Had a really great year writing-wise in 2023 and will have some big announcements coming up, but I wanted to bring your attention to two of my stories that were published in 2023.
The first story was “The Nevermoon,” published in The Dusk: Tales for Twilight, edited by John Hirschhorn-Smith (Side Real Press, 2023). This is a really dark little fantasy tale that came to me almost fully formed in a dream. It stuck with me and I mostly just transcribed it when I awoke and polished it a little later. That doesn’t happen often to me but it’s great when it does. This books, physically, is one of the most beautiful I own.
The second story was “The Mystery of the Geometric Proof,” published in Sherlock Holmes Adventures in the Realms of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2, edited by Derrick and Brian Belanger (Belanger Books, 2023). This was a love letter to both Lovecraft and Conan Doyle, and includes the real first encounter of Holmes and Watson with Moriarty (who isn’t the villain in the story!), as well as some elements that are very much inspired by Lovecraft’s “Dreams in the Witch House,” among others.
Ryan Rennik 