Allister Nelson
Sometimes armchair occultists fall on their keyboards like drunk cats and write fiction.
Bio: Allister Nelson (she/her) is a multiple Pushcart Prize-nominated author whose work has appeared in The British Fantasy Society, Apex Magazine, ILLUMEN, Eternal Haunted Summer, Renewable Energy World, Frontiers in Health Communication, The National Science Foundation, Luna Station Quarterly, Prismatica Press, Coffin Bell, FunDead Publications, and many other venues. Her work has been translated internationally into Polish and Spanish, and has appeared in anthologies alongside Graham Masterston, Bill Willingham, Jane Yolen, and Alan Dean Foster. By day, she's a D.C.-adjacent Communications and Marketing Nut ("Allie's a Natural Washingtonian: a mile wide and an inch deep"), proud staff writer at Pride With a Bite, and former senior technical and science writer. By night, she dabbles in prose, poems, Greco-Roman found feminism graphic novels, and illustrations. In her spare time, Allie is a wanderer of graveyards, weaver of fables, caster of literary aspersions, and gazer at alien starships. She'd like to kiss Mothman one day.
Short Stories, Poetry, & Podcasts (Oh My!):
Fiction:
"Nectar" - A Bite of Pride eZine (Pride With a Bite Press) - 2025
"Ashmedai; or, The Devil on Three Sticks" (Novella) - Bewildering Stories - 2025
"Your Voice Like Silver" - We Bite Back - Pride Charity Anthology of Queer Horror (Pride With a Bite Press) - 2024
"A Toast to All Our Hells" - Not Ghosts, But Spirits Vol. 5 (Querencia Press) - 2024
"Nosferatu Was King When I Was a Girl-Child" - 42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42² [featuring my favorite children's author, Jane Yolen] - 2024
"Leaves of Silver" - There's a Haint in That There Holler - Appalachian Horror Hurricane Helene Charity Anthology (Laughing Man House Publishing) - 2024
"Tex Mex" - Enheduanna Journal Vol. 7 - 2024
"Ashmedai; or, The Devil on Three Sticks" - Anthologies of the Damned: Library of Madness (Treeshaker) - 2024
"My Tippet, Only Tulle" - Carmina Magazine - 2024
"The Cold One" - Stories in the Key of Tull - Tales from the Wood: A Jethro Tull Anthology (Alpha Mercs) - 2024
"In a Garden, Bitter" - Horror Sleaze Trash - 2024
"The Stone Flower" (Novella) - The Pink Hydra - 2024
"The Keeper of the Keys" - Skin Deep Anthology by Dark Rose Press - 2024
"Ibis" - Pere Ube - 2024
"Gambling With Winter" - The Fables Next Door (Critical Blast Publishing) [featuring my favorite comic creator of all time, Bill Willingham, and original Star Wars novelist Alan Dean Foster!] - 2024
"Rumpelstiltskin's Girl" - Pere Ube - 2024
"Beast Charming" - Exquisite Death - 2024
"My Tippet, Only Tulle" - Forbidden Trails Polish Charity Anthology (https://www.zapomnianesny.pl/zakazane-szlaki/) [debuting in Polish, translated by Emilian Wojnowski, featuring such luminaries as Graham Masterson] - 2024
"The Witchfather" - Bewildering Stories - 2024
"The Malachite Casket" - Pere Ube - 2024
"The Thing from the Well" - A Frolic of Fairies Anthology (West Avenue Publishing) - 2024
"Bathsheba's Lament" - Pere Ube (Valentine's Day) - 2024
"Earth Girls Aren't Easy" - Pere Ube - 2024
"And Lilith Sewed the Seam" - Luna Station Quarterly - 2024
"Ashmedai and the Hairdresser" - Metaworker - 2024 (Pushcart Prize Nominee)
"The Cold One" - Bewildering Stories - 2024
"The Claiming" in "Apocalyptales" - Wicked Shadow Press - 2024
"Honey Like Sin" and "Xxx" - Touch of Sin Anthology by Dark Rose Press - 2024
"Wax" - ev0ke - 2023 (out of print)
"And Lilith Sewed the Seam" - Prismatica Press - 2023
"My Tippet, Only Tulle" - Quail Bell Magazine - 2024
"My Tippet, Only Tulle" - Intangience Magazine - 2023
"Ashmedai and the Hairdresser" - Black Sheep - 2024
"And Lilith Sewed the Seam" - Infinity Wanderers Issue #8 - 2023
"Godmother Death" - 7th-Circle Pyrite - 2023
"Darker Objects" - Indi(e) Blue Press - 2023 (Contributor)
"Godmother Death" in "Halloweenthology" - Wicked Shadow Press - 2023
"Bathsheba's Lament" - The Greyhound Journal - 2023
"The Tobias Problem" - Freedom Fiction - 2023 (Pushcart Prize Nominee)
"Ghazal" - The Best of Eternal Haunted Summer: 13th Anniversary Edition - 2023
"Beast Charming" - Danse Macabre - 2022
"Yellow Canary" - FunDead Publication's Gothic Anthology - 2019
"Prometheion" - Eternal Haunted Summer - 2016
Poetry:
"Can You Feel the Winter Coming?" - Loki's Torch - 2025
"Storybeast" - British Fantasy Society's Horizons #19 - 2025
"Daphne" - Eternal Haunted Summer - 2025
"After the Asphodel Garden" - Coffin Bell - 2024
Featured Poet - ILLUMEN Summer 2024 (Hiraeth Publishing) - 2024
"Flame-diver" - Last Girls Club (FIRE SEASON Issue) - 2024
"hagging out" - Siren's Call - 2024 (out of print)
"wishing" - Nap Lit - 2024
"Portraits of an Asylum" - The Circus: GOD/CORPSE - Writings on the Bipolar Body [edited by DW Baker] - 2024
"The Reaver" - Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen - 2024
"Poison Princess" - ILLUMEN Spring 2024 (Hiraeth Publishing) - 2024
"Trickster" - Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen - 2024
"Disir" - Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen - 2024
"i had me an old lungbird" - Pink Apple Press: Chapter 3: Dawn - 2024
"The Best of You, Honey, Belongs to Me" - Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen - 2024
"A Woman Past Her Prime" - Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen - 2024
"Blood Ginger" (with Iris Ng) - Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen - 2024
"Anne Boleyn's Death Knell" - Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen - 2024
"The Crane Wife" - The Whisky Blot - 2023 (out of print)
"Luna Moth" - East Jasmine Review "Tell Me More" Anthology - 2021
Various Poems about Loki - Loki's Torch Vol. 1 - 2019
"Golddeep" - The Showbear Family Circus - 2019
"Atlanta Aphrodite" - Blood and Roses: A Devotional for Aphrodite by Bibliotheca Alexandrina - 2017
"American Dreams" - Apex Magazine - 2016
"Samael's Psalm" - Folk Horror Revival: Corpse Roads - 2016
Podcasts:
"Beast Charming" - Kaidankai Podcast - 2025
"Ashmedai and the Hairdresser" - Nobilis Erotica - 2025
"My Tippet, Only Tulle" - Polish Audio - 2025
"The Opening of the Heart" - Manawaker Studio - 2024
"And Lilith Sewed the Seam" - Strange Stories from Old Folx (Spotify) - 2024
"Life-in-Death" - Kaidankai Podcast - 2024
"Godmother Death" - Kaidankai Podcast - 2024
Interviews:
On Demons, Angels & The Middle Path - with Allister Nelson - Living Magick Occult Cast Hosted by Fola Veritas <3
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIz_ZM5CzZ4&t=1753s
Staff Memberships:
Heretics, Lovers, & Madmen: https://hereticsloversmadmen.com/
Pride With a Bite Press: https://pridewithabite.com/
Paranoid Robot Press: https://paranoidrobotpress.com/