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Dark Deaths: Selected Horror Fiction
William Cook’s second collection of macabre stories, Dark Selected Horror Fiction, deals with horror found in the real and the imagined. In this diverse collection, the reader can expect anything from blood-thirsty aliens, a satanic locomotive, possessed dolls and that most monstrous species of human – the serial killer.
Many of the stories collected in Dark Deaths have previously been published in various anthologies and magazines with five brand-new and previously unpublished tales, written especially for this new collection. Included with the stories are Mr Cook’s own macabre illustrations that accompany each tale. Dark Deaths is a complimentary volume to Cook’s first collection, Dreams of Collected Macabre Tales.
From the “In Dark Selected Horror Fiction, I hope that you find something that resonates with you, the reader. Perhaps one of the stories might make you check the locks on your doors before turning in for the night? Maybe one of the tales in this collection will make you contemplate something you may not have thought about, or wanted to think about, before? You might think twice about keeping the doll that sits in a box in the attic, or take a second look at the guy across the road who sits in his upstairs window watching passersby. Whatever the response, my goal is to get you involved with the story – for you to suspend disbelief, if only for a short while as you read these tales. Be warned, this is a mixed bag – a distillation of stories written over the course of a number of years – whimsical childhood nightmares sit among the bloodied remains of serial murderers and revenant spirits. Each story is a dark death, an epitaph of sorts, as I lay them to rest in this collection.” - William Cook.
Contains the following short
Shadows in the Dark
Choked
Night Walker
Here Comes the Bride
Dolly Did It
Dream of a Dog
The Moon Came Down
One Way Ticket
Hopeless
Singles’ Night
Home Front
A Dream Realized
The Receiver
Anomalous Perigee
Creep
The Pale Stranger
*Also includes a complimentary full-length fiction download
Check out the free sample and grab your copy of Dark Deaths now.
About King Billy Publications
King Billy Publications exclusively publish the dark literary fiction and psychological horror stories of William Cook. We love publishing stories, both for kindle and print, that appeal to adult readers of Horror, Supernatural, Thriller, Occult and most types of Dark Fiction. KBP strive to bring you fresh, new kindle stories throughout the year. Our high standards of editing, formatting, lay-out and quality content, ensure that Cook’s frightening tales of serial killers, ghosts, haunted entities, vampires, villains, monsters, demons and other Gothic grotesquery, are presented to you in such a way that you’ll want to read more. KBP are also the publishers of Fresh An Anthology of Macabre Horror featuring stories by Ramsey Campbell, JF Gonzales, Jack Dann, Charlee Jacob, Robert Dunbar, Adam Millard, Christine Morgan and BillieSue Mosiman to name a few. Trigger contains graphic psychological horror that may distress some readers!
Many of the stories collected in Dark Deaths have previously been published in various anthologies and magazines with five brand-new and previously unpublished tales, written especially for this new collection. Included with the stories are Mr Cook’s own macabre illustrations that accompany each tale. Dark Deaths is a complimentary volume to Cook’s first collection, Dreams of Collected Macabre Tales.
From the “In Dark Selected Horror Fiction, I hope that you find something that resonates with you, the reader. Perhaps one of the stories might make you check the locks on your doors before turning in for the night? Maybe one of the tales in this collection will make you contemplate something you may not have thought about, or wanted to think about, before? You might think twice about keeping the doll that sits in a box in the attic, or take a second look at the guy across the road who sits in his upstairs window watching passersby. Whatever the response, my goal is to get you involved with the story – for you to suspend disbelief, if only for a short while as you read these tales. Be warned, this is a mixed bag – a distillation of stories written over the course of a number of years – whimsical childhood nightmares sit among the bloodied remains of serial murderers and revenant spirits. Each story is a dark death, an epitaph of sorts, as I lay them to rest in this collection.” - William Cook.
Contains the following short
Shadows in the Dark
Choked
Night Walker
Here Comes the Bride
Dolly Did It
Dream of a Dog
The Moon Came Down
One Way Ticket
Hopeless
Singles’ Night
Home Front
A Dream Realized
The Receiver
Anomalous Perigee
Creep
The Pale Stranger
*Also includes a complimentary full-length fiction download
Check out the free sample and grab your copy of Dark Deaths now.
About King Billy Publications
King Billy Publications exclusively publish the dark literary fiction and psychological horror stories of William Cook. We love publishing stories, both for kindle and print, that appeal to adult readers of Horror, Supernatural, Thriller, Occult and most types of Dark Fiction. KBP strive to bring you fresh, new kindle stories throughout the year. Our high standards of editing, formatting, lay-out and quality content, ensure that Cook’s frightening tales of serial killers, ghosts, haunted entities, vampires, villains, monsters, demons and other Gothic grotesquery, are presented to you in such a way that you’ll want to read more. KBP are also the publishers of Fresh An Anthology of Macabre Horror featuring stories by Ramsey Campbell, JF Gonzales, Jack Dann, Charlee Jacob, Robert Dunbar, Adam Millard, Christine Morgan and BillieSue Mosiman to name a few. Trigger contains graphic psychological horror that may distress some readers!
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Published October 7, 2017
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About the author
William Cook
32 books93 followersWilliam Cook was born and raised in New Zealand and is the author of the popular Psychological Thriller, 'Blood Related.' He is also the author of two non-fiction books: 'Gaze Into The Abyss: The Poetry of Jim Morrison' and 'Secrets of Best-Selling Self-Published Authors.'
He has also written many short stories that have appeared in anthologies and has authored two short-story collections ('Dreams of Thanatos' & 'Death Quartet') and two collections of poetry ('Journey: the search for something' & 'Corpus Delicti'). William writes Psychological Thrillers mostly, but also dabbles in Horror Fiction and, more recently, Non-Fiction.
He is currently hard at work on a sequel to his Psychological Thriller, 'Blood Related,' a second volume of 'Secrets of Best-Selling Self-Published Authors' and an exciting new Pulp Thriller Series all due out in 2016. Stay tuned!
William loves to stay in touch with his readers and interact on social media. You can find him via the following links:
Email: williamcookauthor@gmail.com
Twitter: @williamcook666
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamCookW...
Grab a free copy of William's 250 pg collection, 'Dreams of Thanatos.' Sign up now for the VIP newsletter at: http://williamcookwriter.com/p/subscr... (just copy and paste into your browser).
His work has been praised by Graham Masterton, Joe McKinney, Billie Sue Mosiman, Anna Taborska, Rocky Wood and many other notable writers and editors. William is also the editor of the anthology 'Fresh Fear: Contemporary Horror,' published by James Ward Kirk Fiction.
Member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, SpecFicNZ & the SFFANZ.
"This man is simply scary. There is both a clinical thoroughness and a heartfelt emotional thoroughness to his writing. He manages to shock as well as empathize, to scare as well as acclimatize, yet beneath it all is a well read intelligence that demands to be engaged. I loved Blood Related. Ordinarily I hate serial killer stories, but William Cook won me over. He is a unique and innovative talent."
- Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Dog Days
"William Cook tells a gruesome story with a sense of authenticity that makes you question with considerable unease if it really is fiction, after all."
- Graham Masterton, author of The Manitou and Descendant
He has also written many short stories that have appeared in anthologies and has authored two short-story collections ('Dreams of Thanatos' & 'Death Quartet') and two collections of poetry ('Journey: the search for something' & 'Corpus Delicti'). William writes Psychological Thrillers mostly, but also dabbles in Horror Fiction and, more recently, Non-Fiction.
He is currently hard at work on a sequel to his Psychological Thriller, 'Blood Related,' a second volume of 'Secrets of Best-Selling Self-Published Authors' and an exciting new Pulp Thriller Series all due out in 2016. Stay tuned!
William loves to stay in touch with his readers and interact on social media. You can find him via the following links:
Email: williamcookauthor@gmail.com
Twitter: @williamcook666
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WilliamCookW...
Grab a free copy of William's 250 pg collection, 'Dreams of Thanatos.' Sign up now for the VIP newsletter at: http://williamcookwriter.com/p/subscr... (just copy and paste into your browser).
His work has been praised by Graham Masterton, Joe McKinney, Billie Sue Mosiman, Anna Taborska, Rocky Wood and many other notable writers and editors. William is also the editor of the anthology 'Fresh Fear: Contemporary Horror,' published by James Ward Kirk Fiction.
Member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, SpecFicNZ & the SFFANZ.
"This man is simply scary. There is both a clinical thoroughness and a heartfelt emotional thoroughness to his writing. He manages to shock as well as empathize, to scare as well as acclimatize, yet beneath it all is a well read intelligence that demands to be engaged. I loved Blood Related. Ordinarily I hate serial killer stories, but William Cook won me over. He is a unique and innovative talent."
- Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Dog Days
"William Cook tells a gruesome story with a sense of authenticity that makes you question with considerable unease if it really is fiction, after all."
- Graham Masterton, author of The Manitou and Descendant
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October 27, 2017
Genre - Psychological Horror/Anthologies & Literature Collections
Publication Date - October 7, 2017
Format - Kindle
Pages - 191
Stars - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
“Dark Deaths: Selected Horror Fiction” by William Cook is yet another masterpiece of macabre psychological horror from one of the most talented authors in this genre. If you’ve read William’s work before you know what to expect and you get it in spades. If you haven’t read his work you haven’t experienced this genre to the fullest extent...and you really should check him out. William has the ability to put the reader in the room with some of the most beautifully written madness's...being a voyeur of his work is something you will not soon forget. While some of the stories in this collection are being read for the second and sometime third time by me (if you know his work you will recognize the stories), it felt like I was reading them for the first time. When you can say “I’ve read this story before but I’ve got to read it again” that’s saying something about the talent of this author. 16 brilliant, thought provoking stories, that you will find yourself revisiting time and time again. Each story is followed by a wonderful illustration, which I found just as thought provoking as the prose. Thank you William for another unforgettable reading experience.
From the preface:
“In Dark Deaths: Selected Horror Fiction, I hope that you find something that resonates with you, the reader. Perhaps one of the stories might make you check the locks on your doors before turning in for the night? Maybe one of the tales in this collection will make you contemplate something you may not have thought about, or wanted to think about, before? You might think twice about keeping the doll that sits in a box in the attic, or take a second look at the guy across the road who sits in his upstairs window watching passersby. Whatever the response, my goal is to get you involved with the story – for you to suspend disbelief, if only for a short while as you read these tales. Be warned, this is a mixed bag – a distillation of stories written over the course of a number of years – whimsical childhood nightmares sit among the bloodied remains of serial murderers and revenant spirits. Each story is a dark death, an epitaph of sorts, as I lay them to rest in this collection.”
- William Cook
New Zealand. October, 2017.
Publication Date - October 7, 2017
Format - Kindle
Pages - 191
Stars - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
“Dark Deaths: Selected Horror Fiction” by William Cook is yet another masterpiece of macabre psychological horror from one of the most talented authors in this genre. If you’ve read William’s work before you know what to expect and you get it in spades. If you haven’t read his work you haven’t experienced this genre to the fullest extent...and you really should check him out. William has the ability to put the reader in the room with some of the most beautifully written madness's...being a voyeur of his work is something you will not soon forget. While some of the stories in this collection are being read for the second and sometime third time by me (if you know his work you will recognize the stories), it felt like I was reading them for the first time. When you can say “I’ve read this story before but I’ve got to read it again” that’s saying something about the talent of this author. 16 brilliant, thought provoking stories, that you will find yourself revisiting time and time again. Each story is followed by a wonderful illustration, which I found just as thought provoking as the prose. Thank you William for another unforgettable reading experience.
From the preface:
“In Dark Deaths: Selected Horror Fiction, I hope that you find something that resonates with you, the reader. Perhaps one of the stories might make you check the locks on your doors before turning in for the night? Maybe one of the tales in this collection will make you contemplate something you may not have thought about, or wanted to think about, before? You might think twice about keeping the doll that sits in a box in the attic, or take a second look at the guy across the road who sits in his upstairs window watching passersby. Whatever the response, my goal is to get you involved with the story – for you to suspend disbelief, if only for a short while as you read these tales. Be warned, this is a mixed bag – a distillation of stories written over the course of a number of years – whimsical childhood nightmares sit among the bloodied remains of serial murderers and revenant spirits. Each story is a dark death, an epitaph of sorts, as I lay them to rest in this collection.”
- William Cook
New Zealand. October, 2017.
July 31, 2019
Nothing Special
Unfortunately, I wasn't very impressed with the stories, or the quality of their composition. I'm glad it was a short book.
Unfortunately, I wasn't very impressed with the stories, or the quality of their composition. I'm glad it was a short book.
March 9, 2018
Dark Deaths
This is a great book. Although I usually prefer full length takes , this is a good read. A look into the twisted minds of evil people. The last story would make a amazing movie. . Great Job and amazing stories! I RECOMMEND!
This is a great book. Although I usually prefer full length takes , this is a good read. A look into the twisted minds of evil people. The last story would make a amazing movie. . Great Job and amazing stories! I RECOMMEND!
March 29, 2018
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This book has a little bit of everything. It tells of the darkness hidden away in the human soul. Wow
This book has a little bit of everything. It tells of the darkness hidden away in the human soul. Wow
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