And some more acceptances…

June is proving a good month for writing so far. Two more stories have been published in anthologies and I have had another accepted.

The Hunt by Dragon Soul Press includes my The Real Housewives of Transylvania. As is often the case, the title came first and I then speculated on what story could justify it. The result is an epistolatory tale (modelling the original Frankenstein and Dracula) which tries to redress the inherent sexism in most horror stories and films – women are generally there to be victims or love interest(or both). In my story the Bride of Frankenstein survives and follows her intended mate’s trail of destruction around the world, encountering other women from horror tales.

The Wanderer from the Scars TV stable includes my Cave Canem. There was a call for an anthology of updated myths and I wrote this tale of a black serviceman on his way home after a stint in Vietnam encountering a hippy cult, its leader and a charismatic musician searching for his lost love in 60s Crete. It didn’t get accepted for the anthology but Scars were happy to bring it to print.

The story I have had accepted is Immoral Panic, set in the same imaginary Fens village as The Witch Bottle from Borne in the Blood. It will be in the next Eternal Haunted Summer, and was partly inspired by the wonderful Avram Davidson’s early short stories.