Eternal Haunted Summer pagan songs & tales

My story about the *fae*, “What Waited for Us in the Garden,” was accepted for publication by *Eternal Haunted Summer*, for their Winter Solstice 2025 issue.

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Beautiful Tragedies 4 Welcome back to our 4th installment of the gorgeously macabre dark poetry anthology, Beautiful Tragedies. Where only through poetry, can a tragedy become something truly beautiful! 53 wonderfully talented writers offer up this bloody collection of all manner of dark poetry and gruesome verse to keep your cold dead hearts beating until the final page.

My poem “My Heart” was published yesterday in the anthology *Beautiful Tragedies 4* (HellBound Books). Just in time for Halloween.

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Alternative Worlds or Where We Run When Reality Stops Being Reasonable

When dragons make more sense than the news...
A literary, ironic reflection on why escaping reality isn't just fantasy—it’s survival.
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My “horror” poems “Ghast,” “Bog Thing” and “The Ouija Board” were just selected for inclusion in the October issue of *Exquisite Death.* My speculative poetry continues to find homes.

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My literary “horror” poem “My Heart,” after Stephen Crane’s “In the Desert,” was just selected for inclusion in the anthology of horror poetry *Beautiful Tragedies 4* to published by Hellbound Books.

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Mobius Blvd: Stories from the Byway Between Reality and Dream No. 24: October 2025 Mobius Blvd: Stories from the Byway Between Reality and Dream No. 24: October 2025 - Kindle edition by Spitzer, Wayne Kyle, Blickley, Mark , Hillard, J.J. , Simonds, Richard , Brockmeyer, Lauren , Conroy, Chris , Pharo, Bud , King, John Mark , Zlotchew, Clark , Zelenyj, Alexander . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Mobius Blvd: Stories from the Byway Between Reality and Dream No. 24: October 2025.

“Dreams of the Opera House,” my Lovecraftian homage to architecture and opera, was published today in Mobius Blvd, available here:

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#horror #speculativefiction #imaginativewriting #opera #architecture #lovecraft #dreamlands #mobiusblvd

“The Scrapbook,” my dystopian horror sci-fi short story about an AI-dominated future, will get an “Honorable Mention” in the next issue of Allegory.

#horror #horrorstories #speculativefiction #sci-fi #dystopian #ai #artificialintelligence #imaginativewriting

Two Sylvias' Weekly Muse: August 31, 2025 Issue 173

This morning’s issue of the Two Sylvias’ Weekly Muse makes a nice mention of “My Poet.”

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HLS No. 31: My Poet From Richard Simonds, a ghost's story

“My Poet,” a gothic ghost story about a haunted Tudor house, was published today by “House of Long Shadows.” Very exciting.

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#horror #gothic #ghoststories #tudorhomes #tudor #hauntedhouse #ghoststory #speculativefiction #imaginativewriting #houseoflongshadows

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