Poetry (individual):

“Goddamned,” Crow Calls: Volume 4, Quill & Crow Publishing House, June 12, 2022
“The Chase,” Crow Calls: Volume 4, Quill & Crow Publishing House, June 12, 2022
“An Empyrean Con,” Bloodless, Sliced Up Press, October 28, 2022
“Desire,” The Vampiricon, Mind’s Eye Publications, January 31, 2023
“Sacristy,” Crow Calls: Volume 5, Quill & Crow Publishing House, February 14, 2023
“Comorbid,” Crow Calls: Volume 5, Quill & Crow Publishing House, February 14, 2023
“Displaced,” Dear Human at the Edge of Time, Paloma Press, September 27, 2023
“A Woman Possessed,” Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Showcase, Black Spot Press, November 7, 2023
“Cleanse,” Querencia Press Winter 2024 issue, January 31, 2024 (free to read)
“All of Us Witches,” Small Wonders Magazine Issue 12, June 19, 2024 (free to read)
“Vernal,” Renascentum: Crow Calls Volume VI, July 15, 2024
“Keeping Secrets,” Breath & Shadow Volume 21, Issue 2, December 13, 2024 (free to read)
“Dunce,” Memento Mori Ink: Morsus Vitae, Issue 2, January 15, 2025 (free to read)
“Exhibit,” Memento Mori Ink: Morsus Vitae, Issue 5, April 28, 2025 (free to read)
“Sacrificial,” The Cleansing Power of Fire, Infested Publishing, June 21, 2025
“Sins of the Asylum,” Gathered Here Today: An Open Casket of Art and Poetry, Graveside Press, July 19, 2025
“Golden,” Corvid Queen, May 2026 (free to read)

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Story Stories (individual):

“Resin,” Beyond the Veil, Ghost Orchid Press, February 9, 2022
“A Still and Weathered Stone,” The Crow’s Quill, Quill & Crow Publishing House, June 2022 issue (free to read)
“Tastes of Desperation,” Tales from Brackish Harbor, Quill & Crow Publishing House, August 13, 2022
“Lullaby,” The Crow’s Quill, Quill & Crow Publishing House, October 2022 issue (free to read)
“Wandering Lights,” Halloween Horrors, Black Widow Press, October 13, 2022
“Ragged,” The Crow’s Quill, Quill & Crow Publishing House, November 2022 issue (free to read)
“The Warmth of Many Skins,” Bleak Midwinter: Solstice Light, Quill & Crow Publishing House, January 17, 2023
“Courtship,” The Crow’s Quill, Quill & Crow Publishing House, February 2023 issue (free to read)
“Dissolution,” Ooze, edited by Ruth Anna Evans, March 1, 2023
“Blood Mother,” The Sacrament, DarkLit Press, March 2, 2023
“The Cut,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction 1st place winner, Crystal Lake Publishing, March 30, 2023
“Blackberry Wine,” The Crow’s Quill, Quill & Crow Publishing House, April 2023 issue (free to read)
“Show Me,” Bound in Flesh, Ghoulish Books, April 18, 2023
“Eat His Heart,” The Crow’s Quill, Quill & Crow Publishing House, June 2023 issues (free to read)
“The Thing That Crawls,” Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising, Crystal Lake Publishing, June 30, 2023
“A Bladder Full,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction 3rd place winner, Crystal Lake Publishing, July 5, 2023
“Drip,” That Old House: The Bathroom, Voices of the Mausoleum, July 28, 2023
“Birth,” Deadly Drabble Tuesdays, Hungry Shadows Press, August 1, 2023 (free to read)
“A Bug in the Design,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Publishing, August 17, 2023
“The Cut,” Shallow Waters Vol. 9: A Flash Fiction Anthology, Crystal Lake Publishing, August 17, 2023 (reprint)
“The Plank in Thine Own,” The Devil Take You, Sentinel Creatives, August 21, 2023
“Of the Many Faces,” The Crow’s Quill, Quill & Crow Publishing House, September 1, 2023 (free to read)
“The Cut,” Shallow Waters: Horror Flash Fiction Anthology, Crystal Lake Publishing, September 29, 2023 (reprint, paperback)
“The Last Ride of Sutton Purnell,” Flame Tree Fiction, October 4, 2023 (newsletter exclusive)
“Sight Unseen,” Novus Monstrum, Dragon’s Roost Press, October 6, 2023
“Arms Race,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Publishing, October 11, 2023
“Caregiver,” The Book of Queer Saints Volume II, Medusa Publishing Haus, October 31, 2023
“Swallowed,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Entertainment, November 8, 2023
“Footprints,” The Other Stories podcast, November 20, 2023 (free to listen)
“The Behavioral Patterns of the Displaced Siberian Siren,” Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror, Crystal Lake Publishing, December 1, 2023
“The Sisters of Our Perpetual Wounds,” The Crow’s Quill, Quill & Crow Publishing House, December 1, 2023 (free to read)
“The Green Room,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Entertainment, December 20, 2023
“Hell Come Home,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction 2nd place winner, Crystal Lake Entertainment, February 9, 2024
“Full,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction 2nd place winner, Crystal Lake Entertainment, March 19, 2024
“Indigestion,” The Last Girls Club Spring Equinox 2024 issue, March 21, 2024
“Graphite,” The Pleasure in Pain: A Queer Horrotica Anthology, Dragon’s Roost Press, March 31, 2024
“Eye Spy,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Entertainment, April 13, 2024
“The Glitter of Bile,” Cosmic Horror Monthly Issue 47, May 1, 2024 (free to read here)
“Second Chance,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Entertainment, May 12, 2024
“Snot,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction 3rd place winner, Crystal Lake Entertainment, July 22, 2024 (as “Sea Snot”)
“Predatory,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Entertainment, August 22, 2024
“Nuisance Notifications,” Found 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror, edited by Gabino Iglesias and Andrew Cull, October 25, 2024
“Six,” Screams, edited by Judith Sonnet, December 1, 2024
“Hell Come Home,” Hotel Macabre, Vol. 1, Crystal Lake Entertainment, December 13, 2024 (reprint)
“Delirium,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction 3rd place winner, Crystal Lake Entertainment, January 26, 2025
“Weed Killer,” Horrific Scribblings, Horrific Scribes, February 25, 2025 (free to read)
“Marginalia,” Rescuing Curiosity: A WriteHive Anthology, Inked in Gray Press, March 4, 2025
“Exile,” Carnival of Horror, Undertaker Books, April 4, 2025
“Turning Tail,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Entertainment, April 18, 2025
“The Devil’s Bathtub,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction 1st place winner, Crystal Lake Entertainment, May 11, 2025
“Floaters,” Undertaker Books, June 3, 2025 (free to read)
“Origami,” Shallow Water Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Entertainment, June 15, 2025
“From Black Clouds,” Kosmos Obscura, Graveside Press, June 27, 2025
“Growing Things,” Shallow Water Flash Fiction 1st place winner, Crystal Lake Entertainment, August 10, 2025
“Infiltration,” Out There, Sans. Press, September 7, 2025
“Eviratum,” Shallow Water Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Entertainment, September 13, 2025
“Wandering Lights,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Entertainment, October 7, 2025 (reprint)
“Glory to God,” Dark Paths: A Queer Horror Romance Collection, A Coup of Owls Press, October 31, 2025 (novelette)
“Come In From the Cold,” Cemetery Songs Vol. 1, Eldritch Cat Press, October 31, 2025
“Chrysalis in Chrysanthemum,” Gavagai, November 5, 2025 (free to read)
“Zombie Lesbian Bed Death,” Necro-Sapiens, Savage Realms Press, November 10, 2025
“A Swirling Light,” Shallow Waters Flash Fiction finalist, Crystal Lake Entertainment, November 13, 2025
“Weed Killer,” Horrific Scribes Presents: Invasions of World, Home, Body, and Mind, Horrific Scribblings, December 16, 2025 (reprint)
“Floaters,” Stories to Take to Your Grave: High Seas Edition, Undertaker Books, January 30, 2026 (reprint)
“Changing Room,” Skin Deep, Squirm Books, February 2026

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Poetry Collections:

A Nightmare for All Seasons, to be self-published Spring 2026
Cover Art: Rooster Republic Press

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV)

A carnivorous spring,
A murderous summer,
An autumn carnival,
A winter haunted house,
And an ignoble end.

Amanda M. Blake (Dead Ends) presents seasonal horror in a poetry collection of five parts.

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Dead Ends, self-published May 9, 2023
Cover Art: Rocking Book Covers
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Pardon me
if I seem
too morbid,
but it’s my own
memento mori.
Sometimes I
tend the dead;
other times I
whistle past
the cemetery.

Amanda M. Blake tackles the morbid and macabre in this poetry collection about death and dying and what might come before, during, or after. Whether humorous or disturbing, natural or supernatural, Dead Ends promises a varied tasting plate of a subject most people find distasteful or uncomfortable, but which we all must confront…eventually.