About Me
Canadian author Mary Rajotte has a penchant for penning nightmarish tales of Gothic folk horror, which have been published in a number of anthologies. In 2022, she launched Frightmarish: a quarterly Gothic LitZine for devotees of dark fiction that explores the creative macabre through prose, poetry, artwork, and activity pages. When Mary isn’t writing, you can find her standing on her tiptoes at concerts or conjuring ideas by moonlight. Sometimes camera-elusive but always coffee-fueled, Mary lives in Toronto, Canada with her fiancé. Visit her online at maryrajotte.com
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My Publications
FORTHCOMING – 2024
“The Bone Key“, novel, Quill & Crow Publishing House, Autumn 2024
2023
“An Homage Macabre”, Frightmarish Zine – Issue 6, Northern Gothic Press, June 2023
“The Wretched”, Frightmarish Zine – Issue 5, Northern Gothic Press, March 2023
“This Loathsome Legacy”, Frightmarish Zine – Issue 5, Northern Gothic Press, March 2023
“The Stone Mother”, Bleak Midwinter Vol II: Solstice Light, Quill & Crow Publishing House, January 2023
“Sacrifice” and “Unrequited”, Crow Calls Vol V, Quill & Crow Publishing House, February 2023
“Triune”, The Crow’s Quill – Covens, Quill & Crow Publishing House, March 2023
“The Lament of San Miguel”, Collage Macabre: An Exhibition of Art Horror, Future Dead Collective, April 2023
FORTHCOMING – 2023
“A Conjuration”, Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Showcase, Black Spot Books, November 2023
“Last Frequency”, The Cellar Door issue 3: Dark Highways, Dark Peninsula Press, October 2023
2022
“The Flora & Fauna of Folklore: Symbols of Midwinter”, Myth & Lore Zine Issue 4: Midwinter Lights Are Dimming, Myth & Lore Zine, November 2022
“The Flora & Fauna of Folklore: The Rook, The Raven and the Crow“, Myth & Lore Zine Issue 3: Death, The Afterlife and beyond The Veil, Myth & Lore Zine, October 2022
“Ebb & Flow: Finding My Way Back To Family”, Death’s Garden Revisited, Automatism Press, October 2022
“In Ghastly Splendor”, Love Letters to Poe Volume 2: Houses of Usher, Love Letters to Poe, August 2022
“The Weaver Witch”, self-published in Frightmarish Zine – Issue Two, June 2022
“The Rite”, self-published in Frightmarish Zine – Issue Two, June 2022
“Apparition” and “Some Wretched Thing”, Crow Calls Vol IV, Quill & Crow Publishing House, June 2022
“Going Within”, StokerCon 2022 Souvenir Book, Burial Day Books, May 2022
“I Am What Grows In Shadowed Places”, 99 Tiny Terrors, Pulse Publishing, March 2022
“Words Unspoken”, “My Tainted Touch“, Under Her Skin (poetry), Black Spot Books, April 5 2022
“The Call of the Carrion Crows“, Haunted: A Crow Showcase, Quill & Crow Publishing House, April 5 2022
“Oh, But Her Beautiful Eyes“, The Dead Inside, Dark Dispatch, March 2022
“What the Dead Whisper to the Living“, A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales, Brigid’s Gate Press, February 2022
2021
“What The Earth Bore”, Grimm & Dread: A Crow’s Twist on Classic Tales, Quill & Crow Publishing House, December 2021
“Murmurations“, The Crow’s Quill Issue 4 – Tales By Full Moon, Quill & Crow Publishing House, November 2021
“The Blight of Black Creek”, In Somnio, Tenebrous Press, November 1, 2021
“We Wicked Few”, The Witches Ball from Jazz House Publications, October 13, 2021
“Those Forgotten Places“, Autumn Noir from Unsettling Reads, October 13 2021
“Comfort of the Dark Mother”, The Crow’s Quill Issue 3 – Vampyres, Quill & Crow Publishing House, October 1, 2021
“The Mourning Veil”, The Omens Call from Devil’s Rock Publishing, October 1, 2021
“In Token And Pledge”, Handmade Horror from Frost Zone Press, September 2, 2021
“Come Rapture or Ruin“, The Crow’s Quill Issue 2 – Witches & Cauldrons, Quill & Crow Publishing House, September 1, 2021
“An Invocation”, Hundred Word Horror: Rock Band from Ghost Orchid Press, August 2021
“Inscribed”, “Forewarned”, “Throwing The Bones”, “Beneath The Skin”, Dark Magic Drabbles, Eerie River Publishing, May 2021
“A Foreboding”, “Winter Is A Vengeful Crone”, Lost Lore & Legends, Breaking Rules Publishing Europe, March 2021
“Knock On Wood”, “Memento Mori”, Supernatural Drabbles of Dread, Macabre Ladies Publishing, February 2021
“A Heart To Every Home”, “Mirror, Mirror”, Hundred Word Horror: Home, Ghost Orchid Press, January 2021
2020
“Cast Away Stones”, Gothic Blue Book VI: A Krampus Carol, Burial Day Books, October 2020
“‘Neath The Old Tree”, Women of the Woods, Fabled Collective, October 2020
2018
“The Culling”, Black Buttons Vol. 3: A Family Affair, Magnificent Cowlick Media, August 2018
“Purgatech: Jess’ Horror”, self-published online serial, June 2018
2017
“Husks”, Group Hex Vol. 2, Great Lakes Horror Company, September 2017
2014
“Flowers For The Dead“, self-published, June 2014
“Skin Deep”, self-published, November 2014
2010
“The Lockwood Collection”, The Scrolls Of Anubis, Library of Horror Press, December 2010
“Like Flies To Honey”, Shroud Magazine, Shroud Publishing, May 2010
2009
“Creepy Crawleys”, Northern Haunts: 100 Terrifying New England Tales, Shroud Publishing, January 2009
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