Free fiction online

A few places you can read or listen to my fiction for free:

Short Stories

This Hollow Thing,Apostles of the Weird, edited by S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing, 2020
Read on YouTube for Dead of Winter, a selection of ghost stories for Christmas, December 2021

Every Exquisite Thing, The Scarlet Soul: Stories for Dorian Gray, edited by Mark Valentine, Swan River Press, 2017
Reprinted at The Dark, October 2019 (click to read for free online)

The Dying Season, Aickman’s Heirs, Undertow Press, edited by Simon Strantzas, May 2015
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story 2015
Reprinted in Nightmare Magazine, February 2017 (click to read for free online)

The Old Roads, Burrow Press, October 2016 (click to read for free online)

The Burned House,  The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, volume 25, edited by Stephen Jones
Reprinted at Nightmare Magazine March 2015 (click to read for free online)

The Queen in the Yellow Wallpaper, The Burning Circus anthology from the British Fantasy Society, 2013
Reprinted in You’ll Know When You Get There, 2016
Read on YouTube for Winter Tales, December 2022

The House on Cobb Street, Nightmare Magazine, June 2013 (click to read for free online)
Reprinted 2014 in Best Horror of the Year, volume 6, edited by Ellen Datlow

Red at the End of the World, Daily Science Fiction, October 31, 2012
(Click the above link to read it for free online.)

The Last Reel, Supernatural Tales #10, 2006
Reprinted 2007 in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18, edited by Stephen Jones
Reprinted 2010 in Wielka Ksiega Horroru 1 (Fabryka Slów, Poland)
Podcast October 2012 at Pseudopod (click to listen for free)
Reprinted in The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013

Different Angels, The Third Alternative #19, March 1999
Reprinted in The Moon Will Look Strange, 2013
Reprinted in Nightmare Magazine, January 2018 (click to read for free online)

Not fiction, but you can also read my essay on growing up Southern and writing horror fiction at Nightmare Magazine: The Dirty South.