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“--30--” • short fiction • Occultation, 2010
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2011 — novelette — nomination
• Locus Awards 2011 — novelette — 21st place
anthologies:
• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three, ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books 2011
“Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees” • short fiction • Autumn Cthulhu, 2016
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2017 — novelette — nomination
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories • collection • Night Shade Books, 2013
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2014 — collection — nomination
• Bram Stoker Awards 2014 — collection — winner
• Locus Awards 2014 — collection — 8th place
“Black Dog”
anthologies:
• Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2013
“Blackwood's Baby” • short fiction • Ghosts by Gaslight, 2011
awards:
• Locus Awards 2012 — novelette — 22nd place
anthologies:
• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four, ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books 2012
“The Broadsword” • short fiction • Black Wings, 2010
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2011 — novelette — nomination
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2011
“Bulldozer” • short fiction • Sci Fiction 25 Aug 2004
awards:
• International Horror Guild Awards 2005 — mid-length fiction — nomination
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin’s Griffin 2005
“The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven”
anthologies:
• Heiresses of Russ 2012: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, ed. Connie Wilkins & Steve Berman, Lethe Press 2012
• Supernatural Noir, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse 2011
“Catch Hell” • short fiction • Lovecraft Unbound, 2009
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2010 — novelette — nomination
anthologies:
• Lovecraft Unbound, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Books 2009
“The Forest” • short fiction • Inferno, 2007
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2008 — novelette — nomination
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2008 — shortlist
• Locus Awards 2008 — novelette — 28th place
anthologies:
• The Weird, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, Tor 2012
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-first Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin’s 2008
• Inferno, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2007
“Frontier Death Song” • short fiction • Nightmare Oct 2012
awards:
• Locus Awards 2013 — novelette — 16th place
anthologies:
• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five, ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books 2013
“Girls Without Their Faces On”
anthologies:
• The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven, ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books 2019
“Hallucigenia” • short fiction • F&SF Jun 2006
awards:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2007 — long fiction — nomination
• Locus Awards 2007 — novella — 18th place
• International Horror Guild Awards 2007 — long fiction — nomination
anthologies:
• Year’s Best Fantasy 7, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Tachyon Publications 2007
“Hand of Glory” • short fiction • The Book of Cthulhu II, 2012
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2013 — novella — nomination
• Locus Awards 2013 — novella — 7th place
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2013 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2013
“The Imago Sequence” • short fiction • F&SF May 2005
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2006 — novella — nomination
• Locus Awards 2006 — novella — 13th place
• International Horror Guild Awards 2006 — long fiction — nomination
anthologies:
• Year’s Best Fantasy 6, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Tachyon Publications 2006
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories • collection • Night Shade Books, 2007
awards:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2008 — collection — nomination
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2008 — collection — winner
• Locus Awards 2008 — collection — 15th place
• International Horror Guild Awards 2008 — collection — nomination
• William L. Crawford - IAFA Fantasy Award 2008 — finalist
“In a Cavern, in a Canyon”
anthologies:
• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight, ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books 2016
“Jaws of Saturn” • short fiction • The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, 2013
awards:
• Locus Awards 2014 — novelette — 8th place
anthologies:
• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six, ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books 2014
“The Lagerstatte” • short fiction • The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2008
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2009 — novelette — nomination
anthologies:
• Ghosts: Recent Hauntings, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2012
• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books 2009
• The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Ellen Datlow, Ballantine Del Rey 2008
“(Little Miss) Queen of Darkness”
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2015
“The Men from Porlock” • short fiction • The Book of Cthulhu, 2011
awards:
• Locus Awards 2012 — novella — 10th place
“Mysterium Tremendum” • short fiction • Occultation, 2010
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2011 — novella — winner
anthologies:
• Wilde Stories 2011: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction, ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press 2011
Not a Speck of Light • collection • Bad Hand, 2024
awards:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2025 — fiction collection — nomination
“Oblivion Mode”
anthologies:
• Children of Lovecraft, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse 2016
Occultation • collection • Night Shade Books, 2010
awards:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2011 — collection — nomination
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2011 — collection — winner
• Locus Awards 2011 — collection — 18th place
“Old Virginia” • short fiction • F&SF Feb 2003
awards:
• Locus Awards 2004 — novelette — 27th place
• International Horror Guild Awards 2004 — short fiction — nomination
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant & Kelly Link, St. Martin’s Griffin 2004
“Proboscis” • short fiction • F&SF Feb 2005
awards:
• International Horror Guild Awards 2006 — mid-length fiction — nomination
anthologies:
• The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin’s Griffin 2006
“Procession of the Black Sloth” • short fiction • The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, 2007
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2008 — novella — nomination
• International Horror Guild Awards 2008 — long fiction — nomination
“The Redfield Girls” • short fiction • Haunted Legends, 2010
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2011 — novelette — nomination
anthologies:
• Haunted Legends, ed. Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, Tor 2010
“Screaming Elk, Mt.”
anthologies:
• Nightmare Carnival, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse 2014
“The Siphon”
anthologies:
• Blood and Other Cravings, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2011
“six six six” • short fiction • Occultation, 2010
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2011 — short story — nomination
“A Strange Form of Life”
anthologies:
• Wilde Stories 2013: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction, ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press 2013
“Strappado” • short fiction • Poe
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2010 — short story — nomination
• Locus Awards 2010 — short story — 22nd place
anthologies:
• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two, ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books 2010
• Wilde Stories 2010: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press 2010
• Poe, ed. Ellen Datlow, Solaris 2009
“Swift to Chase”
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2018 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2018
Swift to Chase • collection • JournalStone, 2016
awards:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2017 — collection — nomination
“Termination Dust”
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2014
“Versus Versus” • short fiction • Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners, 2024
awards:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2025 — short fiction — nomination
“The Worms Crawl in,”
anthologies:
• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven, ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books 2015
• Fearful Symmetries, ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications 2014
The Year's Best Weird Fiction Volume One (LB & Michael Kelly, eds.) • anthology • ChiZine Publications/Undertow, 2014
awards:
• Locus Awards 2015 — anthology — 20th place

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