essays and articles
- Finding Gigantopithecus (Gingernuts of Horror)
- Nicolas Ruston: We really all were very happy for a while (Statement Art)
- On Replacement Bus Service (Gingernuts of Horror)
- Drifting Dust and Orange Daylight: Writing Hardrada (The Shadow Booth)
- Voice (TLC Press Craft and Creativity Mini Guide)
- Some of this is true, some of it embellished: Writing Fixator (The Lonely Crowd)
- Plotting a Novel (The Creative Writing Coursebook, ed. Julia Bell and Paul Magrs, Macmillan)
- ‘Fiction is becoming darker, weirder, bent-out-of-shape.’ The Irish Times interview
- The Short Story Interview: Ashley Stokes
fiction
- Gigantic (Unsung Stories, 2021)
- The Syllabus of Errors (Unthank Books, 2013)
- Touching the Starfish (Unthank Books, 2010)
short fiction
- Cretaceous (Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #72, August 2022)
- Fields and Scatter (Weird Horror 4, Undertow Publications, March 2022)
- Fade to Black (This is not a Horror Story, edited by JD Keown, Night Terror Novels, October 2021)
- Black Slab (The Ghastling, Book No. 14, OCtober 2021)
- The Valedations (Nightscript VII, edited by CM Muller, October 2021)
- Replacement Bus Service (Out of the Darkness, edited by Dan Coxon, Unsung Stories, September 2021)
- Subtemple (Black Static, April 2021)
- Black Lab (Storgy, December 2020)
- Evergreen (BFS Horizons #11, August 2020)
- Yellow Haze (Strands Lit Hub, June 2020)
- Two Drifters (Unsung Stories, June 2020)
- Hardrada (Tales from the Shadow Booth, Vol. 4)
- Anticlockwise (Bare Fiction 10)
- Decompression Chamber (The End: Fifteen Endings to Fifteen Paintings: New Short Fiction inspired by the Artwork of Nicolas Ruston, Unthank Books)
- Fixator (The Lonely Crowd Issue 3)
- If All Things Remain Equal (The Warwick Review, June 2012)
As editor
- Unthology 1 – 11 (Unthank Books)
- Unveiled: The First Unthank School Anthology (Unthank Cameo)
- The End: Fifteen Endings to Fifteen Paintings: New Short Fiction Inspired by the Artwork of Nicolas Ruston (Unthank Books)
contact me for more
Ghostwriting samples available upon request. Contact me on ashleystokes@ashleystokes.net