Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea (68 page)

Short Fiction (by date of first publication;

for
Sirenia Digest
first
print
reprint noted)

“Between the Flatirons and the Deep Green Sea”
1995
High Fantastic: Colorado Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and Science Fiction
, ed. Steve Rasnic Tem, Ocean View Books (First fiction sale.)

“The Comedy of St. Jehanne d’Arc”
1995
Dark Destiny: Proprietors of Fate
,
ed. Edward E. Kramer, White Wolf Publishing

“Hoar Isis”
1995
The Urbanite
(#6), ed. Mark McLaughlin, Urban Legend Press

“Persephone”
1995
Aberrations
(March #27), ed. Richard Blair and Michael Andre-Driussi, Sirius Pub. (First published short story.)

“Anamorphosis”
1996
Lethal Kisses
, ed. Ellen Datlow, Orion Books, 

“Escape Artist”
1996
The Sandman: Book of
 
Dreams
, ed. Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer, HarperPrism

“Giants in the Earth”
1996
Michael Moorcock’s Pawns of Chaos: Tales of the Eternal Champion
,
ed. Ed Kramer, White Wolf Publishing

“Stoker’s Mistress”
1996
Dark Destiny III: Children of Dracula
, ed. Ed Kramer, White Wolf

“Tears Seven Times Salt”
1996
Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium
, ed. John Pelan, Darkside Press

“To This Water (Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1889)”
1996
Dark Terrors 2
, ed. Stephen Jones and David Sutton, Victor Gollancz Ltd.

“Bela’s Plot”
1997
Love in Vein II
, ed. Poppy Z. Brite, HarperPrism

“Breakfast in the House of the Rising Sun
” 1997
Noirotica II
, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Masquerade Books

“Emptiness Spoke Eloquent”
1997
Secret City: Strange Tales of London
(World Fantasy Souvenir Book), ed. Stephen Jones

“Estate”
1997
Dark Terrors 3
, ed. Stephen Jones and David Sutton, Victor Gollancz Ltd. 

“The Last Child of Lir”
1997
The Urbanite
(#8), ed. Mark McLaughlin, Urban Legend Press

“Superheroes”
1997
Brothers of the Night
, ed. Michael Rowe and Thomas S. Roche, Cleis Press

“A Story for Edward Gorey”
1997
Wetbones
(#2), ed. Paula Guran

“Two Worlds and In Between”
1997
Dark of the Night
, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books

“Found Angels”
1998 (with Christa Faust)
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle,
ed
.
Nancy Kilpatrick and Thomas S. Roche, Ace Books

“The King of Birds”
1998
The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams
, ed. Ed Kramer, Del Rey

“Postcards from the King of Tides”
1998
Candles for Elizabeth
, Meisha Merlin Publishing Inc. 

“Salmagundi (1981)”
1998
Carpe Noctem
(Vol. IV, #4), ed. Tom and Catia Carnell, CN Publishing LLC

“Glass Coffin”
1999
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Avon Books

“The Long Hall on the Top Floor”
1999
Carpe Noctem
(#16), CN Publishing LLC

“Rats Live On No Evil Star”
1999
White of the Moon
, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books

“Salammbô”
1999
Palace Corbie
(#8), ed. Wayne Edwards, Merrimac Books

“Angels You Can See Through”
2000
Tales of Pain and Wonder
, Gauntlet Press (removed from 3rd edition, 2007, Subterranean Press).

“Between the Gargoyle Trees”
2000,
Tales of Pain and Wonder
, Gauntlet Press

“By Turns”
2000
Strange Attraction
, ed. Edward E. Kramer, Bereshith Publishing

“In the Waterworks (Birmingham, Alabama 1888)”
2000
Tales of Pain and Wonder
, Gauntlet Press

“Lafayette”
2000
Horror Garage
(#1), ed. Paula Guran

“Pædomorphosis”
2000
Tales of Pain and Wonder
, Gauntlet Press

“A Redress for Andromeda”
2000
October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween
, ed. Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish, Cemetery Dance Publications

“San Andreas”
2000
Tales of Pain and Wonder
, Gauntlet Press

“Spindleshanks (New Orleans, 1956)”
2000
Queer Fear
, ed. Michael Rowe, Arsenal Pulp Press

“Valentia”
2000
Dark Terrors 5
, ed. Stephen Jones and David Sutton, Victor Gollancz

“Onion”
2001
Wrong Things
, Subterranean Press

“The Rest of the Wrong Thing”
2001 (with Poppy Z. Brite)
Wrong Things
, Subterranean Press

“So Runs the World Away”
2001
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
, ed. Stephen Jones, Carroll and Graf

“In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers”
2002, Subterranean Press; reprinted 2006,
Alabaster,
as “Les Fleurs Empoisonnées,” Subterranean Press; reprinted 2011,
Two Worlds and in Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Volume One)
, as “Les Fleurs Empoisonnées, or Dans le Jardin des Fleurs Toxiques,” Subterranean Press

“Night Story 1973”
(with Poppy Z. Brite) 2002
From Weird and Distant Shores
, Subterranean Press

“Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea”
2002
The Children of Cthulhu
, ed. John Pelan and Benjamin Adams, Del Rey

“Rat’s Star (A Fragment)”
2002
From Weird and Distant Shores
(lettered edition only)
,
Subterranean Press

“The Road of Pins”
2002,
Dark Terrors 6
, ed. Steve Jones, Victor Gollancz

“Standing Water”
2002
Darker Side: Generations of Horror
, ed. John Pelan, Roc/NAL

“Andromeda Among the Stones”
2003 chapbook accompanying
Embrace the Mutation,
ed. William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press

“The Drowned Geologist (1898)”
2003
Shadows Over Baker Street
, ed. Michael Reaves and John Pelan, Del Rey

“Mercury”
2003, Subterranean Press (chapbook) 

“The Dead and the Moonstruck”
2004
Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales
, ed. Deborah Noyes, Candlewick Press

“La Mer des Rêves”
2004
A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror
, John Pelan, Roc/NAL

“Riding the White Bull”
2004
Argosy Magazine
(#1), ed. Lou Anders, Coppervale Intl.

“Waycross”
2004 Subterranean Press (chapbook)

“Apokatastasis”
2005
To Charles Fort, With Love
, Subterranean Press

“Bradbury Weather”
2005
Subterranean Magazine
(#6), ed. William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press

“Faces in Revolving Souls”
2005
Outsiders
, ed. Nancy Holder and Nancy Kilpatrick, Roc/NAL

“Flicker”
2005
Frog Toes and Tentacles
, Subterranean Press

“From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6”
2005
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth
, ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer

“La Peau Verte”
2005
To Charles Fort, With Love
, Subterranean Press

“Los Angeles 2162 (December)”
2005
Frog Toes and Tentacles
, Subterranean Press

“Madonna Littoralis”
2005
Sirenia Digest
(Dec. #1), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2006
Fantasy Magazine
(#2), ed. Sean Wallace, Wildside Press;.

“Ode to Katan Amono”
2005
Frog Toes and Tentacles
, Subterranean Press

“Pages Found Among the Effects of Miss Edith M. Teller”
2005
Frog Toes and Tentacles
, Subterranean Press

“Pump Excursion”
2005
Frog Toes and Tentacles
, Subterranean Press

“Untitled 4”
2005
Frog Toes and Tentacles
, Subterranean Press

“Untitled 7”
2005
Frog Toes and Tentacles
, Subterranean Press

“Untitled 11”
2005
Frog Toes and Tentacles
, Subterranean Press

“Untitled 12”
2005
Frog Toes and Tentacles
, Subterranean Press

“Untitled 13”
2005
Sirenia Digest
(Dec. #1), Goat Girl Press

“Alabaster”
2006
Alabaster
,
Subterranean Press

“The Ammonite Violin (Murder Ballad No. 4)”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Oct. #11), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2007,
Dark Delicacies II: Fear
, ed. Del Howison and Jeff Gelb, Carroll & Graf

“Bainbridge”
2006
Alabaster
, Subterranean Press, revised 2014 for
Alabaster: Pale Horse
, Dark Horse Books/Dark Horse Comics

“The Black Alphabet (Part One)”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(May #6), Goat Girl Press

“The Black Alphabet (Part Two)”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(June #7), Goat Girl Press; reprint 2007, parts One and Two collected as
The Black Alphabet (A Primer)
,
Subterranean Press

“Bridle”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Feb. #3), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2010
, The Ammonite Violin & Others,
Subterranean Press

“The Cryomancer’s Daughter (Murder Ballad No. 3)”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(July #8), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2010
The Ammonite Violin & Others
, Subterranean Press

“Eisoptrophobia – A Sketch”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Feb. #3), Goat Girl Press

“For One Who Has Lost Herself”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(April #5), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2010
, The Ammonite Violin & Others,
Subterranean Press

“In the Praying Windows”
(with Sonya Taaffe) 2006
Sirenia Digest
(Sept. #10), Goat Girl Press

“The Lovesong of Lady Ratteanrufer”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Nov. #12), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2010
The Ammonite Violin & Others
,
Subterranean Press

“Metamorphosis A”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Nov. #12), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2010
The Ammonite Violin & Others
,
Subterranean Press

“Metamorphosis B”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Dec. #13), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2010
The Ammonite Violin & Others
,
Subterranean Press

“Ode to Edvard Munch”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(May #6), Goal Girl Press; reprinted 2008
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance,
ed. Trisha Telep, Running Press

“Orpheus at Mount Pangæum”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Jan. #2), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2010
The Ammonite Violin & Others
,
Subterranean Press

“pas-en-arrière”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(April #5), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2007
Tales from the Woeful Platypus
, Subterranean Press

“The Pearl Diver”
2006
Futureshocks,
ed. Lou Anders, Roc/NAL

“Pony”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Jan. #2), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2007
Tales from the Woeful Platypus
, Subterranean Press

“Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ghoul”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Aug. #9), Goat Girl Press

“Untitled 17”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Feb. #3), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2007,
Tales from the Woeful Platypus
,
Subterranean Press

“Untitled 20”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(March #4), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2007
Tales from the Woeful Platypus
, Subterranean Press

“Untitled 23”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Sept. #10), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2010 as “A Child’s Guide to the Hollow Hills,”
The Ammonite Violin & Others
,
Subterranean Press

“The Voyeur in the House of Glass”
2006
Sirenia Digest
(Dec. #13), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2010
The Ammonite Violin & Others
,
Subterranean Press

“The Well of Stars and Shadow”
2006
Alabaster
, Subterranean Press

“Anamnesis, or the Sleepless Nights of Léon Spilliaert”
2007
Sirenia Digest
(Jul. #20), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2010
The Ammonite Violin & Others
,
Subterranean Press

“The Bed of Appetite”
2007
Sirenia Digest
(Oct. #23), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2012
Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart
, Subterranean Press

“The Collector of Bones”
2008
Sirenia Digest
(Jan. #26), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2012
Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart
, Subterranean Press

“The Crimson Alphabet (Part One)”
2007
Sirenia Digest
(Dec. #25), Goat Girl Press

“The Daughter of the Four of Pentacles”
2007
Thrillers 2
, ed. Robert Morrish. Cemetery Dance Publishing

“Daughter of Man, Mother of Wyrm”
2007
Tales from the Woeful Platypus
, Subterranean Press

“Excerpt from
Memoirs of Martian Demirep
”
2007
Tales from the Woeful Platypus
,
Subterranean Press