Announced: “Lovenest” to Appear In LOOMING LOW VOL. II Anthology (2022)

Just received correspondence from editors giving a greenlight to announce: My short story, “Lovenest,” is slated to appear in the forthcoming Dim Shores anthology, Looming Low Vol. II, a follow-up to a book which was nominated for the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award, and won the This Is Horror Award for Anthology of the Year. Sam Cowan and Justin Steele are helming this project — Cowan and Steele are a pair of professionals I’ve been eager to work with for a number of years. The intent, according to Cowan and Steele, is to premiere the anthology in August, 2022, to coincide with the bi-annual NecronomiCon in Providence, RI (August 18-21, 2022).

The table of contents for Looming Low Vol. II will be announced in the weeks ahead.

UPDATE: Table of Contents announced:

1. Matthew M. Bartlett – “The Cryptic Jape”
2. Nadia Bulkin – “Your Heart is a House on Fire”
3. Brian Evenson – “Vigil in the Inner Room”
4. Kurt Fawver – “Radius Unknown”
5. Gemma Files – “Bb Minor”
6. Richard Gavin – “The Intercessor”
7. Craig Laurance Gidney – “Impz”
8. Cody Goodfellow – “Serve & Protect”
9. Michael Griffin – “We Spend Weekends With Dad”
10. Michael Kelly – “Dead but Dreaming Still”
11. Gwendolyn Kiste – “To the Progeny Forsaken”
12. Anya Martin – “The Other Cat”
13. S.P. Miskowski – “Across the Darkness”
14. David Peak – “Zones Without Names”
15. Erica Ruppert – “Ex Astris”
16. Clint Smith – “Lovenest”
17. Simon Strantzas – “Still Packed”
18. Jeffrey Thomas – “Strangler Fig”
19. Brooke Warra – “We Don’t Live Here Anymore”
20. Kaaron Warren – “Songs We Sing at Sea”
21. A.C. Wise – “Into the Green”
22. Alvaro Zinos-Amaro – “Undo”

“A Care For Dark Cookery” Interview with The Outer Dark (Episode 21)

I was recently afforded the opportunity to appear on Scott Nicolay’s podcast, The Outer Dark (Project iRadio).

The Outer Dark

L’esprit de l’escalier has been particularly pronounced in the wake of the interview and subsequent social-media (ephemeral as it may be) conversations.  Still, we managed to discuss the eerier writings of Henry James and Hawthorne, as well as the relationship with my writing and the structure (houses included) of societal rituals.

For over a decade, Thanksgiving Day (owning to the typical, day-off-work traditions) has been, for me, a day to absorb more of what I’m reading (sneak in an extra story or two), and reflect on the writing exercise I’ve accumulated during autumn.  (Standing out in my mind with Kodachrome clarity is Thanksgiving, 2000, when I completed Dan Simmons’s Summer of Night.  Ignorant of the craft (as I still, in great part, am), that novel was a revelation to me, and I had that quiet period during the holiday, and extended winter holiday, to wonder what it would be like to write something — anything.

Scott Nicolay has been enormously supportive of the Ghouljaw endeavor.  So, on this Thanksgiving Day, 2015, I’d like to record my gratitude for his writerly camaraderie, and for his high-octane celebration of little-known scribblers dog-paddling in weird waters.