On the Road to Jefferson (2002; Subterranean Press)
Waycross (2002; Subterranean Press)
Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold (2003; Subterranean Press)
Embrace the Mutation (with J. K. Potter; 2003; Subterranean Press)
Alabaster (2003; Camelot Books)
Mercury (2004; Subterranean Press)
The Worm in My Mind's Eye (2004; Subterranean Press)
False/Starts (2005; Subterranean Press)
A Little Damned Book of Days (2005; Subterranean Press)
The Merewife: A Prologue (2005; Subterranean Press)
Highway 97 (2006; Subterranean Press)
The Black Alphabet: A Primer (2007; Subterranean Press)
Tails of Tales of Pain and Wonder (2008; Subterranean Press)
B is for Beginnings (2009; Subterranean Press)
Sanderlings (2010; Subterranean Press)
The Crimson Alphabet: Another Primer (2011; Subterranean Press)
The Yellow Book (2012; Subterranean Press)
Black Helicopters (2013; Subterranean Press)
False/Starts II (2015, Subterranean Press)
The Aubergine Alphabet: A Fourth Primer (2017; Subterranean Press)
The Chartreuse Alphabet: A Fifth Primer (2018; Subterranean Press)
Refugees (2020; Subterranean Press)
Uncollected short fiction (excluding chapbooks)
"A Key to the Castleblakeney Key" (The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, 2011; Harper Voyager)
"The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics" (The Book of Silverberg: Stories in Honor of Robert Silverberg, 2014; Subterranean Press)
"Strandling" (Screams from the Dark, 2022; Tor Nightfire)
Sirenia Digest
"Madonna Littoralis" (Sirenia Digest #1, December 2005; reprinted in Fantasy Magazine #2, 2006; Wildside Press)
"Untitled 13" (Sirenia Digest #1, December 2005)
"Orpheus at Mount Pangeum" (Sirenia Digest #2, January 2006)
"Pony" (Sirenia Digest #2, January 2006)
"Bridle" (Sirenia Digest #3, February 2006; reprinted in Street Magicks,Prime Books, 2016)
"Eisoptrophobia - A Sketch" (Sirenia Digest #3, February 2006)
"Untitled 17" (Sirenia Digest #3, February 2006)
"Untitled 20" (Sirenia Digest #4, March 2006)
"pas-en-arriere" (Sirenia Digest #5, April 2006)
"For One Who Has Lost Herself" (Sirenia Digest #5, April 2006)
"Ode to Edvard Munch" (Sirenia Digest #6, May 2006; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance, Running Press, 2008 and By Blood We Live, Night Shade Books, 2009)
"The Black Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #6, May 2006)
"The Black Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #7, June 2006)
"The Cryomancer's Daughter (Murder Ballad No. 3)" (Sirenia Digest #8, July 2006)
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ghoul" (Sirenia Digest #9, August 2006)
"Untitled 23" (Sirenia Digest #10, September 2006)
"In the Praying Windows" (with
Sonya Taaffe, Sirenia Digest #10, September 2006)
"The Ammonite Violin (Murder Ballad No. 4)" (Sirenia Digest #11, October 2006; reprinted in Dark Delicacies II, 2007; Carroll & Graf; Hauntings, Tachyon Publications, 2013)
"The Lovesong of Lady Ratteanrufer" (Sirenia Digest #12, November 2006)
"Metamorphosis A" (Sirenia Digest #12, November 2006)
"The Voyeur in the House of Glass" (Sirenia Digest #13, December 2006)
"Metamorphosis B" (Sirenia Digest #13, December 2006)
"The Sphinx's Kiss" (Sirenia Digest #14, January 2007)
"A Season of Broken Dolls" (Sirenia Digest #15, February 2007; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Spring, 2007; Subterranean Press
[1])
"Skin Game" (Sirenia Digest #15, February 2007)
"In View of Nothing" (Sirenia Digest #16, March 2007)
"Untitled 26" (Sirenia Digest #16, March 2007)
"Night Games in the Crimson Court" (Sirenia Digest #17, April 2007)
"Outside the Gates of Eden" (Sirenia Digest #18, May 2007)
"The Steam Dancer (1896)" (Sirenia Digest #19, June 2007; reprinted in Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy, 2008; Subterranean Press and Steampunk Reloaded, 2010; Tachyon Publications)
"In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection" (Sirenia Digest #20, July 2007; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Fall, 2007; Subterranean Press
[2] and Zombies: More Recent Dead, Prime Books, 2014)
"Anamnesis, or the Sleepless Nights of Léon Spilliaert" (Sirenia Digest #20, July 2007)
"Scene in the Museum (1896)" (Sirenia Digest #21, August 2007)
"Untitled Grotesque" (Sirenia Digest #22, September 2007)
"The Madam of the Narrow Houses" (Sirenia Digest #23, October 2007; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women, 2013; Running Press)
"The Bed of Appetite" (Sirenia Digest #23, October 2007)
"The Wolf Who Cried Girl" (Sirenia Digest #24, November 2007)
"Untitled 31" (Sirenia Digest #25, December 2007)
"The Crimson Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #25, December 2007)
"The Crimson Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #26, January 2008)
"The Collector of Bones" (Sirenia Digest #26, January 2008)
"Beatification" (Sirenia Digest #27, February 2008)
"Pickman's Other Model" (Sirenia Digest #28, March 2008; reprinted in Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, 2010; PS Publishing and New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird, 2011; Prime Books)
"Flotsam" (Sirenia Digest #29, April 2008; reprinted in
Not One of Us #40 and The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2, 2009; Perseus Books)
"Regarding Attrition and Severance" (Sirenia Digest #29, April 2008)
"Unter den Augen des Mondes" (Sirenia Digest #31, June 2008)
"The Melusine (1898)" (Sirenia Digest #31, June 2008)
"Derma Sutra (1891)" (Sirenia Digest #32, July 2008)
"The Z Word" (Sirenia Digest #33, August 2008)
"Untitled 33" (Sirenia Digest #34, September 2008)
"I Am the Abyss and I Am the Light" (Sirenia Digest #35, October 2008, reprinted in Aliens: Recent Encounters, Prime Books, 2013)
"Dancing With the Eight of Swords" (Sirenia Digest #36, November 2008)
"Murder Ballad No. 5 (Sirenia Digest #37, December 2008)
"Lullaby of Partition and Reunion" (Sirenia Digest #37, December 2008)
"The Thousand-and-Third Tale of Scheherazade" (Sirenia Digest #38, January 2009)
"The Belated Burial" (Sirenia Digest #38, January 2009; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Fall, 2009; Subterranean Press
[3] and Vampires: The Recent Undead, Prime Books, 2011)
"The Bone's Prayer" (Sirenia Digest #39, February 2009; reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Prime Books, 2010)
"A Canvas for Incoherent Arts" (Sirenia Digest #40, March 2009)
"The Peril of Liberated Objects, or the Voyeur's Seduction" (Sirenia Digest #41, April 2009)
"At the Gate of Deeper Slumber" (Sirenia Digest #41, April 2009)
"Fish Bride" (Sirenia Digest #42, May 2009; reprinted in The Weird Fiction Review #2, 2011 and Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, Titan Books, 2015)
"The Mermaid of the Concrete Ocean" (Sirenia Digest #43, June 2009; reprinted in The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, Roc, 2012 and Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep, Prime Books, 2015)
"The Alchemist's Daughter (a fragment)" (Sirenia Digest #43, June 2009)
"Vicaria Draconis" (Sirenia Digest #44, July 2009)
"January 28, 1926" (Sirenia Digest #44, July 2009)
"Werewolf Smile" (Sirenia Digest #45, August 2009; reprinted in The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, Roc, 2012)
"Paleozoic Annunciation" (Sirenia Digest #45, August 2009)
"Charcloth, Firesteel, and Flint" (Sirenia Digest #46, September 2009; reprinted in A Book of Horrors, 2011; PS Publishing)
"Shipwrecks Above" (Sirenia Digest #46, September 2009; reprinted in Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women, Nightshade Books, 2015)
"The Dissevered Heart" (Sirenia Digest #47, October 2009)
"Exuvium" (Sirenia Digest #48, November 2009)
"Untitled 34" (Sirenia Digest #49, December 2009)
"Hydrarguros" (Sirenia Digest #50, January 2010; reprinted in Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2, 2011; Subterranean Press)
"The Eighth Veil" (Sirenia Digest #51, February 2010)
"Persephone Redux (A Fragment)" (Sirenia Digest #51, February 2010)
"Apsinthion" (Sirenia Digest #51, February 2010)
"Houndwife" (Sirenia Digest #52, March 2010; reprinted in Black Wings II, 2012; PS Publishing)
"Three Months, Three Scenes, With Snow" (Sirenia Digest #53, April 2010)
"Workprint" (Sirenia Digest #53, April 2010)
"Tempest Witch" (Sirenia Digest #54, May 2010)
"Tidal Forces" (Sirenia Digest #55, June 2010; reprinted in Eclipse Four, 2011; Night Shade Books)
"The Yellow Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #56, July 2010)
"The Yellow Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #57, August 2010)
"Fairy Tale of the Maritime" (Sirenia Digest #57, August 2010)
"John Four" (Sirenia Digest #58, September 2010; reprinted in A Mountain Walked, 2014; Centipede Press)
"And the Cloud That Took the Form" (Sirenia Digest #59, October 2010)
"On the Reef" (Sirenia Digest #59, October 2010; reprinted in Halloween, Prime Books, 2011 and Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, Titan Books, 2015)
"The Prayer of Ninety Cats" (Sirenia Digest #60, November 2010; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Spring, 2013; Subterranean Press
[4] and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction, Prime Books, 2014)
"—30—" (Sirenia Digest #61, December 2010; reprinted in Magic City: Recent Spells, Prime Books, 2014)
"Random Thoughts Before a Fatal Crash" (Sirenia Digest #64, March 2011; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Spring, 2012; Subterranean Press
[5])
"The Carnival is Dead and Gone" (Sirenia Digest #65, April 2011)
"Untitled 35" (Sirenia Digest #66, May 2011)
"Figurehead" (Sirenia Digest #66, May 2011)
"Down to Gehenna" (Sirenia Digest #67, June 2011)
"The Granting Cabinet" (Sirenia Digest #68, July 2011)
"Slouching Towards the House of Glass Coffins" (Sirenia Digest #69, August 2011)
"Evensong" (Sirenia Digest #70, September 2011)
"Dear Daughter Desmodus" (Sirenia Digest #70, September 2011)
"Latitude 41°21'45.89"N, Longitude 71°29'0.62"W" (Sirenia Digest #71, October 2011)
"Another Tale of Two Cities" (Sirenia Digest #72, November 2011)
"Blast the Human Flower" (Sirenia Digest #73, December 2011)
"The Lost Language of Littoral Mollusca and Crustacea; Part the First" (Sirenia Digest #73, December 2011)
"Cammufare" (Sirenia Digest #74, January 2012)
"The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings" (Sirenia Digest #74, January 2012; reprinted in Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, Titan Books, 2015)
"Here Is No Why" (Sirenia Digest #75, February 2012)
"Cages I" (with David T. Kirkpatrick; Sirenia Digest #76, March 2012)
"Hauplatte/Gegenplatte" (Sirenia Digest #77, April 2012)
"Love is Forbidden, We Croak and Howl" (Sirenia Digest #78, May 2012; reprinted in Lovecraft's Monsters, Tachyon Publications, 2014)
"Quiet Houses" (Sirenia Digest #79, June 2012)
"One Tree Hill (The World As Cataclysm)" (Sirenia Digest #80, July 2012; reprinted in Black Wings III: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, PS Publishing, 2014)
"Tall Bodies" (Sirenia Digest #80, July 2012)
"Our Lady of Tharsis Tholus" (Sirenia Digest #81, August 2012; reprinted as "Our Lady of Arsia Mons" in Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices in Lovecraftian Horror, Dark Regions Press, 2015)
"A Mountain Walked" (Sirenia Digest #82, September 2012; reprinted in The Madness of Cthulhu: Volume 1, 2014; Titan Book)
"Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still" (Sirenia Digest #83, October 2012; reprinted in Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre, Prime Books, 2013)
"Blind Fish" (Sirenia Digest #85, December 2012, reprinted in Searchers After Horror: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic, Fedogan and Bremer, 2014)
"What Dread Hand? What Dread Grasp?" (Sirenia Digest #86, February 2013)
"Sea-Drift" (Sirenia Digest #87, March 2013)
"Turning the Little Key" (Sirenia Digest #88, April 2013)
"Elegy for a Suicide" (Sirenia Digest #90, July 2013)
"Pushing the Sky Away (Death of a Blasphemer)" (Sirenia Digest #91, August 2013; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Summer, 2014; Subterranean Press
[6])
"Study for The Witch House" (Sirenia Digest #92, September 2013)
"Pickman's Madonna" (Sirenia Digest #93, October 2013)
"Mote[L] 2032" (Sirenia Digest #94, November 2013; reprinted as "Late Night Motel Signal" in Black Helicopters, May 2018, Tor.com)
"The Peddler's Tale, Or Isobel's Revenge" (Sirenia Digest #95, December 2013; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, Robinson/Running Press, 2016)
"Idyll for a Purgatory Dancer" (Sirenia Digest #96, January 2014)
"Chewing on Shadows" (Sirenia Digest #97, February 2014)
"The Beginning of the Year Without a Summer" (Sirenia Digest #99, April 2014; reprinted in The Monstrous, Tachyon Publications, 2015)
"Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8)" (Sirenia Digest #100, May 2014; reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 9, Solaris, 2015 and The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 7, Night Shade Books, 2015)
"Far From Any Shore" (Sirenia Digest #101, June 2014; reprinted in Black Wings V: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, PS Publishing, 2016)
"The Cats of River Street (1925)" (Sirenia Digest #102, July 2014; reprinted in Innsmouth Nightmares, PS Publishing, 2015))
"Black Glass, Green Glass" (Sirenia Digest #103, August 2014)
"A Birth in the Wood of Self-Murderers" (Sirenia Digest #104, September 2014)
"The Green Abyss" (Sirenia Digest #106, November 2014)
"The Cripple and the Starfish" (Sirenia Digest #108, January 2015; reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction, Prime Books, 2016)
"The Aubergine Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #109, February 2015)
"The Aubergine Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #110, March 2015)
"Dancy Vs. the Pterosaur" (Sirenia Digest #111, April 2015; reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 10, Solaris, 2016)
"Le Meneur des loups" (Sirenia Digest #112, May 2015)
"Dead Letter Office" (Sirenia Digest #113, June 2015; reprinted in Nightmare's Realm: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic, Dark Regions Press, 2016)
"Dry Bones" (Sirenia Digest #114, July 2015)
Agents of Dreamland (excerpts) (Sirenia Digest #115, August 2015)
"Eurydice Eduction" (Sirenia Digest #119, December 2015)
"Study for an Electronaut's Ovid (AD 2052)" (Sirenia Digest #120, January 2016)
"Pillbug" (Sirenia Digest #122, March 2016)
"When Even the Darkness Is Something To See (A Fragment)" (Sirenia Digest #123, May 2016)
"Epithalamium (A Fragment)" (Sirenia Digest #123, May 2016)
"Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9)" (Sirenia Digest #125, July 2016; reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction, Prime Books, 2017)
"The Chartreuse Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #128, September 2016)
"Animals Pull the Night Around Their Shoulders" (Sirenia Digest #128, September 2016)
"The Chartreuse Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #129, October 2016)
"Antediluvian Homesick Blues" (Sirenia Digest #129, October 2016)
"The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10)" (Sirenia Digest #130, November 2016; reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 11, Solaris, 2017)
"Untitled Psychiatrist #1" (Sirenia Digest #131, December 2016)
"The Sick Rose, Redux" (Sirenia Digest #131, December 2016)
"Tupelo (1998)" (Sirenia Digest #132, January 2017)
"Untitled Psychiatrist #2" (Sirenia Digest #133, February 2017)
"Ballad of a Catamite Revolver" (Sirenia Digest #134, March 2017)
"In the Flat Field" (Sirenia Digest #135, April 2017)
"Untitled Psychiatrist #3" (Sirenia Digest #136, May 2017)
"Fairy Tale of Wood Street" (Sirenia Digest #137, June 2017; reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 12, Solaris, 2018)
"The Dinosaur Tourist" (Sirenia Digest #139, August 2017; reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction, Prime Books, 2018)
"Theoretically Forbidden Morphologies (1988)" (Sirenia Digest #140, September 2017)
"Albatross (1994)" (Sirenia Digest #141, October 2017)
"King Laugh (Four Scenes)" (Sirenia Digest #142, November 2017)
"Behind the Wall of Sleep" (Sirenia Digest #143, December 2017)
"As Water Is In Water" (Sirenia Digest #144, January 2018)
"Chevy Swamp" (Sirenia Digest #145, February 2018)
"Virginia Story" (Sirenia Digest #146, March 2018; reprinted in The Weird Fiction Review #9, 2018)
"Day After Tomorrow, the Flood" (Sirenia Digest #147, April 2018)
"The Eldritch Alphabētos (Part 1)" (Sirenia Digest #148, May 2018)
"A Chance of Frogs on Wednesday" (Sirenia Digest #149, June 2018)
"The Eldritch Alphabētos (Part 2)" (Sirenia Digest #150, July 2018)
"Cherry Street Tango, Sweatbox Waltz" (Sirenia Digest #151, August 2018)
"Untitled 41" (Sirenia Digest #152, September 2018)
"Iodine and Iron" (Sirenia Digest #153, October 2018)
"The Lady and the Tiger Redux" (Sirenia Digest #156, January 2019)
"Which Describes a Looking-Glass and the Broken Fragments" (Sirenia Digest #158, March 2019)
"Metamorphosis C" (Sirenia Digest #159, April 2019)
"The Last Thing You Should Do" (Sirenia Digest #160, May 2019)
"The Tameness of Wolves" (Sirenia Digest #161, June 2019)
"Untitled 44" (Sirenia Digest #162, July 2019)
"The Surgeon's Photo" (Sirenia Digest #163, August 2019)
"Wisteria" (Sirenia Digest #164, September 2019)
"Refugees" (Sirenia Digest #165, October 2019)
"Mercy Brown" (Sirenia Digest #166, November 2019)
"Seven Dreams" (Sirenia Digest #167, December 2019)
"The Cerulean Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #168, January 2020)
"The Cerulean Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #169, February 2020)
"The Great Bloody and Bruised Veil of the World" (Sirenia Digest #170, March 2020)
"Untitled Psychiatrist #4" (Sirenia Digest #171, April 2021; reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror #2 as "Dead Bright Star [July 1987]", Pyre Books, 2022)
"In Utero, In Tenebris" (Sirenia Digest #172, May 2020)
"Untitled 46" (Sirenia Digest #173, June 2020)
"The Man Who Loved What Was" (Sirenia Digest #174, July 2020)
"Untitled 45" (Sirenia Digest #175, August 2021)
"L'hommes et la femme terribles" (Sirenia Digest #176, September 2020)
"Untitled Psychiatrist #5" (Sirenia Digest #177, October 2020)
"The Woman Who Blew Down Houses" (Sirenia Digest #178, November 2020)
"Threnody for Those Who Die December Deaths" (Sirenia Digest #179, December 2020)
"Blackwater" (Sirenia Digest #180, January 2021)
"Heart-Shaped Hole" (Sirenia Digest #181, February 2021)
"The Jar" (Sirenia Digest #182, March 2021)
"Two Monsters Walk Into a Bar" (Sirenia Digest #183, April 2021)
The Night Watchers, "False Start One" (Sirenia Digest #184, May 2021)
"Pygmalion As a Hammer" (Sirenia Digest #185, June 2021)
"A Barrenness of Daffodils, A Lerna of Ills" (Part One) (Sirenia Digest #186, July 2021)
"A Barrenness of Daffodils, A Lerna of Ills" (Part Two) (Sirenia Digest #187, August 2021)
"M is for Mars" (Part One) (Sirenia Digest #188, September 2021)
"M is for Mars" (Part Two) (Sirenia Digest #189, October 2021)
The Night Watchers, "False Start Two" (Sirenia Digest #190, November 2021)
"Metamorphosis D (Imago)" (Sirenia Digest #191, December 2021)
"Excerpt from American Novel" (Sirenia Digest #192, January 2022)
"Requiem" (Sirenia Digest #193, February 2022)
"Pump Excursion" (Sirenia Digest #194, March 2022)
"Excerpts from Beowulf (novelization)" (Sirenia Digest #195, April 2022)
"The Merewife" (Sirenia Digest #196, May 2022)
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale (Part 1) (Sirenia Digest #197, June 2022)
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale (Part 2) (Sirenia Digest #198, July 2022)
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale (Part 3) (Sirenia Digest #199, August 2022)
"A Travelogue for Oneironauts" (Sirenia Digest #200, September 2022)
"Passage of Venus in Front of the Sun" (Sirenia Digest #201, October 2022)
"Discord in Anthracite" (Sirenia Digest #202, November 2022)
"Build Your Houses With Their Backs to the Sea" (Sirenia Digest #203, December 2022)
"Crotalus (Murder Ballad No. 13)" (Sirenia Digest #204, January 2023)
"Untitled Psychiatrist No. 6" (Sirenia Digest #205, February 2023)
"The Moment Under the Moment" (Sirenia Digest #206, March 2023)
"Black Water (Murder Ballad No. 14)" (Sirenia Digest #207, April 2023)
"A Buyer's Guide to the Commonplace Bizarre" (Sirenia Digest #208, May 2023)
"Neither From Nor Towards" (Sirenia Digest #209, June 2023)
"Excerpt from The Night Watchers" (Sirenia Digest #210, July 2023)
"Ovid Under Glass" (Sirenia Digest #211, August 2023)
"Ulysses and the Sirens" (Sirenia Digest #212, September 2023)
"Gorgon" (Sirenia Digest #213, October 2023)
"Night Fishing" (Sirenia Digest #214, November 2023; reprinted from Weird Tales, Vol. 68, No. 1, Issue 368)
"Strandling" (Sirenia Digest #215, December 2023; reprinted from Screams from the Dark, Nightfire, 2022)
"Angels You Can See Through" (Sirenia Digest #216, January 2024)
"Tella Mater (Dissolve)" (Sirenia Digest #217, February 2024)
"The Most Beautiful Music I've Ever Read" (introduction for
Ray Bradbury's The Day It Rained Forever; PS Publishing, 2008)
"Lovecraft and I" (Lovecraft Annual #5; August 2011)
"Afterword" (Masters of the Weird Tales: Arthur Machen; Centipede Press, 2013)
"For Melanie (A Short Appreciation, With Footnotes)" (afterword for Singularity and Other Stories by
Melanie Tem; Centipede Press, 2017)
Scientific publications (partial list)
Kiernan, C. R., and Schwimmer, D. R. 2004. First record of a velociraptorine theropod (Tetanurae, Dromaeosauridae) from the Eastern Gulf Coastal United States. The Mosasaur 7:89-93.
Kiernan, C. R. 2002. Stratigraphic distribution and habitat segregation of mosasaurs in the Upper Cretaceous of western and central Alabama, with an historical review of Alabama mosasaur discoveries. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):91-103.
abstract online
Schwimmer, D. R. and Kiernan, C.R. 2001. Eastern Late Cretaceous theropods in North America and the crossing of the Interior Seaway. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):99A.
Kiernan, C. R. 1992. Clidastes Cope, 1868 (Reptilia, Sauria): proposed designation of Clidastes propython Cope, 1869 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49:137–139.
Gentry, A. D., Ebersole, J. A., and Kiernan, C. R. 2019. Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies. Royal Society Open Science 6(12). Article ID:191950.
article online
Gentry, Andrew D., Kiernan, Caitlín R., Parham, James F. 2022. "A large non‐marine turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama and a review of North American 'Macrobaenids.'" The Anatomical Record 1-20:
https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25054.
Kiernan, C.R. and J.A. Ebersole. 2023. Two new plioplatecarpine mosasaurs (Mosasauridae; Plioplatecarpinae) of the genus Ectenosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. PaleoBios 40(13):1-28.
https://doi.org/10.5070/P9401362375
On the Road to Jefferson (2002; Subterranean Press)
Waycross (2002; Subterranean Press)
Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold (2003; Subterranean Press)
Embrace the Mutation (with J. K. Potter; 2003; Subterranean Press)
Alabaster (2003; Camelot Books)
Mercury (2004; Subterranean Press)
The Worm in My Mind's Eye (2004; Subterranean Press)
False/Starts (2005; Subterranean Press)
A Little Damned Book of Days (2005; Subterranean Press)
The Merewife: A Prologue (2005; Subterranean Press)
Highway 97 (2006; Subterranean Press)
The Black Alphabet: A Primer (2007; Subterranean Press)
Tails of Tales of Pain and Wonder (2008; Subterranean Press)
B is for Beginnings (2009; Subterranean Press)
Sanderlings (2010; Subterranean Press)
The Crimson Alphabet: Another Primer (2011; Subterranean Press)
The Yellow Book (2012; Subterranean Press)
Black Helicopters (2013; Subterranean Press)
False/Starts II (2015, Subterranean Press)
The Aubergine Alphabet: A Fourth Primer (2017; Subterranean Press)
The Chartreuse Alphabet: A Fifth Primer (2018; Subterranean Press)
Refugees (2020; Subterranean Press)
Uncollected short fiction (excluding chapbooks)
"A Key to the Castleblakeney Key" (The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, 2011; Harper Voyager)
"The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics" (The Book of Silverberg: Stories in Honor of Robert Silverberg, 2014; Subterranean Press)
"Strandling" (Screams from the Dark, 2022; Tor Nightfire)
Sirenia Digest
"Madonna Littoralis" (Sirenia Digest #1, December 2005; reprinted in Fantasy Magazine #2, 2006; Wildside Press)
"Untitled 13" (Sirenia Digest #1, December 2005)
"Orpheus at Mount Pangeum" (Sirenia Digest #2, January 2006)
"Pony" (Sirenia Digest #2, January 2006)
"Bridle" (Sirenia Digest #3, February 2006; reprinted in Street Magicks,Prime Books, 2016)
"Eisoptrophobia - A Sketch" (Sirenia Digest #3, February 2006)
"Untitled 17" (Sirenia Digest #3, February 2006)
"Untitled 20" (Sirenia Digest #4, March 2006)
"pas-en-arriere" (Sirenia Digest #5, April 2006)
"For One Who Has Lost Herself" (Sirenia Digest #5, April 2006)
"Ode to Edvard Munch" (Sirenia Digest #6, May 2006; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance, Running Press, 2008 and By Blood We Live, Night Shade Books, 2009)
"The Black Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #6, May 2006)
"The Black Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #7, June 2006)
"The Cryomancer's Daughter (Murder Ballad No. 3)" (Sirenia Digest #8, July 2006)
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ghoul" (Sirenia Digest #9, August 2006)
"Untitled 23" (Sirenia Digest #10, September 2006)
"In the Praying Windows" (with
Sonya Taaffe, Sirenia Digest #10, September 2006)
"The Ammonite Violin (Murder Ballad No. 4)" (Sirenia Digest #11, October 2006; reprinted in Dark Delicacies II, 2007; Carroll & Graf; Hauntings, Tachyon Publications, 2013)
"The Lovesong of Lady Ratteanrufer" (Sirenia Digest #12, November 2006)
"Metamorphosis A" (Sirenia Digest #12, November 2006)
"The Voyeur in the House of Glass" (Sirenia Digest #13, December 2006)
"Metamorphosis B" (Sirenia Digest #13, December 2006)
"The Sphinx's Kiss" (Sirenia Digest #14, January 2007)
"A Season of Broken Dolls" (Sirenia Digest #15, February 2007; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Spring, 2007; Subterranean Press
[1])
"Skin Game" (Sirenia Digest #15, February 2007)
"In View of Nothing" (Sirenia Digest #16, March 2007)
"Untitled 26" (Sirenia Digest #16, March 2007)
"Night Games in the Crimson Court" (Sirenia Digest #17, April 2007)
"Outside the Gates of Eden" (Sirenia Digest #18, May 2007)
"The Steam Dancer (1896)" (Sirenia Digest #19, June 2007; reprinted in Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy, 2008; Subterranean Press and Steampunk Reloaded, 2010; Tachyon Publications)
"In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection" (Sirenia Digest #20, July 2007; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Fall, 2007; Subterranean Press
[2] and Zombies: More Recent Dead, Prime Books, 2014)
"Anamnesis, or the Sleepless Nights of Léon Spilliaert" (Sirenia Digest #20, July 2007)
"Scene in the Museum (1896)" (Sirenia Digest #21, August 2007)
"Untitled Grotesque" (Sirenia Digest #22, September 2007)
"The Madam of the Narrow Houses" (Sirenia Digest #23, October 2007; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women, 2013; Running Press)
"The Bed of Appetite" (Sirenia Digest #23, October 2007)
"The Wolf Who Cried Girl" (Sirenia Digest #24, November 2007)
"Untitled 31" (Sirenia Digest #25, December 2007)
"The Crimson Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #25, December 2007)
"The Crimson Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #26, January 2008)
"The Collector of Bones" (Sirenia Digest #26, January 2008)
"Beatification" (Sirenia Digest #27, February 2008)
"Pickman's Other Model" (Sirenia Digest #28, March 2008; reprinted in Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, 2010; PS Publishing and New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird, 2011; Prime Books)
"Flotsam" (Sirenia Digest #29, April 2008; reprinted in
Not One of Us #40 and The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2, 2009; Perseus Books)
"Regarding Attrition and Severance" (Sirenia Digest #29, April 2008)
"Unter den Augen des Mondes" (Sirenia Digest #31, June 2008)
"The Melusine (1898)" (Sirenia Digest #31, June 2008)
"Derma Sutra (1891)" (Sirenia Digest #32, July 2008)
"The Z Word" (Sirenia Digest #33, August 2008)
"Untitled 33" (Sirenia Digest #34, September 2008)
"I Am the Abyss and I Am the Light" (Sirenia Digest #35, October 2008, reprinted in Aliens: Recent Encounters, Prime Books, 2013)
"Dancing With the Eight of Swords" (Sirenia Digest #36, November 2008)
"Murder Ballad No. 5 (Sirenia Digest #37, December 2008)
"Lullaby of Partition and Reunion" (Sirenia Digest #37, December 2008)
"The Thousand-and-Third Tale of Scheherazade" (Sirenia Digest #38, January 2009)
"The Belated Burial" (Sirenia Digest #38, January 2009; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Fall, 2009; Subterranean Press
[3] and Vampires: The Recent Undead, Prime Books, 2011)
"The Bone's Prayer" (Sirenia Digest #39, February 2009; reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Prime Books, 2010)
"A Canvas for Incoherent Arts" (Sirenia Digest #40, March 2009)
"The Peril of Liberated Objects, or the Voyeur's Seduction" (Sirenia Digest #41, April 2009)
"At the Gate of Deeper Slumber" (Sirenia Digest #41, April 2009)
"Fish Bride" (Sirenia Digest #42, May 2009; reprinted in The Weird Fiction Review #2, 2011 and Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, Titan Books, 2015)
"The Mermaid of the Concrete Ocean" (Sirenia Digest #43, June 2009; reprinted in The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, Roc, 2012 and Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep, Prime Books, 2015)
"The Alchemist's Daughter (a fragment)" (Sirenia Digest #43, June 2009)
"Vicaria Draconis" (Sirenia Digest #44, July 2009)
"January 28, 1926" (Sirenia Digest #44, July 2009)
"Werewolf Smile" (Sirenia Digest #45, August 2009; reprinted in The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, Roc, 2012)
"Paleozoic Annunciation" (Sirenia Digest #45, August 2009)
"Charcloth, Firesteel, and Flint" (Sirenia Digest #46, September 2009; reprinted in A Book of Horrors, 2011; PS Publishing)
"Shipwrecks Above" (Sirenia Digest #46, September 2009; reprinted in Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women, Nightshade Books, 2015)
"The Dissevered Heart" (Sirenia Digest #47, October 2009)
"Exuvium" (Sirenia Digest #48, November 2009)
"Untitled 34" (Sirenia Digest #49, December 2009)
"Hydrarguros" (Sirenia Digest #50, January 2010; reprinted in Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2, 2011; Subterranean Press)
"The Eighth Veil" (Sirenia Digest #51, February 2010)
"Persephone Redux (A Fragment)" (Sirenia Digest #51, February 2010)
"Apsinthion" (Sirenia Digest #51, February 2010)
"Houndwife" (Sirenia Digest #52, March 2010; reprinted in Black Wings II, 2012; PS Publishing)
"Three Months, Three Scenes, With Snow" (Sirenia Digest #53, April 2010)
"Workprint" (Sirenia Digest #53, April 2010)
"Tempest Witch" (Sirenia Digest #54, May 2010)
"Tidal Forces" (Sirenia Digest #55, June 2010; reprinted in Eclipse Four, 2011; Night Shade Books)
"The Yellow Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #56, July 2010)
"The Yellow Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #57, August 2010)
"Fairy Tale of the Maritime" (Sirenia Digest #57, August 2010)
"John Four" (Sirenia Digest #58, September 2010; reprinted in A Mountain Walked, 2014; Centipede Press)
"And the Cloud That Took the Form" (Sirenia Digest #59, October 2010)
"On the Reef" (Sirenia Digest #59, October 2010; reprinted in Halloween, Prime Books, 2011 and Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, Titan Books, 2015)
"The Prayer of Ninety Cats" (Sirenia Digest #60, November 2010; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Spring, 2013; Subterranean Press
[4] and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction, Prime Books, 2014)
"—30—" (Sirenia Digest #61, December 2010; reprinted in Magic City: Recent Spells, Prime Books, 2014)
"Random Thoughts Before a Fatal Crash" (Sirenia Digest #64, March 2011; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Spring, 2012; Subterranean Press
[5])
"The Carnival is Dead and Gone" (Sirenia Digest #65, April 2011)
"Untitled 35" (Sirenia Digest #66, May 2011)
"Figurehead" (Sirenia Digest #66, May 2011)
"Down to Gehenna" (Sirenia Digest #67, June 2011)
"The Granting Cabinet" (Sirenia Digest #68, July 2011)
"Slouching Towards the House of Glass Coffins" (Sirenia Digest #69, August 2011)
"Evensong" (Sirenia Digest #70, September 2011)
"Dear Daughter Desmodus" (Sirenia Digest #70, September 2011)
"Latitude 41°21'45.89"N, Longitude 71°29'0.62"W" (Sirenia Digest #71, October 2011)
"Another Tale of Two Cities" (Sirenia Digest #72, November 2011)
"Blast the Human Flower" (Sirenia Digest #73, December 2011)
"The Lost Language of Littoral Mollusca and Crustacea; Part the First" (Sirenia Digest #73, December 2011)
"Cammufare" (Sirenia Digest #74, January 2012)
"The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings" (Sirenia Digest #74, January 2012; reprinted in Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, Titan Books, 2015)
"Here Is No Why" (Sirenia Digest #75, February 2012)
"Cages I" (with David T. Kirkpatrick; Sirenia Digest #76, March 2012)
"Hauplatte/Gegenplatte" (Sirenia Digest #77, April 2012)
"Love is Forbidden, We Croak and Howl" (Sirenia Digest #78, May 2012; reprinted in Lovecraft's Monsters, Tachyon Publications, 2014)
"Quiet Houses" (Sirenia Digest #79, June 2012)
"One Tree Hill (The World As Cataclysm)" (Sirenia Digest #80, July 2012; reprinted in Black Wings III: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, PS Publishing, 2014)
"Tall Bodies" (Sirenia Digest #80, July 2012)
"Our Lady of Tharsis Tholus" (Sirenia Digest #81, August 2012; reprinted as "Our Lady of Arsia Mons" in Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices in Lovecraftian Horror, Dark Regions Press, 2015)
"A Mountain Walked" (Sirenia Digest #82, September 2012; reprinted in The Madness of Cthulhu: Volume 1, 2014; Titan Book)
"Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still" (Sirenia Digest #83, October 2012; reprinted in Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre, Prime Books, 2013)
"Blind Fish" (Sirenia Digest #85, December 2012, reprinted in Searchers After Horror: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic, Fedogan and Bremer, 2014)
"What Dread Hand? What Dread Grasp?" (Sirenia Digest #86, February 2013)
"Sea-Drift" (Sirenia Digest #87, March 2013)
"Turning the Little Key" (Sirenia Digest #88, April 2013)
"Elegy for a Suicide" (Sirenia Digest #90, July 2013)
"Pushing the Sky Away (Death of a Blasphemer)" (Sirenia Digest #91, August 2013; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Summer, 2014; Subterranean Press
[6])
"Study for The Witch House" (Sirenia Digest #92, September 2013)
"Pickman's Madonna" (Sirenia Digest #93, October 2013)
"Mote[L] 2032" (Sirenia Digest #94, November 2013; reprinted as "Late Night Motel Signal" in Black Helicopters, May 2018, Tor.com)
"The Peddler's Tale, Or Isobel's Revenge" (Sirenia Digest #95, December 2013; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, Robinson/Running Press, 2016)
"Idyll for a Purgatory Dancer" (Sirenia Digest #96, January 2014)
"Chewing on Shadows" (Sirenia Digest #97, February 2014)
"The Beginning of the Year Without a Summer" (Sirenia Digest #99, April 2014; reprinted in The Monstrous, Tachyon Publications, 2015)
"Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8)" (Sirenia Digest #100, May 2014; reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 9, Solaris, 2015 and The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 7, Night Shade Books, 2015)
"Far From Any Shore" (Sirenia Digest #101, June 2014; reprinted in Black Wings V: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, PS Publishing, 2016)
"The Cats of River Street (1925)" (Sirenia Digest #102, July 2014; reprinted in Innsmouth Nightmares, PS Publishing, 2015))
"Black Glass, Green Glass" (Sirenia Digest #103, August 2014)
"A Birth in the Wood of Self-Murderers" (Sirenia Digest #104, September 2014)
"The Green Abyss" (Sirenia Digest #106, November 2014)
"The Cripple and the Starfish" (Sirenia Digest #108, January 2015; reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction, Prime Books, 2016)
"The Aubergine Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #109, February 2015)
"The Aubergine Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #110, March 2015)
"Dancy Vs. the Pterosaur" (Sirenia Digest #111, April 2015; reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 10, Solaris, 2016)
"Le Meneur des loups" (Sirenia Digest #112, May 2015)
"Dead Letter Office" (Sirenia Digest #113, June 2015; reprinted in Nightmare's Realm: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic, Dark Regions Press, 2016)
"Dry Bones" (Sirenia Digest #114, July 2015)
Agents of Dreamland (excerpts) (Sirenia Digest #115, August 2015)
"Eurydice Eduction" (Sirenia Digest #119, December 2015)
"Study for an Electronaut's Ovid (AD 2052)" (Sirenia Digest #120, January 2016)
"Pillbug" (Sirenia Digest #122, March 2016)
"When Even the Darkness Is Something To See (A Fragment)" (Sirenia Digest #123, May 2016)
"Epithalamium (A Fragment)" (Sirenia Digest #123, May 2016)
"Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9)" (Sirenia Digest #125, July 2016; reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction, Prime Books, 2017)
"The Chartreuse Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #128, September 2016)
"Animals Pull the Night Around Their Shoulders" (Sirenia Digest #128, September 2016)
"The Chartreuse Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #129, October 2016)
"Antediluvian Homesick Blues" (Sirenia Digest #129, October 2016)
"The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10)" (Sirenia Digest #130, November 2016; reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 11, Solaris, 2017)
"Untitled Psychiatrist #1" (Sirenia Digest #131, December 2016)
"The Sick Rose, Redux" (Sirenia Digest #131, December 2016)
"Tupelo (1998)" (Sirenia Digest #132, January 2017)
"Untitled Psychiatrist #2" (Sirenia Digest #133, February 2017)
"Ballad of a Catamite Revolver" (Sirenia Digest #134, March 2017)
"In the Flat Field" (Sirenia Digest #135, April 2017)
"Untitled Psychiatrist #3" (Sirenia Digest #136, May 2017)
"Fairy Tale of Wood Street" (Sirenia Digest #137, June 2017; reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 12, Solaris, 2018)
"The Dinosaur Tourist" (Sirenia Digest #139, August 2017; reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction, Prime Books, 2018)
"Theoretically Forbidden Morphologies (1988)" (Sirenia Digest #140, September 2017)
"Albatross (1994)" (Sirenia Digest #141, October 2017)
"King Laugh (Four Scenes)" (Sirenia Digest #142, November 2017)
"Behind the Wall of Sleep" (Sirenia Digest #143, December 2017)
"As Water Is In Water" (Sirenia Digest #144, January 2018)
"Chevy Swamp" (Sirenia Digest #145, February 2018)
"Virginia Story" (Sirenia Digest #146, March 2018; reprinted in The Weird Fiction Review #9, 2018)
"Day After Tomorrow, the Flood" (Sirenia Digest #147, April 2018)
"The Eldritch Alphabētos (Part 1)" (Sirenia Digest #148, May 2018)
"A Chance of Frogs on Wednesday" (Sirenia Digest #149, June 2018)
"The Eldritch Alphabētos (Part 2)" (Sirenia Digest #150, July 2018)
"Cherry Street Tango, Sweatbox Waltz" (Sirenia Digest #151, August 2018)
"Untitled 41" (Sirenia Digest #152, September 2018)
"Iodine and Iron" (Sirenia Digest #153, October 2018)
"The Lady and the Tiger Redux" (Sirenia Digest #156, January 2019)
"Which Describes a Looking-Glass and the Broken Fragments" (Sirenia Digest #158, March 2019)
"Metamorphosis C" (Sirenia Digest #159, April 2019)
"The Last Thing You Should Do" (Sirenia Digest #160, May 2019)
"The Tameness of Wolves" (Sirenia Digest #161, June 2019)
"Untitled 44" (Sirenia Digest #162, July 2019)
"The Surgeon's Photo" (Sirenia Digest #163, August 2019)
"Wisteria" (Sirenia Digest #164, September 2019)
"Refugees" (Sirenia Digest #165, October 2019)
"Mercy Brown" (Sirenia Digest #166, November 2019)
"Seven Dreams" (Sirenia Digest #167, December 2019)
"The Cerulean Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #168, January 2020)
"The Cerulean Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #169, February 2020)
"The Great Bloody and Bruised Veil of the World" (Sirenia Digest #170, March 2020)
"Untitled Psychiatrist #4" (Sirenia Digest #171, April 2021; reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror #2 as "Dead Bright Star [July 1987]", Pyre Books, 2022)
"In Utero, In Tenebris" (Sirenia Digest #172, May 2020)
"Untitled 46" (Sirenia Digest #173, June 2020)
"The Man Who Loved What Was" (Sirenia Digest #174, July 2020)
"Untitled 45" (Sirenia Digest #175, August 2021)
"L'hommes et la femme terribles" (Sirenia Digest #176, September 2020)
"Untitled Psychiatrist #5" (Sirenia Digest #177, October 2020)
"The Woman Who Blew Down Houses" (Sirenia Digest #178, November 2020)
"Threnody for Those Who Die December Deaths" (Sirenia Digest #179, December 2020)
"Blackwater" (Sirenia Digest #180, January 2021)
"Heart-Shaped Hole" (Sirenia Digest #181, February 2021)
"The Jar" (Sirenia Digest #182, March 2021)
"Two Monsters Walk Into a Bar" (Sirenia Digest #183, April 2021)
The Night Watchers, "False Start One" (Sirenia Digest #184, May 2021)
"Pygmalion As a Hammer" (Sirenia Digest #185, June 2021)
"A Barrenness of Daffodils, A Lerna of Ills" (Part One) (Sirenia Digest #186, July 2021)
"A Barrenness of Daffodils, A Lerna of Ills" (Part Two) (Sirenia Digest #187, August 2021)
"M is for Mars" (Part One) (Sirenia Digest #188, September 2021)
"M is for Mars" (Part Two) (Sirenia Digest #189, October 2021)
The Night Watchers, "False Start Two" (Sirenia Digest #190, November 2021)
"Metamorphosis D (Imago)" (Sirenia Digest #191, December 2021)
"Excerpt from American Novel" (Sirenia Digest #192, January 2022)
"Requiem" (Sirenia Digest #193, February 2022)
"Pump Excursion" (Sirenia Digest #194, March 2022)
"Excerpts from Beowulf (novelization)" (Sirenia Digest #195, April 2022)
"The Merewife" (Sirenia Digest #196, May 2022)
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale (Part 1) (Sirenia Digest #197, June 2022)
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale (Part 2) (Sirenia Digest #198, July 2022)
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale (Part 3) (Sirenia Digest #199, August 2022)
"A Travelogue for Oneironauts" (Sirenia Digest #200, September 2022)
"Passage of Venus in Front of the Sun" (Sirenia Digest #201, October 2022)
"Discord in Anthracite" (Sirenia Digest #202, November 2022)
"Build Your Houses With Their Backs to the Sea" (Sirenia Digest #203, December 2022)
"Crotalus (Murder Ballad No. 13)" (Sirenia Digest #204, January 2023)
"Untitled Psychiatrist No. 6" (Sirenia Digest #205, February 2023)
"The Moment Under the Moment" (Sirenia Digest #206, March 2023)
"Black Water (Murder Ballad No. 14)" (Sirenia Digest #207, April 2023)
"A Buyer's Guide to the Commonplace Bizarre" (Sirenia Digest #208, May 2023)
"Neither From Nor Towards" (Sirenia Digest #209, June 2023)
"Excerpt from The Night Watchers" (Sirenia Digest #210, July 2023)
"Ovid Under Glass" (Sirenia Digest #211, August 2023)
"Ulysses and the Sirens" (Sirenia Digest #212, September 2023)
"Gorgon" (Sirenia Digest #213, October 2023)
"Night Fishing" (Sirenia Digest #214, November 2023; reprinted from Weird Tales, Vol. 68, No. 1, Issue 368)
"Strandling" (Sirenia Digest #215, December 2023; reprinted from Screams from the Dark, Nightfire, 2022)
"Angels You Can See Through" (Sirenia Digest #216, January 2024)
"Tella Mater (Dissolve)" (Sirenia Digest #217, February 2024)
"The Most Beautiful Music I've Ever Read" (introduction for
Ray Bradbury's The Day It Rained Forever; PS Publishing, 2008)
"Lovecraft and I" (Lovecraft Annual #5; August 2011)
"Afterword" (Masters of the Weird Tales: Arthur Machen; Centipede Press, 2013)
"For Melanie (A Short Appreciation, With Footnotes)" (afterword for Singularity and Other Stories by
Melanie Tem; Centipede Press, 2017)
Scientific publications (partial list)
Kiernan, C. R., and Schwimmer, D. R. 2004. First record of a velociraptorine theropod (Tetanurae, Dromaeosauridae) from the Eastern Gulf Coastal United States. The Mosasaur 7:89-93.
Kiernan, C. R. 2002. Stratigraphic distribution and habitat segregation of mosasaurs in the Upper Cretaceous of western and central Alabama, with an historical review of Alabama mosasaur discoveries. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):91-103.
abstract online
Schwimmer, D. R. and Kiernan, C.R. 2001. Eastern Late Cretaceous theropods in North America and the crossing of the Interior Seaway. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):99A.
Kiernan, C. R. 1992. Clidastes Cope, 1868 (Reptilia, Sauria): proposed designation of Clidastes propython Cope, 1869 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49:137–139.
Gentry, A. D., Ebersole, J. A., and Kiernan, C. R. 2019. Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies. Royal Society Open Science 6(12). Article ID:191950.
article online
Gentry, Andrew D., Kiernan, Caitlín R., Parham, James F. 2022. "A large non‐marine turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama and a review of North American 'Macrobaenids.'" The Anatomical Record 1-20:
https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25054.
Kiernan, C.R. and J.A. Ebersole. 2023. Two new plioplatecarpine mosasaurs (Mosasauridae; Plioplatecarpinae) of the genus Ectenosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. PaleoBios 40(13):1-28.
https://doi.org/10.5070/P9401362375