2025 Publications Roundup
My essays and fiction on monsters and art published this year.
Well, I haven’t managed to write much on Substack since June, but the first half the year was fairly productive here. I posted a handful of essays on this Substack and also on Only Humanoid, a second Substack I started to reflect on my old ‘Christian sci-fi/horror punk’ band, Blaster the Rocket Man. We reunited to play a handful of shows this summer, which prompted the new writing on that topic. It’s a project that I’m going to continue for some time as I go through old lyrics song by song and also write some other reflections.
This year also saw the publication of other writings (academic and creative) that I’ve worked on behind the scenes. (And one that was published at the tail end of 2024.) I’ve provided links to these below. Some are expensive or limited publications that you have to purchase, but you might like to just see where they reside. (And no, it won’t help me at all if you purchase the academic books. Academics get paid ZERO to write academic essays and articles. Who the hell came up with this system and why hasn’t it changed in all these years?) But a couple of things are available online for free.
Academic book essays:
‘Towards a Blackfeet Biosemiotics of Postapocalypse: Tracking Ecomonstrous Transmotion in the Zombie Fiction of Stephen Graham Jones’ (in Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture: Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century, ed. Simon Bacon, Bloomsbury, 2024)
‘Good Weather for Gory Doppelgängers: Ecomonstrous Doubles, Eidolons, and Fetches in Three Tales by R. A. Lafferty’ (in Uncanny Doubles: Doppelgängers, Twins, Clones and the Gothic, ed. Simon Bacon, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026, part of the Palgrave Gothic series)
‘Turtle Island of the (Un)Dead: Indigenous American Kinscapes in the Zombie Fiction of Stephen Graham Jones and Richard Van Camp’ (in The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie, ed. Simon Bacon, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Fiction:
“Bugguts” (in Disease of Finitude: David Cronenberg Inspired Microfiction, ed. Sasha Ravitch, Antilogos Press, 2025—free digital version)
“There Will Be a Place For You” (in Folkloric: A Magazine of New Folklore, eds. Frankie Regalia & Sari Chreiteh, 2025—digital edition)
Also, Folkloric conducted author interviews. Mine can be found here.
Other writings:
I was also invited (and paid!) to write a reflection on a new art exhibit centred round Midwestern US artists engaging deconstructed readings of the Bible and Christianity. My essay, ‘Reap the Whorl: Reflections on The Kasper Collection of Contemporary Biblical Art’, can be found online here. I’m grateful for the opportunity to work with these fine artists and this important exhibition.
Here’s to another year of writing, reading, making, and meeting up for all of us.
More reports to follow.