Lucy A. Snyder Books in Order

Technology and supernatural horror collide in this collection of satirical stories and essays. Zombie computing, teenage Linux gangs, corporate vampires, and unruly trolls turn familiar frustrations with software and office life into darkly comic absurdities.

Seventeen stories, seven poems, and humorous essays explore the overlap of horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. The collection includes tales connected to the Jessie Shimmer universe, mixing unsettling encounters with satire and reflections on ordinary human vulnerability.

Three dozen poems move between personal experience and fantastic invention, combining unsettling images with humor and wordplay. Voices ranging from a black hole to a returning dead man explore vulnerability, memory and the strangeness within ordinary life.

Apprentice sorceress Jessie accidentally opens a hellish portal while trying to end a drought, losing her lover and becoming an outlaw. With only her familiar’s help, she hunts for him while discovering dangerous truths about her own powers.

After returning from a rescue in hell, Jessie struggles with dangerous new powers and a transformed familiar. Secrets about her origins draw her through supernatural portals and conflicts that turn an outlawed sorceress into an accidental revolutionary.

A vengeful demigoddess pursues Jessie through dangerous supernatural realms while her monstrous familiar and unstable powers complicate survival. Their search for salvation tests the abilities she gained rescuing her lover and threatens the relationship she fought to preserve.

Thirteen stories blend supernatural and speculative settings with desire, danger and unexpected relationships. The collection includes new adventures involving characters from the Jessie Shimmer series, alongside other encounters shaped by dark fantasy, paranormal forces and the possibilities of intimacy.

Lucy A. Snyder combines practical writing guidance with advice on sustaining a creative career, from plotting and collaboration to publishing and promotion. Interviews with established authors accompany discussions of speculative genres, professional networks and the financial challenges of literary work.

Stories range across dark fantasy, steampunk, science fiction and horror, placing characters in unsettling worlds where ethical choices have lasting consequences. The collection includes Magdala Amygdala and explores catastrophic change through intimate, disturbing and sometimes unexpectedly hopeful perspectives.

A collection of dark speculative stories explores strange places, dangerous transformations and unsettling encounters. Influences from Lovecraft and the King in Yellow shape interconnected themes of cosmic horror, while individual tales pursue their own disturbing questions and imaginative possibilities.

A dozen stories combine Lovecraftian horror, dark science fiction and weird fantasy, introducing monstrous encounters and unfamiliar worlds. The collection uses speculative situations to unsettle expectations and explore the choices of diverse characters confronting forces beyond ordinary experience.

Stories explore Halloween through horror, humor, fantasy and remembrance, moving among witches, pirates, zombies and other strange figures. Festive pleasures share space with grief and the supernatural in a collection that treats the season as more than a single night.

Dark poems combine wordplay, unsettling imagery and introspection to examine survival and emotional wounds. Moving between recognizable experience and imagined horrors, the collection searches for moments of clarity, bitter humor and release within dangerous inner and outer worlds.

A spreading virus transforms humanity in grotesque ways and draws three women into an unfolding apocalypse. Altered desires, violent compulsions and mysterious bodily changes connect their struggles as they confront dark forces reshaping the world around them.