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Novels:
The Bone Man (illustrated edition with Afterword), KDP, 2020; paperback and Kindle editions available here.
A Green and Ancient Light, Saga Press, 2016 (literary fantasy); named to Publishers Weekly‘s Year’s Best SF/Fantasy/Horror Books; selected as a Reading List Honor Book in fantasy by the American Library Association; winner of the Realm Award from Realm Makers. It is also available here from Dreamscape Media LLC in an audio format (2019), read by the amazing Matthew Lloyd Davies.
A Green and Ancient Light
Dragonfly
Arkham House, 1999 (dark fantasy); finalist for the International Horror Guild Award; reprinted by the SF Book Club, 2001; mass-market paperback edition from Ace Fantasy, 2005; audio book edition by Audible, 2013. See more details, reviews, images, and an excerpt at: http://www.fredericsdurbin.com/?page_id=1384.
The Star Shard
New paperback and Kindle editions of this fantasy adventure for children are available here from JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., 2019. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 (middle-grade fantasy). Visit the exclusive page for this book here: http://www.fredericsdurbin.com/?page_id=1393
Backspaces: Typewritten Tales of Time Travel [Volume III of COLD HARD TYPE], Edited by Richard Polt, Frederic S. Durbin, and Andrew V. McFeaters, Loose Dog Press, Cincinnati, Ohio 2020
Paradigm Shifts: Typewritten Tales of Digital Collapse [Volume I of COLD HARD TYPE], Edited by Richard Polt, Frederic S. Durbin, and Andrew V. McFeaters, Loose Dog Press, Cincinnati, Ohio 2019
Escapements: Typewritten Tales from Post-Digital Worlds [Volume II of COLD HARD TYPE], Edited by Richard Polt, Frederic S. Durbin, and Andrew V. McFeaters, Loose Dog Press, Cincinnati, Ohio 2019
There’s a fourth volume called Dead Keys: Typewritten Tales of Terror, published in 2021 and a fifth called Margin Releases: Typewritten Tales of Transgression, published in 2022.
Other fiction:
“The Fool Who Fished for a King,” Cricket Magazine, March-April 2000; reprinted May/June-July/August 2020
“The Place of Roots,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2001; named as an Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, 15th Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
“The Gift,” Mooreeffoc Magazine, Winter 2001/2002; reprinted by Cicada Magazine, March/April 2003
“Star,” Cricket Magazine, February-March 2002; reprinted in October-November/December 2011
“Murik and the Magic Sack,” Cricket Magazine, November 2002; reprinted in April 2017 and in September 2023
“The Guardian Tree,” part 2, Cricket Magazine, September 2003; commissioned for the magazine’s 30th anniversary issue
“Ren and the Shadow Imps,” Cricket Magazine, October 2003-January 2004; reprinted September 2012-January 2013; reprinted in Red Squirrel (Chinese language), Xiaoduo Media, June-July 2015
“The Enchanted Mountain,” Cricket Magazine, June-September 2005
“A Tale of Silences,” Cicada Magazine, January/February 2006
“The Bone Man” (novelette), Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2007; named to the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2007; nominated for the 2008 Locus Awards
“Under the Tower of Valk,” Ozment’s House of Twilight, Issue 7, Winter 2007; included in the flash-drive anthology Unconventional Fantasy, distributed to members of the World Fantasy Convention 2014.
“The Star Shard” (novelette), Cricket Magazine, April 2008-April 2009
“World’s End,” Black Gate #15, Spring 2011
“The Girl Who Writes the Future,” Cricket Magazine, November/December 2014-May 2015 (This was the culmination of an interactive project for young writers called Crowd-Sorcery which I helped to design and coordinate. I served, with the illustrator, as a selection judge for young writers’ submissions.)
“Someplace Cool and Dark,” Challenge! Discovery, Edited by Jason M. Waltz, Rogue Blades Entertainment, Spokane, Washington, 2017
“A Fire in Shandria,” Challenge! Discovery, Edited by Jason M. Waltz, Rogue Blades Entertainment, Spokane, Washington, 2017
“From E to Shining Sea,” Escapements: Typewritten Tales from Post-Digital Worlds [Volume II of COLD HARD TYPE], Edited by Richard Polt, Frederic S. Durbin, and Andrew V. McFeaters, Loose Dog Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2019
“The Evening Calm,” Mountains of Madness Revealed, Edited by Darrell Schweitzer, PS Publishing Ltd., Hornsea, England, 2019
“Marley,” Backspaces: Typewritten Tales of Time Travel [Volume III of COLD HARD TYPE], Edited by Richard Polt, Frederic S. Durbin, and Andrew V. McFeaters, Loose Dog Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2020
“The Fate Machine,” Dead Keys: Typewritten Tales of Terror [Volume IV of COLD HARD TYPE], Edited by Richard Polt, Frederic S. Durbin, and Andrew V. McFeaters, Loose Dog Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2021
“To Save Arrhinsal,” Cricket Magazine, September-December 2021
“Tapping Transgressions,” Margin Releases: Typewritten Tales of Transgression [Volume V of COLD HARD TYPE], Edited by Richard Polt, Frederic S. Durbin, and Andrew V. McFeaters, Loose Dog Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2022.
Articles:
“The Man Who Stilled the Earth,” Fate Magazine, April 1998
“Japan’s Living Mummy,” Fate Magazine, November 2000
“The Great God Pan: Myth, Horror, and the Divine,” Fate Magazine, November-December 2010
“Riddles: An Ancient Game,” Cricket Magazine, April 2011
“Typewriter Mania and the Modern Writer,” Tor.com, June 6, 2016
“The Writing of ‘Someplace Cool and Dark,’” Challenge! Discovery, Edited by Jason M. Waltz, Rogue Blades Entertainment, Spokane, Washington, 2017
“Fiction by Typewriter: An Interview with Three Writers and Some Additional Thoughts,” ETCetera No. 120, Spring 2018
Foreword to As You Wish!: A Heroic Anthology of All the Good Parts, Selected by Jason M. Waltz and Edited by Ty Johnston, Rogue Blades Entertainment, Boerne, Texas, 2020
“Jaws!,” Current, Edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller, January 11, 2022.
“Connections through Street Poetry,” Current, Edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller, October 4, 2022; reprinted in ETCetera, Edited by Paul Robert, Fall 2022
“Flight 93 and the Necessity of Art,” Current, Edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller, October 20, 2022
“A Music Risen Out of the Ground,” Current, Edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller, January 17, 2023
“They Fill the Role of Flowers” (essay), Current, Edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller, November 8, 2023
Poems:
“Where the Witches Dwell,” Weird Tales Magazine #337, July 2005
“A Request of the Minstrel,” Weird Tales Magazine #341, August-September 2006
“To the Tyrants,” Current, Edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller, April 1, 2022 (nominated for “Best of the Net” in the poetry category by the editors of Current)
“Don’t Look Out Your Window Tonight,” Cricket, October 2023
“Five Ladders,” Current, Edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller, December 9, 2024
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