Author Archives: darkscrybe

Those who have read my second Damnation Books novella The Noctuary, would remember the menacing antagonist Meknok, the Dark Muse who tormented young writer Simon Ryan throughout the book. As an artist I’ve given in to temptation and captured Meknok’s likeness a few times now, but it seemed fitting that his portrait should adorn theContinue reading “Competition – "The Noctuary:Remarque edition"”

My first piece of published short fiction for 2013 has been released over at Literary Mayhem. You can read it HERE The site’s publisher Peter Schwotzer contacted me before the end of last year seeking a tale with a winter theme. The first thought that came to mind was of something lurking beneath a lakeContinue reading “Literary Mayhem publishes "Lost Lake"”

I’ll admit now that I’m not very good at public speaking and I hate hearing my own recorded voice. I’ve done a few radio interviews with my local radio station now and usually I give these off-the-cuff responses and there are too many “ums” and “ahs” and I end up sounding like I have no clueContinue reading “Sound Bite”

Over the weekend I reconfigured my Q&A group discussion page over at Goodreads. It’s something that I’ve been meaning to do but just haven’t got around to it until now. You can join the group by following this link – http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/89294-q-a-with-horror-author-greg-chapman You can read topics about my latest publication news, see my list of publishedContinue reading “Goodreads Discussion Page Launched!”

I’ve been sitting on this announcement for weeks, but now that it’s my birthday I’m releasing it into the wild! Bad Moon Books, one of the United States’ leading small press publishers will publish my fourth novella The Last Night of October for Halloween! There was a lot happening behind the scenes here, but essentiallyContinue reading “Bad Moon Rising!”

This might just be my very last post. Well that all depends on whether the Mayans were right – right? No, this is simply my obligatory end of year post. The one where I waffle on about what I’ve achieved and what I haven’t. I don’t set myself any hard writing or art goals (unlessContinue reading “The Post to End All Posts?”

Over the course of about 14 months from October 2010 to November 2011 I illustrated roughly 200 pages for the graphic novel Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times, authored by Bram Stoker Award Winners Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton. The graphic novel was published by McFarland and so far has received muchContinue reading “Witch Hunts – The Missing Pages!”

My comrade Lisa Morton recently tagged me with these interview questions as part of The Next Big Thing initiative – a concept to allow authors to help other authors, so here goes:1) What is the working title of your next book?The Last Night of October – obviously it’s about Halloween and it’s novella length.2) Where didContinue reading “The Next Big Thing”

It’s getting closer to Halloween and over at the Horror Writers Association’s blog, I’ve left a post on how I feel about Halloween as an Australian. Better still if you read my post and leave a comment you go into the draw to win a copy of my latest e-novella “Vaudeville”, published by Dark PrintsContinue reading “Want a chance to WIN a copy of Vaudeville?”

Want a chance to win this original artwork by yours truly? This bad boy is the vampire Rahkh, central character in the comic series Allure of the Ancients: The Key to His Kingdom, written by Mark Farrugia and illustrated by myself. Rahkh is a nasty vampire, who’s literally addicted to the blood of those whoContinue reading “Subscribe and you could WIN!”