Publications

Novels

(Del Rey Books,  August 2018) “[A] rousing mash-up of military SF thriller and paranormal adventure . . . Scarlett is a resourceful and endearing heroine.”–Publishers Weekly

They made her a weapon. She chose to be a hero. Recruited by a secret a secret West Point unit for cadets with extraordinary abilities, Scarlett Winter has the power to control pure energy. She’s a human nuclear bomb–and she’s not sure she can control her powers much longer.

Phoenix Island
(Simon & Schuster / Gallery Books, 2014) Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and inspiration for the CBS TV series INTELLIGENCE. Phoenix Island was supposed to be a boot camp for troubled teens. But as one boy learns, the secrets of this jungle are as vast as they are deadly.

Devil’s Pocket
(Simon & Schuster / Gallery Books,  August 2015) Winner of the Bram Stoker Award. To save his friends and topple Phoenix Force, teen super soldier Carl Freeman must win the Funeral Games, a no-holds-barred fighting tournament held in its own ninth circle of hell: Devil’s Pocket.

AUDIOBOOKS

Phoenix Island (Simon & Schuster Audio) narrated by Kirby Heyborne

“The Laughing Girl of Bora Fanong” narrated by Francis Greenslade

NOVELLAS / NOVELETTES

Chop Shop  V-Wars #4 (Jonathan Maberry, editor), IDW Publishing, 2016

Print magazines

“Cornfield at Night” Daedalus #25, 1996; 1st prize WCU Annual Short Story Contest
“My Only Story About My Mother” Daedalus #27, ’98; 2nd prize WCU Contest
“Awake!” Iconoclast
“After the Fifth Round” Iconoclast
“Dead Man Enters Bar, Ruins Party” Eclectic #3, fall / winter 2000
“Halves Interrupted” Barbaric Yawp 1996
“Everybody Burns” with Mike Kelly, Lullaby Hearse #4
“Pharaoh Makes a Friend” Lullaby Hearse #5
“Quarry” Night Terrors #13
“Ghosts of Pennsylvania” Stopover Magazine #19 2005
“Ringcycle” with Adam Browne, Aurealis #33 / 34/ 35 2005
“Obituary Boy” with Adam Browne, Andromeda Spaceways #26 2006
“The Laughing Girl of Bora Fanong” with Adam Browne, Andromeda Spaceways #46 2010
“One Helluva Job” WC Press February 2015

Anthologies

“Let’s Hear It for the Nihilist” Songs from Dead Singers 2002
“The Persuasive Piñata” Cold Glass Pain (reprint) 2005
“Honeymoon” with Adam Browne, Cock August 2006 (This story was a Ditmar Award finalist)
“Punnet Square Pundit” Ideomancer Unbound
“One Helluva Job” The Anthology from Hell February 2012
“Obituary Boy” with Adam Browne, Andromeda Spaceways Best of Horror 2 2010
“The Laughing Girl of Bora Fanong” with Adam Browne, Hazard Yet Forward 2012
“The Laughing Girl of Bora Fanong” with Adam Browne, Other Stories and Other Stories 2014
“Honeymoon” with Adam Browne, Other Stories and Other Stories 2014
“Ringcycle” with Adam Browne, Other Stories and Other Stories 2014
“Preface” Daedalus spring 2015

Online magazines

“Painter of the Endless Grey” Down in the Cellar Issue 3, March 2007
“Dead Man Enters Bar, Ruins Party” The Haunted July / August 2002
“Atypical Exterminators, Inc.” This Way Up Spring 2001
“The Thrower of Lightning and . . .” Alternate Realities September 2001
“First Snow” Pegasus July 2001
“Clean at Last” Dark Moon Rising September 2001
“After the Plague of Orphans” Odd Musings Issue 2
“Bobo’s Big Surprise” Graveyard Shift
“Personal Savior” Nocturnal Ooze
“In a Pale Kimono” Digital Catapult; 1st Prize, short story contest
“In the Temple of the Lizard King” High Fantasy Online
“Invasion of the Button Crouchers” The Swamp
“The Persuasive Piñata” Speculon November 2001
“The Use of Things” Aphelion

Collections

Upon the Matted Weird
A collection of my short fiction, Baysgarth Publishing, including reprints and original stories, with cover art by Steve Gilberts (Presumably forthcoming. Baysgarth Publishing is currently on Planet Hiatus, unfortunately)