Sometimes you wake up to find

The whole world is after you.
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You think you know the night

But the darkness hides an ocean of secrets.
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Walk the secret road of sacrifice

And all your dreams will become flesh.
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Don't be scared

This abattoir might kill you with laughter.
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Inscrutably twisted

Like a Chinese Tattoo.
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Welcome to Dark Arts Books...

Founded in 2006 to produce unique "sampler" anthologies which each featured multiple stories by four authors, Dark Arts Books has gone on to issue single author collections and novels as well from some of finest writers in modern horror. We've published seven anthologies, been written up in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Cemetery Dance and Rue Morgue, and been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. To solidify our position as a serious, highbrow press, we staged the first-ever World Horror Convention Pajama Party in 2008!



Now available...
How I Started The Apocalypse: Omnibus Edition

The omnibus edition of How I Started The Apocalypse collects, for the first time, all three of Brian Pinkerton's short Apocalypse novellas in one volume! Released on Friday the 13th (9/13/2024) in both e-book and trade paperback, you can order now on Amazon.com.

Dread Central called it "the kind of book you’ll tear through in one sitting…a really macabre and satisfying slice of horror fiction.”

What's it about?
How I Started The Apocalypse follows Chaz, the product of a secret military experiment gone horribly wrong. He is a fully cognizant zombie with an appetite for human flesh. Chaz holds the fate of the world in his hands, whether he likes it or not. He is dead. He is angry. He is contagious. And he is hungry.

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More Featured Releases...

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Synchronized Sleepwalking
To sleep, perchance to dream… And in dreaming lies the danger!
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Rough Cut
What really happens on the set of a horror movie?
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THE FAMILY TREE
What is the true lifeblood of the family?
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Swallowed by the Cracks
16 tales of those sudden moments when life goes from light to dark, laughing to screaming, bad to worse. Scary to…unspeakable.

Now Available...The Night Mother!

The Night Mother, the sequel to John Everson's 2012 Bram Stoker Award finalist NightWhere, is now available from major bookstores everywhere! The Night Mother was released in both e-book and trade paperback on June 1, 2023. Order now on Amazon.com.

Autographed copies of the trade paperback are available via John Everson's website here.

What's it about? Here's the summary:
Selena, a fallen angel, knew that once exposed, you could never escape the pull of NightWhere, a mysterious underground sex club run by beings called The Watchers. Cassie, a driven dominatrix, didn’t.

When both are drawn into the club's secret rooms that promise an ecstasy of forbidden pain and pleasure, they must somehow try to protect the men they love. Because the club's Midnight Queen, the Night Mother, has a deadly plan that may break the boundaries of our world and destroy everything and everyone they’ve ever desired...

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