Review of the flash fiction pieces (including mine) in the anthology The Haunted Train from editor Rayne Hall. Some spoilers may be present...

Review of The Haunted Train: Creepy Tales from the Railways Edited by Rayne Hall

Interview during promotion of The Haunted Train anthology.

Interview for Solpicador by Marina Costa

London Fever

Ekphrastic Writing Responses: Benjamin Von Wong

Tangled Locks Journal presents a collection of modern literary stories, poems, and essays drawn from its acclaimed online literary journal. Not everything is as it seems when you delve into the complexity of our tangled lives.


Halloweenthology: All Hallows' Eve

From the twisted shelves of Wicked Shadow Press comes Halloweenthology 2024, a pulse-pounding, three-volume collection that captures the very essence of Halloween—dark, thrilling, and utterly unforgettable. 

Ghouls Night Out (paperback)

Halloweenthology: All Hallows' Eve

From the twisted shelves of Wicked Shadow Press comes Halloweenthology 2024, a pulse-pounding, three-volume collection that captures the very essence of Halloween-- dark, thrilling, and utterly unforgettable. 

Ghouls Night Out (ebook)

Photo Finish

Short stories of ghosts, myths, and other tales beyond the mortal coil. 19 short stories, including mine, "X Marks the Spot."

X Marks the Spot (Noncorporeal II Anthology)

My poem, Haunting Daddy, is a 2nd Runner-Up winner of the 2023 Hedge Apple Halloween Contest. Follow the link and scroll down to Oct. 29th.

Haunting Daddy

A young American woman caught in an increasingly violent relationship while living in London is chronicled in my poem, London Fever.

"A Menagerie of Monsters and the Macabre: A Spooktacular Penumbra Collection" is available online (link above) or in print edition from Penumbra Press at California State University, Stanislau. 

Halloween Night 

THE VAMPIRICON: Imaginings & Images of the Vampire is the second in a planned series of themed anthologies from Mind's Eye Publications™. Created by many pre-eminent writers and illustrators of "The Speculative" working today. Edited by Frank Coffman

Surrendering to the Vampire

Dark Drabbles Series, Vol. 14
A collection of hell hares and horror bunnies in 100-word stories. My three entries are: "Test Subject 119," "A Hug For Bonnie," and "The Cottontail Revolution."

Run, Rabbit, Run

Anthology of creepy train tales, edited by Rayne Hall. My story, "Seven Stations in Tokyo," is about two people living in Tokyo choose the same day to face their ghosts; one is haunted by her past, the other, by his future.

The Haunted Train: Creepy Tales From the Railways 

There are 206 bones in the adult human skeleton, and this is an anthology of 206 206-word stories. For adults only.
My story, "The Wedding Gift," is one of those stories. (They are all amazing reads!)

Michele Cacano

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