Anthology appearances - check 'em out.

Thought it was about time I gave a shout out to some of the publishers who've taken a chance on my work over the past few years; in particular, James Ward Kirk Fiction and Nicholas Grabowsky from Black Bed Sheet Books. Here is the complete list (including links) of anthologies in which my stories have appeared, in reverse chronological order. The title denotes the anthology name/title and the following title is the name of the story/poem of mine that appears therein.

JWK Fiction Best of Horror 2013 - 'Return of the Creep"

http://www.amazon.com/JWK-Fiction-Best-Horror-2013/dp/0692269398/ref=la_B004A30AHQ_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407974129&sr=1-5

Terror Train Anthology - 'One Way Ticket'

Serial Killers Quattor - 'Pretty Boy'

http://www.amazon.com/Serial-Killers-Quattuor-James-Ward/dp/0692023453/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407974493&sr=1-2-spell&keywords=serial+killers+quattor

Memento Mori - 'The Kaleidoscope Kid'

http://www.amazon.com/Memento-Mori-Remember-That-Will/dp/0615998585/ref=sr_1_31?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407972543&sr=1-31&keywords=james+ward+kirk+fiction

Ugly Babies (Vol II) – ‘Conceived By Death’

Bizarro, Bizarro: An Anthology – ‘The Colony’

Songs For The Raven – ‘Til Death Do Us Part’, ‘Aspects of Infinity’

Four Ghosts – Dead and Buried (Novella)

Splatterpunk Saints Anthology – ‘King of Terrors’, ”Til Death Do Us Part’

Read Us Or Die – ‘Burnt Offerings’,'The Reader’

Serial Killers tres tria – ‘Blinded By The Light’

I’ll Never Go Away Vol II – ‘Dead Memories’

Serial Killers iterum – ‘Return of the Creep’

Writings on the Wall – ‘Playing the Game’

Dark Light – ‘Beach House’

Putrid Poetry & Sickening Sketches -’In The Dead of night’ (poem)

Masters of Horror: The Anthology – ‘Devil Inside’

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