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Fiction

  • “Tomorrow Me,” Fiction, horrificscriblings.com, October 2026

  • “Video Forty-Seven,” Fiction, The Ladies of the Fright Podcast Blog, January 2021

  • “Hunting Ground,” Fiction, Horror USA: Texas, March 2020

  • “I Remember Annie,” Fiction, The No Sleep Podcast, Season 13 Episode 22, November 2019

  • “What Should Have Been,” Fiction, Typehouse Literary Magazine, October 2019

  • “Video Forty-Seven,” Fiction, The Macabre Museum, August 2019

  • “Nicky Heads Home,” Fiction, The Coachella Review, December 2018

  • “A Quiet Street,” Fiction, Honorable Mention: The Roswell Award, May 2018

  • “The Only Thing That Matters,” Fiction, On the Premises, April 2018

  • “Inventory,” Fiction, Dark Moon Digest #27, Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, April 2017

  • “All in The Wrist,” Fiction, Jamais Vu, Post Mortem Press, January 2017

  • Lucky Break, Drama, Staged at SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco, March 2016

  • Lucky Break, Drama, Staged by The Savage Players, “A Love Letter to Creation,” Los Angeles, September 2013

Nonfiction

  • “Which Horror Villain Are You, According to Your Favorite Taylor Swift Song,” thelineup.com,

  • January 2024

  • “10 Alligator and Crocodile Horror Movies to Activate Your Water Phobia,” thelineup.com, April 2023

  • Review: Craft in the Real World, The Coachella Review, March 2023

  • “8 Seemingly Innocent Animated Films that Turned Us into Horror Fans,” thelineup.com, May 2022

  • “Humanity is the Heart of Horror,” Craft Essay, Typehouse Literary Magazine, June 2020

  • Review: Entropy in Bloom, The Coachella Review, May 2017

  • Review: Little Heaven, The Coachella Review, April 2017

Press

  • “Bookmarked,” Interview, KSZM, May 2025

  • “Writing Fear with Eli Ryder,” Westbank Libraries, March 2019

  • Ladies of the FrightPodcast, Episode 29, January 2019

  • TCR Talks with Eli Ryder, Interview, The Coachella Review, August 2018

  • “A Quiet Street,” Reading: Fiction, Shades and Shadows Reading Series, Los Angeles, May 2018

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