Novels
The Sinking of the Angie Piper (written as Chris Riley) — Coffeetown Press, Blackstone Audio, 2017.
The Broken Pines (written as Chris Riley) — Black Rose Writing, 2022
Of Woodland Textures and Charnel Delights — (forthcoming)
Short Stories
Fantasy
Dragons in them thar Hills! — When Worlds Collide Anthology, 2022
Finding Georgia — Stupefying Stories Magazine, Issue 1.17; Bards and Sages Quarterly, July 2019: MetaStellar Magazine; Tall Tale TV.
Dinner with Sasquatch, June 2014
When the Sun Rises — Mirror Dance, Winter 2013; And the Dead Shall Sleep No More Anthology, 2022; Vampiricon – Imaginings and Images of the Vampire, 2023
Nothing But A Little Magic! — Bards and Sages Quarterly, April 2013
The Infinite Fractal of Skylar Freeborn — Honorable Mention at L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest; Silver Blade Magazine, Issue 21, February 2014; The Centropic Oracle; Shelter of Daylight
Knowing Then What I Know Now — The Hidden Chapter, February 2012
At The Well of Seething Grove — Residential Aliens, December 2011; The Speculative Edge Magazine, January 2013; Digital Fiction Magazine, 2017; Manawaker Podcast
Oh Shit! — Sorcerous Signals, November 2011; Mystic Signals Issue #12
The Tattoo Artist — The Absent Willow Review, June 2011; Shelter of Daylight, Issue 9; Tall Tale TV
Dark Fantasy, Weird Tales
A Love So Deep — Chthonic Matter, Spring 2023; Creepy Podcast (forthcoming)
The Sea Hag — The NoSleep Podcast (forthcoming)
The Retribution of John Ramsey — Road Kill: Texas Horror Vol 7
From Her Beautiful, Loving Desire — The Doomed House of Abraxas, Vol 1., Mount Abraxas Press
The Coils of Madness — Frostsigils – Mount Abraxas Press
Soft Bellies Made of Flesh and Stone and Oodles of Love — Toyon Magazine ; fresh.ink magazine; Creepy Podcast (forthcoming)
Ronnie and the River — Weirdbook Annual Anthology, 2018
From the Labor of God’s Worms — Dies Infaustus Anthology
Bringing the Bodies Home — Weirdbook Magazine, Issue #40; Freedom Fiction
Twenty Miles and Running — Nightscript III
The Dead of Night — Weirdbook Magazine, Issue #35; The Nosleep Podcast, Season 12, Issue 2.
Hatchet Man — Double Feature Magazine, Issue #2; Tales From the Moonlit Path
Into the Mountains with Mother Old Growth — Weirdbook Magazine, Issue #31 (2015 Tangent Online Reading List); Night Land Quarterly, Issue #18
White Noise — Phobos Magazine, Issue #3; Tales to Terrify Podcast, Issue #351; Tales From the Moonlit Path
The Lord of Darkness — The Literary Hatchet, Issue #10; Sub-Saharan Magazine
Essen die Toten! — The Literary Hatchet, Issue #10
A Million Miles Away — Niteblade, Issue #30, December 2014; Manawaker Podcast; MetaStellar Magazine; The Fifth Dimension Magazine (forthcoming)
There is No God — Memento Mori, JWK Publishing
The Evil Scarecrow and the Bone Pit — Fabula Argentea, April 2014; Tall Tale TV
Diary of a Boggart — T. Gene Davis’ Speculative Blog, February 2014
Corn-fed Baby and Gravy — Black Treacle Magazine, August 2013; Bete Noire Magazine, Issue #20; The Chamber Magazine
Transient Number Five — Bete Noire Magazine, Issue #16; Manawaker Podcast
Shit for Luck — SK Tres Tria Antho
En Masse — Barnyard Horror Anthology
The Hand Collector — Underground Voices, November 2012; Dark Horses Magazine, 2022
The Bones of Hyrum Hill — Denizens of Darkness Anthology
Fire — The Darkness Within Anthology
Ornery Bear — Bizzarocast, May 2013
Something About Roy — Danse Macabre, Aug 2012; Darkness Internal, Issue #2; Tales From the Moonlit Path
A Place to Call Home — Underground Voices, May 2012; Underground Voices 2012 Anthology, From the UV Files
What Little They Know — Underground Voices, February 2012; Twisted Dreams Magazine, May 2014
Eyes for the Succubus — Orion’s Child, January 2012; Twisted Dreams Magazine, October 2013
The Rendezvous — Underground Voices, January 2012
To Hunt and Torture — Bards and Sages Quarterly, July 2012
Somewhere East of Santa Fe — Cover of Darkness, Issue 11; Abstract Jam, Issue #3
Dear Madeline — Legends and Lore, 2014; Kaidankai Podcast, 2022
Ursus Horribilis — Bete Noire Magazine, Issue #6; Perspectives Magazine (forthcoming)
Reaching Out — The Horror Zine, December 2011; Feast of Frights Anthology, 2012
Creatures of Habit — Underground Voices 2011 Anthology, Hotel Oblivion
The People’s Masterpiece — Roar and Thunder, June 2012; The Darkness Internal, Issue #3
Alas: The Wonderful Sound of Nature — Blood Moon Rising, October 2011
The Revelation — Eschatology, September 2011; Darkness Internal, Issue #1; Tales From the Moonlit Path
Gulp! — Roar and Thunder, June 2011
The Lurch — Death Head Grin, Volume 23
Went Missing — Short-Story.me, May 2011
Through the Eyes of Him — Bleeding Ink Anthology, July 2012
Science Fiction
Child of the Universe — StarShipSofa, No 646, 2020; Fifth Dimension Magazine, December 2021
The NIB; And a Brief Study in Cosmic Irrelevance — Weirdbook Magazine #45, July 2022
The Singing Tree — StarShipSofa, No 541, 2018; Shelter of Daylight, Autumn 2021; Society of Misfits, Feb 2022
Bleeding Deep — Saturday Night Reader, September 2014; Sub-Saharan Magazine
Endangered Species — Dark Edifice Magazine, May 2013
Becoming Young — Static Movement, May 2012
The Men with Green Faces — Short-Story.me, April 2012; Dark Horses Magazine #12, 2023
Celestial Eradication 1.0 — Orion’s Child, May 2012
Somewhere in the Restaurant of a Distant Galaxy — Death Head Grin, Volume 31
Proximus 6598, Bethal Quadrant… — The WiFiles, January 2012
And They Blamed it on El Chupacabra — Bards and Sages Quarterly, July 2011
Insufficient Transaction — Bewildering Stories, Issue 434
Gravity 101 — The Horror Zine, March 2011; The Speculative Edge Magazine, August 2012; Speculative Edge Best of the Year, 2012 (winner of the August Reader’s Choice)
Literary, General, Other
The Things We Find — Earth Island Journal, 2021
A Day in the Life of Alfonso Roberto Gonzalez III — Short Story Town, March 2021
A Fool in the Woods — Woods Reader, Summer, 2020, (Audio Version)
Dear Mountain Lion — Woods Reader, Winter, 2019
A Eulogy for Shit — Chrome Baby, Issue #11
Old Betsy — Inwood Indiana, August 2013; Blue Lake Review, Jan. 2023
A Lap for Jenny — Midwest Literary Review, November 2011; The Wax Paper
The Supervisor — Untreed Reads Publishing, November 2011
The Journey of A Million Apples — Inwood Indiana, August 2013
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