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The crazy crew at the Australian Horror Writers Association have released the cover for the upcoming 9th issue of Midnight Echo Magazine! This artwork, created by Mel Gannon, is deliciously dark and I think captures the theme of the issue – myths and legends. I’m very excited about this issue as I’m providing not only theContinue reading “Midnight Echo #9 is coming!”

 Rick Hautala  In the past week the world’s horror community has lost three great authors – David B.Silva, James Herbert and Rick Hautala.  Even though I didn’t know these men (I did have several exchanges with David via email when he was running Hellnotes.com and found him to be very cordial and receptiveContinue reading “Three Great Authors”

darkscrybe’s photostream on Flickr. A sample of some of my artwork

This piece was a job through Cohesion Editing and Proofreading. The client wanted a dark, brooding, vampire with just a hint of malice. Cael’s appearance went through a number of incarnations until I got his expression just right.    ‘ After doing the drawing in pencil it was coloured and textured in Photoshop to giveContinue reading “Book cover art: Cael”

Originally, this blog was solely supposed to focus on my writing, but given the amount of art-related projects I’m involved in I’ve decided to finally include them on this page, hence the blog’s re-branding.The art I create, whether it be for book covers, posters, comics or magazines, I’m now going to post on this blog,Continue reading “Darkscrybe gets a facelift!”

Wow. The graphic novel I illustrated, Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times, is up for an award – a Bram Stoker Award® of all things! The Stokers are regarded as the pre-eminent Award in horror literature and to have been nominated – no, just to have Witch Hunts on the list – is truly amazing. Continue reading “Witch Hunts nominated for Bram Stoker Award!”

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!”