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All Dark Places: The countdown begins

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On the 30th of October, All Dark Places will be released by Dragon Soul Press. This horror anthology features a short story I wrote entitled Once in a Lifetime, as well as other spine-freezing gems from Hui Lang, Anna Sinjin, and AM Cummins.

Once in a Lifetime, is an existential dread short, inspired by an existential dread nightmare that troubled my sleep earlier this year. It involves a man who wakes up in a strange London flat in bed with a woman he doesn’t know, who insists he is someone else in an entirely different life. More disturbingly, memories of his former life – including his wife and children – start to fade from his mind.

Over the next few days, I’ll be interviewing my fellow contributors, so keep checking back every day to hear entertaining insights from these terribly talented wordsmiths.

All Dark Places is released on the 30th of October and can be pre-ordered here.

All Dark Places – Now available for pre-order

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All Dark Places, the horror anthology containing my short story Once in a Lifetime, is now available for pre-order from Amazon Kindle. Just click the link below.

NOTE: Dead tree (ie print copies) will be available for pre-order soon.

All Dark Places is published by Dragon Soul Press and released on the 30th of October.

All Dark Places cover reveal

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Here is the cover for All Dark Places – the upcoming horror anthology from Dragon Soul Press. It was designed by the fabulous Ruxandra Tudorica at Methyss Art.

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I have a short story entitled Once in a Lifetime in this collection. A psychological horror story dripping with existential dread, it is based on a particularly alarming (and surprisingly well-plotted) nightmare I had earlier this year. It is also partly inspired by some of the lyrics in Talking Heads classic 1981 single of the same name.

This is the first piece of writing I have not self-published, and it has been tremendous to see this whole project come together, under the brilliant editorial control of Jade Feldman.

I hope to interview the other hugely talented authors (A.M. Cummins, Anna Sinjin and Hui Lang) who contributed to this volume on this blog soon. Also there will be updates on launch events, in the run up to the official release.

All Dark Places is released on the 30th October.

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Once in a Lifetime to be published by Dragon Soul Press

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Here is a short post about a short story.

I am thrilled to announce that Once in a Lifetime has been accepted by Dragon Soul Press for inclusion in their upcoming horror anthology entitled All Dark Places, to be released this October.

Once in a Lifetime is an existential dread short, inspired by an existential dread nightmare. I’ve always been of the opinion that bad dreams are better than good dreams, because they provide great inspiration for writing. Besides, there’s always that disappointment when you wake up from a good dream and find out that it wasn’t real.

Needless to say, I am very pleased. I will announce further details on the blog soon, including precise release dates, the cover reveal, interviews with some of my fellow authors, details on release launch events and so forth.