I have another book coming out.
It has been a long road, but I am beyond excited to announce my first short-story collection Fear Itself is at last coming from Lethe Press this fall. It's a special blend of mainly horror, with a soupçon of fantasy and sci-fi. Fear Itself includes nine stories in all, a ghost novelette, and story notes. Many pieces have a clear local setting and feature LGBTQ1+ protagonists. While they generally do not meet tragic, pulpy ends, my characters do not make it out unscathed, either.
I will be talking or, rather more accurately, teasing out fun facts about the stories in future posts, and describing some of the road that led to the book's publication, but for now, here's a quick little teaser about one story in the collection.
In “Crag Face”, recently divorced Ray Morley is driving the back roads of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry to Cornwall for a funeral. His deceased friend always believed in his writing, despite never publishing his novel these past few decades. But Ray is waylaid by a sexually-frustrated (and cat-fished) creature of fantasy who has stumbled into our world from a portal in the Back Forty. And it is looking for satisfaction, one way or another.
Fear Itself is available for pre-ordering here on the Lethe Press website.
