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In Darkness, Delight: Creatures of the Night

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Predatory eyes flicker in darkness, a legion of abominations seeking human destruction. Slashing claws and gnashing teeth, hungry for flesh, eager to kill. Clutch onto hope and pray for dawn. Creatures rule the night.

In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror— shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold-hearted and heart- ...more

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Published August 2019 by Corpus Press (first published July 11th 2019)

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May 24, 2020 Bark | Ladies Of Horror Fiction rated it really liked it

Shelves: dark-fiction, horror

Short story collections almost always contain a few duds for me. It’s not the fault of the story (usually) but often a matter of taste. When you toss this many writers together one of them is bound to leave me wishing I had spent my time trimming the cat's nails or something but surprisingly that wasn’t the case here. I didn’t despise any of them and found most of them imaginative and entertaining, a few were sad making, several were humorous, and more than a few made my skin crawl. It helps tha ...more

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Oct 13, 2019 Char rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Just like the first volume, (IN DARKNESS DELIGHT: MASTERS OF MIDNIGHT), IN DARKNESS DELIGHT: CREATURES OF THE NIGHT is an impressive collection of tales!

Creature features are one of my very favorite sub-genres of horror and in this volume, nearly every single story worked for me. There were creatures of all kinds, both great and small, both real and imaginary, (though figuring out which was sometimes difficult!). I can't get into every story within, but the ones that stood out the most were:

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Oct 16, 2019 The Grim Reader rated it liked it

Like Forrest Gump famously said: “life is like a box of chocolates”. Old Forrest sure was right. There were times when dipping into this chocolate box of an anthology that I picked out a dark chocolate treat or a Cherry Ripe. Sadly, there was some Turkish Delight in here too. I felt the book started and finished with 2 of the worse stories. The predictable toilet tale and Josh Malerman’s epitaph story just did absolutely nothing for me. One was predictable and the other nonsensical and smart-ars ...more

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Sep 21, 2019 Steven rated it it was amazing

This anthology was full of awesome stories! Not one boring one in the bunch and now I really want to read the other title in this series. These stories would make the coolest Tales From The Crypt episodes and or comics/graphic novels.

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Aug 13, 2020 Lisa Lee rated it it was amazing

In Darkness, Delight: Creatures of the Night is a fantastic anthology of Extreme Horror tales. Although this installment of In Darkness Delight does have a theme—Creatures of the Night—the stories are impressively varied in premise and context and style. Some stories are more gruesome than others, some more graphic than others, some more psychologically violating than others, but I did not read one I didn’t enjoy.

That being said, I picked a few at random that begged commentary:

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Sep 04, 2019 Jesse Bollinger rated it liked it

This was a mixed bag for me. Some of the stories were great, and some of them were just OK. Nothing was horrible by a longshot.

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Oct 28, 2019 Well Read Beard rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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4.5 stars - rounding up for GoodReads, Amazon. It was a wonderful, multi-faceted anthology, I really just liked Volume 1 a bit more. All of the good stuff that I mentioned on formatting holds true for this volume. The text size, story breaks seem to make a 350 page book fly.

While volume 1 was all "new to me" authors. This one had some familiar names. Chad Lutzke ( I have read all of his work ), Gregor Xane ( I have read 3 novellas ), Richard Chizmar ( I read Gwendy's Button Box ), Glen Rolfe ( 4.5 stars - rounding up for GoodReads, Amazon. It was a wonderful, multi-faceted anthology, I really just liked Volume 1 a bit more. All of the good stuff that I mentioned on formatting holds true for this volume. The text size, story breaks seem to make a 350 page book fly.

While volume 1 was all "new to me" authors. This one had some familiar names. Chad Lutzke ( I have read all of his work ), Gregor Xane ( I have read 3 novellas ), Richard Chizmar ( I read Gwendy's Button Box ), Glen Rolfe ( I loved his novel "The Window"). Really, the point is that I wasn't going in to this one completely blind to the authors involved.

The stories covered a vast array of horror themes and based on the way my final 4 shook out - they seemed to escalate. I set out to pick a top 3 like I did for volume 1, but it was really hard with this one. The top stories were not as clear cut here. Many of them, I skimmed a 2nd time while considering these choices. I was left with not a top 3, but a final 4.

I will briefly touch on most of the stories in my video review, but here I will only mention my final 4.

4. The Newel Post - Eddie Generous - A bed and breakfast / boarding house is redoing the stairway and they have selected a tainted piece of wood, an evil newel post. This story is a hell of a trip.

3. River Of Nine Tails - Mark Cassell - Vietnamese river setting, world travelers, a little DiCaprio The Beach feel for me, River monsters, ritual sacrifice, and evolutionary themes.

2. The Green Man Of Free Town - Curtis M, Lawson - A husband is up for parole for being charged in the death of his wife and child, he believes that they were actually killed by "The Green Man", as sort of Woods monster, varying perception, repetitive line in the narrative that for me seemed to ratchet the suspense "This isn't how it happened."

1. The Giant's Table - Mary SanGiovanni - the setting is a large dolmen in the woods, a giant's table four 9 foot tall megaliths with a massive slab across the top. This stuff intrigues the hell out of me. I am quickly pulled into stories about things/places that are older than us, older than documented history. This story centers round the dolmen, what it needs. What is the purpose of this ancient structure? It seems to hum with energy, but surely that doesn't mean anything evil or insidious, right? ...more

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Oct 07, 2019 Serenity rated it liked it

Couple good stories.

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THE PEOPLE IN THE TOILET Mason Morgan. 2⭐️. Trigger warning: animal and child abuse. Too vague about what was in the toilet. The story was mainly focused on the abuse, and very little about title subject.

HUMAN TOUCH Glenn Rolfe. 3⭐️. Ok read. Wish there had been a little more back story on the creature. I appreciated the gore.

WHITE RABBIT Tim Curran. 2 ⭐️. Lacked consistency. Story begins with a description of the rabbit saying, "...its fur white and prist ...more

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Nov 18, 2019 Phillip Smith rated it liked it

This is a 2.5 for me. A lot of these stories just didn't scare or surprise me, which is a shame as I had heard good things about this collection.

But two stories I really liked were "The Ugly Tree" and "The Green Man of Freetown."

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Aug 21, 2019 Frank Oreto rated it really liked it · (Review from the author)

Full disclosure: I have a story (The Worms Turn) in this anthology.

I finished reading my contributor copy and can say it’s a fun and varied bunch of tales with something for everyone from ravenous gorehounds to monocle wearing aesthetes and all mixtures thereof. Some of my favorite stories were Mikal Trimm’s Infestation, Chad Lutzke’s “ He Wears the Lake”, and Kev Harrison’s “Snap”.

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Feb 21, 2020 Suzy Michael rated it liked it

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*I was given a copy of this book by the publisher in exchange for my fair and honest review.*

In Darkness Delight Two: Creatures of the Night, an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror- the shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold hearted and heartfelt, all weird tales of spiraling madness alongside full throttle thrillers. Open these pages and unleash all new terrors that consume from without and within.

This book didn't start or end very well. I had high expectati *I was given a copy of this book by the publisher in exchange for my fair and honest review.*

In Darkness Delight Two: Creatures of the Night, an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror- the shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold hearted and heartfelt, all weird tales of spiraling madness alongside full throttle thrillers. Open these pages and unleash all new terrors that consume from without and within.

This book didn't start or end very well. I had high expectations due to reading the first volume and the star studded line up this go around. The real fleshy parts that fed my blood lust, or at least the better stories were in the middle of the book. The not so good ones were really pretty ugly. A story about a toilet??!! And then there was Josh Malerman's ramblings on a tombstone started this volume off on a weak take off. But there were some really good ones, so let's get to the stories that stood out to me!

-The Newel Post by Eddie Generous- this story will make you think twice about using old lumber to build your house.

-River of Nine Tails by Mark Cassell- some tourists run into a river monster and some ritual sacrifice in Vietnam.

-The Green Man of Free Townby by Curtis M. Lawson- a man is up for parole after being convicted for the death of his family, who he believes were really killed by the legendary 'Green Man”.

Honorable Mentions to:

-Scales- well written and brought the gore.

-He wears the Lake- Chade Lutzke brings his subtle but effective horror skills to this one.

-Infestation by Mikal Trimm- extremely well done, but will smash your heart into a million pieces.

I really wanted to like this volume, especially with the monster factor combined with the author list heightened my expectations, but they were unfortunately too high. These stories were meant to be written to darken the day and bring creatures out of the shadows- creatures with blood lust- with torn pieces of flesh from their latest victim, still hanging from their razor sharp teeth, as they lay a long clawed paw on the edge of your chair. This is what I was hoping for, but few succeeded. ...more

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Aug 21, 2019 Trina rated it really liked it

Shelves: kindle, horror, own, amazon

A great anthology of horror stories. Each one was a winner.

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Feb 23, 2020 Karien Kloppers rated it liked it

Not as good as I expected, especially with the listed authors.... Redeems itself a bit in the second half but not by much.
In the end this book was a middle of the range, average short story collection 😒

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Sep 15, 2019 Joel Kleehammer rated it liked it

Shelves: horror

Generally decent stories from amateur authors...as with the first installment, there were many grammar issues that should have been caught. I read this book because it had Adam Light, Evans Light, and Gregor Xane. They did not disappoint. The rest were a mixed bag.

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Dec 30, 2019 Kimberly rated it liked it

I was very excited to receive a copy of In Darkness Delight: Creatures of the Night because I very much liked the first one, Masters of Midnight. And while there were many good stories within the Creatures of the Night collection, overall, I didn’t find this collection as powerful as I expected it would be.

I did have a few favorite stories that stuck with me well after reading them.

The collection opens with “The People in the Toilet” by Mason Morgan. A young boy is convinced that there are I was very excited to receive a copy of In Darkness Delight: Creatures of the Night because I very much liked the first one, Masters of Midnight. And while there were many good stories within the Creatures of the Night collection, overall, I didn’t find this collection as powerful as I expected it would be.

I did have a few favorite stories that stuck with me well after reading them.

The collection opens with “The People in the Toilet” by Mason Morgan. A young boy is convinced that there are bad people living in the toilet. The boy is more afraid of the toilet than he is of his abusive father that makes the lives of the boy and his mother a living hell. A strong way to open the collection, this story might have you think about toilets a little differently.

I also really liked “Scales” by Christopher Motz. This one made me cringe with the gruesome accounts of a horrible flesh-eating infection that starts in his foot. And plenty of maggots. I’m not one who easily cringes, but when I put myself in the main character’s position, I felt a little green. But then other lines had me laughing so hard, I don’t think I’ll ever forget it. I love to laugh, so if someone can mix humor with horror in a way I like, then I’m a fan.

“A Survivor” by Ray Garton totally blew me away. One night, Robby’s father was bitten by a weird animal. He said it’d had more than four legs and moved so quickly it was like a blur. Then his father started changing, acting distant and sinister. This story was expertly packed with a dark, foreboding feeling throughout the whole thing, and an unexpected ending that was hard to shake off.

“Hinkles” by Kristopher Rufty was another one I loved. I was hooked right away because the “creature” was an animate stuffed animal named Hinkles. I watched Chucky at a really young age, so any sort of toy or doll that can move on its own really freaks me out. We also always had sock monkeys growing up, so I just imagined one of our own stuffed animals coming to life, like in this short story. There was a great mix of creepiness, violence and humor in this one.

Other stories I liked were “Gertrude” by Evans Light and “The Worms Turn” by Frank Oreto.

All of the pieces included in the anthology were well-written, so the quality of writing/editing was there. They just didn’t resonate with me, personally. It could very well be that the theme of the collection might not have been for me, but I’d hoped for more frights and scares than I got from the book. It’s still worth checking out if you’re a fan of short story collections. ...more

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Jan 02, 2020 Randa sperling rated it it was amazing

Short stories that are well written and either horrific or introspective or both.

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Feb 08, 2020 Lee-ann rated it really liked it

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 - 𝙶𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚗 𝚁𝚘𝚕𝚏𝚎

I absolutely ADORE anthologies but sometimes I really dislike reviewing them 😂. I don’t like leaving any of the authors out! 🙈😊. I do love seeing others reviews and seeing how different our picks were tho! But, alas, it is time. Here are some stand out stories from this collection that left an impression on me:

𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘻 - This was some kind of fun! Body horror tha 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 - 𝙶𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚗 𝚁𝚘𝚕𝚏𝚎

I absolutely ADORE anthologies but sometimes I really dislike reviewing them 😂. I don’t like leaving any of the authors out! 🙈😊. I do love seeing others reviews and seeing how different our picks were tho! But, alas, it is time. Here are some stand out stories from this collection that left an impression on me:

𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘻 - This was some kind of fun! Body horror that makes you want to scratch your own skin off! It also makes me glad we currently have free health care in Canada 😳. For now anyway 🙄.

𝘏𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘓𝘶𝘵𝘻𝘬𝘦 - Wow. This one packs a heartfelt punch, just when I finished putting down the tissues from my last Lutzke story 😭. I can’t explain it. You just have to read it...

𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 - A mans life with his symbiotic twin comes to a sudden end. I thought this was very original and had a tiny surprise at the end 😬.

𝘈 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘙𝘢𝘺 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘰𝘯 - More body horror with a jaw dropping twist. Oh no she didn’t! 😱 . A man is bitten by something on his leg and as the wound is left to fester, so is he...

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘔. 𝘓𝘢𝘸𝘴𝘰𝘯 - Psychological horror at its finest! A man is up for parole for the murder of his wife and daughter, but was it him or the Green Man from the woods?

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘖𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘰 - I don’t even know what to say about this one... I absolutely loved it! More body horror, a love story, an angry ex-husband. It was basically dark AND delightful 😊.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘑𝘦𝘧𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥 - I don’t usually swear when I do reviews but... fuck me! Lol 😂 😂😂 Jeff has a way of being disgusting and hilarious both at the same time, and when you learn the meaning of this title you will probably agree.. 🤢.

Also an honorable mention to 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘓𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘯 . I know he said he was out of his comfort zone writing this one, but the ending of this one made me laugh my ass off 😂.

Overall a fantastic collection from Corpus Press! Doorbells as Dusk is one of my favorite collections and now I’m looking forward to reading In Darkness Delight Volume 1 and Screamscapes by Evans Light!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ...more

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Andrew Lennon is the bestselling author of Every Twisted Thought and several other horror/thriller books. He has featured in various bestselling anthologies, and is successfully becoming a recognised name in horror and thriller writing. Andrew is a happily married man living in the North West of England with his wife Hazel & their children.
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