Hey everybody, M. here,

Earlier today DMR Books announced the table of contents for the upcoming Walpurgis Witcheries anthology (slated to hit the shelves on April 30), so I can finally reveal that I am going to have a story in this one! Among the nine brand new tales of might and magic in this collection you will find my story The Wandering One and the Witchdance.

Walpurgis Witcheries is the followup to the hugely popular Samhain Sorceries anthology, and like its predecessor features all sword & sorcery and dark fantasy tales themed around a particular festival with pagan origins (in this case, Walpurgisnacht, a holiday that has served as a celebration of St. Walpurga since the Middle Ages, but still draws costumed revelers to the Harz Mountains in Germany each year to honor its more ancient significance).

Along with the excellent stories there is, as you can see, an absolutely beautiful cover by artist Adam Burke, who also provided art for Samhain Sorceries (take a look at both and tell me those won’t look amazing next to each other on the shelf!). So get ready to ring in spring with weird witchcraft and the clang of sword striking against sword!

And since the release date lines up with the Walpurgisnacht festival in April, that also means that you’ll be able to get your hands on some new sword & sorcery by yours truly before the arrival of my collection Kingdoms Trembling in June!

Plenty more about Kingdoms Trembling on the way in the coming months, but if you want a taste of the weird world you’ll encounter when June comes around, don’t forget that you can find the story that introduced the fictional universe that the collection returns to, The Tears of Blood, in the recently released DMR Books digital sampler The Battle Rages On for free. Or if you prefer print, don’t mind paying, and want a bunch of other, different great stories along with it, you can still grab a copy of the story in the first Die By The Sword anthology (not to mention its direct followup, The Eye Within The Eye, in the second volume of DBTS).

More news soon, take care everybody!
-M.

Hey everybody, M. here,

Just wanted to share the news that you can now pre-order a copy of Nyctalocos: A Collection of Night Terrors. As I mentioned the other day, the anthology is scheduled to come out in August and will contain my story Sherman Dismantled And Afloat. Visit the Chthonic Matter website to see the just-announced full table of contents and put in your pre-order so you get a copy right when it hits the shelves!

And while you are there, consider picking up a 2026 subscription to Chthonic Matter Quarterly for a year’s worth of innovative and thought-provoking weird horror, and so you do not miss my story What’s Behind The Walls, which is scheduled to appear in the Summer 2026 issue of the magazine (and which is a thematic followup to my story Sticky, which appeared in the Winter 2024 issue).

Should have another big announcement coming around the end of the month, stay tuned!
-M.

Hey everybody, M. here,

First I’m happy to share the news that my new horror story, Sherman Dismantled And Afloat, will be appearing in Nyctalocos: A Collection of Night Terrors from Chthonic Matter Press, which is scheduled to hit the shelves in August.

And just in case you forgot, or have stumbled onto my work for the first time just now and did not know in the first place, my story What’s Behind The Walls is scheduled to appear in the Summer 2026 issue of Chthonic Matter Quarterly. That story is sort of a thematic followup to my story Sticky from the Winter 2024 issue, so if you want to prepare your mind for the madness coming this summer, pick up a copy and dig in if you dare!

You can also subscribe to Chthonic Matter Quarterly for a full year of some of the most terrifying and thought-provoking new horror fiction getting published today.

Burial Books science fiction anthology title And cover art revealed
I received some additional good news on Friday: Burial Books officially revealed the title and the cover art for their upcoming science fiction anthology. It is going to be called Strange Tales  of Space And Time, and it’s got this cool, fun cover by Betty Rocksteady.

As I first announced last year, this anthology will contain my science fiction-comedy story, Kayfabe. This will be my second appearance in an anthology from Burial Books, the first being with my tale of memetic and demonic forces, #FireOfLove, which can be found in Weird Tales to Haunt Your Reptilian Brain, released last year and still available for your enjoyment.

Strange Tales of Space And Time is scheduled to appear in August, and it will be available for pre-order in May. A full reveal of the table of contents should be coming in the near future.

Get some FREE sword & sorcery in the new DMR Books digital sampler
I announced this in my previous blog on Friday and went a bit more in-depth, but since people love free stuff so much I thought it was worth mentioning once again: the new digital sampler anthology from DMR Books, titled The Battle Rages On, is now available to download FOR FREE.

Among the eight excellent tales therein, you will find a reprint of my story The Tears of Blood, which originally appeared in 2023’s Die By The Sword anthology (and introduces the world which reader will revisit in my book Kingdoms Trembling this June).

More news on the way, take care everyone!
-M.

Hey everybody, M. here,

Yesterday DMR Books released its new FREE digital sampler anthology titled The Battle Rages On, a followup to the popular sampler released in 2019, The Infernal Bargain and Other Stories. The ebook features a stunning cover by Brian LeBlanc and contains eight stories (six from contemporary authors and two from classic titans of years past) that showcase what DMR is all about. I’m happy to say that my story The Tears of Blood appears among them!

The story originally appeared in the first volume of Die By The Sword from DMR Books, and is also the first one that I set in the world that readers will revisit in my collection, Kingdoms Trembling, which is slated to be published in June by DMR Books. So if you want a feel for what you can look forward to this summer, download The Battle Rages On and charge headfirst into the weird world of action and adventure!

And you also get seven other stories that will get you familiar with the unparalleled force in sword & sorcery and dark fantasy that is DMR Books, including a previously unpublished story by Ethan Sabatella. So check it out!

Much more news on the way!
-M.