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Welcome to your Monday Mourning Report, in which I scour the inter-webs digging up the dirt on the latest offerings, happening and general going-ons from our favourate authors, film makers and other dark creators. Fresh Meat ### Okay, maybe this book isn’t that fresh, but any day you can snag an e-book of Jeff Strand – in this case, Blister – is enough to freshen up any horror lover’s day, right? But be quick – this book and several others are only available to download from Amazon for free until end of day tomorrow. Get it here! ### Author, Sephera Giron has just received her gorgeous hard cover copy of The Pulp Book of Phobias which contains her story, "Five in the Six!" and shares space with the likes of John Skip, Ray Garton, Richard Chizmar and several others.  Get it here! ###  Mick Garris gathers his famous friends for the horror anthology Nightmare Cinema. Check it out here! Mad Musings  *** From John Bow...

Fresh Meat *** Thomas F. Monteleone urges all you fresh writers looking to sharpen your skills that registration for the next Bordlerlands writing bootcamp is heating up: “We are getting lots of applications for our January borderlands press writers boot camp. $100 discount for HWA members.  Just so you know: Your Pres and VP are Boot Camp grads. I think we are doing something right”  Apply HERE   *** Coyote Rage by Owl Goingback INDEPENDENT LEGIONS PUBLISHING (February 9, 2019) Synopsis: Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Owl Goingback makes a triumphant return to horror and fantasy in this gripping new novel. Coyote is on a murderous hunt, leaving behind a trail of carnage. The shape-shifter is determined to kill the human representatives to the Great Council in Galun’lati, eliminating the rule of mankind in the New World. But Raven has overheard the Trickster’s evil plan, and will do anything to protect Luther Watie and his daughter, Sarah...

Welcome to Dark Bites newest - and first - Thirsty Thursday event in which a free sampler from your favorite author's newest book is shared for your enjoyment.  Special thanks to  Jeff Strand ,  the funniest scary guy writing today for providing this teaser from his latest offering, My Pretties. Without further adieu, pull up a stool, grab a drink and enjoy your free sample. There's more where this came. The Synopsis: A serial kidnapper is preying upon women. He abducts them, then locks them in one of the cages dangling from the ceiling in a soundproofed basement. There, he sits quietly and just watches them, returning night after night, hoping he'll be in the room at the moment his beautiful captives finally starve to death. Charlene and Gertie have become fast friends at the restaurant where they work. But Charlene is concerned when she hears how her co-worker spends her evenings: Gertie's cousin is one of the missing, and Gertie wanders the ci...

Welcome to your Monday Mourning Reports, in which I scour the inter-webs digging up the dirt on the latest offerings, happening and general going ons from our favourate authors, film makers and other dark creators. As a new addition to this blog, as with life, things may come and go or change altogether based on my mood, interests, trial and error and, most impotently, feedback from all of you. As Brian Keene is apt to say, you're mileage may vary. So will this space. Please do feel free to drop a comment, request or general musing of your own in the space down below. Or better yet, show a little dark-hearted love by sharing it to any social media account you happen to have. Fresh Meat ### My Pretties, written by Jeff Strand Amazon Digital Services LLC (June 2019) A novel of terror from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of PRESSURE. A serial kidnapper is preying upon women. He abducts them, then locks them in one of the cages dangling from the cei...