Bibliography
Novels
The Croning, Night Shade Books 2012
The Light Is the Darkness, Bloodletting Press 2011
Isaiah Coleridge Novels
Worse Angels, G.P. Putnam’s Sons 2020
Black Mountain, G.P. Putnam’s Sons 2019
Blood Standard, G.P. Putnam’s Sons 2018
Collections
Swift to Chase, JournalStone 2016
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Night Shade Books 2013
Occultation & Other Stories, Night Shade Books 2010
The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, Night Shade Books 2007
Special Editions
Hallucigenia Golkonda 2015
A Little Brown Book of Burials Borderland Press 2015
Novellas
The Wind Began to Howl 2023
Man with No Name JournalStone 2016
X’s for Eyes Bizarro Pulp Press 2015
As Editor
Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume 1 (w/Michael Kelly) 2014
Phantasmagorium, issues 1&2 2011-2012
Anthologies
The Best Horror of the Year 14 2022
Isolation: The Horror Anthology 2022
Screams from the Dark 2022
Weird World War IV 2022
Writers Workshop of Horror 2 2021
There is No Death, and There are No Dead 2021
When Things Get Dark 2021
Edited By 2020
Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities, & Other Horrors 2020
Final Cuts 2020
Weird Fiction Review #9 2019
The Best Horror of the Year 11 2019
Shivers VIII 2019
Ashes and Entropy 2018
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year 2018
Dark Spirits 2018
Adam’s Ladder 2017
Fearful Fathoms: Vol. 1 2017
Nightmares: A Decade of Modern Horror 2016
Children of Lovecraft 2016
Limbus III 2016
Autumn Cthulhu 2016
What the #@&% is That? 2016
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 8 2016
Mammoth Book of Cthulhu 2016
Burning Maiden 2015
The Humanity of Monsters 2015
Gigantic Worlds 2015
Abominations of Desire 2 2015
Protectors II 2015
Whispers from the Abyss 2 2015
Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond 2015
The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft 2015
Innsmouth Nightmares 2015
Cthulhu Fhtagn! 2015
Seize the Night 2015
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 7 2015
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015 2015
The Madness of Cthulhu 2015
New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird 2015
Nightmare Carnival 2014
A Mountain Walked 2014
Fearful Symmetries 2014
The Cutting Room 2014
Lovecraft’s Monsters 2014
Best Horror of the Year 6 2014
Best Dark Fantasy & Horror of the Year 2014
Hypnos 2013
Best Horror of the Year 5 2013
Best Dark Fantasy & Horror of the Year 2013
Blood Type 2013
Suffered from the Night 2013
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination 2013
Wilde Stories 2012 2013
Tales of Jack the Ripper 2013
Shades of Blue & Gray 2013
Halloween: Tales of Magic, Mystery & the Macabre 2013
Heiresses of Russ 2012
Dark Faith 2 2012
A Season in Carcosa 2012
The Book of Cthulhu 2 2012
Best Horror of the Year 4 2012
Book of Fungi 2012
Cuasar #52 2012
Horror for Good 2012
The Weird 2011
New Cthulhu 2011
The Book of Cthulhu 2011
Creatures 2011
Wilde Stories 2011 2011
Best Horror of the Year 3 2011
Blood & Other Cravings 2011
Supernatural Noir 2011
Best New Dark Fantasy & Horror of the Year: 2011 2011
Ghosts by Gaslight 2011
Wilde Stories 2010
Haunted Legends 2010
Best Horror of the Year 2 2010
Cthulhu’s Reign DAW Books 2010
Black Wings 2010
Lovecraft Unbound 2009
Best Horror of the Year 1 2009
Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe 2009
Clockwork Phoenix 2008
The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 21 2008
Year’s Best Fantasy 8 2008
Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2008
Inferno 2007
Year’s Best Fantasy 7 2007
Fantastyka No. 4 2006
Trochu divné kusy 2 2006
Year’s Best Fantasy 6 2006
Fantasy: The Best of 2005 2006
The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 19 2006
Horror: The Best of 2005 2006
The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 18 2005
The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 17 2004
The Three-Lobed Burning Eye Annual Volume No. 2 2004
Stories
“Shelley’s Heart Wouldn’t Burn” TBD
“(Pretty) Red Nails” TBD
“(Not) So Easy to Kill” TBD
“Dark-Eyed Beauty” TBD
“Agate Way” TBD
“Lost in Caves of Black Ice” TBD
“Night Comes Striding” TBD
“Not a Speck of Light” TBD
“Eyes Like Evil Prisms” 2023
“Sun Down” 2023
“Lern to Dye” Mystery Tribune Issue 19 2023
“So Easy to Kill” Isolation: The Horror Anthology 2022
“Bitten by Himself” Screams from the Dark 2022
“The Big Whimper” Weird World War IV 2022
“Uncoiling” Cosmic Horror Monthly, January Issue 2022
“American Remake of a Japanese Ghost Story” There is No Death, and There are No Dead 2021
“Tiptoe” When Things Get Dark 2021
“Jōren Falls” Come Join Us by the Fire II 2020
“Ode to Joad the Toad” Miscreations: Gods, Monsters, & Other Horrors 2020
“The One We Tell Bad Children” Final Cuts 2020
“We Used Swords in the ’70s” Weird Fiction Review #9 2019
“Girls Without Their Faces On” Ashes and Entropy 2018
“Swift to Chase” Adam’s Ladder 2017
Tomahawk Park Survivors Raffle, Swift to Chase 2016
An Atlatl Limbus III 2016
“Oblivion Mode” Children of Lovecraft 2016
“A Clutch” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu 2016
“Andy Kaufman Creeping through the Trees” Autumn Cthulhu 2016
“Mobility” What the #@&% is That? 2016
“Soul of Me” The Burning Maiden 2015
“We Smoke the Northern Lights” The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft 2015
“Snorre & Spot Approach the Fallen Rock” Laird Barron Official Site 2015
“Rex” Gigantic Worlds 2015
“Strident Caller” Whispers from the Abyss 2 2015
“49 Foot Woman Straps It On” Protectors 2 2015
“The Cyclorama” Licence Expired 2015
“The Blood in My Mouth” The Madness of Cthulhu 2015
“In a Cavern, in a Canyon” Seize the Night 2015
“Fear Sun” Innsmouth Nightmares 2015
“Don’t Make Me Assume My Ultimate Form” Cthulhu Fhtagn! 2015
“Ears Prick Up” SQMag 2015
“(Little Miss) Queen of Darkness” Dark Discoveries Magazine, #29 2014
“Screaming Elk, MT” Nightmare Carnival 2014
“the worms crawl in,” Fearful Symmetries 2014
Man with No Name, A Mountain Walked 2014
“Ardor” Suffered from the Night 2013
“Black Dog” Halloween 2013
“Slave Arm” Blood Type 2013
“The Beatification of Custer Poe” Prime Books 2013
“Jaws of Saturn” The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All 2013
“Nemesis” Primeval 2013
“Termination Dust” Tales of Jack the Ripper 2013
“LD50” Weaponized 2013
“Blood & Stardust” The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination 2013
“a strange form of life” Dark Faith 2 2012
“More Dark” The Revelator 2012
“Frontier Death Song” Nightmare Magazine 2012
“D T,” A Season in Carcosa 2012
“Gamma,” Fungi 2012
Hand of Glory, The Book of Cthulhu 2 2012
“The Men from Porlock,” The Book of Cthulhu (Night Shade Books) 2011
“The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven” Supernatural Noir 2011
“The Siphon” Blood & Other Cravings 2011
“Blackwood’s Baby” Ghosts by Gaslight 2011
“The Redfield Girls” Haunted Legends 2010
The Broadsword, Black Wings 2010
“Six Six Six” Occultation 2010
Mysterium Tremendum, Occultation 2010
“–30–” Occultation 2010
“Vastation” Cthulhu’s Reign 2010
“Catch Hell” Lovecraft Unbound 2009
“Strappado” Poe 2009
“The Lonely Death of Agent Haringa” Kill Jack Haringa 2008
“Occultation” Clockwork Phoenix 2008
“The Lagerstätte” Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2008
“The Forest” Inferno 2007
Procession of the Black Sloth, The Imago Sequence & Other Stories 2007
“The Royal Zoo is Closed” Phantom # Zero 2006
Hallucigenia, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2006
“Parallax” SCI FICTION 2005
The Imago Sequence, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2005
“Proboscis” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2005
“Bulldozer” SCI FICTION 2004
“Old Virginia” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2003
“Shiva, Open Your Eye” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2001
“Hour of the Cyclops” Three-Lobed Burning Eye 2000
Other writing
“You Don’t Know How This Will End” foreword to It was All a Dream: An Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right, 2022
“The Ouroboros Bites Down” Writers Workshop of Horror 2 2021
“Blackberries Drip Like Summer’s Blood” Foreword to We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson; Centipede Press 2020
“Dispel” Afterword for Monstrous Affections 10th Anniversary ed 2019
“A Toast to Mr. Gaunt” Essay for Necon 39 Program Book 2019
“The Voice of the Wild” Essay for CrimeReads 2019
“Wilum Pugmire: The Sage of Sesqua Valley” Essay for LOCUS 2019
“The Following Shadow” Essay for CrimeReads 2018
“Evil Returns to a Small Town Near You.” Foreword to Shadows Over Main Street,Vol 2 Cutting Block Books 2017
“Another Word for Supernatural Is Wilderness” Essay for Dark Discoveries #37 2017
“Paper Hallucinations.” Foreword to Cries from the Static by Darren Speegle, Raw Dog Screaming Press 2017
“Nobody Is Safe.” Foreword to Behold the Void by Philip Fracassi, JournalStone 2017
“Good Shouts, Evil Whispers.” Foreword to The Collector by John Fowles, Centipede Press 2017
“The Past Throws a Long Shadow.” Foreword to In the Shadow of the Axe by Nicholaus Kaufmann 2017
“Another Me” Essay for Unwinnable #84 2016
“Testament” Essay for Dark Discoveries #36 2016
“The Doomsday Reels” Essay for Dark Discoveries #35 2016
“Drain Me” Essay for Dark Discoveries #34 2016
“Golden Age of Dread” Essay for Dark Discoveries #33 2016
“Black Light Gods, Psychedelic Thunder.” Essay for Weird Fiction Review 2015
“Silken Death Tunnel.” Introduction to Pop 1280 by Jim Thompson 2015
“Diabolus Knocks.” Introduction to The Case Against Satan Penguin Classics 2015
“To the Fearless Ones” Intro to Nate Southard’s Will the Sun Ever Come Out Again 2015
“May Bury You (On Robert Aickman’s ‘The Hospice’)” Weird Fiction Review 2014
“Life among Ghosts.” introduction to Hag by John Goodrich 2014
“We Are For the Weird.” Introduction to the Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1 2014
“Shine On, Dark Star.” Michael Shea tribute; Locus Magazine 2014
“No Form Is Eternal.” Michael Shea essay; Lightspeed Magazine 2014
“A Stitch in Darkness.” Introduction to Unseaming by Mike Allen
“Dig My Grave.” Introduction to Burnt Black Suns by Simon Strantzas 2014
“Eye of the Raven.” Introduction to The New Black Dark House 2014
“Waking the Titans.” Introduction to Ana Kai Tangata by Scott Nicolay 2014
“Babes in the Wilderness.” Essay for Nightmare Magazine 2013
“Note Found in a Glenfiddich Bottle.” Afterword to The Wide Carnivorous Sky & Other Monstrous Geographies by John Langan 2013
“The Tiger Stripe.” essay for Centipede Press 2011
“In the Shadows of the Pines.” Afterword to The Collected Stories of Karl Edward Wagner by Centipede Press 2011
“Beyond Love, Sex, and the Heat Death of the Universe.” Introduction to Engines of Desire by Livia Llewellyn 2011
“Calling into the Darkness.” Publishers Weekly essay 2010
“Heart of the North.” Introduction to Ballad of the Northland by Jason Barron 2010
“Death’s Head Blues.” Introduction to Sin & ashes by Joseph S. Pulver 2010
“No Escape.” Introduction to The Ones that Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones 2010
“Stalking Through the Jungles of Night.” Afterword to limited edition of Peter Straub’s Koko 2010
“Vistas of Evil Splendor.” Introduction to The Darkly Splendid Realm by Richard Gavin 2009
“Dark Star: The Michael Shea Experience.” Introduction to The Autopsy & Other Tales 2008
“Twenty-First Century Ghosts.” Essay for Locus, May 2007
“Quietly, Now.” Essay for Erobos: The New Darkness #1, Summer 2007
Reviews
Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 2 edited by Koja and Kelly Locus 2016
Cassilda’s Song edited by Joseph Pulver Locus 2016
Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard Locus 2016
Halfway Down the Stairs by Gary Braunbeck, Locus 2016
Painted Monsters and Other Strange Beasts by Orrin Grey, Locus 2016
Skein & Bone by V.H. Leslie Locus 2016
The Worm in Every Heart by Gemma Files, Locus 2015
Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files, Locus 2015
Sing Me Your Scars by Damien Angelica Walters, Locus 2015
The Nameless Dark by T.E. Grau, Locus 2015
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay, Locus 2015
The Captive Condition by Kevin P. Keating, Locus 2015
Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due, Locus 2015
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