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DAY 20 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 20 of 27: Connor de Bruler

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstonepresents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”
11. Kathryn E. McGee presents “The Creek Keepers’ Lodge”
12. Jeffrey Ford presents “Five Pointed Spell”
13. Sean Eads presents “Predestination’s a Bitch”
14. Dean H. Wild presents “The Gaff”
15. Stephanie Bedwell-Grime presents “The Night Truck”
16. C. Michael Cook presents “The Night Crier”
17. Josh Rountree presents “Snowfather”
18. Jayani C. Senanayake presents “Kalu Kumaraya (My Dark Prince)”
19. Marc E. Fitch presents “The Starry Crown”
20. Connor de Bruler presents “Il Mostro”

EXCERPT:

…“No good cigarettes in Italy. Only in Germany and France.”“And Russia.”“Russia?”Earl blows smoke out the side of his mouth.“A Russian cigarette is a fine cigarette, my friend.”“Oui, mon frère.”The Frenchman lights the American cigarette with a cheap lighter and inhales.“This is good too. The filter is hard.”“Yeah, they make ’em thick. In the U.S. jet pilots like to bite down on the filter while they’re flying.”“Yeah, it’s a good smoke. Thank you, my friend.”“Thank you,” Earl says. “Everybody’s so damn friendly in Europe.”The Frenchman chuckles. “This, I’m afraid, is not true. You are lucky. Very lucky. You will see. There is a . . . ” He waves his free hand around as if to grab the thought. “A . . . a badness in Europe. There is a lot of bad ideas.”“Prejudice?”“Ouais! Préscisément!” He points at Earl in excitement. “They hate Americans. You are American soldier. This is horrible for you, no?”…
— Il Mostro by Connor de Bruler ABOUT: Connor de Bruler

Connor de Bruler was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and lived most of his life in Nuremberg, Germany and Greenville, South Carolina. He is a graduate of Winthrop University. The only copy of his first hand-written novel was stolen and thrown over the Washington Avenue Bridge into the Mississippi River by an acquaintance at the University of Minnesota. Since then, he has published two novels, Tree Black and The Mountain Devils with a small California publisher, Montag Press. He is twenty-six years old and currently resides in Columbia, South Carolina, with his fiancée, visual artist, Courtney Niskala.

DAY 19 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 19 of 27: Marc E. Fitch

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstone presents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”
11. Kathryn E. McGee presents “The Creek Keepers’ Lodge”
12. Jeffrey Ford presents “Five Pointed Spell”
13. Sean Eads presents “Predestination’s a Bitch”
14. Dean H. Wild presents “The Gaff”
15. Stephanie Bedwell-Grime presents “The Night Truck”
16. C. Michael Cook presents “The Night Crier”
17. Josh Rountree presents “Snowfather”
18. Jayani C. Senanayake presents “Kalu Kumaraya (My Dark Prince)”
19. Marc E. Fitch presents “The Starry Crown”

EXCERPT:

I left the university campus behind to do some field work in the deep south. I was studying folk songs from southern states that had neither a known composer or time/place of origin. Those old songs that just seemed to rise out of the cultural folklore and evangelical mysticism like a steam rising from a swamp. Songs that had been sung for generations by slaves and slave owners, Baptist ministers and backwoods preachers and whose chords had been strung by banjos and whistled on whiskey jugs. Those songs presented a mystery to me; one that seemed to be known and understood in the deep south but eluded myself and others in the halls of academe…— The Starry Crown by Marc E. Fitch
ABOUT: Marc E. Fitch

Marc E. Fitch is the author of the novels Paradise Burns, Dirty Water, and Old Boone Blood. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as Nightscript, Whispers from the Abyss 2, and The Big Click. Marc is also the author of Paranormal Nation: Why America Needs Ghosts, UFOs and Bigfoot. Marc lives and works in Connecticut with his wife, four children, and three goats. For more information visit www.marcfitch.com, and he can be found on Facebook and Twitter.

DAY 18 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 18 of 27: Jayani C. Senanayake (her first published horror story!)

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstonepresents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”
11. Kathryn E. McGee presents “The Creek Keepers’ Lodge”
12. Jeffrey Ford presents “Five Pointed Spell”
13. Sean Eads presents “Predestination’s a Bitch”
14. Dean H. Wild presents “The Gaff”
15. Stephanie Bedwell-Grime presents “The Night Truck”
16. C. Michael Cook presents “The Night Crier”
17. Josh Rountree presents “Snowfather”
18. Jayani C. Senanayake presents “Kalu Kumaraya (My Dark Prince)”

EXCERPT:

My first memory is of a dark, handsome face gazing down at me in the cradle.It’s difficult to know if he’d been there even before that moment. I don’t know where he’d come from or, perhaps, he had always been there, and it was me who came along . . .Yet there he was filling my childhood—smiling from my dreams, crawling on the floor alongside me, holding my hand as I took those first steps in life. Together we built sandcastles on the beach, and he would whisper answers in my ear during our term tests at school. He was slender, tall, and perfectly dark, with gleaming obsidian eyes that rippled quietly with a wisdom seeming more ancient than the world itself. I called him Kalu—the color black.… 
— Kalu Kumaraya (My Dark Prince) by Jayani C. Senanayake
ABOUT: Jayani C. Senanayake

First and foremost a dreamer who began scribbling her thoughts on paper at a very young age, Jayani C. Senanayake is a poet and a writer who published her maiden collection of poetry, Scattered, in 2012. Although her other work has been published both locally and internationally, “My Dark Prince” is her first foray into horror, despite a long sustained fascination of the genre.Jayani C. Senanayake is also a food writer, and is the author of www.peckishme.com. She is currently working on a collection of short stories as well as a second collection of poetry while also cultivating her interests in food and horror.

DAY 17 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 17 of 27: Josh Rountree

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstone presents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”
11. Kathryn E. McGee presents “The Creek Keepers’ Lodge”
12. Jeffrey Ford presents “Five Pointed Spell”
13. Sean Eads presents “Predestination’s a Bitch”
14. Dean H. Wild presents “The Gaff”
15. Stephanie Bedwell-Grime presents “The Night Truck”
16. C. Michael Cook presents “The Night Crier”17. Josh Rountree presents “Snowfather”

EXCERPT:

Ypres is a hell. Is it not bad enough that the very land seems hungry to swallow us all? Must we be hunted by the black soul of our enemies made flesh? I killed him again last night, a closer encounter than ever before. I dread night patrols more and more, the way the land pitches and rolls, even when the guns have grown cold and the shells stopped falling. The world is white ice and barbed wire, and a man can lose himself in bottomless craters and abandoned foxholes.No matter how many of your brothers walk at your side, we are each alone in that terrible place. Perhaps it is the quiet that unnerves me most. War should never be quiet. I think it is the purity of the silence that draws Snowfather out again and again... The creature is chaos, and he cannot countenance even a moment’s peace… 
— Snowfather by Josh Rountree
ABOUT: Josh Rountree

Josh Rountree ’s short fiction has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including Realms of Fantasy, After Death . . ., and Electric Velocipede. His first collection of stories, Can’t Buy Me Faded Love, is available from Wheatland Press. Josh lives in Georgetown, TX with his wife and two sons.

DAY 16 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 16 of 27: C. Michael Cook

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstone presents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”
11. Kathryn E. McGee presents “The Creek Keepers’ Lodge”
12. Jeffrey Ford presents “Five Pointed Spell”
13. Sean Eads presents “Predestination’s a Bitch”
14. Dean H. Wild presents “The Gaff”
15. Stephanie Bedwell-Grime presents “The Night Truck”
16. C. Michael Cook presents “The Night Crier”

EXCERPT:


Ed hurried downstairs. He grabbed the rifle and flashlight and went outside.The night air felt like ice water against his skin. He headed toward the woods, stopping every few yards to listen, adjusting his course each time the bird cried out. He marveled at the darkened houses around him, at the way others could sleep through this, their husbands and wives beside them, their children safe in the next room.He crossed the street and stopped at the tree line. It was colder here. Darker, too. It smelled of moist earth and life waiting to emerge.He waited for the night crier’s call…
— The Night Crier by C. Michael Cook
ABOUT: C. Michael Cook

C. Michael Cook is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer whose work has appeared in The Baybury Review, Unspeakable Horror, and two previous volumes of The Horror Library. He lives, writes, and rides bicycles in Chicago, where he’s currently at work on his first novel. He can be found at cmichaelcook.com and cmichaelcook.blogspot.com.

DAY 15 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing (Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 15 of 27: Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselbergpresents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floydpresents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Little presents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfrey presents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstone presents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”
11. Kathryn E. McGee presents “The Creek Keepers’ Lodge”
12. Jeffrey Ford presents “Five Pointed Spell”
13. Sean Eadspresents “Predestination’s a Bitch”
14. Dean H. Wildpresents “The Gaff”
15. Stephanie Bedwell-Grime presents “The Night Truck”

EXCERPT:

The truck is old, its cab rounded in a way vehicles just aren’t constructed anymore. Its paint might once have been white, but so much of it has fallen off, all she can see is the rust underneath. A long truck bed stretches out from behind the cab. The sides are wood. It looks like it’s been put together from whatever parts could be found at the scrap yard. It can’t be roadworthy, it can’t be legal.Nonetheless it’s lumbering down her street, slowing as it passes her house. She darts away from the window, pressing herself against the wall beside it. If she looks sideways she can still track its passage through the sheer curtains.The old vehicle slows more. Its brakes shriek with the effort. Whatever’s in the bed of the truck bounces beneath an old piece of canvas…
— The Night Truck by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime
ABOUT: Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

Stephanie Bedwell-Grime credits her love of horror to growing up in a house beside a graveyard. Although she never did meet a ghost there, it did get her thinking about things that go bump in the night. To date she has had more than thirty novels and novellas published. She has also been a five-time finalist for the Aurora, Canada’s national award for speculative fiction. Stephanie welcomes visitors to her website at www.feralmartian.com.

DAY 14 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 14 of 27: Dean H. Wild

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstonepresents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”
11. Kathryn E. McGee presents “The Creek Keepers’ Lodge”
12. Jeffrey Ford presents “Five Pointed Spell”
13. Sean Eads presents “Predestination’s a Bitch”
14. Dean H. Wild presents “The Gaff”

EXCERPT:

“The line goes quiet, but they’re not done. Not until they knock.”“Who exactly do you think is going to knock?” When he pulled his car in, the parking lot adjacent to their tiny building was empty except for Betsy’s beat-up Dodge which she called her Snow Buster. The lots belonging to the antique shop to the north and the volunteer fire department to the south were unmarked planes of fresh snow. No tire tracks, no footprints. “There isn’t anybody—”Two taps rattled the small window behind his desk…— The Gaff by Dean H. Wild
ABOUT: Dean H. Wild

Dean H. Wild has lived in east central Wisconsin, primarily in small towns surrounding the city of Fond du Lac, all his life. He wrote his first short horror story at the tender age of seven and continued to write dark fiction into adulthood while he pursued careers in retail, the newspaper industry, and real estate. His short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies including Bell, Book & Beyond, A Feast of Frights, Night Lights, and Night Terrors III. He and his wife, Julie, currently reside in the village of Brownsville. Visit Dean at: http://www.deanwild.com

DAY 13 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 13 of 27: Sean Eads

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstone presents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”
11. Kathryn E. McGee presents “The Creek Keepers’ Lodge”
12. Jeffrey Ford presents “Five Pointed Spell”
13. Sean Eads presents “Predestination’s a Bitch”

EXCERPT:

He starts reading the email.I had a great time with you last night.So far so good. But wait: there’s more . . .Except there isn’t.Clyde furrows his brows. What else? He taps the side of his monitor, as if coaxing the screen to cough out more text. Can emails contain cliffhangers? She had a great time and; she had a great time but; she had a great time until.Again he blames Roger. If not for the goddamn joke, this email would have Clyde on Cloud Nine. Instead he wrestles with paranoia. Isn’t there implied finalityin the email’s terseness? Like: I had a great time with you last night. But now it’s time to move on.Yeah. Move on to Roger.Well, that’s it: Roger has to die.”— Predestination’s a Bitch by Sean Eads
ABOUT: Sean Eads

Sean Eads is a writer and librarian living in Denver, CO. His second novel, The Survivors, was a finalist for the 2013 Lambda Literary Award. His third novel, Lord Byron’s Prophecy, was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Colorado Book Award, and was named a Best Book of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews. His first novel, Trigger Point, is being re-released in 2017 through Hex Publishing. A short story collection, 17 Stitches, is forthcoming from Lethe Press. Sean is originally from Kentucky. Visit Sean at: http://www.seaneads.net

DAY 12 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 12 of 27: the amazing, the prodigious Jeffrey Ford!

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstonepresents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”
11. Kathryn E. McGee presents “The Creek Keepers’ Lodge”
12. Jeffrey Ford presents “Five Pointed Spell”

EXCERPT:

…in that instant it became clear that not only was it a truck but it was a black truck. He must have been doing 90. I pushed down on the gas, to my mind, recklessly, but as wild as I thought I drove, I didn’t stand a chance of outpacing him. I looked at the speedometer and I was only doing 55. “Jesus,” I said, threw the butt out the window and closed it. I inched up to 60 mph but felt as if the car was getting out of control. Then the truck was right behind me, flashing its lights and beeping. I pulled over at almost exactly the spot I’d pulled over on the way to town. My heart was pounding, and as I hit the brakes to coast to the side, the car wriggled erratically. A dark blur blew past, and I saw the guy in the driver’s seat. He stared over at me with a dull expression while chewing on a black cheroot of a cigar. One detail I caught as he whipped out of sight was that under his orange cap in the back, the hair had been shaved from his scalp behind his ear and there was a big white Frankenstein scar like his head had been stitched back on. It matched up somehow in my mind with the decal on his back window—a spear point with a sword in it and lightning bolts shooting across like scars. For the next few weeks, every time I left the house, I’d warily check my rearview mirror, and not once was it in vain. That guy had to be spying on me. I asked the farmers on either side of my place if they knew who it was, describing the truck to them. Both of them more or less said the same thing, “Oh, yeah, that black truck, I’ve seen it before.”
— Five Pointed Spell by Jeffrey Ford
ABOUT: Jeffrey Ford

Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, and The Shadow Year. His short story collections are The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and A Natural History of Hell. Ford’s short fiction has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies. Both books and stories have been translated into nearly twenty languages worldwide. Ford is the recipient of The World Fantasy Award, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe Award, The Shirley Jackson Award, The Hayakawa Award, and Gran Prix de l’Imaginaire. He lives in Ohio in a hundred and twenty year old farm house surrounded by corn and soybean fields and teaches part-time at Ohio Wesleyan University. More about Jeffrey Ford at: http://www.well-builtcity.com

DAY 11 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 11 of 27: Kathryn E. McGee

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstonepresents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”11. Kathryn E. McGee presents “The Creek Keepers’ Lodge”

EXCERPT:

Gray could still hear his grandfather Walter’s voice; he stared at the photos, found the ones Walter was in. Even as a child, Gray had assumed the Creek Keepers were old dudes who sat around talking about fishing and swilling coffee, but he also remembered Walter taking his membership seriously, being very invested in the happenings of the town. He’d say things like, “The old buildings downtown, they’re special. Can’t you see that, son?” He’d pause dramatically, lower his voice to a whisper. “They keep the bad stuff deep in the earth from getting loose, rising up through the water. They help us to maintain equilibrium. They maintain our stability.”— The Creek Keepers’ Lodge by Kathryn E. McGee
ABOUT: Kathryn E. McGee

Kathryn E. McGee has an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside Palm Desert. Her short fiction has appeared in the Cemetery Riots and Winter Horror Days anthologies. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association. In her work as an architectural historian, she writes histories of old buildings and consults on development projects involving historic properties.