let the woods keep our bodies (ghoulish books, 2023)
boreal: an anthology of taiga horror (strange wilds press, 2025)
Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies
Ghoulish Books, 2023
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Weird things happen sometimes.
Leo Bates knows what’s behind every corner in her hometown, where she’s lived her whole life. Some disjointed memories and grief for her late parents, sure, but nothing dangerous. Nothing unexplainable.
But the familiar becomes strange the longer you look at it. When Tate Mulder goes missing and Leo is pinned as the prime suspect, she can only watch as the town she thought she knew deteriorates around her. She is forced to confront the truth about her parents, Eston, and her relationship if she is to survive an onslaught of conspiracies, cryptic monstrosities, and whatever is hiding in the woods where Tate was last seen. Finding the girl she loves may be the only way to restore balance to Eston — if such a thing ever existed to begin with.
Boreal: An Anthology of Taiga Horror
Strange Wilds Press, 2025
“Cabin Creatures” —
short story
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Two sisters huddle in a cabin seeking protection from a dark force. An engineer and an anthropologist search for their lost geologist partner on a derelict expedition. A disgraced tracker investigates a desecrated shrine in a small village.
These are only a few of the stories found within BOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga Horror. 22 stories intermingle the dark and lonely forests of the taiga biome with odysseys of sorrow, grief and self-reflection that skirt the boundaries of life and death.
War-ravaged trees, hypnotic glades, and cold desolate mountains await you. Try not to get lost in them.
Featured in this anthology are:
E.M. Roy, Akis Linardos, Vincent West, Jon Gauthier, KL Massey, Nicole Lynn, J.R. Santos, Neil Williamson, Marisca Pichette, Ren Graham, J.S. Betula, Ally Wilkes, Daphne Fauber, Bryan Holm, Jonah Buck, Airic Fenn, Brian Rowe, H.V. Patterson, LB Waltz, SJ Townend, Sarah Musnicky, & Kuzma Mac.
e. m. roy 