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.