J. M. Faulkner
J. M. Faulkner is a British author from Essex, penning fiction from behind the Brexit Curtain in a little-known corner of the Czech Republic.
He has published some 25 shorts stories, a single poem, and his debut novella, Her Being Toward Death, from Grendel Press.
When his nose isn't buried in a paperback, he enjoys swinging kettlebells or losing at chess.
But sometimes it's swinging the chess board and losing the kettlebells.
Her Being Toward Death
Mathilde de Brunne inherits her family's indigo plantation—and the curse that drives its daughters to drink, visions, and an early grave...?
With the help of mysterious benefactor, she builds a sugar empire, drawing jealousy, public scandal, betrayal, and unnatural, far darker forces to her door.
As enemies circle, the dead refuse to stay buried. And the deeper Mathilde's obsession grows with her unseen benefactor—and uncovering the truth behind the duel that killed her brother—the closer she comes to the fate she has always feared.
Publication History
Upcoming
The Squatter in Screen Five - Harvey Duckman Presents
The Sentience Privilege - Burial Books
2026
Her Being Toward Death (Novella) - Grendel Press
2024
An Amazing Warehouse - Bewildering Stories
The Babies - Dark Holme Publishing - Ethereal Nightmares, Book one
2023
2022
Foster Doll - Eerie River Publishing - Monsters and Mayhem: Twenty-Four Sinister tales of Monsters, Aliens and Cryptids
Sawn Asunder - HauntedMTL - Spring Horror Collection
The Cherrywood Door - Black Ink Fiction - The Mummy: Drabbles 4
The Rainbow - Black Ink Fiction - Unicorns vs Clowns in Hell
Abandon (tanka poem) - Hiraeth Publishing - Scifaikuest - 20th Anniversary Issues
2021
The West Arkham Asylum – Cosmic Horror Monthly - Issue #14, celebrating H. P. Lovecraft
There Comes Knocking - Allegory - Volume 40/67 - Fall/Winter
Judicum Aquae Frigidae - Black Ink Fiction - The Musketeers vs. Cthulhu in the Court of King Louis
The Outlander - Silver Blade Magazine - Issue 51
No Man's Land - Black Hare Press - Haunt: 500 Hundred Word Fiction, Book 6
The Blood Purge - Black Hare Press - Dark Moments
One More Bite - Black Ink Fiction - Infection: Drabbles 1
Dead Man's Chair - Ghost Orchid Press - Hundred Word Horror: Home
Uncanny - The Horror Tree - Trembling with Fear, January
Artificial Favouritism – Black Hare Press – Dark Moments
Fly-By-Night – The Drabble
2020
The Dodo - Macabre Ladies - Extreme Drabbles of Dread
The Itch that Burrows - Macabre Ladies - Extreme Drabbles of Dread
Ritual - Black Hare Press - 666 (Dark Drabbles)
Rainbow’s End – Havok Publishing – Thriller Thursday, Smell Theme
Stolen Moment - Liquid Imagination - Issue 46
