Selected Works
2022
The Poor-John Players present Oedipus the King - based on the play by Sophocles
The Gospels of Peter Star - novel, Gold Avenue Press
2021
An Immersive Christmas Carol (with Alexis Drago) - based on the novel by Charles Dickens
“Isolation” (co-producer with Enrico Drago) - short film
“The Hit” (co-producer with Enrico Drago) - short film
"The Ferryman" - short story, Matchbox Zine
2020
“Baby Ray 2” (co-producer with Enrico Drago) - short film
Goat Song - novel, Gold Avenue Press
2019
“See the Light” - song
“Close Encounter” - short story
“Richie Gets Crushed” - short story
“What I Am” - song
See Nike Run - novel, Gold Avenue Press
2018
“How We Find Out” - short story
Raised on Rock - novel, Gold Avenue Press
"Shooter" - short story, STC Fight the Real Monsters
2017
"The Day Tom Petty Dies" - short story, The Explorer (2nd place)
Souvenir - novella
“The Fiddler” - short story
2016
"A Fine Mess" - one-act play
"Laundry Room" - short story, The Explorer (T-1st place)
"Flesh Trade" - short story
Winter - novel, Gold Avenue Press
2015
"Ferris Wheel" - short story, Writer's Digest (honorable mention)
"Cat's Eye" - short story, The Explorer (1st place)
“Sarah” (with Nancy Drago) - short story
Queensboro - novel, Gold Avenue Press
2014
"Suburban Din" - short story, Cahoots
Crow Creek - novel, Gold Avenue Press
2013
“Gentle Hands” - short story, The Explorer (editor's choice)
2012
“Baby Ray” (co-producer with Nancy Drago) - short film
Memoir of a Midlife Crisis - novel
“Bury Me in Autumn” - one-act play
2011
“(I’m) Not So Ready” - song
2010
The Poor-John Players present Romeo and Juliet - based on the play by William Shakespeare
2006
“Christmas in New York” - poem
The Last Bitter Hour - novel
2002
Frankenstein - a stage adaptation of the novel by Mary Shelley
2001
Points South (with Alexis Drago) - novel
1999
“Doctor Kempelen’s Expected Arrival” - short story, Dark Horizons
“Mark Twain and the Art of Satire” - essay
“Raise the Dead” (with Dan Drago) - song lyrics, The Furnace
1998
“Cool” - short story, Black Petals
“Hug a Tree” - short story, Black Petals
“Jay Street - Borough Hall” - one-act play
1997
“Contemporary Horror Fiction” - essay, NAU Master’s Thesis
Waiting for Darkness - novella, NAU Master’s Thesis
1996
“The Witch” (with Dan Drago) - song lyrics, Damien Thorne
“King of All Time (with Dan Drago) - song lyrics, Damien Thorne
1992
“Allison” - short story
The Golden Greek - teleplay
Jordan - novella
1991
“Her Lips Suck Forth My Soul” - poem
Samantha - novel
1990
“The Born” - short story
“Fame and Fortune” - short story
“Father Dex” - short story
“Hanging” - short story
“Uncle Geoff” - short story
“When the Vultures Come Back” - short story
1989
Life at the Post - full-length play
“Miss Sidley” - one-act play adaptation of Stephen King’s short story “Suffer the Little Children”
“The Taming of the Lewd” - one-act play
“Tuesday in New York” - one-act play
1988
“Desires” - short story
“The Journal” - short story, Fact or Fiction
“Perri” - short story
“Sinned We All” - short story, Fact or Fiction
1987
“An Account of Strange Events on Genesis Avenue” - short story
“Harvey the Magician” - short story
“The Piano Man of Philly Falls” - short story
“The Troll in Magadan’s Market” - short story
1986
“The Cart of the Dead II: It Takes You Away” - short story
“The Cart of the Dead III: Violence is Golden” - short story
“The Cave Beneath the Church” (with Stephen Gill) - short story, Signatures
“Death of a Postman” - poem, Signatures
“The Glove” (with Stephen Gill) - short story
“Grandma at Her Post” - short story
The Land of the Dead Pumpkins - novel
“Mac” (with Tom McCabe) - short story
“The Mask” - short story
1985
“The Aftermath of Usher” - short story
“The Cart of the Dead: The Struggle of Burying” - short story, Signatures
“The Green Method” (with Scott Williams) - short story
“The Inside” - short story
“A Matter of Taste” - short story
There Are No Cobwebs in the Attic (with Scott Williams) - novella
“A Warlock Walks” - short story
“There’s Something Smiling at Your Veins” - short story
“The Tower” - short story
“Zachary” - short story
1984
“The Basement” - short story
“The Brandy Snifter” - short story
“A Case of a Madman” - short story
“A Long, Long Distance Dedication” - poem
“Night Stranger” - short story
“The TV Terrestrial” - short story
The Walker - novel
1983
“A Blade Too Short” - short story
“She Tended to Her Garden” - short story
1982
“The Unwelcome Party” - short story