 2013.

“Bastard, Sword” in Pathfinder Tales, March 2013.

“Cages” in Antiquities and Tangibles, January 2013.

“The Fairy Library” in Antiquities and Tangibles, January 2013.

“The Haunted Mech Suit” in Antiquities and Tangibles, January 2013.

Postapocalypsemas” with Heather Shaw in Drabblecast, December 2012.

“Catching the Spirit” with Heather Shaw in Podcastle, December 2012.

“Snake and Mongoose” [chapbook], September 2012.

A Cloak of Many Worlds” [chapbook], September 2012.

“Wishflowers” in Dark Faith 2, September 2012.

“The Carved Forest” in Under My Hat, September 2012.

“A Tomb of Winter’s Plunder” in Pathfinder Tales, June 2012.

“Right Turns” in Faultine, June 2012.

Ill Met in Ulthar” in Witches, March 2012. [Or listen at Podcastle]

“The Ghost of Christmas Possible” with Heather Shaw in Podcastle, December 2011. [Audio original]

“A Fairy Tale of Oakland” in Drabblecast, December 2011. [Audio original]

“The Secret Beach” in Fantasy Magazine, October 2011.

“A Void Wrapped in a Smile” in Basement Stories, October 2011.

“Antiquities and Tangibles” in Subterranean, Fall 2011.

“We Go Back” in Escape Pod, July 2011.

“The Alphabet Quartet” (suite of 26 flash stories in collaboration with Jenn Reese, Heather Shaw, and Greg van Eekhout) in Daily Science Fiction, published one per week from January – June 2011.

“Hell’s Lottery” in “Bull Spec, May 2011.

Little Better than a Beast” in Those Who Fight Monsters, April 2011.

“Shark’s Teeth” in Daily Science Fiction, March 2011.

“Our Stars, Our Selves” in Welcome to Bordertown, June 2011.

Rangifer Volans: A Very Cryptozoological Christmas” in Drabblecast, December 2010. [Audio original]

“The Christmas Mummy” in Podcastle, December 2010.

“Mommy Issues of the Dead” in Way of the Wizard, November 2010.

“Cinderlands” in Drabblecast, October 2010. [Audio original]

“At the Monkey Party” in Monkeypunk, October 2010.

“Fiddle” in Daily Science Fiction, October 2010.

“Caltrops” in Flash Fiction Online, January 2010.

“Uchronia” in Podcastle, December 2009. [Audio original]

“Last Bird Call” in Last Drink Bird Head, November 2009.

“Incubus” in Podcastle, October 2009. [Audio original]

“Silver Linings” in Tor.com, September 2009.

“Troublesolving” in Subterranean, Fall 2009.

“Another End of the Empire” in Strange Horizons, June 2009.

“Unexpected Outcomes” in Interzone, June 2009.

“Over There” in Intergalactic Medicine Show, May 2009.

“Her Voice in a Bottle” in Subterranean, Winter 2009.

“A Programmatic Approach to Perfect Happiness” in Futurismic, April 2009.

“Origin Story” in Escape Pod, March 2009. [Audio original]

“A Lake of Spaces” in Weird Tales, December 2008.

“A Steadfast Tin Soldier” in Tumbarumba, December 2008.

“On a Blade of Grass” in the Subterranean Press newsletter, July 2008.

“The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft” (with Nick Mamatas) in ChiZine, April 2008.

“The Frozen One” in Lone Star Stories, February 2008.

“The River Boy” in Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2008.

Grander than the Sea” in The Solaris Book of New Fantasy, December 2007.

  • Reprinted in Year’s Best Fantasy 8, June 2008.

“Observer Effects” in Diet Soap, December 2007.

“Morris and the Machine” in Triangulations: The End of Time, September 2007.

“Artifice & Intelligence” in Strange Horizons, August 2007.

  • Audio reprint at Escape Pod, January 2008.
  • Reprinted in Year’s Best SF 13, June 2008.
  • Reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2008, August 2008.

“Restless in my Hand” in Realms of Fantasy, August 2007.

“From Around Here” in Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories, May/June 2007.

  • Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19, October 2008.

“Komodo” in Hart & Boot & Other Stories, January 2007.

“Jen at the Crossroads” in Ping Pong, February 2007.

“Headache” in Ideomancer, September 2007.

“Gingerbread” in Ideomancer, September 2007.

“The Crawlspace of the World” in Polyphony 6, November 2006.

“The Third-Quarter King” in Eidolon, Fall 2006.

“Dream Engine” in Intergalactic Medicine Show, August 2006.

Cup and Table” in Twenty Epics, July 2006.

  • Reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: 20th Annual Collection, August 2007.
  • Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, March 2008.
  • Audio reprint at Podcastle, August 2008.
  • Reprinted in Lightspeed, June 2012.

Impossible Dreams” in Asimov’s, July 2006

  • 2007 Hugo Award winner.
  • 2006 Asimov’s Reader’s Poll winner.
  • Audio reprint at Escape Pod, June 2007.
  • Reprinted in Other Worlds Than These, July 2012.

“Jubilee” in The Journal of Mythic Arts, Winter 2006.

“The Tyrant in Love” in Fantasy Magazine, November 2005.

“Gulls” in TEL: Stories, November 2005.

  • Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, September 2006.

“Gillian Underground” (with Michael Jasper and Greg van Eekhout) in Polyphony 5, November 2005.

“Robots and Falling Hearts” (with Greg van Eekhout) in Realms of Fantasy, October 2005.

“Bottom Feeding” in Asimov’s, August 2005.

“Haruspex” in Shadows of Saturn, June 2005.

“Lachrymose and the Golden Egg” in The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, March 2005.

“Blind Date” (with Nick Mamatas) in Lenox Avenue, March 2005.

“Pages Torn from the Wanderer’s Diary” in Pook’s Original Miscellany, December 2004.

“Eros and Thanatos” in Ultraverse, November 2004.

“Life in Stone” in Lenox Avenue, November 2004.

“In a Glass Casket” in Realms of Fantasy, October 2004.

“Hart and Boot” in Polyphony 4, September 2004.

  • Reprinted in The Best American Short Stories 2005 (edited by Michael Chabon), October 2005.

“Terrible Ones” in The Third Alternative, Spring 2004.

“Behemoth Brewing & Distribution Co.” in Fortean Bureau, February 2004.

“Winter on the Pyre” in Wintering Away, December 2003.

“Romanticore” in Realms of Fantasy, December 2003.

  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection.
  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection.

“Rowboats, Sacks of Gold” in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, November 2003.

“Pale Dog” in Little Gods, November 2003.

  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection.

“Living with the Harpy” in Strange Horizons, October 2003.

  • Shortlisted for a 2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Award.

“Helljack” (with Michael J. Jasper) in H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror, October 2003.

  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection.

“Broken Branches” (with Heather Shaw) in Intracities, October 2003.

“Blue Chuck Does Thrilltown” (with Heather Shaw) in The Urban Bizarre, October 2003.

“Down with the Lizards and the Bees” in Realms of Fantasy, August 2003.

  • Shortlisted for a 2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Award.

“Robin of Wonderland Wood” in Ideomancer, July 2003.

“The Sea a Deeper Black” in Abyss & Apex, July 2003.

“Captain Fantasy and the Secret Masters” in Realms of Fantasy, April 2003.

  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection.
  • Audio reprint at Podcastle, June 2009.

“Encounter on a Back Street” in Horrorfind, February 2003.

“Fable from a Cage” in Realms of Fantasy, February 2003.

  • Reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy 4, July 2004.
  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection.

“The Scent of Copper Pennies” in Far Sector, January 2003.

“The Heart, a Chambered Nautilus” in Floodwater (a chapbook from Tropism Press), December 2002.

“A Serious Case of Fairies” (with Heather Shaw) in Floodwater (a chapbook from Tropism Press), December 2002.

“Unfairy Tale” in Say… Was That a Kiss?, October 2002.

“Melancholy Shore” in Songs for Dead Singers, August 2002.

  • reprinted in Ideomancer, September 2003.

“The Witch’s Bicycle” in Realms of Fantasy, August 2002.

  • Reprinted, in Dutch, as a standalone hardcover YA, by Facet nv, 2005.
  • Reprinted, in Japanese, in Hayakawa SF.
  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 19th Annual Collection.
  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: 16th Annual Collection.

“Dancing Shoes” in Champagne Shivers, July 2002.

“The Ever After Book Shoppe” (with Heather Shaw) in Slow Trains, June 2002.

“The Invisible Musicians” in Elysian Fiction, May 2002.

“Bone Sigh” in Twilight Showcase, March 2002.

“Little Gods” in Strange Horizons, February 2002.

  • Audio reprint at Podcastle, June 2010.
  • Nominated for the 2003 Nebula Award.
  • First-place winner of the Strange Horizons 2002 Reader’s Choice Awards for Fiction.
  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 19th Annual Collection.
  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: 16th Annual Collection.
  • Reprinted in The Midwest Literary Underground
  • Reprinted in Strange Horizons: Best of Year Two.
  • Translated into French for Fairies.
  • Translated into Czech for Trochu Divne Kusy 2, edited by Martin Sust.

“The Man Who Loved the Moon” in Kinships, January 2002.

“Behemoth” in Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox, January 2002.

  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: 15th Annual Collection.

“Annabelle’s Alphabet” in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, October 2001.

  • reprinted in Best of the Rest 3, July 2002.
  • reprinted in in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: 15th Annual Collection, July 2002.
  • reprinted in in Ideomancer, August 2003.

“Hatchling” in Neverworlds, October 2001.

“Entropy’s Paintbrush” in Speculon, August 2001.

“Bleeding West” in Deep Outside, August 2001.

“Dr. Nefarious and the Lazarus Project” in Speculon, May 2001.

“Plastic Scorpions” in Jackhammer, March 2001.

“Werewolves and Princesses” in Chizine, January 2001

“Straight Trade” in Speculon, January 2001.

  • Recipient of an honorable mention in Best of the Rest 3.
  • reprinted in Ultraverse, November 2003.

“The Fallen and the Muse of the Street” in Strange Horizons, December 2000.

“Pearls, Frogs, Spiders” in Gothic.net, September 2000.

“The Dog Boys” in Deep Outside, Fall 2000.

“Cassie” in Jackhammer, March 2000.

“Puppets of the Nano Master” in Maelstrom Speculative Fiction, Spring 2000.

“Their Young” in Jackhammer, November 1999.

“Angel of the Ordinary” in Jackhammer, August 1999.

  • reprinted in Ultraverse, November 2003.

“53rd Annual Mantis Homecoming Dance” in Maelstrom Speculative Fiction, Winter 1999.

  • Reprinted in Neverworlds, August 2001.

Poetry

“Lion Heart” in Apex, November 2011.

“Tlaltecuhtli” in Strange Horizons, April 2005.

“Destination” in Asimov’s, March 2005.

“Soul Searching” in Strange Horizons, July 2004.

      • Winner of the 2005 Rhysling Award, long poem category.

“Making Monsters” in Strange Horizons, July 2004.

      • Second-place winner of the 2005 Rhysling Award, long poem category.
      • Audio reprint at Escape Pod, November 2005.

“Wintering Away” (with Heather Shaw) in Wintering Away, December 2003.

“Still Life with Frog” in Asimov’s, November 2003.

“Angel Bites” in Strange Horizons, October 2003.

“Courting Costs” in Chizine, October 2003.

“Ammut in Her Later Years” in Strange Horizons, July 2003.

“Ts’its’tsi’nako” in Strange Horizons, May 2003.

“Nidhigg” in Strange Horizons, April 2003.

“Wolfways” in Strange Horizons, February 2003.

“How To Love A Fairy Maid” in The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, February 2003.

“Put Asunder” in Love, January 2003.

“Dream Sketches” in Love, January 2003.

“Eight Transformations” in Love, January 2003.

“Carcinodjinn” in Strange Horizons, January 2003.

“My Night With Aphrodite” in Asimov’s, January 2003.

      • reprinted in Love, January 2003.

“Engulfer” in Strange Horizons, October 2002.

      • Recipient of an honorable mention in the Strange Horizons 2002 Reader’s Choice Awards for Poetry.
      • Reprinted in Strange Horizons: Best of Year Two.

“Plate Spinning” in Strange Horizons, October 2002.

“Dragonflowers” in The Modern Art Cave, October/November 2002.

“Neither Eat Nor Drink There” in The Modern Art Cave, October/November 2002.

      • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection.

“Clutch Purse” in The Modern Art Cave, October/November 2002.

“Hounded” in The Modern Art Cave, October/November 2002.

“Laughing Blood” in Strange Horizons, April 22, 2002.

“Poor Bahamut” in Strange Horizons, April 15, 2002.

      • Nominated for the 2003 Rhysling award.

“Holly Grove” in Dark Illuminati #0, August 2002.

      • reprinted in Love, January 2003.

“9 Arguments for Blowing Up the Moon” in Star*Line, March 2002.

“Missed” in Snow Monkey, January/February 2002.

Muse Trap, Strange Horizons, February 2002.

      • First-place winner of the Strange Horizons 2002 Reader’s Choice Awards for Poetry.
      • Reprinted in Strange Horizons: Best of Year Two.

“Broken, Entered” in Horror Writer’s Association Newsletter, February 2002.

      • Reprinted in Chizine, July 2003.

“Orpheus Among the Cabbages” in Strange Horizons, October 2001.

“Daughter and Moon” in Weird Tales, Summer 2001 (issue #324).

“Incident” in Asimov’s, July 2001.

“Mask” in Strange Horizons, June 2001.

      • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: 15th Annual Collection

“Bacchanal” in Asimov’s, April, 2001.

“The God of the Crossroads” in Strange Horizons, March 2001.

      • Reprinted in Strange Horizons: Best of Year One.

“Ghost” in Electric Wine, Summer 2000.

“Visions” in Star*Line, January/February 2000.

“Cupid’s Arrows” in Recursive Angel, May 1999.

      • reprinted in Love, January 2003.

“Gallery” in The Savannah Literary Journal , October 1998.

“While You’re in St. Augustine” in Recursive Angel, Fall 1998.

“Friday Night” in Word Salad, Summer 1998.

“Since August” in Moonshade, July/August 1998.

“First Time on My Knees” in Interbang, Summer 1998.

      • reprinted in Love, January 2003.

“Crossing” in Appalachian Broadsides, Spring 1998.

Chapbooks

The Christmas Mummy with Heather Shaw, illustrated by Greg van Eekhout, from Tropism Press, December 2006.

12 Haiku with Heather Shaw, from Tropism Press, October 2005.

Pook’s Original Miscellany, from Tropism Press, December 2004.

Wintering Away with Heather Shaw, from Tropism Press, December 2003.

Love: Sensual, Subversive, and Erotic Poetry and Art with Erin Donahoe, from Vixen Press, January 2003.

Floodwater (chapbook) with Heather Shaw, from Tropism Press, December 2002.

Living Together in Mythic Times (chapbook) with Heather Shaw, from Tropism Press, December 2001.

Non-Fiction

Review of Locklands (2022) by Robert Jackson Bennett in Locus

Review of The People’s Republic of Everything (2019) by Nick Mamatas in Locus

Review of The Luminous Dead (2019) by Caitlin Starling  in Locus

Review of Wanderers (2019) by Chuck Wendig in Locus

Review of Lovecraft Country (2016) by Matt Ruff in Locus

Review of The Spider’s War (2016) by Daniel Abraham in Locus

Review of I Am Providence (2016) by Nick Mamatas in Locus

Review of Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future (2015) by A. S. King in Locus

Review of The Slow Regard of Silent Things (2015) by Patrick Rothfuss in Locus

Review of Tyrannia and Other Renditions (2014) by Anya Johanna DeNiro in Locus

Review of Chimpanzee (2014) by Darin Bradley in Locus

Review of The Last Weekend (2014) by Nick Mamatas in Locus

Review of One-Eyed Jack (2014) by Elizabeth Bear in Locus

Review of Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane (2013) by Jonathan Oliver in Locus

Review of Tenth of December (2013) by George Saunders in Locus

Review of Life After Life (2013) by Kate Atkinson in Locus

Review of Wrath-Bearing Tree (2013) by James Enge in Locus

Review of Love Is the Law (2013) by Nick Mamatas in Locus

Review of The Mirage (2012) by Matt Ruff in Locus

Review of 32 Fangs (2012) by David Wellington in Locus

Review of Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles (2012) by Kim Newman in Locus

Review of The Chosen Seed (2012) by Sarah Pinborough in Locus

Review of The Devil (2011) by Ken Bruen in Locus

Review of Noise (2011) by Darin Bradley in Locus

Review of Dead Sea Fruit (2011) by Kaaron Warren in Locus

Review of Deadline (2011) by Mira Grant in Locus

Review of Sensation (2011) by Nick Mamatas in Locus

Review of The Shadow of the Soul (2011) by Sarah Pinborough in Locus

Review of Eutopia (2011) by David Nickle in Locus

Review of Loss of Separation (2011) by Conrad Williams in Locus

Review of Low Town (2011) by Daniel Polansky in Locus

Review of The Damned Highway (2011) by Brian Keene and Nick Mamatas in Locus

Review of Mistification (2011) by Kaaron Warren in Locus

Review of House of Fear (2011) by Jonathan Oliver in Locus

Review of The Wolf Age (2010) by James Enge in Locus

Review of The Passage (2010) by Justin Cronin in Locus

Review of The Ammonite Violin & Others (2010) by Caitlín R. Kiernan in Locus

Review of Slum Online (2010) by 桜坂洋 in Locus

Review of Feed (2010) by Mira Grant in Locus

Review of A Matter of Blood (2010) by Sarah Pinborough in Locus

Review of What Will Come After (2010) by Scott Edelman in Locus

Review of Unchained and Unhinged (2010) by Joe R. Lansdale in Locus

Review of The World More Full of Weeping (2010) by Robert J. Wiersema in Locus

Review of Black Wings (2010) by S. T. Joshi in Locus

Review of One by Conrad Williams, in Locus, November 2009

Review of The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan, in Locus, October 2009

Review of The Harlequin and the Train by Paul G. Tremblay, in Locus, October 2009

Review of Lightbreaker by Mark Teppo, in Locus, September 2009.

Review of Audrey’s Door by Sarah Langan, in Locus, September 2009.

“Accidental Urban Fantasist” in Locus, May 2009.

“Heroines I Have Known” in Spectra Pulse, Fall 2008 / Winter 2009.

“Not Now, Sweetie, Daddy’s Worldbuilding” in Clarkesworld, April 2008.

Review of Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill, in Locus, January 2007.

Review of Daughter of Hounds by Caitlín R. Kiernan, in Locus, January 2007.

Review of Grey by Jon Armstrong, in Locus, January 2007.

Review of Lisey’s Story by Stephen King, in Locus, December 2006.

Review of Monster Nation by David Wellington, in Locus, December 2006.

Review of The Dead Letters by Tom Piccirilli, in Locus, November 2006.

Review of The Other End by John Shirley, in Locus, November 2006.

Review of The Blood Knight by Greg Keyes, in Locus, October 2006.

Review of The Distance Travelled by Brett Alexander Savory, in Locus, October 2006.

Review of The Man From the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman, in Locus, August 2006.

Review of Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead by Anya Johanna DeNiro, in Locus, August 2006.

Review of Secret Story, by Ramsey Campbell, in Locus, July 2006.

Review of Alabaster, by Caitlín R. Kiernan, in Locus, June 2006.

Review of Monster Island, by David Wellington, in Locus, June 2006.

Review of Destinations Unknown, by Gary A. Braunbeck, in Locus, June 2006.

Review of Joe R. Lansdale’s Lords of the Razor , edited by Bill Sheehan & William Schafer, in Locus, June 2006.

Review of Retro-Pulp Tales , edited by Joe R. Lansdale, in Locus, June 2006.

Review of Tell Me What You See, by Zoran Drvenkar, in Locus, May 2006.

Review of The Ocean and All Its Devices, by William Browning Spencer, in Locus, April 2006.

Review of Triskell Tales 2, by Charles de Lint, in Locus, April 2006.

Review of Cell, by Stephen King, in Locus, March 2006.

Review of Odd Thomas and Forever Odd, by Dean Koontz, in Locus, March 2006.

Review of Headstone City, by Tom Piccirilli, in Locus, March 2006.

Review of London Revenant, by Conrad Williams, in Locus, January 2006.

Review of Specimen Days, by Michael Cunningham, in Locus, December 2005.

Review of 20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill, in Locus, November 2005.

Review of Dark Delicacies, Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, eds., in Locus, September 2005.

Review of Outsiders, Nancy Holder & Nancy Kilpatrick, eds., in Locus, September 2005.

Review of To Charles Fort, with Love, by Caitlín R. Kiernan, in Locus, August 2005.

Review of The Divided Crown, by Isabel Glass, in Locus, June 2005.

Review of Rocket Science, by Jay Lake, in Locus, June 2005.

Review of Magic Street, by Orson Scott Card, in Locus, May 2005.

Review of November Mourns, by Tom Piccirilli, in Locus, May 2005.

Review of Damned: An Anthology of the Lost, edited by David G. Barnett, in Locus, May 2005.

Review of The Overnight, by Ramsey Campbell, in Locus, April 2005.

Review of Mad Dog Summer, by Joe R. Lansdale, in Locus, April 2005.

Review of Night Visions 11, edited by Bill Sheehan, in Locus, April 2005.

“Chatting with Nick and Tim”, an interview with Nick Mamatas & Tim Pratt, in Lenox Avenue, March 2005.

Review of Triads, by Poppy Z. Brite & Christa Faust, in Locus, November 2004.

Review of Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, Clive Barker, in Locus, November 2004.

Review of Breathe, by Christopher Fowler, in Locus, October 2004.

Review of Murder of Angles, by Caitlín R. Kiernan, in Locus, August 2004.

Review of Phases of the Moon, by Robert Silverberg, in Locus, July 2004.

Review of The Charnel Prince, by Greg Keyes, in Locus, July 2004.

Review of The Fourth Circle, by Zoran Zivkovic, in Locus, June 2004.

Review of Songs of Leaving, by Peter Crowther, in Locus, May 2004.

Review of A Galaxy in a Jar, by Laurel Winter, in Locus, May 2004.

Review of The Hydrocephalic Ward, Steve Rasnic Tem, in Locus, May 2004.

Review of The Other Side of the Lens, by G.O. Clark, in Locus, May 2004.

Review of Use Once, Then Destroy, by Conrad Williams, in Locus, April 2004.

Review of More Tomorrow and Other Stories, by Michael Marshall Smith, in Locus, March 2004.

“2003 in Review” (Year-in-review report) in Locus, February 2004.

Review of Told by the Dead, by Ramsey Campbell, in Locus, January 2004.

Review of Southern Blood, edited by Bill Congreve, in Locus, December 2003.

Review of Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures, by Michael Swanwick, in Locus, November 2003.

Review of Low Red Moon, by Caitlín R. Kiernan, in Locus, October 2003.

Review of Spirits in the Wires, by Charles de Lint, in Locus, October 2003.

Review of 3000 MPH in Every Direction at Once, by Nick Mamatas, in Locus, October 2003.

Review of 13 Horrors, edited by Brian A. Hopkins, in Locus, September 2003.

Interview with Tim Pratt, conducted by Greg van Eekhout, in Ideomancer, September 2003.

Review of The Harvest, by Scott Nicholson, in Locus, September 2003.

Review of Uncanny Tales, by Robert Sheckley, in Locus, August 2003.

Review of Shadows Over Baker Street, edited by Michael Reaves & John Pelan, in Locus, August 2003.

Review of Kissing Carrion, by Gemma Files, in Locus, July 2003.

Review of Orbiter, by Warren Ellis & John Higgins, in Locus, July 2003.

Review of Hellblazer: Haunted, by Warren Ellis & Colleen Doran, in Locus, July 2003.

Review of The Furies, by Mike Carey & John Bolton, in Locus, July 2003.

Review of Hellboy: Conqueror Worm, by Mike Mignola, in Locus, July 2003.

Review of Graphic Classics: H.P. Lovecraft, Tom Pomplun, ed., in Locus, July 2003.

Review of The Five of Cups, by Caitlín R. Kiernan, in Locus, June 2003.

Review of Come Fygures, Comes Shadowes, by Richard Matheson, in Locus, June 2003.

Review of Mojo: Conjure Stories, edited by Nalo Hopkinsons, in Locus, May 2003.

Review of Beyond this Dark House, by Guy Gavriel Kay, in Locus, May 2003.

Review of Dragon Moon, by Alan F. Troop, in Locus, April 2003.

Review of The Etched City, by K.J. Bishop, in Locus, April 2003.

Review of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow, in Strange Horizons, March 2003.

Review of The Night Class, by Tom Piccirilli, in Locus, March 2003.

Review of The Fallen, by Dale Bailey, in Locus, March 2003.

“2002: Writing in the Margins” (Year-in-review report), in Locus, February 2003.

Review of The Dwelling, by Susie Moloney, in Locus, February 2003.

Review of The Atari Ecologues, by Alan De Niro, in Star*Line, November/December 2002.

Review of Dark Terrors 6, edited by Stephen Jones and David Sutton, in Locus, January 2003.

Review of El Dia de los Muertos, by Brian A. Hopkins, in Locus, January 2003.

“Innocent Abroad: My First Worldcon” (convention report), in Locus, November 2002.

Review of Writers of the Future Vol. XVIII, edited by Algys Budrys, in Locus, November 2002.

Review of Empire of Dreams and Miracles, edited by Orson Scott Card, in Locus, November 2002.

Review of The Darkest Part of the Woods, by Ramsey Campbell, in Locus, October 2002.

Review of Masque of Dreams, by Bruce Boston, in Locus, October 2002.

Review of Last Things, by David Searcy, in Locus, September 2002.

Review of Breed, by Owl Goingback, in Locus, September 2002.

Review of Wetware, by Craig Nova, in Locus, August 2002.

Review of Dead Ground, by Chris Amies, in Locus, August 2002.

Review of The Red Church, by Scott Nicholson, in Chizine, July 2002.

Review of Coraline, by Neil Gaiman, in Strange Horizons, July 2002.

      • First-place winner of the Strange Horizons 2002 Reader’s Choice Awards for Reviews.
      • Reprinted in Strange Horizons: Best of Year Two.

Review of Strangers and Beggars, by James Van Pelt, in Locus, July 2002.

Review of Rabid Transit: New Fiction by the Ratbastards, by Christopher Barzak, Barth Anderson, Anya Johanna DeNiro, and Kristin Livdahl, in Locus, July 2002.

Review of Caliban and Other Tales, by Robert Devereaux, in Locus, June 2002.

Review of Slain in the Spirit, by Melanie Tem, in Locus, June 2002.

Review of Taunting the Minotaur, by Charlee Jacob, in Locus, May 2002.

Review of Martyrs, by Edo Van Belkom, in Locus, April 2002.

Review of …And the Angel with Television Eyes, by John Shirley, in Locus, April 2002.

Review of The Dragon DelaSangre, by Alan F. Troop, in Locus, March 2002.

Review of White Space, by Bruce Boston, in Locus, March 2002.

Review of Children of Cthulhu, edited by John Pelan & Benjamin Adams, in Locus, February 2002.

Review of Skating on the Edge, by d.g.k. goldberg, in Locus, February 2002.

“Fresh Graves” (guest poetry column) in Horror Writer’s Association Newsletter, February 2002.

Review of Knuckles and Tales, by Nancy Collins, in Locus, January 2002.

Review of Demons, by John Shirley, in Locus, January 2002.

“A Boy and His Behemoth” (personal essay) in Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox, December 2001.

Review of City Infernal, by Edward Lee, in Locus, December 2001.

Review of 2001: A Science-Fiction Poetry Anthology, Keith Allen Daniels, ed., in Locus, November 2001.

Review of “Pavane for a Cyber-Princess” by Bruce Boston in Speculon, August 2001.