My swords and sorcery tale Ammanada is published in the latest issue of Schlock! Webzine

 

The latest issue of Schlock! Webzine (November 2025) contains my longish swords and sorcery tale "Ammanada".

Here is a link to Schlock! Webzine's website where you can read a copy of this story for free: Ammanada 

My sword and sorcery tale The God in the Keep reprinted in February issue of Schlock! Webzine

My sword and sorcery tale The God in the Keep was reprinted in this month's issue of Schlock! Webzine. This was first published in Sword and Sorcery Magazine in 2021. But although it's a reprint this is actually the first time this tale has appeared in print as Sword and Sorcery Magazine is only an online publication.

New sword and sorcery story accepted - Ammanada to be in the November issue of Schlock! Webzine

I have just learned today that my sword and sorcery tale, Ammanada, will be in the November issue of Schlock! Webzine. 

Here's an update on my new sword and sorcery stories lined up for publication this year:

Essayan's Terrible Machineries of War (Crimson Quill Quarterly #5)

Lies and Treachery (Crimson Quill Quarterly #6 and #7)

The Moneylender of Oriaska (Swords & Heroes online and Swords & Heroes Vol 2)

Ossani's Apprentice (Swords & Heroes Vol 2)

Mask of a Mad God (Welgar the Cursed)

Emerging from Their Twilit Realms (Welgar the Cursed)

Ammanada (Schlock! Webzine November issue)

My early horror story The Farmhouse is to be reprinted in the October issue of Schlock! Webzine

The Farmhouse was first published in 1971 in New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural, edited by David A. Sutton for Sphere Books, then was subsequently reprinted in David Stuart Schiff's Whispers #4, and the following year in First World Fantasy Awards edited by Gahan Wilson for Doubleday. 

It will now be reprinted in Gavin Chappell's Schlock! Webzine in October. 

 

First new stories to be published in 2025: Essayan's Terrible Machineries of War and Visit Fungosia

It now looks like the first new stories of mine to be published in the New Year will be a dark fantasy called Essayan's Terrible Machineries of War in Crimson Quill Quarterly #5 and a humorous science fiction yarn I wrote a few years back called Visit Fungosia, which will be in 4Star Stories #30. 

I do already have a third story lined up to be serialised in two parts later in the year, Lies and Treachery, which is a sword and sorcery tale involving three recurring characters Horbeck, Brud and Asner, who first appeared in The Demon from Another World (Anthology of the Damned: Necromoirrium).

My only other story so far scheduled for 2025 is a reprint of one that originally appeared in the online Sword & Sorcery Magazine in 2021. This is a tale called The God in the Keep and will be in the August issue of Schlock! Webzine.

Baal the Necromancer

My copy of Schlock! Webzine for December 2024 arrived today with my sword and sorcery story Baal the Necromancer reprinted in it. 

Baal the Necromancer is reprinted in Schlock! Webzine

First published in Mythic magazine #17 in 2021, my sword and sorcery story Baal the Necromancer has just been reprinted in the December. 2024 issue of Schlock! Webzine. I did write a sequel of sorts to this, The Storyteller of Koss which was first published in Summer of Sci-Fi and Fantasy in 2022 and again reprinted in Schlock! Webzine in its October 2024 issue.

An Oddity published in Strange Aeon 2024

I was surprised to see such glowing praise from the editor of Strange Aeon: 2024, M. Keaton about my story An Oddity, which was reprinted in it recently. The tale was first printed in Shlock! Webzine earlier this year.

My early sword and sorcery tale The God in the Keep to be reprinted in Schlock! Webzine in 2025

 

One of my earlier sword and sorcery stories, The God in the Keep, originally published online in Sword & Sorcery magazine, issue 118 in 2021, will be reprinted in Schlock! Webzine in August 2025.

Two stories published today: The Demon from Another World and An Oddity

I have two stories just published in the States.

One is my sword and sorcery novelette The Demon from Another World in Anthology of the Damned: Necromoirrium.

The second is a reprint of my horror story An Oddity in the anthology Strange Aeon 2024 edited by M. Keaton. This was first published in the January 2024 issue of Schlock! Webzine.

The Storyteller of Koss is reprinted in this month's Schlock! Webzine

My sword and sorcery story The Storyteller of Koss, first published in Dustin Bilyk's Summer of Sci-fi & Fantasy is reprinted in the October issue of Schlock! Webzine, which is available now as an ebook and paperback. 

Three stories to be reprinted in October

It looks like I'll have three of my stories reprinted in October.

These are:

The Storyteller of Koss, which originally appeared in Summer of SciFi & Fantasy in 2022 edited by Dustin Bilyk. This will now be in the October issue of Schlock! Webzine edited by Gavin Chappell. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Oddity, which was only published for the first time this year in Schlock! Webzine, January issue, edited by Gavin Chappell, will now be in Strange Aeon 2024 edited by M. Keaton in the States. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A very old story of mine, Terror on the Moors, will be in The Complete World of Horror Volume 2. This will be a facsimile of issues 4, 5 and 6 of the 1970s magazine, World of Horror, which is now being reprinted in hardcover by Confessions Press. My story was in issue 6, illustrated by Jim Pitts.