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· 2013
Thirty-two poems from the pen of horror writer and poet, Lily Childs. Exploring supernatural and personal demons this poetry collection blends psychological suffering and dark gothic delight. Sometimes taboo, often dangerous the poems leave questions unanswered that demand explanation. Fantastical beings spread themselves across the pages but no creature is so terrifying as the demons that fester inside our own human minds. Here they creep. Wicked and emotional with a painful bite of fun.
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· 2013
A terrifying collection of short horror stories FOR ADULTS ONLY by dark fiction author Lily Childs. Studded and stitched together by shorter pieces and tiny 100-word drabbles, these forty-three offerings comprise eleven full-length tales in total, including extreme vampire horror: - THE INFANTA TRIPTYCH - living, dying art - breathing, pulsing... ancient.And the previously unpublished:- SMILING CYRUS - dancing dolls of death in your attic- IN ADORATION - demonic rebirth, revenge and new skin- STARING AT THE PINK - when the dead don't let goWords spill from the babbling mouths of demons and murderers throughout Cabaret of Dread, combining fear and even humour as the reader encounters serial killers and ghosts, historical entities and psychopaths, not to mention a scuttling vampire or two. Ethereal and spiritual elements battle with the visceral and the insane; lustful adoration dallies with laboured, lingering death. The Cabaret will shock, it may well offend. But it is beautiful - at least in the author's mind - and that's where the darkness lies._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Praise for Cabaret of Dread:"Having read almost every story written by Lily Childs, I can confidently say that Britain has a new Queen of Dark Fiction. The prose crawl off the pages, down your spine, then drag you into the darkness." - Col Bury, Crime Editor at Thrillers Killers 'n' Chillers ezine
The Grimorium Verum is a collection of 26 short stories in the dark fiction and horror genres, edited and compiled by Dean M. Drinkel. The stories follow the common theme of magic. The Grimorium Verum, the infamous Grimoire of Truth, is the 18th century textbook of Magick attributed to Alibeck the Egyptian and coveted by 'The Great Beast' Aleister Crowley. The Grimorium Verum now takes its place as the third installment in the Tres Librorum Prohibitorum series of anthologies. Twenty-six dark fiction authors from around the world each take a letter and use their unique voices to weave magical stories of horror and the fantastic. The Truth, at last...speaks!
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· 2014
Within Wet Walls is a short, gothic ghost story inspired by M.R. James, Dickens and Sir Walter Scott. It speaks of a medieval manor built in a Sussex forest where beings as old as the land itself swirl, translucent in the damp mists. Ever hungry. Travel through time within the wet walls of Wealdstone House. Slip into Eliza Lundy's Victorian sub-existence of servitude and debauchery, laced with opium and absinthe. Taste the terror. Embrace life... while you can. Eliza's wandering spirit will take you by the hand, by the throat, by the lips. Enter her darkness to discover the beautiful horrors that reside there. She's waiting. She's always waiting. For you.
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Twenty-six original stories by established masters of horror and talented new voices comprise this anthology of terror, mystery and suspense. Phobophobias continues the explorations of our darkest fears that started with the 2011 indie hit Phobophobia.Discover tales about Achluophobia (fear of the dark), Ecophobia (fear of one's home), Keraunophobia (fear of thunder and lightning), Ombrophobia (fear of rain), Trichinophobia (fear of poisoning), Ygrophobia (fear of water) and Zelophobia (fear of jealousy) amongst many others.Compiled and edited by Dean M. Drinkel, the authors of Phobophobias are:Christopher Beck, Adrian Chamberlin, Lily Childs, Mike Chinn, Raven Dane, Nerine Dorman, Christine Dougherty, Tim Dry, Jan Edwards, John Gilbert, D.T. Griffith, Lisa Jenkins, Emile-Louis Tomas Jouvet, Rakie Keig, Amelia Mangan, Peter Mark May, Christine Morgan, John Palisano, Daniel I. Russell, Phil Sloman, Sam Stone, Andrew Taylor, Mark West, Barbie Wilde & D.M. Youngquist.
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· 2016
Follow the ancient, ruthless soul of demi-goddess Emmeline as she struts across Scandinavia and western Europe, clad in magical, skin-stitched boots. When those handmade-boots are ripped from Emmeline's aching feet in 19th century Paris, the trauma triggers dangerous memories of long-term lover, the Bohemian artist Augustus Flinch - and their deviant daughter Ishtabelle. With rumours that Flinch has taken cruel revenge by freezing their child in the filthy ice of London's river Thames, Emmeline calls upon her most primal energies to hunt him down.Hide your eyes. Hide your ears as Emmeline storms across the channel toward the heaving capital of England, in this twisted, bloody fairy tale. Protect your heart. It won't just break - it will shatter.
· 2014
An ordinary Victorian house in an ordinary English town. A house that smells of roses. A house that stinks of death. 32 Cherry Street is rotten to the core after years of neglect. When its owner dies in a freak accident, successful entrepreneur Sarah Bayliss wastes no time in coming up with the cash to buy the small terraced property - her former childhood home. Reunited with her estranged younger brother Johnny, Sarah summons the courage to unveil the secrets the house has kept hidden for so long, but nothing can prepare the siblings for the horrors they are about to uncover. Or whom they're going to meet.
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· 2016
This is FLASH FEAR;a horror anthology edited by Jonathan Butcher that contains at least twenty pieces of horrific or dark flash fiction written by established writers in the genre including Andrew Lawston, Lynn M Cochrane, Lily Childs, Pauline E Dungate, James Everington and A Stuart Williams.From a strange and twisted tale of a mother's love, to a journey that takes you to the heights of Whitby infamous for Bram Stoker's Dracula, these stories will thrill, chill and entertain.Welcome to FLASH FEAR...