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Dark Chapter Press – Competitions, Releases & Incoming (Stuart Keane Link)

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I’ve been lucky enough to work with Dark Chapter Press on a couple of stories. I’m too lazy to write about it, but Stuart Keane has written about his experiences so I don’t have to !! Seriously – check out some of their stuff. It’s all good.

Originally posted on Jack Rollins - Horror Author:

Stuart Keane has published a piece on working with Dark Chapter Press, and included some details of Kids Vol. 1, his forthcoming first Dark Chapter Press editorial effort, which is shap...

Make Them Stop

Creepy as hell!

Here’s an entry I made to a short story that the guys at Dark Chapter Press ran in November 2014 (and I won!). It was in response to that disturbing image that they provided. I think think is a good one to read late at night by torchlight…

Ever since I was a little girl I had nightmares. I would wake up screaming at two or three o’clock in the morning at least twice a week. It got to the stage when my poor mother and father were always awake between those times. They would sit a...

Writer’s Block

Is writer’s block a real thing? I think so, and many authors have come up against it at various stages in their careers. Horror author Jack Rollins puts it well when he says it is perhaps a blanket term for the many distractions in the world that can inhibit your creativity, rather than one specific condition.

In the traditional sense, it can be sitting staring at a screen and the words just not coming out, but here’s my take over on Dark Chapter Press:

RM: Some writers don’t believe that Write...

Inside the mind of – Jack Rollins

Jack was born and raised among the twisting cobbled streets and lanes, ruined forts and rolling moors of a medieval market town in Northumberland, England. He claims to have been adopted by Leeds in West Yorkshire, and he spends as much time as possible immersed in the shadowy heart of that city. Fascinated by all things Victorian Jack often writes within that era and his period gothic horror works include The Séance and The Cabinet of Dr Blessing.

This interview with him took place in 2012.

Wh...

The End

Frustration welled up suddenly. It was so unfair. Bill Hayes looked at his hands as if he did not recognise them. Getting old was so unfair. It stripped you of everything that defines you. His wrinkled face and elongated ears bore no resemblance to the man whose wedding photo stared from the sideboard. How would you have felt, to know what you would become? His mind was also in decline. Faces taunted him from photo albums. They were people he once knew well and he could not even recall the fi...