Welcome back! So you might have already heard—either on this very blog or on social media—but it bears repeating: I’m absolutely over the moon that my second fiction collection, The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, is due out on April 14th, 2026 from Raw Dog Screaming Press! It will be released exactly nine years to the day after my first collection, which seems like such lovely symmetry.
Last month, we unveiled the cover art for the collection, so just in case you haven’t seen it yet, here it is once again in all its haunted house glory!
The cover art is by Scott Cole of 13 Visions, and I’m absolutely in awe of it. This is truly such a cool cover, and it captures the spooky spirit of the collection so well.
*screams with horror joy*
The pre-orders for the collection are already up for both the paperback and the ebook. And FYI: if you order the paperback edition directly from my publisher, Raw Dog Screaming Press, it will be autographed by yours truly.
Pre-order THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN from the publisher
Pre-order THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN from Amazon
There should also be a pre-order page coming soon from Riverstone Books in Pittsburgh, which is where we’re planning to host the launch party for the book, so I will be sure to share that link far and wide once it’s available.
I included the description of the book in my previous post announcing the collection, so if you’re inclined, please feel free to read that over here. But what I didn’t do in my last post about The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own was discuss the specific tales that will be included. The collection features sixteen stories, three of which are brand-new. In terms of the reprints, that includes my Bram Stoker Award winning tale that re-frames the story of Dracula through the perspective of the ill-fated Lucy, which was the forerunner of course to my novel, Reluctant Immortals.
So without further ado, here are those sixteen aforementioned stories that will appear in the collection!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
“A New Mother’s Guide to Raising an Abomination”
“The Girls from the Horror Movie”
“The Sea Witch of the World’s Fair”
“The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary)”
“Melting Point”
“Her Skin a Grim Canvas”
“The Last Video Store on the Left”
“Ides”
“In the Belly of the Wolf”
“Sister Glitter Blood”
“The Mad Monk of the Motor City”
“Best Friends Forever”
“The Eleven Films of Oona Cashford”
“All the Hippies Are Dying”
“Lost in Darkness and Distance”
“The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own”
We’re only five months away from the official release, and while that might sound like a while, it’s always so surprising to me how fast time goes. That means the book will be here before you know it. In the meantime, I’ll be talking more about the collection and the inspirations behind all of the stories. So expect a lot more joyous horror screaming from my direction as we count down the days until my haunted houses are unleashed upon the world!
Happy reading, and happy haunting!