Forthcoming in 2025
‘The Somnambulist’ (TBA)
Selected stories
Bog Horrors: a cycle of bog-based stories set in Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales
Once There Was Water
in The Dark Magazine, Issue 111
August 2024
A fenland horror story about the evils of enclosure and land appropriation
– Reviewed by Sam Tomiano in SFRevu
– Reviewed by Paula Guran in Locus Magazine
– Reviewed by Danai Christopoulou in Haven Spec Magazine
– Included on the Bram Stoker Awards 2024 Recommended Reading List
Things We Did By the Windmill
April 2023
We were fourteen when Edith fell into the millpond, but for years after that I wasn’t really sure if she was dead. We had the funeral, and the next day she showed up at my house just as usual.
– Reviewed by Paula Guran in Locus Magazine
We Bleed Water
Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Issue 35
March 2022
Through the clouded windows, he feels the bog watching him. He can hear it breathing, big, ballooning breaths like an enormous animal. At least, he imagines he can.
– Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
– Reprinted in Three Stories (Ram Eye Press)
– Reprinted in Three-Lobed Burning Eye Volume IX anthology
The Colour of the Ninth Wave
in Gamut Magazine, Issue 7
July 2024
A Medieval Irish-inspired tale of father-and-daughter vengeance against an ancient crow-god
Mabinogion
April 2025
Inspired by the Mabinogi, a Medieval Welsh story cycle, this is a tale of time, courage, loyalty, and of course a very big bog.
(cover art by Cita A F)
Sea Stories: horrific happenings on the high seas
Where the Brass Band Plays
May 2025
The day I found seaweed on my sister’s shoes was the beginning of the end, for me as well as her.
Photo credit: Ian Forsyth / Getty Images
Your Heart, In This Chest
November 2023
“A voice unlike any other, I challenge you not to be enthralled and ultimately moved. A beautiful, haunting tale from the deep.” – Nick Jones, Fiction Editor
– Included on the 2023 Nebula Awards Recommended Reading List
White Water
in Uncharted
July 2023
On a ship full of women, clashes of personality are to be expected. I knew from the day we set out from Thyborøn that my crewmates harboured doubts…
Pongo
May 2023
“An immersive and moving seafaring tale of primatology, language, and grief.” – Seán Padraic Birnie, author of I Would Haunt You If I Could
People Problems
Casserole
in The Rumpus
May 2025
He raised his head and whined. The sound tore holes in her heart. “I know, baby boy,” she said. “We’ll get you something to eat, don’t worry.”
O Sole Mio
in Interzone
September 2023
Exhausted by the demands of motherhood, Beth finds herself intrigued by the ice cream van which regularly stops at her street, and which seems to promise innocence, freedom, and maybe even a way to rewrite time itself.
– Reprinted in SF Caledonia
Voting Has Closed
in Fusion Fragment, Issue 19
November 2023
Years after being kept apart during a dating reality show, the two former contestants reunite at a cafe. Will sparks still fly?
I Give You My Hand
in Crannóg Magazine, Issue 61
November 2024
From now on, the burden of this hand’s work will fall on others: sewing, typing, peeling vegetables, cutting fingernails. From now on, this hand will belong to my husband.
Freaky flash: short short stories
Sceach Gheal
June 2025
It’s not that I exactly believe in them, see. It’s just, why would you risk saying you don’t?
A Strange and Terrible Wonder
in PodCastle, Issue 862
October 2024
The dogs of myth and legend take a trip to the beach.
– Originally published in Zooscape
– Reviewed on Narrated Podcast
If All Your Friends Jumped Off a Bridge
April 2023
It’s a familiar question, one we’ve all heard. It’s the one your mother used to ask when you got into trouble. An ugly, tiresome question. But perhaps it gains new meaning for you today.
– Reprinted with Timber Ghost Press in July 2024
Catastrophizing
October 2023
That island was hell for me. Càit’s parents smiling at us like ghosts through the pearly murk, their whole house underwater, the whole island. I knew I was going mad.
– reprinted in Small Wonders Issue 16
Vatican
in Scrawl Place
January 2023
By the time you get out of the Chapel, you’re gasping for air and you take the last gallery – something Modern – at almost a run.
Full bibliography:
‘Sceach Gheal’ in Strange Horizons, Issue 23rd June 2025
‘Where the Brass Band Plays’ in PseudoPod #978 (May 2025)
‘Casserole’ in The Rumpus (May 2025)
‘I Give You My Hand’ in Crannóg Magazine Issue 61 (November 2024)
‘Catastrophizing’ (reprint) in Small Wonders Issue 16 (October 2024)
‘A Strange and Terrible Wonder’ (reprint) in PodCastle Issue 862 (October 2024)
‘When My Dog Was the Universe’ in BFS Horizons Issue 17 (October 2024)
‘Once There Was Water’ in The Dark Issue 111 (August 2024)
‘The Colour of the Ninth Wave’ in Gamut Magazine Issue 7 (July 2024)
‘How to Carry a Millstone’ in Luna Station Quarterly Issue 57 (March 2024)
‘Voting Has Closed’ in Fusion Fragment Issue 19 (November 2023)
‘Your Heart, in This Chest’ in Northern Gravy Issue 10 (November 2023)
‘First Mother’ in Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine (October 2023)
‘Catastrophizing’ in Little Blue Marble (October 2023)
‘O Sole Mio’ in Interzone (September 2023)
‘A Strange and Terrible Wonder’ in Zooscape (August 2023)
‘White Water’ in Uncharted (July 2023)
‘Pongo’ in Interzone Digital (May 2023)
‘Things We Did by the Windmill’ in The Deadlands Issue 24 (April 2023)
‘If All Your Friends Jumped Off a Bridge’ in Tales From Between Issue 2 (April 2023)
‘Vatican’ in Scrawl Place (January 2023)
‘The Allotment’ in three stories by katie mcivor (Ram Eye Press, November 2022) – reprinted in Tales From Between Issue 3 (January 2024)
‘The Pill’ in three stories by katie mcivor (Ram Eye Press, November 2022)
‘Jacob’s Mother’ in Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds Press, 2022; anthology nominated for the Bram Stoker Award)
‘The Missing Years’ in Tales From Between (July 2022)
‘Human Resources’ in The Anti-Humanist, 4th edition (May 2022)
‘Ars Amatoria’ in That Is So Wrong!: An Anthology of Off-Beat Horror, ed. Jan-Andrew Henderson (May 2022)
‘We Bleed Water’ in Three-Lobed Burning Eye Issue 35 (March 2022), reprinted in three stories by katie mcivor (Ram Eye Press, November 2022) and Three-Lobed Burning Eye Volume IX anthology (December 2023)
‘Deracination’ in Silver Blade Issue 52 (March 2022), reprinted in Metastellar (March 2023)
‘The Shape of Our Marriage’ in the Nashville Review Issue 36 (December 2021)
‘Picking Up Mr Tims’ in Potato Soup Journal (December 2021)
‘The Halophyte’ in Etherea Magazine Issue 4 (November 2021)
‘Utopia Is an Island’ in Mythaxis Magazine Issue 27 (September 2021)
‘Five Hawks’ in Terrain.org (September 2021)
Thanks for reading!
Katie McIvor 