Latest Short Stories
Publisher: Castle Bridge Media
Release Date: May 2024
Description: Castle of Horror Volume 11 features stories of revenge. My story is set in the quintessential Curio Shop and features a bereaved widow seeking revenge on the person she blames for her husband's death.
Publisher: eSpec Books
Release Date: April 2024
Description: The Chaos Clock contains stories of eldritch horrors set in steampunk universes. My story, "Sky Rivers of Gray," depicts the aftermath of a 19th century archeologist's obsession with an Egyptian sarcophagus that contained a horrific secret.
Publisher: Pulse Publishing
Release Date: February 2024
99 Fleeting Fantasies is a flash fiction anthology filled with wonder far-flung fables, and snippets of legend and lore from all over the world. My story is entitled, "Interview with Santa."
ebooks and paperbacks are available now.
Castle of Horror: Thinly Veiled: Saturday Mornings
Publisher: Castle Bridge Media
Release Date: July 2023
Description: Castle of Horror Volume 10 features thinly veiled stories set in the worlds of Saturday morning pop culture. My story follows a certain lucky rabbit who is great at counting to seven, and take a grim look behind the scenes of his magical "luck" power.
Publisher: Moonstone Books
Release Date: March 2023
Description: The March 2023 Moonstone Triple Threat includes my Kolchak: The Night Stalker story, "The Magic Flute," along with a Johnny Fade story by Nancy Holder and Alan Philipson, and a Gridiron story by David Boop. "The Magic Flute" sees Karl team up with his old (and by old I mean ancient astronaut old) friend Bennu, a.k.a "The Phoenix."
Kolchak 50th Anniversary Anthology
Publisher: Monstrous Books
Release Date: November 2022
Description: This special hardcover edition features 12 all-new comic stories, plus 10 prose stories to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Night Stalker. My story tells a mysterious tale of a Russian limo roaming the streets of Buffalo, kidnapping kids from the local parish. Carl suspects Biblical foul play.Head to Monstrous Books for more info or to order your copy today.
Castle of Horror: Thinly Veiled: The 80s
Publisher: Castle Bridge Media
Release Date: July 2022
Description: Castle of Horror Volume 8 features my latest story, titled "Novelty." The Thinly Veiled series uses iconic media and products from a decade and features them without naming them. My story is about a plastic-string-covered ball toy that hides a deadly secret inside. Check out Castle Bridge Media for more information. You can purchase Thinly Veiled: The 80s on Amazon.
Castle of Horror: Love Gone Wrong
Publisher: Castle Bridge Media
Release Date: April 2022
Description: Castle of Horror Volume 7 features a story I wrote in the months after 9/11 called "Choices," which tells the story of Jack Lynch, a NYC firefighter who can change past choices he has made to alter the flow of events in the present. Check out Castle Bridge Media for more information. You can purchase Love Gone Wrong on Amazon.
Publisher: Budgie Smuggler Games
Release Date: June 2021
Description: This anthology is set in Budgie Smuggler Games' Renegade Legion Universe RPG setting in the distant future. My story, "Unsanctioned," is a fun, Ocean's Eleven-esque heist pitting forces from the Union against the human TOG Empire in a race to see who will control a new technology. Check out Budgie Smuggler for more information or head to Amazon to purchase the book.
The Trials of Baldur
Publisher: IAMTW
Release Date: March 2021
Description: My story is in this wonderful anthology published to benefit the World Literacy Foundation follows the Norse god Baldur on a quest to lighten the lives of Midgard's Druids, while Loki prowls the shadows looking to take the god down a notch.
Available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Necromunda Short Stories
Publisher: Black Library
Release Date: August 2020
Description: This Mad D'onne story (a prequel to the novel Soulless Fury) shows just what happens when warring Underhive gangs come between Donna and her latest bounty. Nothing good for the gangs, that's for certain.
Anthology: Uprising
Publisher: Black Library
Release Date: September 2020
Description: Once banner-jarl for the Vega Rams, an elite mercenary company Grendl Grendlsen lost everything when his liege crossed paths with Lord Helmawr, the ruthless ruler of
Hive Primus. Forced into the Underhive, Grendl has made a new name for himself as a bounty hunter and hired gun. His latest job brings back bad memories of his previous life and may cost the former
banner-jarl the only thing of value he has left, his life.
Original Short Stories
Anthology: Visual Journeys
Release Date: Summer 2007
Description: This anthology combines fascinating depictions from space, imagined by great artists of today and yesterday with tales set in those universes as told by some of SF's greatest authors. It's a tribute to those who practice and those who imagine. Full color plates of space art accompany tales of fantastic fiction. My story, "Resurrection Man," based on a wonderful piece of art by Frank Wu, shows a dystopian view of early space exploration.
On the Off-Ramp of the Inter-Galactic Superhighway
Publisher: Hadley Rille Books
Release Date: Summer 2006
Description: This anthology contains stories written as if during the Golden Age (from 1938 to 1957). The authors have transported themselves back to the Golden Age, suspended their memories of all events that have taken place since then and written science fiction stories about the future...tales of a bygone future. The anthology also boasts a foreword by Arthur C.Clarke.
Adrift in the Maelstrom
Publisher: Lite Circle Books
Release Date: June 2005
Description: "Adrift in the Maelstrom" is my first published story set in a universe of my own design. It's the story of a damaged ship dirfting in the void between universes, an enemy "ghost ship," and a xeno-bigoted engineer who must find a way to work with his crew to get them all home. No Longer Dreams features fantasy, horror and science fiction stories by such authors as CJ Henderson and Darrel Schweitzer.
Katya, Lady Assassin Story
Temple of Broken Dreams
Anthology: Katya, Lady Assassin: A Child's Eyes and other stories
Release Date: October 2011
Description: This is the first e-book from the Story Portals website. It has nine original tales about Katya, an "assassin at the very top of her profession. ... There is no job she cannot do, no target she cannot kill, though, for reasons of her own and in accordance with her own strict code, there are jobs she will not accept regardless of the price. See the Amazon.com page to purchase the Kindle version.
Diamond Throne Stories
Essence of the Dragon
Publisher: Malhavoc Press
Release Date: March 2005
Description: "The Essence of the Dragon" is my second short story set in Monte Cook's Diamond Throne universe. It follows an mojh acolyte and his master as they search for the pieces of an important ritual that will herald the return of their masters - the dragons. The last piece of the ritual, however - the essence of the Dragon - will be the toughest to locate. The Dragon's Return is the second anthology published by Monte Cook's Malhavoc Press. It includes stories by such great fantasy authors as: Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb.
Child of the Street
Publisher: Malhavoc Press
Release Date: August 2004
Description: This anthology is about the mystical Rune Children, who use magical tattoos to protect the weak. "Child of the Street" tells the tale of a Nada Flesher, a new initiate to the Nightwalkers, whose first assignment is the assassination of a Rune Child. But will her past catch up to her before she can complete her mission?
Magic: The Gathering Stories
Anthology: Shadowmoor
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Release Date: April 2008
Description: This Magic: The Gathering anthology describes a shattered world, where day and night divide the world into two halves - one of light and one of darkness. When the Aurora comes, night falls and the world changes, but no one seems to notice. My story, "Meme's Tale," tells the tale of a little girl named Meme, who is caught between worlds of her own when the landscape changes around her.
Ach! Hans, Run!
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Release Date: August 2004
Description: The Magic: The Gathering trading card game features some of the most biggest and nastiest monsters in all of fantasy gaming. This anthology highlights some of the most famous in the game. In "Ach! Hans, Run," a Lhurgoyff goes on a killing spree in search of two hunters who murdered its mate and stole its most prized possession.
Journey Home
Anthology: The Secrets of Magic
Release Date: March 2002
Description: This anthology brings to light some of the deepest, darkest secrets of the Magic: The Gathering universe. "Journey Home" is a companion short story to my first novel, Judgment. It tells the history of Balthor Rockfist, the barbarian dwarf, lone survivor of a massive battle in the Phyrexian wars. This future mentor to Kamahl, the protagonist of Judgment. must endure many hardships to return to his people. We also learn of the ancient origins of Kamahl's massive sword.
The Lady of the Mountain
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Release Date: June 2000
Description: This anthology tells the great myths of the various cultures and peoples in the lands of Dominaria. "The Lady of the Mountain," written with my wife, Daneen, is the dwarven creation myth (as well as the legend of their final battle against the forces of evil. It tells the tale of two gods - brother and sister - who combined their powers to create the world and then gave birth to the Lady, who would become both mother and protector of all the dwarves, until the end of time.
Phyrexian Autopsy
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Release Date: July 1999
Description: These guides gave card-by-card descriptions and strategies for the Urza Cycle card sets in the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. In addition, each guide contained a short story that helped bring readers into the main story of the set. In "Phyrexian Autopsy " Urza brings the corpse of a Negator - a Phyrexian killing machine to Rayne's lab for her to dissect. This story touches on information from the novel Bloodlines by Loren L Coleman.
Scars of the Legacy
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Release Date: April 1999
Description: These guides gave card-by-card descriptions and strategies for the Urza Cycle card sets in the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. In addition, each guide contained a short story that helped bring readers into the main story of the set. In "Scars of the Legacy," Jhoira flies Weatherlight toward Zhalfir, discusses the ship's recent maiden voyage, and then faces the most important decision of her life.
A Time for Remembrance
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Release Date: November 1998
The story of this set was told in several books - The Brother's War, by Jeff Grubb, Planeswalker, by Lynn Abbey, and Timestreams, by J. Robert King. Thus the short story had a lot to cover, and it's much more of an overview than the two follow-up stories.
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