Short Work

Short stories, poems, essays, forewords, comics, and the anthologies I’ve edited — across magazines, anthologies, and collections.

Short Stories

Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror (ed. Cynthia Pelayo)
Forthcoming · Simon & Schuster / Atria / Primero Sueño Press · September 2026
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand (eds. Christopher Golden & Brian Keene)
Simon & Schuster / Gallery Books · August 2025
All the Haunts Be Ours: A Folk Horror Storybook
Severin Films · December 2024
Gamut Magazine, Issue #12
Gamut Magazine · December 2024
Play or Die
Assemble Artifacts Short Story Magazine, Issue #6
Assemble Artifacts · October 2024
Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables and Dark Tales
Crystal Lake Publishing · October 2024
The Darkest Night (ed. Lindy Ryan)
Crooked Lane Books · September 2024
The Rack: Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks (ed. Tom Deady)
Greymore Publishing · September 2024
Weird Tales Magazine No. 369 (The Bram Stoker Awards Issue)
Weird Tales · July 2024
She’s Lost Control: The Female Voice Is Strong, and Will Not Be Controlled
Post Mortem Press · March 2024
Qualia Nous Vol. 2 (ed. Michael Bailey)
Written Backwards · October 2023
Fragile Anthology (ed. Michael Allen Rose)
RoShamBo Publishing · October 2023
Neverwake: An Anthology of Dream Horror (eds. Kenneth W. Cain & Tim Meyer)
Crystal Lake Publishing · September 2023
This World Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Horror Stories about Bugs
From Beyond Press · May 2023
Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In Multiplex
Pandi Press · January 2023
Damnation Games
Clandestine Press · December 2022
Dark Matter Presents: Human Monsters (eds. Sadie Hartmann & Ashley Saywers)
Dark Matter Ink · October 2022
The Hideous Book of Hidden Monsters (ed. Doug Murano)
Bad Hand Books · June 2022
Shattered & Splintered
AEA Press · May 2022
Slash-HER: A Women of Horror Anthology (eds. Janine Pipe & Jill Girardi)
Kandisha Press · March 2022
Diabolica Americana (ed. Keith Anthony Baird)
Keith Anthony Baird · October 2021
Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology (eds. S.D. Vassallo & Steven M. Long)
Brigids Gate Press · October 2021
Far From Home (ed. Samantha Kolesnik)
Off Limits Press · September 2021
Twisted Anatomy
Sci-Fi & Scary · February 2021
Halldark Holidays (ed. Gabino Iglesias)
Cemetery Gates Media · December 2020
Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic (eds. Nick Kolakowski & Steve Weddle)
Polis Books · June 2020
Both Sides: Stories from the Border (ed. Gabino Iglesias)
Polis Books · April 2020
¡Pa’Que Tu Lo Sepas!: Latinx Fiction for Puerto Rico (ed. Angel Luis Colón)
Down & Out Books · October 2019
44 Lies by 22 Liars (ed. Eric Beebe)
Post Mortem Press · 2016
Unnerving Magazine: Issue 16
Unnerving · c. 2021
Outpost 28: Issue #4
Outpost 28 · c. 2020–2021
The Horror Zine Magazine, Fall 2015
The Horror Zine · Fall 2015
The Horror Zine Magazine, Summer 2013
The Horror Zine · Summer 2013
Frightmares: A Fistful of Flash Fiction Horror (ed. Stan Swanson)
Dark Moon Books · 2011
Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers: An Anthology (eds. Jendia Gammon & Gareth L. Powell)
Brigids Gate / Luna Press · 2025
Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite: An Anthology (eds. Jendia Gammon & Gareth L. Powell)
Brigids Gate / Luna Press · 2025
PUNK goes HORROR II: Hardcore for the Encore (ed. William Sterling)
PUNK goes HORROR · 2025
Women of the Weird West (ed. K.C. Grifant)
Brigids Gate Press · 2025
Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories (ed. Michael W. Phillips Jr.)
From Beyond Press · 2024

StokerCon Souvenir Anthologies

StokerCon 2024 Souvenir Anthology: San Diego
Horror Writers Association · 2024
StokerCon 2023 Souvenir Anthology: The Monsters That Made Us
Horror Writers Association · 2023
StokerCon 2022 Souvenir Anthology: The Denver Resurrected Edition
Horror Writers Association · 2022

Poetry & Literary Journals

HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VIII (ed. Stephanie M. Wytovich)
Horror Writers Association · 2021
The Midnight Game
HWA Poetry Showcase Volume VII (ed. Stephanie M. Wytovich)
Horror Writers Association · 2020
Southwest Review, Volume 105.3
Bram Stoker Award Finalist · Southern Methodist University · October 2020
HWA Poetry Showcase Volume V (ed. Stephanie M. Wytovich)
Horror Writers Association · 2018

Essays & Craft Nonfiction

My Mother Was Margaret White
Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction
Bram Stoker Award Finalist · Saga Press · 2025
Ghosts Are Not the Monsters: Murders, Apparitions, and Violence Against Women
The PEN Ten
PEN America · 2025
Incorporating Nonfiction and True Crime Into a Genre Novel
Writer’s Digest
Writer’s Digest · 2025
Five SFF Books Set in Chicago
Reactor (formerly Tor.com)
Reactor · 2025
CrimeReads
CrimeReads / Literary Hub · March 2025
LitReactor (column)
LitReactor · August 2024
LitReactor (column)
LitReactor · 2024
Writer’s Digest
Writer’s Digest · March 2024
CrimeReads
CrimeReads / Literary Hub · March 2024
Writing Poetry in the Dark (eds. Stephanie M. Wytovich & Linda D. Addison)
Bram Stoker Award Finalist · Raw Dog Screaming Press · October 2022
CrimeReads
CrimeReads / Literary Hub · March 2021
In The Fray
In The Fray · February 2010

Forewords & Introductions

Metamorphosis by Ross Jeffery (ed. William Sterling)
Anthology · 2025
Fever Dreams of a Parasite by Pedro Íñiguez
Single-author collection · 2025
Howls from the Scene of the Crime: A Crime Horror Anthology (eds. Jessica Peter & Timaeus Bloom)
Anthology · 2024

Comics

Co-written with Daniel José Older · art by Moisés Hidalgo · Marvel Voices: Comunidades
Marvel Comics · 2025

Chapbooks & Standalone Editions

Chapbook — three fictionalized stories about family (includes Boricua Obituary and The Lament of the Vejigante)
Burial Day Books · 2021
Standalone chapbook edition
Burial Day Books · 2021

Gothic Blue Book Series

Editor with Gerardo Pelayo
Contributor — “The Gravedigger”
Burial Day Books · 2011
Editor with Gerardo Pelayo
Contributor — “Blaspheme”
Burial Day Books · 2012
Editor with Gerardo Pelayo
Burial Day Books · 2013
Editor with Gerardo Pelayo
Contributor
Burial Day Books · 2014
Editor with Gerardo Pelayo
Contributor
Burial Day Books · 2015
Editor with Gerardo Pelayo
Contributor
Burial Day Books · 2020

Other Edited Anthologies

Editor
Forthcoming · Simon & Schuster / Atria / Primero Sueño Press · September 2026

Early-Career Magazine Appearances

Danse Macabre Online
Danse Macabre Online · c. 2009–2012
Early short fiction and poetry
Flashes in the Dark
Flashes in the Dark · c. 2009–2012
Early short fiction and poetry
SNM Horror Magazine
SNM Horror · c. 2009–2012
Early short fiction and poetry
Seedpod
Seedpod · c. 2009–2012
Early short fiction and poetry
Static Movement
Static Movement · c. 2009–2012