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Tracie McBride

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Tracie McBride is a New Zealander of Ngāpuhi descent who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her debut collection Ghosts Can Bleed contains much of the work that earned her a Sir Julius Vogel Award, with a second collection - Drive, She Said - published by IFWG Publishing in 2020. Her stories and the anthologies they have appeared in have won or been shortlisted for several awards including the Stoker, Aurealis, and Australian Shadows Awards. Visitors to her blog are welcome at http://traciemcbridewriter.wordpress..... ...more

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	The Best of Horror Library: Volumes 1-5 by R.J. Cavender (Editor), Ray Garton (Contributor), Bentley Little (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horror for Good: A Charitable Anthology by Mark Scioneaux (Editor), R.J. Cavender (Editor), Robert S. Wilson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts by Rayne Hall, Sera Hayes, Jonathan Broughto 3.59 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Killing It Softly by Suzie Lockhart (Editor), Sandra Kasturi, Jenner Michaud (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aurealis #84 by Stephen Higgins (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), D.J. Daniels (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Tracie McBride (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.57 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1990 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scared: Ten Tales of Horror by Rayne Hall (Editor, Author), Deborah J. Ross (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Broughto 3.66 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghosts Can Bleed 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	April Fool and other Antipodean horror stories 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drive, She Said and Other Stories 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lizard and The Maiden it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Fantasy Magazine Issue 98

My flash fiction story “Knife Plus” is in Issue 98 of Fantasy Magazine, and will be published online on the magazine’s website on 24 October 2025. This story was inspired by a talk from the Buddhist teacher James Low. I should emphasize that the connection between the inspiration and the end product is extremely loose. As in, “I dropped the leash, the dog ran away, and now it’s implicated in sever

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