I’m very excited to announce that after many years of contributing artwork and my public relations experience to Midnight Echo Magazine, I’ll finally have a piece of prose within the pages of Issue 10!

The ghost-story themed issue is edited by Award-winning editor and publisher Craig Bezant and is expected to be released on November 30.

The Australian Horror Writers Association, which publishes Midnight Echo, released the Table of Contents overnight and I’m chuffed to see that I’m sharing space with the likes of Gary A. Braunbeck, Alan Baxter, Martin Livings and Joseph A. Pinto, to name a few.

I think I’ve subbed short stories since Issue 3, and even had a few on their shortlist in Issue 7 and 9, but it’s fantastic that I’ve made the cut, with my creepy haunted house tale, Mother’s House.

Don’t worry though, I’ll still have some art in the magazine as well, with mine and Mark Farrugia’s vampire comic Allure of the Ancients: The Key to His Kingdom Chapter 4 and I’ve also supplied the corner art and a piece of art to accompany a story.

As a bonus, the regular Pix and Panels, comic column will feature an interview with myself, Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton about our graphic novel Witch Hunts, which won a Bram Stoker Award, in June.

So all in all, I’m extremely excited about this and I can’t wait to see this Issue in print!

Here’s the full TOC:

The Table of Contents:

Cover art by Vincent Chong
Interior art by Mel Gannon and Greg Chapman

Literature
Lunch by Joseph A. Pinto
Crybaby Bridge #25 by Gary A. Braunbeck
Stillegeist by Martin Livings
I Want to Go Home by A.J. Brown
Tourist Trap by Richard Farren Barber
Blood and Bone by Robert Mammone
Exposure Compensation by Alan Baxter
Stinson Way: A Southern Gothic by Jacob Lambert
A Little Peace by Rebecca Fung
Mother’s House by Greg Chapman

Comic
Allure of the Ancients; The Key to His Kingdom – story by Mark Farrugia, illustrations by Greg Chapman

Special Features
An interview with Victor Miller
AHWA Short Story and Flash Fiction Competition winners –
It’s Always the Children Who Suffer by Alan Baxter
Darker by Zena Shapter
Moonlight Sonata by Tim Hawken

Regular Features
A Word from the AHWA President – Geoff Brown
Tartarus – Danny Lovecraft (poetry column)
Pix and Panels – Mark Farrugia (comic column)
Black Roads, Dark Highways #5 – Andrew McKiernan (column)
Celluloid Nightmares – Mark Smith-Briggs
Sinister Reads (all the latest releases from AHWA members)

Pre-orders for the limited print edition are now available.
If you live in Australia:

AU$12.50 (includes Australia-wide postage)