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Fiction, Poetry & Comics

Want to know where and when my fiction has been published? Here's the semi-comprehensive list. (This bibliography was last updated in November 2012.)

BOOKS

DIE LAUGHING
  Medium Rare Books -- July, 2002
  Collected 34 humorous horror stories and poems, many appearing in print for  the very first time.
  New for 2010 - the Kindle Version of Die Laughing


eBOOKS

Plattitudes: 177 Tips & Tricks to Make YOU a Better Fiction Writer (2006)


PLAYS

Witch Obsession
  Published in the Summer Fiction Issue of US1 -- July, 2002
  Also available for the Kindle


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
After the Break-Up
  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
Alone
  The Phone Book.com -- Issue 12 -- December, 2003
Auction Item # 1
  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
Growth
  TALES FROM A DARKER STATE (Garden State Horror Writers) -- October, 2003
  Flashes in the Dark -- February 2009
Hands Off
  The-phone-book.com, issue 7 -- September, 2002
Happy Birthday
  SF Goth's ERRATA, Number 2 -- April, 1999
Hisssssssss
  SMALL BITES anthology, September, 2004
Jarring
  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
The Sweet Smell of Success
  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
Too Desperate?
  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 Fifteenth 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
Antique Roadshow of the Occult
  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 anthology (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
Manscaping
  ILLUMEN magazine -- October, 2011
Modification
  NOT ONE OF US, issue 23 -- February, 2000
  DIE LAUGHING (Medium Rare Books) -- July, 2002
Necropsy
  SPACE & TIME MAGAZINE -- October, 2011
  DWARF STARS 2012: The Best Speculative Short Poems Published in 2011 (Science Fiction Poetry Association) -- November 2012
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
Snowfall
  THE CYNIC ONLINE -- April, 2010
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 6,000 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!)