Good news! Michael Bailey has accepted my 10,000-word dark fantasy “That Perilous Stuff” for the third installment of his Chiral Mad anthology series, currently scheduled to be published during the first quarter of 2016.

That’s my fourth fiction sale in the past 13 months, following sales to Dark Discoveries (which has already been published) plus Genius Loci and Postscripts (still upcoming).

You can see the tentative cover below. Though a few tweaks and some additional text is still to come, this will give you a basic idea of what to expect.

As for the rest of the contents of Chiral Mad 3, Michael has announced all but seven of the stories, as well as twenty poems from 10 poets. Here’s what we know so far—

Fiction (11 of 20):

Gene O’Neill – “3-Dot People”
Ramsey Campbell – “Know Your Code”
Jessica May Lin – “Red Runner vs. The Surgeon, Issue 18”
Paul Michael Anderson – “The Agonizing Guilt of Relief (Last Days of a Ready-Made Victim)”
Stephen King – “The Last Rung on the Ladder”
Richard Thomas – “The Offering on the Hill”
Jason V Brock – “Windows, Mirrors, Doors”
Mercedes Murdock Yardley – “The Dead Collection”
Damien Angelica Walters – “The Whipping Girls”
Scott Edelman – “That Perilous Stuff” (novelette)
Erinn L. Kemper – “A Flash of Red”

Poetry (20 of 20):

Elizabeth Massie – “Black River #1” and “Black River #2”
Bruce Boston – “Beyond Symmetry” and “Reflecting on Reflections”
Erik T. Johnson – “Whisper #1 (A Warning)” and “Whisper #2 (A Prophecy)”
Marge Simon – “Mirror Image” and “Reflections through the Raven’s Eye”
Stephanie M. Wytovich – “Put Me to Dream” and “Welcome Home, Darling”
Ciarán Parkes – “The Speed of Sound” and “Recognizing Trees”
Jonathan Balog – “Insomnia in Reverse” and “Fail-safe”
P. Gardner Goldsmith – “Fair” and “Promise”
Rose Blackthorn – “Arbitration” and “Prescience”
Sydney Leigh – “Folie à Deux” and “Folie à Plusieurs”

To find out who’s lucky enough to fill those final seven slots, keep checking in over at the Written Backwards blog .