WHO’S WHO / THE LIST
Written Backwards has survived over the years publishing a wide array of creativity: short stories, novelettes, novellas, poetry, illustrations and, most recently, graphic adaptations. Most of the work appears in original anthologies, but a few select novels, debut fiction collections, and other strange projects have popped up over the years.
The goal: to seek diverse work, to push literary boundaries, to create the most beautiful books imaginable (and to provide professional-rate payments to contributors when at all possible). The result: a who’s who list of writers and artists. Millions of words. Hundreds of illustrations. Familiarize yourself with these wonderful people.
So, just who has Written Backwards published over the years, and where? Here’s a start, alphabetically by last name. All are short stories (unless specified, like this).
Addison, Linda D.
- “Things That the Earth No Longer Bears” (poem) and “Life Poems” (a series of haiku) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Alfrey, Aeron
- Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)
Anderson, Paul Michael
- “In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “The Agonizing Guilt of Relief (Last Days of a Ready-Made Victim)” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “The Universe is Dying” – You, Human © 2016
- Bones Are Made to Be Broken (fiction collection) © 2018
- How We Broke (novella, with Bracken MacLeod) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Arcuri, Meghan
- “Inevitable” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “Watch Me” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Introduction” (nonfiction) – The Near Future © 2017
- “What’s in a Mentor” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Arnzen, Michael
- “Why the Bram Soker Award Matters” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Bahr, Laura Lee
- “The Cause” – You, Human © 2016
Bailey, Michael
- Palindrome Hannah (composite novel) © 2005, 2018
- Phoenix Rose (composite novel) © 2009, 2018
- Scales and Petals (fiction & poetry collection) © 2010, 2018
- “I Wanted Black” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
- “Underwater Ferris Wheel” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “Intro” / “Outro” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “0 – 1” (introduction) – Qualia Nous © 2014
- Inkblots and Blood Spots (fiction & poetry collection) © 2014, 2018
- “The Librarian” and photography – The Library of the Dead © 2015
- Interior artwork – Other Music © 2016, 2018
- Ensō (collection of children’s fables) © 2017
- “Someone’s Gotta Do It” (nonfiction), “A Haunted Statue” (nonfiction), selected poetry, notes, and guest Editor – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- Our Children, Our Teachers (novelette) © 2018
Baldwin, Ben
- Illustration – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprint)
Balog, Jonathan
- “Fail-Safe” and “Insomnia in Reverse” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Barron, Laird
- “Swift to Chase” (novelette) – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “The Loveliest Form of the Dark Side” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Batson, Michael Ian
- Cover artwork and illustrations – Palindrome Hannah © 2005, 2018
- Cover artwork – Phoenix Rose © 2009, 2018
Bear, Elizabeth
- The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward” (novelette, with Sarah Monette) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Biggs, John
- “Dear Boy” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Blackthorn, Rose
- “Prescience” and “Arbitration” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Bodner, Hal
- “A Rift in Reflection” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
- “Keepsakes” – You, Human © 2016
Booth III, Max
- “Flowers Blooming in the Season of Atrophy” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “The Neighborhood Has a Barbeque” – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “Blood Dust” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “The Big Question” (Guest of Honor Interview of Victor LaValle) and “The Importance of First Novels” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Boston, Bruce
- “Reflecting on Reflections” and “Beyond Symmetry” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Carnival of Ghosts” (poem, with Marge Simon) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Boyer, Ann K.
- “In the Eyes of the Beholder” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Braoddus, Maurice
- “Wolf at the Door” (with Anthony R. Cardno) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Braunbeck, Gary A.
- “Need” – Chiral Mad © 2005, 2012 (reprint)
- “The Great Pity” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013 (Bram Stoker Award winner)
- “No Fixed Address” (novelette) – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “Tales the Ashes Tell” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
- “Silver Thread, Hammer Ring” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Falling Faces by the Wayside” – You, Human © 2001, 2016 (reprint)
- “Somewhere Between the Mundane and the Miraculous” (introduction, with Janet Harriett) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Brenchley, Chad
- “Ch-Ch-Changes” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “Here Today and Gone Tomorrow” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Brittany, Michele
- “Furthers Horror Studies Scholarship for Second Year” (essay on the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, with Nicholas Diak) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Brock, Jason V
- “Simulacrum” – Qualia Nous © 2013, 2014 (reprint)
- “Windows, Mirrors, Doors” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Unity of Affect” – You, Human © 2016
- “When Horror Gets Real” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Brozek, Jennifer
- “Home and Hope Both Sound a Little Bit Like ‘Hunger'” (with Seanan McGuire) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Bulkin, Nadia
- “A Luta Continua” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Bundschuh, Mason Ian
- “Another Man’s Bones” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “Breathe You In Me” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Burke, Chesya
- “Peregrination” (novelette, with LH Moore) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Burge, Weldon
- “Sizzle” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Burke, Kealan Patrick
- “I’m Not There” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Cabeen, Bob
- Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)
Cardno, Anthony R.
- “Wolf at the Door” (with Maurice Broaddus) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Caruso, Santiago
- Illustration – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprint)
Castle, Mort
- “The Counselor” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2011, 2013 (reprint)
- “Prayer” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Robot” – You, Human © 2016
- “Hey, Kids! Comix! You Can Play, Too!” (nonfiction) – Mort Castle
Campbell, Ramsey
- “The Word” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 2 © 1997, 2013 (reprint)
- “Know Your Code” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “How He Helped” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “The Way of the Worm” (novel excerpt) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Cantella, Julian
- “Here You Come Again” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Cataneo, Emily B.
- “A Guide to Etiquette and Comportment for the Sisters of Henley House” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseilles” – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “The Black Crow of Boddinstraße” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- In Her Flightless Wings, a Fire (novella, with Gwendolyn Kiste) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Catronis, George C.
- Cover artwork – Other Music © 2016, 2018
- Cover artwork – You, Human © 2016
Chadbourne, Glenn
- Illustrations – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)
- “Firedance” (graphic adaptation, with Jack Ketchum) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Chambers, James
- “Mnemonicide” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “The Price of Faces” – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “Why Graphic Novels Matter in Horror” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- “The Ghost of the Bayou Piténn” (graphic adaptation, with Jason Whitley & Christopher Mills) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Chapman, Greg
- Cover artwork – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)
Chizmar, Richard
- “The Poetry of Life” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Ditch Treasures” – You, Human © 2016
Christian, Autumn
- “Pink Crane Girls” – You, Human © 2016
Clark, G.O.
- “Her Apparition Walked Right Through Him” (poem) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Clasen, Dr. Mathias
- “The Science of Horror: Why Dark Horror Seduces” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Cockburn, D.J.
- “Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Conquest, Lawrence
- “With Rising Alarm” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
DeMeester, Kristi
- “Golden Sun” (novelette, with Richard Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters & Michael Wehunt) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Derwin, Theresa
- “Guest of Honor Interview” (of Sam Weller) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Diak, Nicholas
- “Furthers Horror Studies Scholarship for Second Year” (essay on the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, with Michele Brittany) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Di Filippo, Paul
- “Fifty Super-Sad Mad Dog Sui-Homicidal Self-Sibs, All in a Leaky Tin Can Head” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Dioses, Ashley
- “The Ocean Queen” (poem, with K.A. Opperman) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Dixon, John
- “The Fundamental Importance of YA Books” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Edelman, Scott
- “That Perilous Stuff” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
- “100 Things to Do Before You’re Downloaded” (novelette) – You, Human © 2016
- “Only Humans Can Lie” (novelette) – Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them © 2017
- “Faking it Until Forever Comes (novelette) – Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them © 2017 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
- “Introduction” (nonfiction) – The Far Future © 2017
- “Pity This Busy Monster Not” (novelette) – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “Words + Pictures = Our First Nightmares” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- “I Shall But Love Thee Better” (novelette) – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Ehmann, Jim
- “What the Walrus Hears” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Evenson, Brian
- “Nameless Citizen” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “The Shimmering Wall” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Everson, John
- “Voyeur” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Fallon, Amber
- “Guest of Honor Interview” (of Ciatlín R. Kiernan) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Fenn, J. Lincoln
- “The Secrets of My Prison House” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Freivald, Patrick
- “Twelve Kilos” – Qualia Nous © 2014
French, Aaron J.
- “Creature” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
- “Storm of Lightning” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Gak
- Illustrations – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Garrison, A.A.
- “The Bad Season” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Gilberts, Steve
- Illustration – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprint)
Golden, Christopher
- “Fault Lines” (novelette, with Tim Lebbon) – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Goldsmith, P. Gardner
- “Sigil” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “Whitechapel” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “Fair” and “Promise” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Detritus Girl” (novelette, with Valerie Marcley) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Goodfellow, Cody
- “Key to the City” – You, Human © 2016
Gonzalez, J.F.
- “I’m Getting Closer” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Guignard, Eric J.
- “Experiments in an Isolation Tank” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “Those Who Watch from on High” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Hagelslag, Peter
- “Lead Me to Multiplicity” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Harriett, Janet
- “What Goes Up Must Come Down” – You, Human © 2016
- “Somewhere Between the Mundane and the Miraculous” (introduction, with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Hayden, S.C.
- “Gasoline” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Hearn, David
- “Brighter Her Aura Grows” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Hertz, Chris
- “Sometimes They Hunt” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
- “There Are Embers” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Hodson, Brad
- “Opening Script” and “Closing Script” (screenplays) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Hook, Andrew
- “The Perfection of Symmetry” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “Interference” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Jacobs, John Hornor
- Cover artwork – Scales and Petals © 2010, 2018
Jeffery, Dave
- “Guest of Honor Interview” (of Craig Engler) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Johnson, Eugene
- “Lifetime Achievement Award Interview” (of Linda D. Addison) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Johnson, Erik T.
- “The Inconsolable Key Company” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
- “The Apologies” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “Welcome Home, All You Uninvited” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “The Angel Chaser” – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “Whisper #1 (a Warning)” and “Whisper #2 (a Prophecy)” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “The Immigrants” – You, Human © 2016
- Yes Trespassing (fiction collection) © 2017
- “I Was Not There,” “Circle,” “The Lay of Aldrian,” and “Vespertine” (poems) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- “The Science of Modern Horror Cinema” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- “Ghost Drawl” (with J. Daniel Stone) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Jordan, David
- “The Truth Box” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Kaplan, Barry Jay
- “Underwater” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Keene, Brian
- “The Last Things to Go” (with Mary SanGiovanni) – The Library of the Dead © 2015
- “Introduction” (nonfiction) – Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them © 2017
- “Fade to Null” (graphic adaptation, with Daniele Serra) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Kelley, Jon Michael
- “The Persistence of Vision” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “The Tended Field of Eido Yamata” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “The Effigies of Tamber Square” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Kemper, Erinn L.
- “Versions” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “Night Guard” – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “Phantom on the Ice” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
- “A Flash of Red” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Gumi-Bear” – You, Human © 2016
- “A Laughing Matter” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “The HWA Needs You” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- The Long and the Short of It (novella, with F. Paul Wilson) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
- “There is Nothing Lost” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Ketchum, Jack
- “Amid the Walking Wounded” – Chiral Mad © 1998, 2012 (reprint)
- “The Right Thing” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “Seconds” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “On Readings” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- “Firedance” (graphic adaptation, with Glenn Chadbourne) – Chiral Mad 4 © 1998, 2018 (reprint of text only)
Kiera, Mackenzie
- “Conjuring the Uncanny” (Guest of Honor Interview of Ramsey Campbell) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Kiernan, Ciatlín R.
- “Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8)” (novelette) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2014, 2017 (reprint)
King, Stephen
- “The Jaunt” – Qualia Nous © 1981, 2014 (reprint)
- “The Last Rung of the Ladder” – Chiral Mad 3 © 1978, 2016 (reprint)
- “I Am the Doorway” – You, Human © 1976, 2016 (reprint)
Kiste, Gwendolyn
- In Her Flightless Wings, a Fire (novella, with Emily B. Cataneo) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Krisch, Glen
- “Sudden Sanctuary” (graphic adaptation, with Orion Zangara & Matt Stockwell) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Lacey, Patrick
- “Send Your End” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Langan, John
- “My Father, Dr. Frankenstein” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
Lannes, Roberta
- “A Raven in the Dove’s Nest” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
- “Painting the Burning Fence” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “The Girl with Black Fingers” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Larsen, Christian A.
- “Mirror Moments” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “Cataldo’s Copy” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Larson, Amanda
- “Behind the Walls” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
LaValle, Victor
- “Spectral Evidence” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
LaValley, Dustin
- “Picture-in-Picture” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Lebbon, Tim
- “Fault Lines” (novelette, with Christopher Golden) – The Library of the Dead © 2015
- “Strings” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
Leigh, Sydney
- “Night Soliloquy” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
- “Folie à Deux” and “Folie à Plusieurs” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Levinthal, Marc
- Other Music (novel) © 2016, 2018
- “The Pretty Puppets” – You, Human © 2016
Lin, Jessica May
- “Red Runner vs. the Surgeon, Issue 18” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Little, John R.
- “Second Chance” – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “The Goldilocks Zone” – You, Human © 2016
- “Introduction” (nonfiction) – The Confessions of St. Zach © 2016
Lucia, Kevin
- “Scavenging” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Macae, Frisco
- “Newton’s Third Law” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Macleod, Bracken
- “A Sense of Dread” (nonfiction, with Douglas Wynne) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- “Afterword” (nonfiction) – Bones Are Made to Be Broken © 2018
- How We Broke (novella, with Bracken MacLeod) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
MacLeod, Jay
- “Eraser” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Malerman, Josh
- “The Bigger Bedroom” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “The Jupiter Drop” (novelette) – You, Human © 2016 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
- “The Challenge” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Malik, Usman T.
- “Blood Women” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” – Qualia Nous © 2014 (Bram Stoker Award winner, Nebula Award nominee)
Marcley, Valerie
- “Detritus Girl” (novelette, with P. Gardner Goldsmith) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Marrs, Chris
- “A Chimera’s Tale” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Mason, Rena
- “Ruminations” – Qualia Nous © 2014 (Bram Stoker Award winner)
- “Jaded Winds” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
- “Introduction” (nonfiction) – At the Lazy K © 2015
- “I Will Be the Making of You” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
Massie, Elizabeth
- “18P37-C, After Andrea Was Arrested” – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “Black River #1” and “Black River #2” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Down and Out on Poplar Street” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- “The House at Wydham Street” (novel excerpt) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- “The Substance of Belief” (with Marge Simon) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
McBride, Michael
- “Tears of the Dragon” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
McGuire, Seanan
- “Home and Hope Both Sound a Little Bit Like ‘Hunger'” (with Jennifer Brozek) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
McMahon, Gary
- “Some Pictures in an Album” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “The Chute” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
McQuiston, Rick
- “The Other Side of the Glass” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Meloy, Paul
- “The Serile” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “The Gearbox” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Michelle, Lori
- “Shades of Naught” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Miller, Eric
- “Yes, Horror Films Are Important” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Mills, Christopher
- “The Ghost of the Bayou Piténn” (graphic adaptation, with James Chambers & Jason Whitley) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Monette, Sarah
- The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward” (novelette, with Elizabeth Bear) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2012, 2018 (previously audio only)
Monteleone, Thomas F.
- “Fun with Your New Asymmetric Head” (introduction) – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “When I Was” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “Good and Faithful Servant” – Qualia Nous © 1976, 2014 (reprint)
- “The Star-Filled Sea is Smooth Tonight” – You, Human © 1977, 2016 (reprint)
- “Are You Sure You Really Want to Do This?” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Moore, LH
- “Peregrination” (novelette, with Chesya Burke) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Morrell, David
- “Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 2 © 1988, 2013 (reprint)
Morris, Mark
- “Undersound” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
Morton, Lisa
- “Introduction” (nonfiction)- The Burden of Indigo © 2016
- “Eyes of the Beholders” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “Afterword” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Muslim, Kristine Ong
- “Moonman” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Mynhardt, Joe
- “Illustrations and the Horror Genre” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Navarro, Yvonne
- “Those Who Shall Never Be Named” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Nolan, William F.
- “A New Man” – Qualia Nous © 2014 (reprint)
Ochse, Weston
- “Reliving Through Better Chemistry” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
O’Neill, Gene
- “The White Quetzal” – Chiral Mad © 1985, 2012 (reprint)
- “Tight Partners” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “The Shaking Man” – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “Broken Lady” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
- At the Laxy K (novella, Allevon #1) © 2015
- “3-Dot People” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- The Confessions of St. Zach (composite novel, The Cal Wild Chronicles #1) © 2016
- The Burden of Indigo (composite novel, The Cal Wild Chronicles #2) © 2016
- The Near Future (composite novel, The Cal Wild Chronicles #3) © 2017
- The Far Future (composite novel, The Cal Wild Chronicles #4) © 2017
- “Spirits” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “Some Thoughts on Short Story Collections” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- “Existentialism, Progressive Jazz, and the Blues” (introduction) – Artifacts © 2018
O’Neill, Patrick
- “Alderway” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “Passing Affliction” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Opperman, K.A.
- “The Ocean Queen” (poem, with Ashley Dioses) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
O’Rourke, Monica J.
- “Five Adjectives” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Ottino, Amanda
- “Enchanted Combustion” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Palahniuk, Chuck
- “Observations on Horror Burnout” (introduction) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Palisano, John
- “Gaia Ungaia” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “The Geminis” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
- “Welcome to Our Show” (foreword) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Parkes, Ciarán
- “The Speed of Sound” and “Recognizing Trees” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Partridge, Norman
- “Special Collections” (introduction / novelette) – The Library of the Dead © 2015 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
Payne, R.B.
- “Cubicle Farm” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Perron, Philip C.
- “Indian Summer” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Pillar, Amanda
- “Broken Reflections” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Piorkowski, Dan
- “Sweaters” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Quigley, Lisa
- “Emcee Interview” (of Jeff Strand) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Rollo, Gord
- “Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers” – Chiral Mad © 2005, 2012 (reprint)
Rucker, Lynda
- “Encore for an Empty Sky” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Samuels, Mark
- “An End to Perpetual Motion” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
SanGiovanni, Mary
- “The Last Things to Go” (with Brian Keene) – The Library of the Dead © 2015
- “Afterword” (nonfiction) – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Scheuerman, Ashlee
- “Dyscrasia” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Scully, B.E.
- “Dog at the Look” – You, Human © 2016
- “The Mythic Hero Most Likely to Squeeze a Stone” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “We Come in Threes” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Serra, Daniele
- Cover artwork and illustrations – Inkblots and Blood Spots © 2014, 2018
- Cover artwork and illustrations – Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them © 2017
- Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)
- “Fade to Null” (graphic adaptation, with Brian Keene) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Shoebridge, Ian
- “White Pills” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “Psychic Shock” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Simon, Marge
- “Shutdown” (Rhysling Award winner) and “Tomorrow’s Femme” (poems) – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “Mirror Image” and “Reflections Through the Raven’s Eye” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “The Fourth Law” – You, Human © 2016
- “In Accordance with the Laws,” “Less than Human” and “Future Imperfect: Broken Laws” (poems) – You, Human © 2016
- “Carnival of Ghosts” (poem, with Bruce Boston) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- “The Importance of Poetry in the Genre” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- “The Substance of Belief” (with Elizabeth Massie) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Skipp, John
- “Empathy” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2011, 2013 (reprint)
- “Other Music, Indeed!” (introduction) – Other Music © 2016, 2018
- “Hopium Den” – You, Human © 2016
Smith, Michael Marshall
- “The Motel Business” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Snyder, Lucy A.
- “Approaching Lavender” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “Dura Mater” – Qualia Nous © 2014
- “Cthylla” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
- “Executive Functions” – You, Human © 2016
- “The H-Word: A Good Story” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2015, 2017 (reprint)
- Co-editor – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Speegle, Darren
- “The Cosmic Fair” – You, Human © 2016
- Co-editor – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- Artifacts (novel, Allevon #3) © 2018
- Co-editor – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Spooner, L.A.
- Illustrations – At the Lazy K © 2015
- Illustrations – Ensō © 2017
- Illustrations – You, Human © 2016
- Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)
- Illustrations – Artifacts © 2018
Spratford, Becky
- “Librarians’ Day” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Steiner, Pat R.
- “The Shoe Tree” – Chiral Mad © 2011, 2012 (reprint)
- “Kilroy Wasn’t There” – Qualia Nous © 2014
- Illustrations – Qualia Nous Illustrated © 2014 (personal project)
- Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
- Illustrations – Bones Are Made to Be Broken © 2018
Stipes, Julie
- “Not the Child” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Stockwell, Matt
- “Sudden Sanctuary” (graphic adaptation, with Glen Krisch & Orion Zangara) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Stone, J. Daniel
- “Ghost Drawl” (with Erik T. Johnson) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Storm, Kia
- “Locked Up” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Strand, Jeff
- “A Flawed Fantasy” – Chiral Mad © 2012
- “Kind of an Introduction” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Stroup, Chad
- “Asperitas” (novelette, with Kristopher Triana) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Taborska, Anna
- “Daylight Robbery” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Taff, John F.D.
- “Introduction” (nonfiction) – Yes Trespassing © 2017
Thomas, Jeffrey
- “Sliced Bread” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
Thomas, Richard
- “Playing with Fire” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
- “The Jenny Store” – Qualia Nous © 2011, 2014 (reprint)
- “The Offering on the Hill” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Golden Sun” (novelette, with Kristi DeMeester, Damien Angelica Walters & Michael Wehunt) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
- “Saudade” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Tlotlo Tsamaase
- “District to Cervix: The Time Before We Were Born” (novelette) – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Triana, Kristopher
- “Asperitas” (novelette, with Chad Stroup) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Waggoner, Tim
- “Where No Horror Writer Has Gone Before” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Walters, Damien Angelica
- “The Whipping Girls” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Filigree, Minotaur, Cyanide, Bloom” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
- “Foreword” – Bones Are Made to Be Broken © 2018
- “Golden Sun” (novelette, with Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas & Michael Wehunt) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Watson, Ian
- “The Birth of Venus” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Wehunt, Michael
- “Golden Sun” (novelette, with Kristi DeMeester, Richard Thomas & Damien Angelica Walters) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Weller, Sam
- “Böse” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Wetmore, Jr., Kevin
- “The Human Emotion within the Frightening Stories” (Guest of Honor Interview of Elizabeth Massie) and “Writing Nonfiction & Fiction for Beginners” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Whitley, Jason
- “The Ghost of the Bayou Piténn” (graphic adaptation, with James Chambers & Christopher Mills) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Wilk, Dyer
- “It Can Walk and Talk, and You’ll Never Have to Worry About Housework Again” – You, Human © 2016
Wilson, F. Paul
- “Introduction” (nonfiction) – You, Human © 2016
- The Long and the Short of It (novella, with Erinn L. Kemper) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Winter, Douglas E.
- “Introduction” (nonfiction) – Inkblots and Blood Spots © 2014, 2018
Witherspoon, Cynthia
- “Always with Me” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Wynne, Douglas
- “A Sense of Dread” (nonfiction, with Bracken MacLeod) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Wytovich, Stephanie M.
- “Welcome Home, Darling” and “Put Me to Dream” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Final Frame Film Competition” (nonfiction), “The Color White,” “The Girl Who Slept with Monsters” and “Dare I Keep the Body” (poems) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2014, 2017 (reprints)
Yardley, Mercedes M.
- “The Dead Collection” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
- “Magic in Minutes” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Zangara, Orion
- Illustrations – You, Human © 2016
- Illustrations – The Confessions of St. Zach © 2016
- Illustrations – The Burden of Indigo © 2016
- Illustrations – The Near Future © 2017
- Illustrations – The Far Future © 2017
- Illustration – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprint)
- “Sudden Sanctuary” (graphic adaptation, with Glen Krisch & Matt Stockwell) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Zumpe, Lee Clark
- “This Blasphemous Mockery” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Fun fact: Gary A. Braunbeck, P. Gardner Goldsmith, Erik T. Johnson, and Jack Ketchum have appeared in all four volumes of Chiral Mad.
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So, here I am, getting distracted by new projects, talking with Dark Regions Press about a possible merger, taking on project after project after project, and then I decide to write a children’s book called Enso to take my mind out of horror and sci-fi for a while (it’s a dark, dark place; a place I nearly left completely). I wanted to write something my kids (okay, not my kids, but my wife’s kids) could read, something other parent’s kids could read, something dark, but less dark. The book was illustrated beautifully by L.A. Spooner, who also illustrated 
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You, Human. That’s right, as part of Dark Regions Press’ return to science fiction, I’ve taken on two additional projects. One of these is ![Pageflex Persona [document: PRS0000038_00074]](https://writtenbackwards.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/cover-alt.jpg?w=300&h=215)
And I can’t forget Paul Michael Anderson’s first fiction collection, a beautiful book called Bones Are Made to be Broken, which will be released in trade paperback, ebook, and signed limited/deluxe hardback this fall by Dark Regions Press. I’ve published Paul in nearly every one of my anthologies, because he’s that damn good. And now all of his best short fiction (as well as a new novella written specifically for this book) come together in Bones Are Made to Be Broken. You do not want to miss this collection. As always, I am putting everything I have behind this book, because the spine of this book is made to be broken, by you, reading every story over and over again.
And of course there’s the 4-book magnum opus by the legendary, genre-bending master of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. The Cal Wild Chronicles is a 4-book series of trade paperbacks I’m putting together for the one and only Gene O’Neill, which includes The Confessions of St. Zach (with an introduction by John R. Little), The Burden of Indigo (with an introduction by Lisa Morton), The Near Future (with an introduction by Meghan Arcuri), and The Far Future (with an introduction by Scott Edelman). Each book is beautifully illustrated by Orion Zangara, and each book, when put together completes the wonderful puzzle that is Cal Wild. In fact, when you put the spines together, they create the Rainbow Man from the series, and when you place either the fronts or backs of these books side-by-side-by-side-by-side, you complete yet another puzzle. Later this year, Dark Regions Press will publish the entire series within a single volume, which you can pre-order at darkregions.com.![Pageflex Persona [document: PRS0000026_00094]](https://writtenbackwards.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/pl_cover-large.jpg?w=300&h=232)
And before we get to Chiral Mad 4, I should mention the anthology that started it all, Pellucid Lunacy. This was the first anthology ever published by Written Backwards, and the cover featured a painting of the arachnid/human skeleton from my dreams that originally spawned the idea for the novel Psychotropic Dragon. Well, enough time has gone by, that the series deserves a reboot. So, as soon as thing slow down a bit (if they ever do), we will re-release this title through the Written Backwards imprint of Dark Regions Press to give this thing more legs. The cover will be getting a reboot as well, as you can tell from this new cover.
WRITTEN BACKWARDS 