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IN THE BLOOD AND OTHER STORIES (2024)

In this debut collection, Joseph Anthony Montecillo compiles fourteen horrific tales from over a decade of writing.

In the titular story, “In the Blood,” a mother struggles to ensure that her sons don’t inherit their late father’s violent tendencies. In “Pressure and Release,” a bus driver gives into his most self-destructive impulses while caught in an EDSA traffic jam. A child’s curiosity about his brother’s internal workings goes to the extreme in “New Toy.” And in “The Forgotten Bones,” a man living in the slums of a cemetery finds himself trapped in a labyrinth of tombs.

In the Blood and Other Stories’ mix of horror, psychological thrills, dark fantasy, and sci-fi is sure to terrify and delight in equal measure.

It’s available now for all Philippine residents via UP Press’ brick and mortar stores as well as their official website, and also on Shopee and Lazada.

2023

2020

2019

  • “The Girl in the River”. Philippines Graphic. January 21.
  • “In the Blood”. The Sunday Times Magazine. February 10.
  • “Ben”. Philippines Graphic. May 27.
  • “On Our Hands” (1 of 2). The Sunday Times Magazine. June 16.
  • “On Our Hands” (2 of 2). The Sunday Times Magazine. June 23.
  • “Too Close”. Philippines Graphic. October 28.
  • “An Aswang Fight in New York”. Philippines Graphic. December 30.

2018

2017

  • “Pressure and Release”. Philippines Graphic. January 30.
  • “Night Predators of Niladan”. Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 10. February 16.
  • “Road of the Dead”. Philippines Graphic. October 30.

2016

  • “Killing Her”. Philippines Graphic. September 5.

2015

  • “The Three Eggs”. Philippines Graphic. May 11.

2013

2012

  • “The Nature of Apocalypse”. Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 7. July 23.

2011

  • “Villainoguing”. Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 6. April 2011.

2010

  • “New Toy”. Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 5. April.
  • “Addiction”. Short, Fast, and Deadly. June.

2008

  • “Sparkle, Sparkle”. Philippines Graphic. April 14.
  • “Precision”. Philippines Graphic. July 14.