My story, "The Crimson Wood" — based on H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds — has been accepted for Scott David Aniolowski's anthology Gaslight Ghouls, a collection of tales based on horrors from classic literature of the 19th century. Happy day — a superb contributor list here, and the book's subject matter could hardly be more enticing for aficionados of classic macabre. Full contents of the anthology are as follows:
"Introduction" by Scott David Aniolowski
"Alone in the Night" by C. L. Werner
"The Phantom Club" by Glynn Owen Barrass
"The Tale of Samuel Whiskers Continued or A London Digression" by Eric J. Guignard
"A Christmas Dirge" by Evan Dicken
"A Perversion of Instinct" by Lee Zumpe
"The Second Occupant" by Joshua M. Reynolds
"The Black Hand of Fantomas" by Cody Goodfellow
"Seeds" by Don Webb
"The Crimson Wood" by Stephen Mark Rainey
"Phantom Masquerade" by Rick Lai
"That Damned Moor" by Tom Lynch
"The Children of Saffron Hill" by Brad C. Hodson
"Carnacki: The Hound" by Willie Meikle
"The Hunger of Richard Enfield" by Peter Rawlik
"Just for Jolly Wouldn’t You" by Scott David Aniolowski
"A Zombie Christmas Carol" by Donald R. Burleson
"The Patchwork Woman" by Tina Jens
Not sure at this point what the forecast for publication is, but I'll keep you posted.