*Last update: September 3, 2022
- Sickness is in Season is currently available from Crossroad Press/Macabre Ink in trade paperback and e-book.
- Aiden Merchant is working as an editor and designer for hire.
- The new “Decade” editions of Squirming Disease and Horrific Holidays are now available.
- The stories from Dead as Soon as Born and Kill for Them are mostly returning together in a large volume titled Relics from a Decade Under the Influence later this year. The original collections are currently out of print and not expected to return.
- Crossing Red is receiving a novella extension and is expected to release late 2022 or early 2023. This novella first appeared in shorter form in Dead as Soon as Born.
- The story known as “Pray” (found within the collection, Kill for Them) is receiving a rewrite and expansion. It is now a novella and returning as Pray for Help in late 2022 or early 2023.
- Aiden Merchant has a vile alter ego for extreme horror and weird fiction. He is known as Wesley Winters. In early 2023, his debut novella FUCKED will release. A publisher is under consideration.