DARK BITES

Welcome one and all to the latest edition of Your Monday Mourning Report in which I dig around the dark webs and return with bones to share at the table for all who enjoy a quick gnaw now and again. Fresh Meat ###  The Wolf’s Hour and The Hunter From the Woods by Robert McCammon: First published in 1989, The Wolf’s Hour remains one of Robert McCammon’s most indelible creations. Ranging freely and with great authority through realms of history, folklore, and myth, it combines two seemingly disparate genres – the World War II action thriller and the paranormal romance – into a seamless, irresistible whole. Get it here! ### A quick and cheap way to get a feel for what William Meikle’s about as a writer. There are 21 of them now, each 99c in ebook, $3.99 in print, free on KU. Get it here!     ### Interrogations , by A.J. Brown is up for preorder: Hank Walker woke up in a bed in a survivor camp. He should have been dead, and a short time afte...

Cold Dead Hands is the latest tale of chilling terror from Jeff Strand, and not merely due to its many scenes of gore filled mayhem, but also because it actually takes place in a walk-in freezer. For our main character, Barry, a simple trip to the grocery store to satisfy his need for an avocado quickly turns into a need just to survive. Turns out, a group of crazed fanatics chose that morning to send a message of violence to the greater public using the innocent grocery shoppers as their means to an end. Considering the story's tight time-frame as a novella, Barry doesn't have much time to figure out how to survive long enough to get back home with or without that avocado. When violence erupts, Barry soon finds himself barricaded inside the grocery store's walk-in freezer with a small group of fellow survivors who must now somehow band together even if they don't exactly see eye to eye. Sure, the authorities have the place surrounded, but with no clear vantage poin...

Multiple award-winning Grandmaster of horror author, F. Paul Wilson, digs into his well once more to bring us the (allegedly) final installment in his Repairman Jack series. Set between books Ground Zero and Fatal Error, Last Christmas is the book fans have been waiting for. Paul Wilson previously declared he was done turning in a new RJ novel year after year, but if there ever came a time when a new RJ story begged to be tld, he’d have to tell it. Well, that time has come, and The Last Christmas is the story that demanded to be told as only F. Paul Wilson could tell it.  I was lucky enough to sit down with the author (sorta - he sat at his computer while I sat at mine) to discuss how The Last Christmas came about, what keeps Jack ticking after all these years and what’s next for the author and, of course, our beloved anti-hero, Jack. Dark Bites: What can you tell us about how you came to work with Barry Hoffman and how his Gauntlet Press came to play host as the next pu...

Welcome one and all to the latest edition of Your Monday Mourning Report in which I dig around the dark webs and return with bones to share at the table for all who enjoy a quick gnaw now and again. Normally, this goes out much earlier in the day, but if there's one thing a new baby can be counted on for, it's interrupting EVERYTHING! :) This week Dark Bites has dug up movie trailers and clips from WIDOW'S POINT and DARLIN ', a celebrating of the late great Tom Piccirilli’s with a compilation of his work by Brian Keene , new novels from the likes of Steve Wedel , Carrie Jones and a new EDITION of The Bird Box  novel. We also get a rare glimpse into how cats are messing with Mark Rainy's book edits and how easily Christopher Golden pisses off publishers for all the right reasons, and more. Fresh Meat ### Stephen Mark Rainy :  "My newest AMERI-SCARES novel — MICHIGAN: THE DRAGON OF LAKE SUPERIOR — is now VERY close to reality. It will be out in tim...

Welcome one and all to the latest edition of Your Monday Mouning Report in which I dig around the dark webs and return with bones to share at the table for all who enjoy a quick gnaw now and again. Fresh Meat ### Dark Bites is getting a face lift of sorts. I’m happy to report that since starting this blog almost seven years ago as a way to share the things I love within the horror world, I’ve decided to scratch that seven year itch by prepping for moving day into a brand new home. After onboarding with a host server and switching over to Word |Press to enjoy more functionality and more options, I hope to create even more content for you all to enjoy. Will it be different? Oh, yes. Will it better? Come find out! Bookmark Darkbites.ca and be the first to visit the new haunting grounds once everything is up and running, in about one to two weeks. Get it here!  ### FIVE NOVELLAS by Jeff Strand. (From Jeff’s Gleefully Macabre site) People often ask when novellas ...

Let me start off by hazarding a guess and suggest that most of you have never heard of A.J. Brown (that's Jeff to his friends). If I'm right, I certainly won't hold that against you. And if I'm wrong, then advantage goes to you. A.J. stems from that rare and special corner of the writer's universe, that place with the shadows which is all but invisible to the unsuspecting eye. I first got to know AJ about twenty years ago (whoa...) in a small news group where people who loved to read and write horror stories communed for constructive feedback, for love of the genre, and to be among their chosen family of weirdos and fellow miscreants. Many of us, like myself, cut our teeth and honed our skills in that little place we called the Horror Library. The little news group buried deep within Zoetrope, forged friendships and connections for many of us.  Although mostly disbanded with its members scattered over the globe to live their lives, many of whom carried the torch i...

Here's another installment of your Monday Mourning Report in which I dug around the weird dark web only to return with a few bones to share at the table with you.  Fresh Meat ### The Devil's Equinox by John Everson  Austin secretly wishes his wife would drop dead. He even says so one boozy midnight at the bar to a sultry stranger with a mysterious tattoo. When his wife later introduces that stranger as Regina, their new neighbor, Austin hopes she will be a good influence on his wife. Instead, one night he comes home to find his wife dead. Soon he's entranced with Regina, who introduces him to a strange world of bloodletting, rituals and magic. A world that puts everything he loves in peril. Can Austin save his daughter, and himself, before the planets align for the Devil's Equinox? FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winn...