Dark Arts Books

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Founded in 2006, the mission of Dark Arts Books is to create affordable trade paperback collections featuring multiple stories by four authors each. We publish sampler anthologies of some of the finest writers in modern horror and dark fantasy.

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Swallowed By The Cracks
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 107,270. Language: English. Published: May 2, 2013 by Dark Arts Books. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Ghost
For the brave, Dark Arts Books presents 16 tales of those sudden moments when life goes from light to dark, laughing to screaming, scary to...unspeakable. Four of horror's brightest talents - Lee Thomas, Gary McMahon, S.G. Browne and Michael Marshall Smith - illuminate the shadows and show you what's waiting there in the dark, where if you're not careful, you might end up Swallowed By The Cracks.
When The Night Comes Down
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 92,030. Language: English. Published: May 2, 2013 by Dark Arts Books. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Undead
TRAPPED WITHIN THE TWILIGHT... Call it what you like: dusk, twilight, sunset. It's that magical moment between daylight and darkness when anything is possible - the evening ahead promises untold enchantment... or nameless dread. There are shapeshifters and gravediggers, supernatural private detectives... Murder, death and things worse than death are all waiting for you When The Night Comes Down.
Mighty Unclean
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 86,830. Language: English. Published: May 2, 2013 by Dark Arts Books. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
From the agony of unrelenting grief to the desperation of spontaneously-combusting convicts, to the grim battle between a human monster and his otherworldy competition... Mighty Unclean offers all this and more in strange worlds vividly painted by four supremely talented authors – Cody Goodfellow, Gemma Files, Mort Castle and Gary A. Braunbeck.
Like A Chinese Tattoo
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 76,360. Language: English. Published: April 29, 2013 by Dark Arts Books. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Undead
Unusual, weird and wonderful, herein are 12 stories from the minds of Cullen Bunn, Rick R. Reed, David Thomas Lord and J.A. Konrath — four supremely talented, and twisted, authors. From the curse of the living dead to vengeance from beyond the grave, from the darkest corner of Africa to the bowels of the local cemetery, these tales are as unique and as mysterious as, well, a Chinese Tattoo!
Waiting for October
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 45,660. Language: English. Published: April 29, 2013 by Dark Arts Books. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Undead, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
Not Your Average Book of Chillers! Twelve tales guaranteed to amuse, disturb and make you squirm from Jeff Strand, Adam Pepper, Sarah Pinborough and Jeffrey Thomas. From body parts gone missing to body parts inexplicably arriving, from parasitic children to dead grammas, get ready for some wild stories from four very distinct and unique voices.
The Dark Underbelly of Hymns
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 45,950. Language: English. Published: March 5, 2013 by Dark Arts Books. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
Martin Mundt's second collection of horror, humor and the macabre contains a dozen must-read tales, including "The Worst Mime In The World" and "The Nothing Good Ever Came Out Of Being Asked By Your Girlfriend If You Were A Cannibal Blues."
Candy In The Dumpster
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 44,330. Language: English. Published: April 11, 2011 by Dark Arts Books. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
The debut Dark Arts Books release compiles 12 "new and used" horror stories by four darkly humorous and horrifically dark Chicago authors: Jay Bonansinga, Bill Breedlove, John Everson, and Martin Mundt. The YEAR'S BEST FANTASY & HORROR anthology lauded CANDY IN THE DUMPSTER noting: "A few of the originals are utterly tasteless and utterly hilarious..."
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Sins of the Sirens
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 64,410. Language: English. Published: April 29, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Erotica » Paranormal
Dark Love Beckons… The seduction of an angel; the lure of the lash; the touch of psychic hands… these are just a few of the alluring sins of these three literary sirens. Look inside, but be careful they don’t lure you in too far… Sins of the Sirens offers 11 erotic horror tales from three of horror's most provocative authors: Maria Alexander, Loren Rhoads and Mehitobel Wilson.
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Latest book: Down on Your Knees.
Published September 24, 2016. (4.00 from 1 review)