STories

Novelettes

  • “Jirel in the Forest of Night.” New Edge Sword and Sorcery Magazine, ed. Oliver Brackenbury, Winter 2026 (forthcoming).
  • “Jirel Meets Death.” New Edge Sword and Sorcery Magazine, ed. Oliver Brackenbury, Winter 2025.
  • “The City of Tears.” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, ed. Scott H. Andrews, April 2025. 
  • “The Best in Basement Radio.” 120 Murders, ed. Nick Mamatas, March 2025.
  • “Jirel and the Mirror of Truth.” New Edge Sword and Sorcery Magazine, ed. Oliver Brackenbury, Winter 2024.
    • Notable story, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams
  • “Les Chimères: An Ode.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Sheree Renee Thomas, Sept/Oct 2022.
    • Notable Story, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, ed. R.F. Kuang and John Joseph Adams. 
  • “In the Garden of Ibn Ghazi.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Sheree Renee Thomas, March 2021.
    • Reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror Vol. 3, ed. Paula Guran, Pyr, 2022.
  • “Summer Camp Would Have Been a Lot Cheaper.” Evil in Technicolor, ed. Joe M. McDermott, Vernacular Books, October 2020.

Short Stories

  • “Eight Wedding Rings from Unhappy Marriages.” The Sunday Morning Transport, ed. Fran Wilde, March 2024
  • “Wild Plums.” Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, ed. Matthew Cherlew, Twelfth Planet Press, March 2022.
  • “Dorcas and Ann: A True Story.” Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Histories, ed. by Nate Pederson. Chaosium, 2024.
  • “The Deductive Method: A Miskatonic University Story,” Chaosium.com ed. James Lowder, 2018.  
  • “A Judgment Made Can Never Bend.” Forbidden Futures 4, ed. Cody Goodfellow, Spring 2019.
  • “The Real You™.” Lightspeed 101, ed. John Joseph Adams, October 2018.
    • Reprinted in The Big Book of Cyberpunk, ed. by Jared Shurin. November 2023.
  • “Le Cygne Baiseur.” Mechanical Animals: Tales at the Crux of Creatures and Tech, ed. Selena Chambers and Jason Heller, Hex Publishers, 2018.
  • “The Language of Flowers.” Dark Discoveries 37, ed. Aaron J. French, Winter 2017.
  • “Nine Tenths of the Law.” Lightspeed 80, ed. John Joseph Adams, January 2017.
    • Notable Story, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, ed. N.K. Jemisin and John Joseph Adams. 
  • “Smile.” Great Jones Street (Mobile Application), ed. Kelly Abbot, 2017.
  • “Demure.” Great Jones Street (Mobile Application), ed. Kelly Abbot, 2017.
  • “Prick and Persuasion.” Nasty: Fetish Fights Back, ed. Anna Yeats and Chris Phillips, Flash Fiction Online LLC., 2017
  • “Genius Without Education.” The Extinction Event, ed. Jared Shurin, Jurassic London, 2016.
  • Tanzer, Molly, and Nick Mamatas. “Cognac, Communism, and Cocaine.” Through A Mythos Darkly, ed. Glynn Owen Barrass and Brian M. Sammons, PS Publishing Ltd, 2017.
  • “That Nature Which Peers Out In Sleep.” The Madness of Dr. Caligari, ed. Joseph S. Pulver Sr., Fedogan and Bremer Publishing, 2016.
  • “But Only Because I Love You.” Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror, ed. Lynne Jamneck, Dark Regions Press, 2016.
  •  “The Stricken.” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity, ed. Scott Gable and C. Dombrowski, Broken Eye Books, 2016.
  • “Civilization and Its Discontented.” Aleriel, A Voyage to Other Worlds: The Lost Classic of Victorian Science Fiction, with a New Sequel, by W. S. Lach-Szyrma, ed. Jared Shurin, Jurassic London, 2015.
  • Tanzer, Molly, and Jesse Bullington. “The Curse of the Old Ones.” Cthulhu Fhtagn!, ed. Ross E. Lockhart, Word Horde, 2015.
  • “The Thing on the Cheerleading Squad.” She Walks in Shadows, ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles, Innsmouth Free Press, 2015.
    • Reprinted in Transcendent: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, ed. K.M. Szpara, Lethe Press, 2016.    
  • “The Strangely Warm Waters of Devon.” The Book of Starry Wisdom, ed. Simon Berman and Valerie Hernon, Strix Publishing, 2015.
  • “One Hot Chapatha.” Strange Aeons 16, ed. Rick Tillman, April 2015.
  • “Do Not Loiter in the Glen.” The Burning Maiden Vol. 2, ed. Greg Kishbaugh, Evileye Books, 2015.
  • “La Fée Verte.” Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary, ed. Heather J. Wood, Stone Skin Press, 2015.
  • “Grave-Worms.” Cassilda’s Song: Tales Inspired by Robert W. Chambers King in Yellow Mythos, ed. Joseph S. Pulver, Chaosium Inc., 2015.
  • Tanzer, Molly, and Jesse Bullington. “Four Seasons in the Floating World,” Pornokitsch, ed. Jared Shurin, October 2014.
  • “Hieron Aigypton.” The Starry Wisdom Library: The Catalogue of the Greatest Occult Book Auction of All Time,    ed. Nate Pedersen, PS Publishing, 2014.
  • “Food From the Clouds.” Letters to Lovecraft: Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness, ed. Jesse Bullington, Stone Skin Press, 2014.
  • “Good Lord, Show Me The Way.” The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron, ed. Justin Steele, Word Horde, 2014.
  • “Qi Sport.” Schemers: Betrayal Knows No Boundaries, ed. Robin D. Laws. Stone Skin Press, 2013. 
  • “Mysterium Tremendum.” The Book of the Dead, ed. Jared Shurin, Jurassic London, 2013.             
  • “Tantivy.” Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages, ed. Steve Berman. Prime Books, 2013.
  • “Ho Pais Kalos.” Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity, ed. Shanna Germain and Janine Ashbless. Stone Box Press, 2012.
  • “All This For the Greater Glory of the 7th and 329th Children of the Black Goat of the Woods.” The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction 7, ed. Cameron Pierce, January 2013.
    • Reprinted in Conqueror Womb: Lusty Tales of Shub-Niggurath, Geoffrey, Justine, ed., Martian Migraine     Press, 2014.
  • “Herbert West in Love.” The Lovecraft eZine 20, ed. Mike Davis, December 2012.       
    • Reprinted in Icarus 18, ed. Steve Berman, Fall/Winter 2013.
    • Reprinted in Legacy of the Reanimator: The Chronicles of Dr. Herbert West, eds. Rawlik, Peter, and Brian      Sammons,  Chaosium Inc., 2015.
  • Tanzer, Molly, and Jesse Bullington. “Tubby McMungus, Fat from Fungus.” Fungi, ed. Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Innsmouth Free Press, 2012.
  • “The Poison-Well.” The Lion and The Aardvark: Aesop’s Modern Fables, ed. Robin D. Laws, Stone Skin Press, 2012.
  • “Hour of the Tortoise.” The Book of Cthulhu II, ed. Ross E. Lockhart, Night Shade Books, 2012.
  • “Holiday at Two Hoots.” Coming Together: Arm in Arm in Arm…, ed. Nobilis Reed, Coming Together, 2012.
  • “Go, Go, Go, Said the Byakhee.” Future Lovecraft, ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles, Prime Books, 2012.
  • “How John Wilmot Contracted Syphilis,” Lacuna: A Journal of Historical Fiction 5, ed. Megan Arkenberg, October 2011.
  • “The Devil’s Bride.” Palimpsest: A Creative Journal of the Humanities, 2011.
  • “The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins.” Historical Lovecraft: Tales of Horror Through Time, eds. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles, Innsmouth Free Press, 2011.
    • Reprinted in The Book of Cthulhu, Night Shade Books, 2011.
    • Reprinted in Nightmare Magazine 6, March 2013
  • “In Sheep’s Clothing.” In Running with the Pack, ed. Ekaterina Sedia, Prime Books, 2010.

 

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