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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.

“The Bush Burner,” William S. Rice (1930)

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.

Mike O’Driscoll’s Review: THE SKELETON MELODIES

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The Skeleton Melodies (Hippocampus Press, 2020)

Major props to Mike O’Driscoll at Ginger Nuts of Horror for his immersive and insightful review of The Skeleton Melodies. “At his best, his stories show us ordinary people trying and, more often than not, failing, to make sense of a fucked-up world,” writes O’Driscoll. “No matter how grotesque or unreal the situations in which they find themselves, nor how egregious their mistakes, these are men and women we can empathise with.”