12 Dark Days

Alex S. Johnson and Nocturnicorn Books are proud to announce their new anthology publication (supported by John Gilbert / FEAR) – “Twelve Dark Days: One Hell Of A Christmas”. Based around the ’12 days of Christmas’ theme, compiler & editor Dean M. Drinkel, brings us the best in today’s indie horror talent with stories by Theresa Derwin, James Everington, Dave Jeffery, Jason D. Brawn, Raven Dane, Mark West, Iain Grant & Heide Goody, Tim Dry, Stephanie Ellis, Paul M. Feeney and Romain Collier. The cover image has been created by Phil Stevens. This exciting anthology is available now in both ebook and paperback form in all territories. Have a merry bloody Christmas!!!!

 

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Darker Battlefields - A Review

Wow - a totally cracking review from Chris Hall at DLS - check it out.
Dean


Darker Battlefields Review

Darker Battlefields - Review

Cool - just saw this nice little write-up about DARKER BATTLEFIELDS by James Everington on the THIS IS HORROR website.
Check it out if you have five.


Darker Battlefields Review

The Thirteen Signs

Hey Hey Hey!


Kindle publication day of my new anthology "The Thirteen Signs" by Nocturnicorn Books / Alex S. Johnson.


Really really happy how this turned out - here's the official write-up:


The Thirteen Signs
The stars have always held a fascination. The yearly rotation of the constellations guides ceremonies, rites, symbols, prepares for the harvest and sows the fields. More than merely celestial bodies, they seem to have some uncanny relationship to the affairs of humanity.

The signs that designate the zodiac may portend good but every star sign has its dark side. An association seen both in popular culture and criminality.

As the stars wheel through the seasons, we grow older. Some grow wiser, others stranger. Some choose to listen to the better angels of their nature. Others brood over the fires of anger, cruelty, revenge. In the end, though, the course of the stars, and our fate, is fixed. A grinning skull punches its way through the belly of the sundial. A skeletal hand points towards the ultimate destination: The grave.

The stories in this anthology, expertly chosen and edited by Dean M. Drinkel, play weird and dissonant variations on the music of the spheres. They pluck the dark potential from each zodiacal sign, the better to wring delicious shivers from the reader. All the horrors have been fictionalized for your convenience and safety.

All thirteen – which are:

The Order Of Aries
by Mark West
Mike Decker is asked by an old friend to rescue his daughter from a small group of Satanists. He discovers the job is a lot tougher than he'd originally thought and things turn nasty and painful.

Come Join The Blood Parade
by Lily Childs
Ancient bloodlines and the carving of beasts bring terror to green and not-so pleasant England.

Seven For Eight
by Romain Collier
The bakery shouldn’t have that many people in it at closing time, surely? The rain is pouring and the lights go out. Then comes the first scream... 

Carapace
by Raven Dane
A spoiled and indolent young nobleman gets a rude awakening, one with horrific consequences. 

Leo
by Tim Dry
The story of a young man who exacts a terrible revenge on his abusive father.

Solomon Carson And The Death Of A Virgin
by Trevor Kennedy & Robert E. Tate
A tormented and dejected young man, who may or may not be mentally ill, receives demonic messages and diabolical demands from another realm

Leeber
by Christine Dougherty
A hitman and his target couldn’t be a more star-crossed combination, but is love stronger than fate?

The Scorpion Dance
by Amelia Mangan
A secluded Hollywood mansion. A faded musician. His private obsession. A dance of death, sex, rebirth, revenge.

One in Twelve by
Steve Byrne
A family man worries that his wife may be complicit in the brutal Sagittarius murders…

A Sorrow Of Sweet Pipings
by Jan Edwards
What could a boat trip offer her beyond sun, sea and sand? Darkness beneath the sun. 

Ganymede
by Emile-Louis Tomas Jouvet
A being from the stars visits the past, present and future – what message does it have for the planet and one man in particular? 

Hooked
by James Everington
A paranoid holidaymaker is unsure if he is caught in a trap or is merely bait for someone else...

Worshipping The Snake
by Dean M. Drinkel
Jules meets Frank at a party, does he really know what he’s let him in for? Does it really matter? After all, what has he got to lose?

THE THIRTEEN SIGNS KINDLE LINK

Darker Battlefields - The Exaggerated Press

Back in 2015, mid 2015 if I remember rightly I was contacted by a colleague I hadn't worked with for a while - Adrian Chamberlin. He told me that he was putting together a small collection of novellas with "war" as the theme and would I like to be involved - well of course I would! I will admit it took me a little time to write the story because I wanted to find the right story / angle - anyway, I move to France really helped me and I'm glad Adrian (and Terry who owns TEP) liked it enough and it actually closes the book! It was an honour to be part of the TOC and work with some great writers.


Well, the book has just been released - a great cover by Ben Baldwin too.




Here's the official write-up:




War, the breaker of hearts and minds, the bringer of death and destruction, the doorway to a darkness, deeper even than the night of human conflict. The supernatural underbelly of war exposed in this stunning collection of novellas by Richard Farren Barber, Paul Edwards, Anthony Watson, Adrian Chamberlin, Mark West and Dean M Drinkel.

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CHROMATICS

In February - Lycopolis Press published my horror anthology CHROMATICS.


Here is the official write-up:


"A collection of terrifying tales by some of the most popular genre authors going, all based on the theme of colour ...

THE SAND WAS MADE OF MOUNTAINS BY ANTHONY COWIN
A travelogue of escape from human monsters trying to destroy the world and the unspeakable creatures reaching beneath it.

THE BLACK GOD BY PAUL M FEENEY
Two bloggers set out to explore the abandoned town of Pripyat, on the fringes of Chernobyl, regaled by the local myths and legends from their guide. But some myths are closer to the truth than anyone would wish.

BEIGE BY MARTIN ROBERTS
We live in a world of increasing banality. Beige is the colour of this banality. Beige is a portal for hell.

THE WHITE ROOM BY RAVEN DANE
What could be less sinister than a pristine white ballroom? The only bright, spotlessly clean room in an abandoned, decaying mansion? White is a symbol of purity, isn’t it?

RESTORING SCARLET BY DAVE JEFFREY
A mortician has a special kind of relationship with his damaged, deceased clients. He can fix them; make them what they once were. But what does he need in return?

XANTHOS BY WAYNE GOODCHILD
John, a writer, has a fear of the colour yellow...so much so that gave up his vocation because of it. But now he’s writing again, his magnum opus ...nothing can go wrong for him ... surely?

BORN FROM THE GREENS BY ZAK A FERGUSON
Marcus is grieving. Through his grief his solace is his new obsession, his overgrown garden of which something grown, something greater awakens, something born from the greens.

THE SPIRITUAL ROOM BY CHRISTOPHER BECK
Tyler’s world was flipped upside down the day his father died. But the real horror came when his mother invited him into the spiritual room.

THIS IS THE COLOUR OF BLOOD BY MARK WEST
Mike Decker is hired by a Russian billionaire to track down his daughter - an easy way to make money. But nothing’s that simple, especially when a missing persons case gets mixed up with vehicular destruction and black magic.

ANTHROPOCENE BY CHARLES RUDKIN
The world is monochrome but then a Dragon appears in the cold white wastelands of Antarctica...will colour return to the Earth...?

Also Included: DANS LA ROUGE DU COUCHANT BY DEAN M DRINKEL"


Check it out if you can!
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CHROMATICS PURCHASE LINK