With Halloween less than five months away, it’s not too early to get your fill of your new favourite scary movies and books. Ever wonder how Bram Stoker award-winning author of the Repairman Jack novels, F. Paul Wilson, creates what has become a career-spanning cosmic horror universe? Or how an indie film maker manages to […]
Dark Bites Now Has A Free Newsletter!
Although I have been a super slacker as far as this blog is concerned, I’ve actually been super busy reviewing and interviewing more of your favourite authors and filmmakers than ever before. In fact, I’ve been so busy I haven’t had any focus left over to put time into this blog. For one thing, I […]
Reviewing End of the Road by Brian Keene
End Of The Road Brian Keene Cemetery Dance Collected for the first time are Brian Keene’s weekly columns, originally written for Cemetery Dance during his 2016 Farewell (Not Really) book Tour to promote Pressure and The Complex. After Gabino Iglesias uses the book’s intro to convince us why Keene isn’t an asshole, we’re treated to […]
Reviewing: The Fallen Boys by Aaron Dries
The Fallen Boys Aaron Dries Black T-Shirts Books At the outset, The Fallen Boys centers around Marshal and Claire Deakens and their young boy, Noah. Life is decent and simple enough: Marshal’s a videographer for themed parties while Claire grinds out her days in a cubicle with aspirations of being a writer. Their son, Noah […]
Reviewing: On the Road With Brian Keene, by John Urbancik
On The Road With Brian Keene By John Urbanick Cemetery Dance Publications John claims his writing leans toward wonder more so than dread, and this compact companion – a bonus for those who order End of the Road by Brian Keene – provides an accurate example of John’s signature style. John’s minimalistic approach to story […]
Reviewing 100 Word Horror: Book 4, Edited By Kevin J. Kennedy
100 Word Horrors: Book 4 Edited by Kevin J. Kennedy KJK Publishing The fourth and final volume of the series (according to the editor’s notes) is proof positive you don’t have to be long in the tooth in order to make a lasting mark. The collection delivers a cornucopia of thrills and chills from various […]
Reviewing The Hidden Truth, A novel by Armand Rosamilia and Jay Wilburn
THE HIDDEN TRUTH By Armand Rosamillia and Jay Wilburn Crossroad Press & Macabre Ink Digital After getting canned by the tabloid rag they spent twenty years of their lives working for, Cull and Jackson are desperate to save their hides, get their jobs back and become the lucrative schmucks they always dreamed of being. When […]
Reviewing The Faces, A Novel By Douglas Clegg
The Faces By Douglas Clegg Alkemara Press Clegg’s latest novella goes beyond expectations and offers a creeping tale of the highest caliber told the way only Clegg’s distinctive voice can. The real strength here isn’t what’s being described, as provocative as that is, but rather what’s been left to simmer beneath the surface of this […]
Reviewing RING RING Staring Malcolm Goodwin, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Lou Ferrigno
RING RING 2019 Director: ADAM MARINO Writer: NAMAN BARSOOM 88 MINUTES Reviewed by JP Andrika If you’ve ever worked with the public, you know the horror of it. Here, a young group of telemarketers (Josh Zuckerman, Alex Shaffer, Andrew Caldweli) find out they’re being fired by their supervisor (television legend, Lou Ferrigno). Plucky Amber (Kirby […]
Corona Con – Watch It All For Free!
Free Drabble Story
Last Place On Earth By Rick Hipson Sat upon our mountaintop, we surveyed the bleak vista of charred bodies upon a newly scorched Earth. The flames could not touch us here; We had chosen our last place on Earth well. As the fires raged below and the burnt scent of death filled our lungs, we […]
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18 Eerie Tales by Steve Vernon for only 99 Cents!
From Steve’s social media page: Today, for the low, low, low price of 99 cents I offer you eighteen eerie tales of fantasy, horror, science fiction and all around strangeness that will take you to the edge of the map and then nudge you just a little bit further. “If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and […]
A FREE Short Story: ‘Till Death Do We Meet
Here’s a story I wrote some time ago for a contest Dark Recesses Press magazine was running at the time. The theme was deje’ vu and involved stories that we’ve all heard before, often from classic monster tales and the like, but told in our own voices. I decided to take my crack at a […]
Free flash fiction: Roots
As an extension of my previous post to offer a few (maybe four?) free stories of mine to help provide at least a few moments of distraction, here’s one called Roots. I wrote this one after being inspired by one of John Urbanicik’s inkstain stories from his book InkStained: On Creativity, Writing, and Art which […]
Bob Ford offers his kindle edition of Samson and Denial for FREE!
Samson Gallows is an average guy. He loves his wife, loses more than he wins, and lives his days in the gray zone between right and wrong. After a junkie walks into his pawn shop with a mummified head, Samson is thrown into a downward spiral through the streets of Philadelphia, getting more blood on […]
Free drabble story
With everything that’s going on in the world, it can be tough as hell to focus on much else other than what’s directly in front of us, and what may be looking over head and around us with no foreseeable end in sight. In an effort to offer something of a distraction, even for just […]
Reviewing Grind Your Bones To Dust by Nicholas Day
Grind Your Bones To Dust By Nicholas Day Excession Press Dissected into four distinct, yet connected parts, Day’s debut novel flows at a relentless pace. Part one depicts a man named Louis Loving fleeing across the Oregon desert, desperate to escape a haunted past and the grisly experience of having just watched his friends ripped […]
Enjoy a free e-book, Midnight Rituals
From the virtual pages of Brian Keen’s: MIDNIGHT RITUALS is an anthology featuring (Brian Keene), Mary SanGiovanni, Robert Swartwood, John Boden, Kelli Owen, Stephen Kozeniewski, Wesley Southard, and Robert Ford. It was originally published as an extremely limited edition print chapbook. We are now offering it as a free e-book to help distract everyone from […]
Reviewing BOAR, staring Nathan Jones, Bill Moseley
BOAR Written by Chris Sun, Kirsty Dallas (story editor) Directed by Chris Sun Staring Nathan Jones, Bill Moseley, Steve Bisely (2017) 96 minutes Creature features, monster movies – They are a guilty pleasure of mine. Imagine my delight seeing BOAR on the new release shelf. It being a Shudder streaming exclusive, I snatched it up. […]
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