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A Killer Among Demons
Dark Prints Press merges its two favourite worlds - horror and crime - for one amazing anthology. 10 tales of paranormal / supernatural crime from some of the world's best authors:
A man finds that revenge may cost you your soul, in an endlessly repeated day...
A missing girl case leads to a cult being discovered, of malnourished beings that feed on flesh...
A man drives a corpse around on its road to redemption...
A ghostly intruder won’t let an ex-lover rest...
Dirty detectives pay one last visit to a demented dentist...
Mysterious deaths are solved by a grievance visitation...
A mobster’s secret weapon is discovered, a turf war hinging on magic...
A spirit possesses victims to find their killers, but discovers the devil himself...
A detective finally unleashes the spiritual powers he’s tried to ignore, conjuring the demise of his world...
And a makeshift surgery helps those afflicted by the drug of Musik...
A man finds that revenge may cost you your soul, in an endlessly repeated day...
A missing girl case leads to a cult being discovered, of malnourished beings that feed on flesh...
A man drives a corpse around on its road to redemption...
A ghostly intruder won’t let an ex-lover rest...
Dirty detectives pay one last visit to a demented dentist...
Mysterious deaths are solved by a grievance visitation...
A mobster’s secret weapon is discovered, a turf war hinging on magic...
A spirit possesses victims to find their killers, but discovers the devil himself...
A detective finally unleashes the spiritual powers he’s tried to ignore, conjuring the demise of his world...
And a makeshift surgery helps those afflicted by the drug of Musik...
- GenresHorror
224 pages, ebook
First published June 2, 2013
58 people want to read
About the author
Craig Bezant
11 books5 followersCrime writer Craig Bezant hails from Perth, Western Australia. He is the author of the Henry Herbert crime series, and the children’s adventure novel, The Flats. His short fiction has also appeared in numerous magazines and online publications.
Craig created and edited the award-nominated Eclecticism E-zine before co-founding Dark Prints Press (2010-14). Since then, he has edited and published the work of over 100 of the world's best crime and horror authors, including Lawrence Block, Chris Simms, Jonathan Maberry, Joseph D'Lacey, Angela Slatter, Gary A. Braunbeck, Alan Baxter, and Stephen M Irwin.
Craig won the 2012 Australian Shadows Award for Best Edited Publication (Surviving the End), was guest editor for Midnight Echo #10 (AHWA), was an Associate Editor for HorrorScope and a judge for the 2009, 2010 and 2023 Australian Shadows Awards.
Craig loves reading (when he's not writing), Lego, basketball, video games, typewriters and tattoos. Of course, his family is everything (they didn't make him say that, honest).
Craig created and edited the award-nominated Eclecticism E-zine before co-founding Dark Prints Press (2010-14). Since then, he has edited and published the work of over 100 of the world's best crime and horror authors, including Lawrence Block, Chris Simms, Jonathan Maberry, Joseph D'Lacey, Angela Slatter, Gary A. Braunbeck, Alan Baxter, and Stephen M Irwin.
Craig won the 2012 Australian Shadows Award for Best Edited Publication (Surviving the End), was guest editor for Midnight Echo #10 (AHWA), was an Associate Editor for HorrorScope and a judge for the 2009, 2010 and 2023 Australian Shadows Awards.
Craig loves reading (when he's not writing), Lego, basketball, video games, typewriters and tattoos. Of course, his family is everything (they didn't make him say that, honest).
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July 26, 2017
Caveat - I have a story in this collection.
However, aside from my story being in it. this is a fantastic collection. Craig Bezant, the editor, should be proud of a job really well done. He's collected ten stories of supernatural/paranormal crime and the first thing you realise is just what a tremendous job he's done collecting ten brilliant but very different stories (if I do say so myself!) The variety here is impressive and the quality very high. This is an anthology that will hopefully get noticed, because it's different and very good. Highly recommended.
However, aside from my story being in it. this is a fantastic collection. Craig Bezant, the editor, should be proud of a job really well done. He's collected ten stories of supernatural/paranormal crime and the first thing you realise is just what a tremendous job he's done collecting ten brilliant but very different stories (if I do say so myself!) The variety here is impressive and the quality very high. This is an anthology that will hopefully get noticed, because it's different and very good. Highly recommended.
August 22, 2013
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In his introduction to A Killer Among Demons, editor Craig Bezant states that two of his greatest passions in fiction are crime and horror. Dark Prints Press has previously published well-received anthologies dealing in both of these genres – crime fiction in The One That Got Away and horror in the Australian Shadows Award-winning Surviving the End – but this is his first foray into combining the two, and personally I hope it’s not the last. A Killer Among Demons collects the work of a variety of authors, both local and international, all writing tales of supernatural crimes, ranging from the most personal and human – revenge, murder, obsession – all the way to the apocalypse itself, and even beyond.
The quality of stories in A Killer Among Demons is uniformly high. One fantastic element of every single story in the collection is the sheer invisibility of the writing, which is a staple of fine crime fiction especially. The reader is simply absorbed into the stories, swallowed whole, without being aware of the act of reading. As the much-missed Elmore Leonard once sagely advised, “if it sounds like writing, rewrite it”. This is a rule all ten writers in this collection clearly followed. Different readers will find different favourites – I personally lean away from the more standard gumshoe-style stories towards other more unique viewpoints and plots – but I can’t imagine any fans of crime or horror fiction being disappointed here.
Some of my personal favourites were “Cuckoo” by Angela Slatter, about a justice-meting body-swapping demon which finds itself up against something even worse than itself, Alan Baxter’s nigh-on Lovecraftian “The Beat of a Pale Wing”, which blends dark magical rituals with urban mobsters, and “Angel’s Town” by Madhvi Ramani, a bloodily violent tale of revenge from beyond the grave taken to its logical conclusion. The absolute highlight for me though was Stephen M. Irwin’s “24/7”, the longest – and closing – story in the anthology, which was a damn near perfect horror crime tale in my mind. Again, revenge takes a front seat (literally!) in this story of a man driven (again, literally!) to extremes by jealousy and rage. From mysterious beginning to inevitable but surprising end, “24/7” is a great piece of storytelling, and a fine end to the book.
With only ten stories nestled in its pages, and consisting of a mere 224 pages, this collection is short, sharp and deadly effective, like a bullet with a crucifix carved into it. This book is a must-read for fans of horror, crime and all things in between, and Bezant deserves great credit for gathering the work together and shaping it into a very unique and absorbing anthology.
(A brief disclaimer – Craig Bezant and Dark Prints Press are also the publishers of my collection Living With the Dead. But don’t hold that against them!)
In his introduction to A Killer Among Demons, editor Craig Bezant states that two of his greatest passions in fiction are crime and horror. Dark Prints Press has previously published well-received anthologies dealing in both of these genres – crime fiction in The One That Got Away and horror in the Australian Shadows Award-winning Surviving the End – but this is his first foray into combining the two, and personally I hope it’s not the last. A Killer Among Demons collects the work of a variety of authors, both local and international, all writing tales of supernatural crimes, ranging from the most personal and human – revenge, murder, obsession – all the way to the apocalypse itself, and even beyond.
The quality of stories in A Killer Among Demons is uniformly high. One fantastic element of every single story in the collection is the sheer invisibility of the writing, which is a staple of fine crime fiction especially. The reader is simply absorbed into the stories, swallowed whole, without being aware of the act of reading. As the much-missed Elmore Leonard once sagely advised, “if it sounds like writing, rewrite it”. This is a rule all ten writers in this collection clearly followed. Different readers will find different favourites – I personally lean away from the more standard gumshoe-style stories towards other more unique viewpoints and plots – but I can’t imagine any fans of crime or horror fiction being disappointed here.
Some of my personal favourites were “Cuckoo” by Angela Slatter, about a justice-meting body-swapping demon which finds itself up against something even worse than itself, Alan Baxter’s nigh-on Lovecraftian “The Beat of a Pale Wing”, which blends dark magical rituals with urban mobsters, and “Angel’s Town” by Madhvi Ramani, a bloodily violent tale of revenge from beyond the grave taken to its logical conclusion. The absolute highlight for me though was Stephen M. Irwin’s “24/7”, the longest – and closing – story in the anthology, which was a damn near perfect horror crime tale in my mind. Again, revenge takes a front seat (literally!) in this story of a man driven (again, literally!) to extremes by jealousy and rage. From mysterious beginning to inevitable but surprising end, “24/7” is a great piece of storytelling, and a fine end to the book.
With only ten stories nestled in its pages, and consisting of a mere 224 pages, this collection is short, sharp and deadly effective, like a bullet with a crucifix carved into it. This book is a must-read for fans of horror, crime and all things in between, and Bezant deserves great credit for gathering the work together and shaping it into a very unique and absorbing anthology.
(A brief disclaimer – Craig Bezant and Dark Prints Press are also the publishers of my collection Living With the Dead. But don’t hold that against them!)
June 25, 2013
Ok I'm biased because I have a story in it, but this is a solid paranormal crime anthology with a welcome mix of supernatural noir, dark fantasy and straight up scares with diabolical twists by fantastic authors.
Very proud to be part of this great anthology!
Grab a paperback or e-copy now from the DPP site - http://www.darkprintspress.com.au/boo...
Very proud to be part of this great anthology!
Grab a paperback or e-copy now from the DPP site - http://www.darkprintspress.com.au/boo...
September 5, 2015
Fun and spooky tales.
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