DARK BITES

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...

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...