And the House Lights Dim

A collection of strange stories themed around houses, homes and families, published by Luna Press, July 2019

Read details and reviews here.

[Stories listed below marked with * appear in And the House Lights Dim.]

Forthcoming story publications

• Dear Will – Vastarien
• Goodbye, Jonathan Tumbledown – TBA
• Kraken Mare – Flash Point Science Fiction
• The Slow King (reprint; audio) – Pseudopod

Published stories

• Into the Wound – Voyage, Oct 2020
• The Slow King – The Fiends in the Furrows II anthology (Nosetouch Press), Aug 2020
• Praying To Her Thumbs – STORGY, Jun 2020
• Simulation – Strange Days anthology (Midnight Street Press), May 2020
• Red Sky at Morning – Unsung Stories, May 2020
• The Pea – Fudoki, Jan 2020
• What Can You Do About A Man Like That? – Pareidolia anthology (Black Shuck Books), Jul 2019
• O Cul-de-Sac!* – And the House Lights Dim (collection), Jul 2019
  – Reprinted in The Best of British Fantasy 2019 (NewCon Press), Jun 2020
• The Forge* – And the House Lights Dim (collection), Jul 2019
• ‘Honey spurge’: Confidential report into dispersal, growth and catastrophe* – And the House Lights Dim (collection), Jul 2019
• A Crest of a Wave – Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 15, Jun 2019
• Concerning the Deprivation of Sleep – Synth #2, Jun 2019
  – Reprinted in Best of British Science Fiction 2019 (NewCon Press), Jul 2020
• Hangers-on – The Shadow Booth Vol 3, Apr 2019
• What Are We Going To Do With You? – Subliminal Reality anthology (Lycan Valley Press), Apr 2019
• The Bath House – Twice-Told: A Collection of Doubles anthology  (Chthonic Matter), Feb 2019
• Cast in the Same Mould – Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 13, Sep 2018
• Throw Caution – Interzone #276, Jul 2018
  – Reprinted in Best of British Science Fiction 2018 (NewCon Press), Aug 2019
• To Ashes, Dust – Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #61, Jan 2018
• The Pale Shadow and the Conjuror – Mystery Weekly, Jan 2018
• Eqalussuaq* – Not One of Us #58, Oct 2017
  – Reprinted in It Came From Beneath the Waves anthology (Mantle Lane Press), May 2018
  – Reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten (ed. Ellen Datlow) (Nightshade Books), Jun 2018
• Pater Patriae – Empyreome, May 2017
• The Walls of Tithonium Chasma – Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 7, Mar 2017
  – Reprinted in Best of British Science Fiction 2017 (NewCon Press), Jun 2018
  – Reprinted in The Chosen from the First Age anthology (Shoreline of Infinity), Feb 2019
• St Erth* – Into the Woods anthology (Hic Dragones), Mar 2017
• The Eyes Have It* – The 3rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories (Spectral Press), Oct 2016
• Winter in the Vivarium* – Winter Tales anthology (Fox Spirit), Feb 2016
  – Reprinted in Gaia: Shadow & Breath Vol. 3, Feb 2017
  – Reprinted in Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 11.5, Mar 2018
  – Reprinted in Fearless Genre Warriors anthology (Fox Spirit), Nov 2018
• All I Can See Are Sad Eyes* – The Literary Hatchet #13, Dec 2015
• The Puzzle Box – Body Parts Magazine #6, Nov 2015
• Cowardy Custard – We Need to Talk anthology (Jurassic London), Sep 2015
• Lines of Fire* – Game Over anthology (Snowbooks), Aug 2015
  – Reprinted in Typhon: A Monster Anthology Vol. 2, Dec 2017
  – Reprinted in Game Over anthology (Lycan Valley Press), Dec 2019
• Tunnel Vision* – Kitchen Sink Gothic anthology (Parallel Universe Publications), Aug 2015
  – Reprinted in Pantheon #9: Hestia, Jul 2016
• For a Tooth – Every Day Fiction, Jul 2015
  – Audio reading in 600 Second Saga, Feb 2018
• Screaming His Scream – Perihelion, May 2015
• The Sleeper – Phobos, Issue 3, Feb 2015
  – Reprinted in The Singularity, Issue 1, Aug 2015 
  – Reprinted in Dark Lane Anthology Volume 3, Apr 2016
  
• Like Clockwork – 2nd Prize in Story Quest contest
  – Published in SQ Mag Edition 18, Jan 2015
  – Reprinted in BFS Horizons #4 (British Fantasy Society), Dec 2016
  – Reprinted in Unfit Magazine Vol. 2, Nov 2018
  – Reprinted in Stories of Hope and Wonder anthology (NewCon Press), Apr 2020
• Finding Waltzer-Three* – Interzone #255, Nov 2014
  – Reprinted in Pantheon #8: Nyx, Aug 2015
• Read/Write Head* – Garbled Transmissions, Dec 2013
  – Reprinted in The Museum of All Things Awesome And That Go Boom anthology (Upper Rubber Boot), Jul 2016
  – Reprinted in Pantheon #10: Mnemosyne, Apr 2017
  – Reprinted in Here Comes Everyone: The Tomorrow Issue, Jul 2019
• By the Numbers* – Voluted Tales, Vol. 14 Issue 10, Nov 2013
  – Reprinted in Infinite Science Fiction One anthology (Infinite Acacia), Sep 2014
  – Reprinted in The New Accelerator #3, Feb 2015
  – Reprinted in BFS Horizons #3 (British Fantasy Society), Jul 2016
• The House Lights Dim* – Sanitarium, Issue 11, Jul 2013
  – Reworked version in Dark Lane Anthology Volume 2, Sep 2015
  – Reprinted in Nothing anthology (Hic Dragones), Apr 2019

[Stories marked with * appear in the collection And the House Lights Dim, along with the complete novella, Carus & Mitch.]

You can read the following stories for free online:

Finding Waltzer-Three, Read/Write Head, Like Clockwork, Tunnel Vision, Praying to Her Thumbs, Into the Wound