Dark Fantasy

If you’re a Kindle owner and haven’t read RealmShift yet, my publisher (Gryphonwood Press) is running a special offer at the moment where the book is available for just US0.99c from the Amazon Kindle Store. Its usual Kindle price is US$2.99 so it’s a pretty good offer. I think the special is only going...
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Here’s another of my irregular and infrequent Friday Flash efforts. This is something a bit different to my usual fare and, to be completely honest with you, it’s a bit daft. But I enjoyed writing it so hopefully some of that enjoyment will rub off when you’re reading it. If not, I apologise. May...
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Most of you know that I keep a foot in both camps, being a writer and a publisher. My small publishing company, Blade Red Press, has just announced its latest project – a single author collection of dark short fiction from Australian author Bill Congreve. The collection is called Souls Along The Meridian, and...
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It’s no mystery to anyone that reads this blog that I’m a big fan of movies. A lot of you may also be aware that my writing style is often called cinematic or that people talk about how my books would make great films. This pleases me no end – I would love to...
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Here’s a little something I’m quite excited about. On October 31st, which as you all know is Halloween, there’s going to be a little horror-fest at Dymocks Southland bookstore. A bunch of us dark writer folk are going to be doing a group book signing there in celebration of all things… well, dark. It’s...
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It’s a good time for Australian speculative fiction at the moment. There are a bunch of new books coming out or recently released by awesome Aussie authors. Some of these people I’m lucky enough to count among my friends and some of them I don’t know personally, but know them as their reputation in...
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In the ongoing series of previews from the Dark Pages anthology from Blade Red Press, here’s an excerpt from the third story in the collection: Neptune’s Garden by Lisa A. Koosis Jacob opened his eyes to find moonlight had silvered a wedge of the bedroom wall, and her moon-shadow hovered within it. Her voice...
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In the ongoing series of previews from the Dark Pages anthology from Blade Red Press, here’s an excerpt from the second story in the collection: Heart of Ice by Martin Livings Lidja sits astride the deacon’s sodden corpse as he writhes, his erect penis cold and wet inside her. Sweat runs down the young...
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Clive Barker is a horror legend, simple as that. This is the man that brought us movies like Hellraiser and graphic novels like Tapping The Vein (the comic versions of the Books Of Blood). He also wrote the massively imaginative novel Weaveworld. I don’t know anyone that’s read Weaveworld and didn’t like it. Comment...
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I’ve been reading a lot of short stories over recent months and it’s been a while since I got stuck into a proper novel. On deciding that it was time to read long fiction again I turned to this brick of a book I picked up in a second hand book store some time...
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