Original fiction
Below is a complete list of all the original works I’ve completed to date.
Mystery Fiction
I aim to make my mysteries bizarre, unique and – almost without fail – have them feature an impossible crime of some kind. From the classic locked room mystery to world-ending phenomena, there should be something for everyone.
The stories are generally geared towards people already familiar with some of the tropes of the genre, but extensive knowledge is not required.
Novels & Novellas
My novels and novellas. Size-wise, most of them are between 40-60K words, making them about a day’s read. Almost all feature some kind of impossible crime, generally a locked room murder.
| Name | Description | Released |
|---|---|---|
| The Gospel of V (KINDLE / PAPERBACK) | Two editors try to unravel a mystery writer’s latest manuscript – one he’d written right before he disappeared. | 2023 |
| An Odyssey to the Castle of Vampires | A desperate search for a town of immortals sparks a chain of impossible murders. A massive-scale mystery spanning across decades. | 2023 |
| The Four Fiends of Niflheim | A mansion in the middle of a frozen lake is the stage of a strange summong ritual. The ritual goes horribly wrong, raising the curtain on a series of grizzly and inexplicable murders. | 2020 |
| Hear the Devil Sing | A man murdered on New Year’s Eve in 1999 returns to life 20 years later to solve his own murder. | 2020 |
| A Eulogy for Reason | At the end of the world, a locked-room murder creeps its way into the lives of seemingly unconnected individuals. A story where every chapter is told from a different point of view, their stories eventually coming together in a grand conclusion. | 2019 |
| The Phantom Ragdoll | The compartment of a midnight train is haunted by the mysterious appearance of a human-sized ragdoll. The impossible circumstances of the appearance are ultimately outmatched by its disappearance – and the dead body it leaves in its wake. | 2019 |
| The Leviathan’s Resting Place | A man disappears from a small airplane bathroom under impossible circumstances. | 2018 |
Short Stories
The short stories are generally less complex in terms of plot, but offer a far more explosive pace and more room for experimentation.
| Name | Description | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Death of “Death of Jezebel” | The original hand-written draft of Christianna Brand’s Death of Jezebel is destroyed by a flying black knight. | 2023 |
| The Black Pyramid Incident | A madman claims to create a portal between a small American town and Paris – using the Eiffel Tower. | 2023 |
| (Don’t) Solve My Murder | An eccentric millionaire challenges his family to kill him. | 2023 |
| Pandora’s Box | A man struggles to write a letter to a close friend, retelling the baffling theft of a painting. | 2021 |
| Mind Over Malice | A small town is gripped in fear over a recent string of mysterious deaths. | 2021 |
| Violent Sun | In a distant place where names have no meaning, a man claims to have the power of bringing people back from the dead. What, then, happens when this miracle man is murdered? | 2020 |
| “A Wandering Mind’s Eye” by John Dickson Carr | A review of John Dickson Carr’s short story, “A Wandering Mind’s Eye.” | 2020 |
| Tower of Babel | An old magician invites his estranged children back home, claiming one of them tried to kill him. He traps his guests, demanding the culprit to finish the job. | 2020 |
| Murder in the House of Want | A mystery writer seemingly commits the perfect murder. | 2020 |
| A Virtue of Machine Souls | In a world where androids cannot lie, an android who insists on her innocence is the only possible suspect in a murder investigation. | 2019 |
| The Truth is in Their Hands | An elusive serial killer is creeping into apartments and killing their tenants in increasingly complex ways. | 2019 |
Non-Mystery Fiction
In spite of my love for mysteries, I do occasionally write outside of the genre!
Novels & Novellas
| Name | Description | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Aleph Null | In a world where nobody can ever truly die, two perfect strangers set off on a road trip to find a murderer. | 2020 |
Short Stories
| Name | Description | Released |
|---|---|---|
| The Opera Hotel And Its Many Wonderful Crows | A man looking to re-invent his life finds himself kidnapped by a secret society of birds and taken to a journey across parallel dimensions. | 2021 |
| In His Right Mind | A hit new reality TV show has taken the west coast by storm. Six personalities are created and placed in a simulation, competing for a chance to become the new personality of one lucky contestant. Hosted by Joel McHale. | 2021 |
| A Ship For Too Many Bottles | In a world where Death is a physical, appointed official, one man sets off to find out why the Death of a remote village has not been doing its job. | 2021 |
| The Spacewoman’s King | An astronaut struggles with the aftermath of her near-death accident. | 2021 |
| Ancient Names | Two people spend the night talking after seeing each other for the first time in a decade. | 2021 |
Visual Novels
I’ve made some visual novels!
| Name | Description | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Late Night at the KWL | O2A2 2024 jam entry. A small visual novel about a late night at a radio station that only runs short stories. | 2024 |
Games
I’ve made some actual game-games! Like, games, that are playable! And not just readable!
| Name | Description | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Death of the King | GMTK 2024 jam entry. A game about controlling a robot, inside a bigger robot, inside a bigger robot. | 2024 |
Interactive Fiction
I’ve had the pleasure of writing a few interactive text adventures for several game jams!
| Name | Description | Released |
|---|---|---|
| 198BREW: The Age of Orpheus | IF2024 Comp entry. Fiona is gone. A man is stuck in a time loop. The Golem in the lake rots. You crave coffee. | 2024 |
| The Firebrand | A woman sits in an interrogation room. What has she done? Navigate a difficult conversation to find the truth. An entry for Ludum Dare 45 Game Jam in collaboration with selkie! | 2019 |
| A Journey to Omega Station | Help a woman that doesn’t want to be found come home by entering an alternate dimension. Winner of the Ectocomp 2019 Game Jam! | 2019 |
| The Vault | The task is simple. All you have to do is leave the vault. Any means will do. Provided you abide by certain conditions. An entry for Ludum Dare 43 Game Jam! | 2019 |
| The Tree of Life | After years of resentment, a man pays a visit to his brother’s unusal grave to put the past behind him. | 2019 |