Bibliography
PLATT TRIVIA:
John can turn his spleen off and on at will -- Amazing, but true!
Want to know where and when I have been published? Here's the semi-comprehensive list. (This bibliography was last updated in January 2010.)
BOOKS
DIE LAUGHING
Medium Rare Books -- July, 2002
Collected 34 humorous horror stories and poems,
many appearing in print for the very first time.
eBOOKS
PLAYS
Witch Obsession
Published in the Summer Fiction Issue of US1 -- July, 2002
SHORT STORIES
A Dream of Joy, Departed
GOTHIC.NET webzine -- August, 2001
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
A Group of Doctors is Called a Murder
HORROR WORLD.ORG -- January, 2006
A Hell-Fire Cure for Baldness
SATIRE, Vol. 3, Number 2 -- Autumn, 1996
Honorable Mention in the Tenth Annual YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR
GATHERING DARKNESS webzine -- Summer, 1998
PLANET RELISH webzine, issue 5 -- May, 2000
(voted 2nd best Planet Relish story of 2000)
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
The Phone-Book.com, issue 10 -- June 2003
All Hands
BORDERLANDS 5, edited by E. & T. Monteleone (Borderlands Press)
Signed & numbered limited edition -- December, 2003
Trade Hardcover -- December, 2003
FROM THE BORDERLANDS (Warner Books) -- September, 2004
Honorable Mention, Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 17
BEST OF BORDERLANDS 1-V (Borderlands Press) -- August, 2005
BOOK FIESTA QUARTERLY -- Forthcoming
The Phone Book.com -- Issue 12 -- December, 2003
Weaponizer -- May 2009
Before the Beginning
GATEWAYS, Number 10 -- Spring, 1994
Alexandria Digital Literature -- Winter, 1997
IN A FEARFUL STATE anthology -- November, 2002
Catch Your Death
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
The Clown Walks at Midnight
BARE BONE 7 (Raw Dog Screaming Press) -- May, 2005
The Day the Laughter Died
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Honorable Mention, Years Best Fantasy & Horror 16
Dream Girl
DARK TERRITORIS -- June, 2008
Empty
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Fitness is its Own Reward
POSTCARDS FROM HELL -- October, 2007
Flames in the Night
THE ASYLUM, VOL. 1: THE PSYCHO WARD (Dark Tales Publications) -- June, 1999
BOUND FOR EVIL (Dead Letters Press) -- forthcoming
Flashes of Darkness
DEAD LINES MAGAZINE, Number 2 -- May, 1995
BARE BONES Magazine, Number 1 -- September 2001
Fruit of His Loins
FLASHSHOT issue 78 -- December, 2002
Going Straight
CYBERAGE ADVENTURES, Number 52 -- January, 2000
PLANET RELISH webzine -- July/August, 2001
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Gone Fishin'
MONSTROUS (Permuted Press) -- January, 2009
Good for the Soul
FROM THE ASYLUM, Number 3 -- January, 1996
The Great Hunt
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Growing Up Is Hard to Do
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
TALES FROM A DARKER STATE (Garden State Horror Writers) -- October, 2003
Flashes in the Dark -- February 2009
The-phone-book.com, issue 7 -- September, 2002
Happy Birthday
SF Goth's ERRATA, Number 2 -- April, 1999
Hisssssssss
SMALL BITES anthology, September, 2004
The-Phone-Book.com -- web, mobile phone & audio distribution -- June, 2001
Best of The Phone-Book.com v. 2.1
Jersey Deviltry (with Shikhar Dixit)
IDW Publishing: story appears in the back pages of Remains # 1, Dawn of the
Dead # 2, Aleister Arcane # 2 and Silent Hill: Dying Inside # 4 -- May, 2004
IDW's TALES OF TERROR anthology -- October 2004
Learning to Fly
BLUE MURDER, Number 5 -- November, 1998
IN A FEARFUL STATE anthology -- November, 2002
Losing Himself
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Medicine Man
SLIP OF THE PEN, Number 3
Moving Day
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Murder 101
Dark Muse webzine -- November, 2000
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Oldest Living American Serial Killer Tells All
HELIOCENTRIC NET, Number 14 -- Spring, 1995
100 MENACING LITTLE MURDER STORIES (Barnes & Noble Books) -- Fall, 1998
Party Crash
DARK ANNIE, Number 1 -- May, 1998
WINEDARK SEA, Number 1 -- March, 2000
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Phone Tag
HORRORS: 365 SCARY STORIES (Barnes & Noble Books) -- Fall, 1998
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Pregnant Pause
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
BARE BONE 10 (Raw Dog Screaming Press) -- May, 2007
Shower of Affection
DELIRIUM Magazine, Number 4 -- February, 2001
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Snowblind Faith (with Shikhar Dixit)
DR. CASEY'S TALES FROM THE INTERNET -- April, 1999
Stormfront
NIGHT TERRORS magazine, Issue 6 -- Summer, 1998
AMAZON.com Shorts -- January 2007
That Old Black Magic
BELL BOOK & BEYOND anthology (Design Image Group) -- Fall, 2000
Honorable Mention in the Fourteenth Annual YEAR'S BEST FANTASY & HORROR
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
PSEUDOPOD (podcast) -- August, 2007
To Each His Own
BLOODFETISH, Issue 2 -- July, 1999
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Tombs
CRAFTY CAT CRIMES (Barnes & Noble Books) -- August, 2000
The-phone-book.com, issue 7 -- September, 2002
The Truth Hurts
SMALL BITES anthology -- September, 2004
Two Dead Guys Walkin' Around Eatin' People
First Place Winner, 1997 Killer Frog Contest
A CLOCKWORK FROG anthology -- Summer, 1997
GOTHIC.NET webzine -- July, 1998
Winner, Pulp Eternity's BEST OF THE WEB 1998 CONTEST (10th Place)
100 HILARIOUS LITTLE HOWLERS, Barnes & Noble Books -- October, 1999
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Two Dead Guys Take a Bite Out of Crime
SMALL BITES anthology -- September, 2004
Two Pieces of Silver
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Video Doesn't Lie
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
BLACK OCTOBER Magazine, issue 3 -- September, 2002
Visiting Hours
U.S. 1 Summer Fiction Issue -- July, 2003
Waiting
STRANGE HORIZONS webzine -- May 21, 2001
Honorable Mention in the Fiftheenth Annual YEAR'S BEST FANTASY & HORROR
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Witch Obsession
ETERNITY ONLINE, issue 9 -- May, 1998
JERSEY GHOULS, a Garden State Horror Writers Collection -- October, 1999
NASTY SNIPS anthology, MTE Enterprises -- November, 1999
Horrorfind.com website fiction section -- October, 2000
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
COMIC BOOK SCRIPTS
BAD GIRLS OF BLACKOUT # 0, Blackout Comics -- April, 1995
BAD GIRLS OF BLACKOUT # 1, Blackout Comics -- June, 1995
BAD GIRLS OF BLACKOUT ANNUAL # 1 (Plot only), Blackout Comics -- September, 1995
MS. CYANIDE & ICE # 0, Blackout Comics -- May, 1995
MS. CYANIDE & ICE # 1, Blackout Comics -- July, 1995
"Wrong Place, Wrong Time," -- GRAVE TALES -- forthcoming
POETRY
A Night Out
POETRY.ST CORNER, issue 13 -- April 16, 2000
A Writer's Haiku
THE INK BLOTTER -- June, 2000
STRANGE HORIZONS -- April 5, 2004
Bad Ending # 10: The Funny-Book Maker
BARE BONE 8 (Raw Dog Screaming Press) -- January, 2006
Bad Ending # 37
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
The Carpet Otters
BARE BONE 8 (Raw Dog Screaming Press) -- January, 2006
'Dem Werewolf Blues
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Echoes of Identity
VICIOUS VERSES AND REANIMATED RHYMES (Coscom Entertainment) -- August 2009
Emptiness
IN A FEARFUL STATE anthology -- November, 2002
Everyone Get Into It
YELLOW BAT REVIEW ONLINE 5.5 -- August, 2003
Ghostly Silence
SPACE & TIME MAGAZINE, issue 100 -- June, 2007
Last-Minute Shopping
EDGAR: DIGESTED VERSE, issue 1 -- January, 1999
VACANCY webzine -- with RealAudio voice track by the author -- April, 2000
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Laundry Day
BULLET POINTS athololgy (Wildside Press) -- forthcoming
Little Indians
FRIGHTNET webzine, issue 13 -- July, 1999
As "Skeleton Dance" -- IN A FEARFUL STATE antholgoy -- November, 2002
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Lovecraft Haiku
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Lucy in the Ground with Diamonds
MILLENNIUM SF & F, Volume VIII, Issue 2 -- March, 2000
The Man Who Lost His Skull
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Modification
NOT ONE OF US, issue 23 -- February, 2000
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
One Night at the Pub
BLOODY MUSE, issue 8 -- February, 2000
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Parts
MINDMARES, issue 8 -- October, 1999
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Santa's Got A Brand-New Bag
GORELETTER, issue 2.4 -- December, 2003
Serial Killer's New Year's Resolutions
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Sizing Us Up
EOTU webzine -- December, 2000
Skull Haiku
EDGAR: DIGESTED VERSE, issue 4 -- October, 1999
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Tree Talking
VOYAGE MAGAZINE (UK), issue 10 -- May, 2001
Two Dead Guys Walkin' Around Rhymin'
AS FINE AS KILLER FROG HAIR, 1999
DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Typographer's Turn-On (with Colleen Crary)
CLEAN SHEETS webzine -- June, 2000
Yes Master
KILLER FROG 101 -- The 2000 Killer Frog Anthology -- December, 2001
Zombie Slave
VICIOUS VERSES AND REANIMATED RHYMES -- Coscom Entertainment -- August 2009
AS EDITOR
JERSEY GHOULS -- 1999 -- anthology of stories by members of the Garden State Horror Writers
WHITE KNUCKLES Magazine -- 1995 to 1998 -- Eight issues
THE NEW JERSEY GRAVELINE -- The official newsletter of the Garden State Horror Writers -- November, 1993 to October, 1995 --24 issues
NON-FICTION
4,000-plus articles, reviews, essays, editorials, interviews and more.
AND LEST WE FORGET, EVERYTHING ELSE...
Over the last (gulp!) fifteen years, I have worked as a Writer and Editor for corporate newsletters; published over 4,000 articles; won dozens of awards; written Web pages, print ads, direct-mail campaigns, brochures, email marketing campaigns and more; published 75-plus cartoons in various magazines; served short stints as a radio DJ and professional photographer; and a whole lot more. (In other words, I'm tired!)
