PUBLICATIONS

PROBABLY MONSTERS by Ray Cluley - a collection of horror stories. The cover art features a gothic black raven.
ALL THAT'S LOST by Ray Cluley - a collection of horror stories. The cover art depicts a blue whale with illustrations from the book across its body. A quote from Ghostwatch writer Stephen Volk reads: "without a doubt the best that horror can give you
WITHIN THE WIND BENEATH THE SNOW by Ray Cluley - a horror novella. A landscape is pictured alongside a quote from Ghostwatch creator Stephen Volk: "little short of a masterpiece"
WATER FOR DROWNING by Ray Cluley - a horror novella, featuring a mermaid kissing a man on the cover. Includes award-winning horror story Shark! Shark!

LATEST RELEASE

‘THE WRONG SHARK’

in FEARS: TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR

Ed. Ellen Datlow. (2024)

Bestselling horror editor Ellen Datlow (Body Shocks) returns with her most eclectic anthology. Here are twenty-one stories of extreme psychological dread from horror icons such as Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Simon Bestwick, and more. The unsettling tales explore the nature of fear as it stirs in dysfunctional families, toxic friendships, and mismatched lovers, and culminates in relentless stalkers, remorseless killers, and perpetrators of savage rituals.

FEARS TALES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR Edited by Ellen Datlow - a horror anthology featuring Ray Cluley, Josh Malerman, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Graham Jones. Cover art is made of screaming faces in horror style.

COLLECTIONS

All That’s Lost. 2022. Black Shuck Books. Available here.

Probably Monsters. 2022. Vulpine Press. Available here.

Originally published 2015, Chizine Publications.

NOVELLAS AND CHAPBOOKS

6/6. 2019. Black Shuck Books.

Within the Wind, Beneath the Snow. 2016. Snow Books. Available here.

Originally published 2015, Spectral Press.

The Curse of the Zombie. 2015. Hersham Horror Books. Available here.

Water for Drowning. 2014. This is Horror. Available here.

SHORT STORIES

‘The Wrong Shark’ in Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror. 2024. Ed. Ellen Datlow. Tachyon Publications. Available here.

‘And On That Farm’ in Nightmare Abbey (Vol 6). 2024. Available here.

‘Bound’ in Nightmare Abbey (Vol 5). 2024. Available here.

‘Get Away’ in Nightmare Abbey (Vol 4). 2023. Available here.

Reprinted in The Dark (Issue 118). 2025. Available here.

‘Cabin Fever’ in Black Static (Issue 82/23). 2023. Available here.

‘That Maddening Heat’ in Nightmare Abbey (Vol 3). 2023. Available here.

Reprinted in Best Horror of the Year Volume 16. 2024. Ed. Ellen Datlow. Skyhorse Publishing. Available here.

‘The Final Girl’s Daughter’ in The Dark (Issue 94). 2023. Available here.

‘The Hufaidh Sounder’ in They’re Out to Get You, Volume One: Insects and Animals. 2021. Ed. Johnny Mains. TK Pulp. Available here.

Reprinted in The Dark (Issue 97). 2023. Available here.

‘End of the Road’ in Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild, World. 2021. Ed. Eric J Guignard. Dark Moon Books. Available here.

‘The Reaper’s Gift’ in The Accursed. 2021. Black Library. Available here.

‘In the Wake of My Father’ in Black Static (Issue 74). 2020.

‘Flesh and Blood’ in Invocations. 2019. Black Library. Available here.

‘Adrenaline Junkies’ in The Porcupine Boy and Other Anthological Oddities. 2019. Ed. Christopher M Jones. Macabre Ink. Available here.

Reprinted in Best Horror of the Year Volume 12. 2020. Ed. Ellen Datlow. Night Shade Books. Available here.

‘Bluey’ in The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors. 2018. Ed. Peter Coleborn & Jan Edwards. Alchemy Press. Available here.

‘Steel Bodies’ in New Fears 2. 2018. Ed. Mark Morris. Titan Books. Available here.

‘The Man at Table Nine’ in A World of Horror. 2018. Ed. Eric J Guignard. Dark Moon Books. Available here.

Reprinted in The Dark (Issue 56). 2020. Available here.

‘Painted Wolves’ in In Dog We Trust. 2018. Ed. Anthony Cowin. Black Shuck Books. Available here.

Reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 11. 2019. Ed. Ellen Datlow. Night Shade Books. Available here.

‘Trappers Valley’ in Crimewave 13: Bad Light. 2018. TTA Press.

‘The Whalers Song’ in The Devil and the Deep. 2018. Ed. Ellen Datlow. Night Shade Books. Available here.

Reprinted in The Dark (Issue 60). 2020. Available here.

‘The Swans’ in Black Static (Issue 60). 2017.

Reprinted in The Dark (Issue 38). 2018. Available here.

‘Hans’ in The Dark (Issue 25). 2017. Available here.

‘In the Light of St Ives’ in Terror Tales of Cornwall. 2017. Ed. Paul Finch. Telos Publishing. Available here.

Reprinted in The Dark (Issue 34). 2018. Available here.

Reprinted in Best British Horror 2018. 2018. Ed. Johnny Mains. NewCon Press. Available here.

‘The Castellmarch Man’ in Great British Horror Volume 1: Green and Pleasant Land. 2017. Ed. Steve J Shaw. Black Shuck Books. Available here.

Reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 9. 2017. Ed. Ellen Datlow. Night Shade Books. Available here.

‘Sideways’ in Interzone (Issue 266). 2016.

‘New Roads from Burnt Rubber’ in Ghost Highways. 2016. Ed. Trevor Denyer. Available here.

‘Indian Giver’ in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 8. 2016. Ed. Ellen Datlow. Night Shade Books. Available here.

‘A Tale Before Supper’. 2016. This is Horror. Available to read free here.

‘Housekeeping’ in The Hyde Hotel. 2016. Ed. James Everington & Dan Howarth. Black Shuck Books. Available here.

‘Child of Thorns’ in Black Static (Issue 50). 2016.

Reprinted in The Dark (Issue 20). 2017. Available here.

‘Mary, Mary’ in The Second Spectral Book of Horror Stories. 2015. Ed. Mark Morris. Spectral Press.

Reprinted in The Black Room Manuscripts: Volume Three. 2018. Sinister Horror Company. Available here.

Reprinted in The Dark (Issue 27). 2017. Available here.

‘When the Devil’s Driving’ in Black Static (Issue 47). 2015.

‘The Hutch’ in Black Static (Issue 41). 2014.

‘Under the Windings of the Sea’ in Terror Tales of Wales. 2014. Ed. Paul Finch. Grey Friar Press. Available here.

‘The Space Between’ in Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 6. 2014. Ed. Michael Kelly. Undertow Publications. Available here.

‘Bones of Crow’ in Black Static (Issue 37). 2013.

Reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 6. 2014. Ed. Ellen Datlow. Night Shade Books. Available here.

Reprinted in Nightmare Magazine (Issue 70). 2018.

‘Gator Moon’ in Crimewave 12: Hurts. 2013.

‘The Festering’ in Black Static (Issue 36). 2013.

‘The Man Who Was’ in Where Thy Dark Eye Glances. 2013. Ed. Steve Berman. Lethe Press.

‘Whispers in the Mist’ in Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 5. 2013. Ed. Michael Kelly. Undertow Publications.

‘After Word’ in After Death. 2013. Ed. Eric J Guignard. Dark Moon Press. Available here.

‘Where the Dark Is Deepest’ in For the Night Is Dark. 2013. Ed. Ross Warren. Crystal Lake Publishing. Available here.

‘The Death Drive of Rita, Nee Carina’ in Black Static (Issue 32). 2013.

‘The Rain Deer’. 2012. This is Horror. Read free here.

‘A Mother’s Blood’. 2012. This is Horror. Read free here.

‘You Haven’t Seen Me’. 2012. This is Horror. Read free here.

‘All Change’ in Black Static (Issue 30). 2012.

Reprinted in Ténèbres. 2016. Ed. Benoît Domis. Dream Press. (French language).

‘Shark! Shark!’ in Black Static (Issue 29). 2012.

Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story 2013.

Republished in Kroki W Nieznane: Almanach Fantastyki. 2014. Solaris. (Polish language).

‘Bloodcloth’ in Interzone (Issue 240). 2012.

Republished in Unconventional Fantasy: A Celebration of Forty Years of the World Fantasy Conventions. 2014. Worldcon Association.

‘Waste Disposal’ in Darker Minds. 2012. Dark Minds Press.

‘Night Fishing’ in Shadows and Tall Trees Volume 3. 2012. Ed. Michael Kelly. Undertow Publications.

Reprinted in Wilde Stories: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction. 2013. Ed. Steve Berman. Lethe Press.

‘Fata Morgana’ in Interzone (Issue 238). 2012.

‘I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing’ in Black Static (Issue 26). 2012.

‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…’ in The British Fantasy Journal Winter 2011-2012. 2011. The British Fantasy Society.

‘The Travellers Stay’ in Black Static (Issue 25). 2011.

Reprinted in Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror. 2021. Ed. Ellen Datlow. Tachyon Publications. Available here.

‘Tabula Rasa’ in Not One of Us (Issue 46). 2011.

Reprinted in The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack. 2012. Wildside Press. Available here.

‘No More West’ in How the West Was Wicked. 2011. Pill Hill Press.

‘Tethered to the Cold and Dying’ in Interzone (Issue 233). 2011.

‘Pins and Needles’ in Black Static (Issue 21). 2011.

‘At Night When the Demons Come’ in Black Static (Issue 20). 2011.

Reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3. 2011. Ed. Ellen Datlow. Night Shade Books. Available here.

Reprinted in Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror. 2016. Ed. Ellen Datlow. Tachyon Publications. Available here.

‘Beachcombing’ in Black Static (Issue 19). 2010.

Reprinted in Ténèbres. 2011. Ed. Benoît Domis. Dream Press. (French language).

‘Dracula’s New Dress’ in Fem-Fangs. 2010. Ed. TV Schwambercer & Jessy Marie Roberts. Pill Hill Press.

Reprinted in The Vampire Megapack. 2012. Wildside Press. Available here.

‘Viva Las Vegas’ in Black Static (Issue 6). 2008.