Announcing: PSALMS TO CINDERS: A Collection of Incantations

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I’ve been rearranging ways to make the announcement, but will be contented with the basics: I’m elated to disclose that Journalstone will publish my next book, Psalms to Cinders: A Collection of Incantations. This project will mark my fifth stand-alone book.

With pieces possessing profiles in traditional horror, the weird, and surreal, Psalms to Cinders is a collection of eleven stories and one novella. If I’m throwing a mental dart at the release-range, it looks like December, 2026 will be the bullseye. I’m grateful to the creative crew at Journalstone for adopting this endeavor.

BLACKGUM LAKE Stains a Page In RUE MORGUE Magazine

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I’ve been slacking on this one.

With a degree of (welcomed) astonishment, I’d like to note that the latest issue of Rue Morgue magazine (#231) includes a favorable review of The Sacraments of Blackgum Lake (Lethe Press). Monica S. Kuebler writes, “Clint Smith’s The Sacraments of Blackgum Lake offers up a solid reminder that not every cabin-in-the-woods story is a slasher tale—and that our genre is infinitely better for that variety.” 

Read more of Kuebler’s reflections of TSoBL in the July/August, 2026 “Summer Slasher” issue of Rue Morgue.