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Dark Crib Publications
Broken Highway
by Matthew Tait
Price:
Free!
Words: 6,460.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 9, 2024
by
Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
Jessica and Patrick's tour of the Australian outback began as a honeymoon of sorts – a chance for cross-continental lovers to become even more enamored of each other against the backdrop of a picturesque desert world. But, like so many travelers discover before them, the desert roads of Australia have always been littered with denizens; those who perceive the highways as hunting grounds.
The Devil's Plaything
by Matthew Tait
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Words: 3,980.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 3, 2024
by
Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
Idle hands are the Devil's plaything ... After finishing high school, Liam Goodald and his friends quickly discover the meaning of boredom: freewill as a state of mind and not an abstract philosophy. With blistering heat settling into their apartment like a sickness, it's the sanatorium across the road that captures their attention – the forbidding hospital where mental patients are routinely...
Isle of Zoltan
by Matthew Tait
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Free!
Words: 5,380.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 3, 2024
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Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
Every year, the Isle of Zoltan plays host to Scout troops in their hundreds, Cubs from all across Australia who gather to rock climb, explore caves, and fish in isolation from the mainland. But for Bradley and his friends Nigel and Steve, this year will be different. This year they will learn of Crocotta, whose mystery lies in legend, and whose abandonment generations before at the hands of...
Car Crash Weather
by Matthew Tait
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Free!
Words: 5,160.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 3, 2024
by
Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
Horror writer Michael Richards is disturbed from his daily grind by blood dripping from the ceiling, which steadily worsens. Soon, the blood becomes Michael's personal metaphor in a battle of denial ...
Mutability of the Flesh
by Matthew Tait
Price:
Free!
Words: 7,050.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 2, 2024
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Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
Bone and sinew, veins and blood, piloted around by a mysterious force called consciousness. The human animal. Mark Tanner is more aware of his anatomic makeup than most. And his severe germophobic OCD only makes the realization all the more potent. An employee at House of Haiti, Mark battles his disorder by giving rigorous attention to the store's mannequins. With his appearance almost...
The Grief School
by Matthew Tait
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Free!
Words: 7,800.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 2, 2024
by
Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
As a man of chance, Myles Lacey understood all too well the whims of the universe, and that meant death was a constant in life. The sudden loss of his wife Linda was an inopportune advent – but at least it gave back to him the freedom to play underground gambler to his heart's content. When a losing streak forces him to seek out a loan shark, Myles knows that the stakes are high. But what he...
The King's Dome
by Matthew Tait
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Free!
Words: 6,810.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 28, 2024
by
Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
The First Apocalypse they named it, a title that didn't mean anything to the survivors … In a war ravaged desert world, giant strongholds have arisen from the dust; cathedrals built to house a new world order of decadent tribes. While order survives, it has come at terrible cost, fueled by the blood of innocents who are butchered as resource … Yet there is hope. Once an orphan, a savior will...
Doll Steak
by Matthew Tait
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Free!
Words: 3,660.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 28, 2024
by
Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
Trapped within a room of sinister dolls, an average man is forced to confront his worst fears ... and quickly learns that staring into the abyss does not grant you a reprieve from them.
Dark Crib
by Matthew Tait
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Free!
Words: 13,700.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 16, 2024
by
Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
Against their mother's wishes, brothers Henry and Jacob are on their way to the new horror museum. A night jaunt through the twisting thoroughfares of Cyclone Cove. Its opening shrouded in secrecy, no one quite knows anything beyond its enigmatic name. Will it be a museum of strange oddities? Perhaps an exhibition of movie memorabilia?
Different Masks: A Decade in the Dark
by Matthew Tait
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Free!
Words: 63,920.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 27, 2023
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Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Essay » Literature
Critiques of dark and speculative fiction spanning a decade.
Ghosts in a Desert World
by Matthew Tait
Price:
Free!
Words: 48,610.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 24, 2023
by
Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
Interweaving horror into socially relevant spiritual and philosophical themes, GHOSTS IN A DESERT WORLD is the debut collection from Australian author Matthew Tait.
Deception Pass
by Matthew Tait
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Free!
Words: 50,500.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: January 18, 2023
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Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
A sleep paralysis victim, Nick's descent into oblivion ushers him back to where it all began: winters spent in the rugged foothills of Deception Pass. It was here, among the secret grottos and old-growth forests, where ancient forces first showed their hand: Shadow Men capable of paralyzing the body and manipulating generations into serving an otherworldly agenda.
Schizoid
by Matthew Tait
Price:
Free!
Words: 74,790.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 28, 2019
by
Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror
Schizoid is a dark-hued fable of the often precarious line between our waking lives and the restorative power of storytelling.
Olearia
by Matthew Tait
Price:
Free!
Words: 85,340.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: January 24, 2019
by
Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
In his 2013 novel Dark Meridian, Australian author Matthew Tait introduced us to Adam Lavas: a washed up rock star who retires in solitude and discovered another world in the process. Welcome to the second story in Adam’s narrative … Olearia.
Providence Place
by Matthew Tait
Price:
Free!
Words: 42,510.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: April 27, 2018
by
Dark Crib Publications.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Ghost
Once a bustling school playing host to the elite of Cranston, Providence Place now sits completely abandoned; a derelict world of memories for the populace of Rhode Island.