FORTHCOMING

EMBER SINS — the first C.T. Robillard investigation — novel ships beginning October 22 2025

[Still-untitled second story collection] — unscheduled, but potentially 2026

  FICTION

“Mister Eddie” — in Tales of the Unanticipated #27, Autumn 2006 

“The Jail In Shinjuku Ward” — online at  Pure Francis, February 2009 

“Shady Acres” — online at Pure Francis, March 2009

“Tacklesmooches” — in Tales of the Unanticipated #30, Spring 2010

“Friendly Fire” — in the anthology MACHINE OF DEATH, October 2010 (four English editions plus audio, 2010 to 2012)

        — as “Feu allié” in LA MACHINE À ÉCRIRE LA MORT (French publication of MOD), 2012

        — as “Fuego amigo” in LA MAQUINA DE LA MUERTE (Spanish publication of MOD), 2012

        — as “Fueco Amico” in LA MACCHINA DELLA MORTE (Italian publication of MOD), 2012

        — as “Eigenbeschuss” in MACHINE OF DEATH (German publication of MOD), 2012

        — as “Prijateljska vatra” in STROJ SMRTI (Croatian publication of MOD), 2014

        — as “아군 사격“ in 데스 머신 (Korean publication of MOD), 2015

        — as “אש כותותינו“ in זה הסוף שלך! (Hebrew publication of MOD), 2013

        — as “味方による誤爆“ in マシン・オブ・デス (Japanese publication of MOD), two editions — 2012, 2013

“Physicians' Ball” — online at Pure Francis , January 2011

“Good Bait”, “Erin Beiber's Wild Ride” and “To The Devil, A Goat” — in the anthology SEASONS IN THE ABYSS,  February 2011

“One Man's Famine” — in  Bards and Sages Quarterly, October 2011

         — reprinted in  Bardic Tales and Sage Advice, Vol. IV, August 2012

“Exhuming Harry Truman” — in the anthology KINDLE ALL-STARS PRESENT: RESISTANCE FRONT, December, 2011

“The Trapdoor” — in the anthology BLOOD RITES, January 29, 2013

“The Sinking Tomb” — online at Fiction365.com, March 7, 2013

TWO IN LEFT FIELD (chapbook) — published by Midnight-To-Three Publishing, July 2, 2013; Included: “Preface: Baseball By The Numbers, Circa 2013”; “The Shaman In Relief” (ss); “Two In Left Field”  (es)

“Bobby Boxster In Eight Measures” — in Washington City Paper, January 10, 2014

“Ark Of The Revenant” — in The Midnight Diner 5.1, January 27, 2014

“Lorem Ipsum Donald” — in Tales of the Unanticipated #31, March 16, 2014

“The Last Ride of the Hole In The Well Gang” — in Sugar & Rice #3, October 29, 2014

“Withering” — in Beyond Imagination, September 1, 2015 

“Every Hero An Hombre, Every Wolf A Clown” — online at The Saturday Evening Post,  February 26, 2016

“Dial ‘C’ For Consultant” (IV) — in the anthology WE WERE HEROES, February 29, 2016

FROM THE CASE FILES OF THE IRON VANGUARD (IV, chapbook) — published by Midnight-To-Three Publishing, March 28, 2016; five copies produced for promotional purposes. First appearances of: “Introduction: From The Files of the Scribbling Nuisance”; “Obligatory Origin Stories: The Marty Bolan Interview”; “Menace In The Sky With Death Rays”; “A Bullet For The Iron Vanguard”; “Whatever Became of the Mechanical Wonder?”; “Appendix: The Fifty-Three Nemeses of The Iron Vanguard”

“The Golem-Maker of Buchenwald” — online at Abyss & Apex, June 28, 2016

“Fear #7” — online at Stupefying Stories Showcase, October 26, 2016 

THE ROAD WARRIOR LETTERS 2010-2016 (collection) — published by Midnight-To-Three Publishing, December 25, 2016; limited to three copies; Poetry and ephemera, including the following two pieces of short fiction or essay: “Abstracts From The Adventurer’s Atlas” (ss); “Clearly, Harlan Ellison Is To Blame” (es) 

“In Days Of Auld Cheil’s Crime” — online at douglasjlane.com, December 28, 2016 

“Headcount” — online at douglasjlane.com, October 31, 2017 

“The Girl Who Plugged In Christmas” — online at douglasjlane.com, December 13, 2017

“Time of Reflection” — online at Daily Science Fiction, June 14, 2018

“The Great Unknown” — in Pulp Modern, Volume 2 Number 3, June 3, 2018

“The Floor Is Lava” — in Bards & Sages Quarterly, October 1, 2018

SHADY ACRES AND DARKER PLACES (collection) — published by Midnight-To-Three, November 20, 2018; first edition limited to 50 signed hardcover copies; also issued in trade paperback and ebook. Collects 21 previously published stories (“The Golem-Maker of Buchenwald”; “Good Bait”; “The Sinking Tomb”; “The Last Ride of the Hole In The Well Gang”; “Dial ‘C’ For Consultant”; “The Jail In Shinjuku Ward”; “Lorem Ipsum Donald”; “Ark of the Revenant”; “Fear #7”; “Every Hero An Hombre, Every Wolf A Clown”; “To The Devil, A Goat”; “One Man’s Famine”; “The Shaman In Relief”; “Shady Acres”; “Erin Beiber’s Wild Ride”; “The Trapdoor”; “Tacklesmooches”; “Physicians’ Ball”; “In Days of Auld Cheil’s Crime”; “Bobby Boxster in Eight Measures”; “Withering”;) all titles revised from original appearances. The limited hardcover edition includes an additional section titled "It Crawled From The Trunk!" with five additional stories, including “Mister Eddie” and four first-appearance pieces: “In Need of Mental Help” (1983); “Pals” (1988); “Waiting For…Godot” (an unproduced short film script) (2000); “Linus On The Savanah” (1997)

“The Box” — online at douglasjlane.com, February 28, 2019

“Everything In Time Travel Has Been Done” — online at The Saturday Evening Post,  April 5, 2019 

“Almost Everything In Time Travel has Been Done” — online at douglasjlane.com, June 27, 2019

“The Gravediggers” — online at douglasjlane.com, October 25, 2019

“The Mockingbird Who Knew Too Much” — online at douglasjlane.com, March 28, 2020

         — reprinted in  THE CATNEY AND LANEY COMPANION, September 1, 2024

“The Skull In The Switchback” — online at douglasjlane.com, September 25, 2020

“The Ardor of Giant Mecha” (IV) — online at douglasjlane.com, February 25, 2022

“The Demon Box Quick-Start Guide” — online at douglasjlane.com, March 11, 2022

“Fees Waved For Persons In Imminent Danger” — online at fiftywordstories.com, March 17, 2022

“A Boy’s Face” — online at douglasjlane.com, August 8, 2022

“Down Lovers’ Lane” — online at Guilty Crime Story Magazine, August 15, 2022

“To Sleep, Perchance” — online in Radon Journal #2, September 15, 2022

“How To Speak To Monkey” — online in Factor Four Magazine, Issue #17, October 30, 2022

         — reprinted in the FACTOR FOUR MAGAZINE 2022 ANTHOLOGY, December 3, 2022

“Our Lady Of Widdershins” — online at The Saturday Evening Post,  December 8, 2022

THE CATNEY AND LANEY PROGRAM GUIDE — published by Midnight-to-Three Publishing, December 18, 2022; short-run (eight copies) paperback containing the first four seasons of photos and blurbs for CATNEY AND LANEY as on Facebook. Issued as a “thank you” gift to people who sent physical letters in for the “Save Catney (and I Suppose Laney Too)” letter-writing campaign. 

“Daddy, Play That Babalú” — online at The Saturday Evening Post, January 6, 2023; prize-winner as first runner-up in the Post’s Great American Fiction Contest.

         — reprinted in BEST SHORT STORIES FROM THE SATURDAY EVENING POST GREAT AMERICAN FICTION CONTEST 2023, 

                February 19, 2023 (digital publication only); 

HUNDRED ACRE (chapbook) — published by Midnight-To-Three Publishing, May 1, 2023; first appearances of: “Introduction: Doing The Crime”; “Hundred Acre”; “Cutting”; “Triplicate Threat” (IV)

AESOPICA ATOMICA and EXTRACTS FROM THE ABECEDARIUM — published by Midnight-To-Three Publishing, May 1, 2023; two series of seven postcard flash fiction stories each, offered free exclusively with preorders of HUNDRED ACRE and issued individually with each shipment. AESOPICA consists of the following titles: “The Crystal Ship”, “The Vortex and the Scientist”, “The Asteroid Miners”, “The Cyborg In Wartime”, “Champion of the Rull”, “The Balgon Shield”, and “The Geneticist and the Bio-Trader”.  EXTRACTS consists of the following titles: “C is for CONAN THE ELDERLY”, “K is for KONG”, “S is for SPIRITS”, “L is for LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA”, “I is for ISHMAEL”, “T is for TOPEKA”, and “M is for MESSAGES”.

“All You Can Eat” — online at douglasjlane.com, October 31, 2023

“Alternate Manscapes” (IV) — online at douglasjlane.com, July 26, 2024

THE CATNEY AND LANEY COMPANION — published by Midnight-To-Three Publishing, September 1, 2024; Episode guide and ‘making-of’ for the five seasons of the totally made-up non-TV TV series appearing on Facebook. First print appearance of “The Mockingbird Who Knew Too Much”.

“A Christmas Coda” — online at douglasjlane.com, December 12, 2024

“Man Out Of Time” — online at Freedom Fiction Review, September 7, 2025

  NONFICTION

“The Kevin Bacon Game: From Harlan Ellison to Kevin Bacon in Five Degrees or Less” in Rabbit Hole — The Newsletter of the Harlan Ellison Recording Collection, #36, Fall 2004

“Friendly Fire” [Story Notes] in the MACHINE OF DEATH ARTBOOK, Bearstache Books, December, 2013

THE TRUTH LEFT BEHIND: INSIDE THE KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF DANIEL PEARL (contributing member of The Pearl Project, Georgetown University, School of Continuing Studies), The Center for Public Integrity, Washington DC, January 2011 — Free PDF Download