Aiden Merchant

Aiden Merchant was the first pen name I used when publishing fiction. As Aiden, I released more than forty short stories, most of which were horror. However, some of my earlier work – contained within the collections Dead as Soon as Born and Kill for Them – featured drama, fantasy, science fiction, and more. My debut novella, Crossing Red, was of the crime-fic variety. My first anthology was with Julia C. Lewis and titled Blackberry Blood. It featured cover art by Gemma Amor and an introduction by the infamous Mother Horror, Sadie Hartmann.

UPCOMING RELEASES

Mother’s World (Documenting Dreadful Existences – Book 3) … Expected Fall 2023

Extreme Mall Walking (A Movie Screenplay) … Expected Summer 2023

Above & Below: A Call to Feast (A Novella) … Expected Fall 2023

Sickness is in Season (reissue) … Spring 2023

Shifty Things (A Novella) … Expected 2024

ALL PUBLICATIONS

Not all titles are still available.

COLLECTIONS

Dead as Soon as Born

Kill for Them

Horrific Holidays

Sickness is in Season

Damned Hunger: Four Terrors

Nineteen

Relics: A Decade Under the Influence

The Blinds (Documenting Dreadful Existences – Book 2)

The Corner Masters (Documenting Dreadful Existences – Book 1)

NOVELLAS

Crossing Red

ANTHOLOGIES

Lead Editor and Publisher of Blackberry Blood

“Back to St. Mary’s” in Pulp Harvest

“Islands of Trees” in Wild Violence

“Beach Snakes” in Slice of Paradise

SINGLES AND NOVELETTES

Squirming Disease

Pray

Following the Dead Tracks

Peck

Out at Sea

Wild Minds

Tenebris

No More

Cheaters Get Eaters

The Sinking: A Screenplay Adaptation