Thirteen Podcast has just released an audio version of “Flatblack.” I’ve just finished listening to the story myself and I’m blown away by the fantastic job the team at Thirteen has done — narrator Mason Amadeus, sound designer Brooke Jennett (who also voiced the Wife), audio editor Haberlin Roberts, with assistance from Bridgett Howard and Ian Epperson. The story is beautifully narrated and the whole production is top-notch — eerie as hell. And the bellow. Oh, the bellow will haunt me tonight. Thirteen is a popular podcast which specializes in atmospheric, spooky stories, and features a free monthly story on their main website and a second, subscriber-only story on their…

The new anthology Contact 2. Blood&Steel is now available for preorder on Amazon, launch date August 31. The book follows 2021’s successful Contact! and offers more historical settings than the first book, with stories by Julian Michael Carver, David Rose, Alister Hodge, Chris McInally (who also edited the book) and more great authors. My story is called “Sacrificium” and is set on Lake Como in the Roman era, when a troop of legionaries, led by Numidian centurion Aulus Domitius, is sent to investigate a remote fishing village. Disturbing rumors, people disappearing, an escapee with horrible scars and wounds ranting about eerie, unhealthy rituals…

After 2021’s Contact! (which still sits at a solid #171 in the Horror Anthology category on Amazon.com), I’ll be back on the frontline for more beasties and badasses in Contact 2. Blood&Steel, alongside Julian Michael Carver, David Rose, Alister Hodge, Chris McInally (who also edited the book) and more fantastic authors. This time, things will get close and personal with less technology and more historical settings. My story is called “Sacrificium” and tells about a squad of Roman Legionaries investigating the disappearance of a boy and disturbing rumors coming from a backwater village on Lake Como. Are you ready to fight the monsters?

My story “Flatblack” will come to life in audio incarnation for Thirteen Podcast this summer. Thirteen is one of the best podcast out there, featuring slow-burn and atmospheric stories — from classic ghost stories to eerie supernatural and weird tales. All beautifully narrated and edited. “Flatblack” should be published in July. Stay tuned for updates!

Out now: Contact! A Military Horror Anthology — fetauring my new story The Shattering — brought to you by Screaming Banshee Press, who’s doing better and better and keeps delivering. After Nature striking back in Aberrations, Contact! offers thrills, action, badasses and beasties. Can you miss it? And I’m glad to have such authors as William Meikle, Lee Murray, Dan Rabarts, Lucas Pederson, among the line-up by my side.

With Aberrations going strong, the guys at Screaming Banshee Press don’t rest on their Australian laurels and the next book is already coming: after zombies and natural horrors, Contact! promises (and no doubt will deliver) some good old action-packed, high-adrenaline military horror (never enough of that). And I’m happy to be in the line-up again, with a new SF-horror tale — sitting right on the mark between short story and novelette — I’m particularly fond of: The Shattering.