There was a woman called Clara Benn who had never been ugly until the world explained to her, in considerable detail, that she was. She was thirty-four and worked in…
Fiction
Human Resource Capital: A Public Sector Field Guide
There was a time when organisations employed people. They were called staff. Some were good. Some were useless. Some knew where the stopcock was, which made them effectively immortal. Then…
The IT Department Survival Guide for New Starters
Welcome to IT. You have been recruited because the organisation believes you possess valuable technical skills, sound judgement and the ability to remain calm under pressure. Within three weeks you…
Through Bad Weather
INTRODUCTION My name is Caroline Wade, and for five years I lived in an old cabin on a mountain in western Virginia. That makes the whole business sound more intentional…
The Domestication of the Devil: A Cultural History of the Postmodern Witch Film
There exists a peculiar shelf in the video store of the collective unconscious, somewhere between the horror section and the romantic comedy aisle, dusty with incense ash and glitter. It…
The Masquerade of Necessary Monsters
The Masquerade of Necessary Monsters is a savage contemporary satire about predation disguised as community. When an outsider enters a vampire role-play convention searching for her missing friend, she finds a neo-romantic marketplace where loneliness, desire and rebellion are harvested for profit. Veteran manipulators call themselves mentors, vulnerable newcomers become “initiates,” and every boundary violation is repackaged as transgression, awakening or art. After the convention’s founder dies in public, fantasy collapses into panic, spectacle and revolt. Bloody, absurd and furious, the story asks what happens when a subculture built to shelter outsiders becomes another machine for feeding on them alive.
The New Eden Lottery
The New Eden Lottery is a furious speculative satire told by a young activist who distrusts every ideology yet borrows from all of them. A global lottery funds a golden Mars ark for billionaires, promising absolute luxury, lawlessness and escape from humanity. Once the elite depart, the people collapse debt, burn the old economy and attempt to write freedom from scratch. The result is comic, violent, hopeful and morally compromised: a revolution built from memes, resentment, mutual aid and constitutional improvisation. It asks whether removing concentrated wealth creates liberation, or merely gives everyone the chance to invent forms of power.
Þe Rym of Grundfarver and Hys Shoggvth
Hark, knave-bairns, hark ye weel,Whan winter byteth toe and heel,Whan swyn lie warme and men lie cold,And piss i’ þe pot turneth rimy-old. Shut þy gobbe and bar þe dore,For…
The Saga of Grand Elric and the Yellow King
There was a man called Elric Ketilsson, though in his old age men named him Grand Elric, for he had seen seven kings crowned, buried three sons, broken two sea-kings…
The Old Gods Are Not Dead: Folk Horror and the Terror of the Past That Refuses to Stay Buried
Why we keep telling stories about villages that whisper, fields that watch, and rituals that demand blood. There is a particular kind of dread that does not come from a…
My Tentacles Romance
Funny, strange, and faintly icky, My Tentacles Romance is a modern monster-love story about fetish, shame, appetite, consent, and the difficult business of treating the desired body as a person rather than a fantasy. There will be rain, drains, hostile brunch opinions, a protective best friend with a chair, and at least one deeply uncomfortable supply-chain revelation.
The Vampire in the Post-Modern Institution: Notes on Survival, Spreadsheet, and the Eternal Meeting
I. The Relocation It took me fifteen years of writing vampire fiction to realize I was not writing about the undead. I was writing about middle management. This is not…