Tim Prasil’s Writing Résumé

FICTION

“The Aftermath of Failing to Touch a Star.” Alone on the Borderland: Tales of Edwardian Dread. Belanger Books, forthcoming.

“The Least Haunted House in Wales.” The Book of Carnacki. Belanger Books, 2022, pp. 399-414.

The Hound of the Seven Mounds: A Vera Van Slyke Ghostly Mystery. Brom Bones Books, 2021.

“The Active Dead.” Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives, Vol. 2. Belanger Books, 2020, pp. 162-89.

Guilt Is a Ghost: A Vera Van Slyke Ghostly Mystery. Brom Bones Books, 2019.

“An Unanchored Man.” Occult Detective Monster Hunter: A Grimoire of Eldrich Inquests, Vol. 1. Emby Press, 2015, pp. 132-56. This short story is taken from Help for the Haunted.

Help for the Haunted: A Decade of Vera Van Slyke Ghostly Mysteries. Emby Press, 2015. Reprinted by Brom Bones Books, 2018.

NON-FICTION

Review of Ghostly Encounters: Cultural and Imaginary Representations of the Spectral from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, edited by Stefano Cracolici and Mark Sandy. Society for Psychical Research, 12 September 2023, https://www.spr.ac.uk/node/19201.

Certain Nocturnal Disturbances: Ghost Hunting Before the Victorians. Brom Bones Books, 2022.

Review of The Wrong Turning: Encounters with Ghosts, introduced and edited by Stephen Johnson. Society for Psychical Research, 1 October 2021, https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/wrong-turning-encounters-ghosts-introduced-and-edited-stephen-johnson.

“The Twin Roots of Occult Detective Fiction.” Occult Detective Magazine #0, 2021, pp. 104-08.

Review of Paranormal Wales, by Mark Rees. Society for Psychical Research, 1 March 2020, https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/paranormal-wales-mark-rees.

“Definire il Detective dell’ Occulto” and “Bibliografia Cronologica dei Detective dell’ Occulto (1800-1938),” In I casi soprannaturali del Dr. Muncing, by Gordon MacCreagh. Translated by Andrea Sottana. Providence Press, 2019, pp. 83-144.

“Doctors of the Strange: The Tradition of the Occult Physician.” Occult Detective Quarterly #2, Spring 2017, pp. 93-96

“How to Be a Fictional Victorian Ghost Hunter (In Five Easy Lessons).” Occult Detective Quarterly #1, Fall 2016, pp. 88-91.

POETRY

The Lost Limericks of Edgar Allan Poe. Brom Bones Books, 2018.

PERFORMANCE

AUDIO

Marvellous Boxes is an audio-drama anthology series directed by Gregg Taylor for the Decoder Ring Theatre and posted online each month from March to August 2012. The series is comprised of: “A Demon Once Removed“; “Frozen Words Thawed” (also broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Top of the Pods, July 2012); “Facing Cydonia”; “Plotting for Perfection” (also broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Top of the Pods, October 2012); “Remembering the Martians”; and “Aliens Are Like Mirages.”

Stand-alone audio dramas directed by Gregg Taylor for the Decoder Ring Theatre’s Summer Showcase are “The Magic of the Movies” and “The Crasher,” both posted online in June 2007; and “Thinking in Ternary,” posted online in August 2009.

VIDEO

Patrick Stanick Backstage,” directed by Sam LeFane for distraction from the coronavirus pandemic, September 2020 in Marmosett.

STAGE

“The Interrogation of Richard Mansfield, Actor,” directed by Robert Reynolds for the Heller Theatre’s The Dog 8 My Shorts, September 2017 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Read the script here.

“Historical Recreation,” directed by Charissa Prchal for the Stillwater Short Play Festival, November 2015 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. This play is part of my Depot People series. Read the script here.

“Meds! The Musical,” directed by Charissa Prchal for the Judith Karman Hospice Short Play Festival, March 2014 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. This play is part of my Depot People series. Read the script here, and the score here and here.

“Genie in a Depot,” directed by Jeri Seefeldt for the Judith Karman Hospice Short Play Festival, March 2013 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. This play is part of my Depot People series. Read the script here.

“The Crasher,” directed by Michael McAfee for the Post-Meridian Radio Players’ Tomes of Terror: New Arrivals, October 2012 in Somerville, Massachusetts. (There’s a link above to listen to the Decoder Ring Theatre’s production of the same script.)


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