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Halloween was a great night for me as I launched my latest short story collection, Midnight Masquerade at Avid Reader Bookshop in Brisbane.

Thank you to everyone who came to the launch event of my book Midnight Masquerade. It was fantastic. Special thanks to Avid Reader Bookshop, Gerry Huntman from IFWG Publishing, Linda Brady, Zachary Ashford, Geneve Flynn and Susan Hewitt for coming along and taking pics.

For those who couldn’t make it to my launch last night, the amazing folks Avid Reader Bookshop have copies of Midnight Masquerade. And I may have even secretly signed a couple 😛 So why not support a local bookstore and grab a copy or five!

Alternatively you can always purchase a copy from your favourite ONLINE STORE

I was also recently interviewed about Midnight Masquerade and my book cover work on Unveiling Nightmares

My forthcoming collection is now available to pre-order from all good bookstores!

Midnight Masquerade, a collection of Greg Chapman’ s acclaimed and original fiction:

Clown-for-hire, Harvey has the worst day of his life
A childhood display of malice is resurrected thirty years later
A priest finds true faith means devotion to blood and pain
Revenge shows Emma what lies beneath her mask of fear
A Halloween expert unleashes her own personal hell

In these stories, you’ll discover how the masks we all wear hide our innermost fears, and how our choices can expose true horrors.

Also included are Chapman’s acclaimed novellas, The Last Night of October and Vaudeville, and the short stories, Octoberville and Left on October Lane.

Big news this week that the issue of Midnight Echo I guest-edited – Midnight Echo Issue 17, is a nominee in the 2022 Australian Shadows Awards, in the Edited Works category!

Given this is my first time editing an anthology or magazine, I’m pretty chuffed the judges felt that ME17 was worthy of a nomination.

Even better one of the stories I selected for the issue, “The Tub”, by J Ashley-Smith, is a nominee in the Short Fiction category and I’m ecstatic for Joseph as well! It goes without saying that I’m also proud of all the other contributors to the issue!

I’ve been nominated in the Shadows three times before with my debut novel Hollow House and my novella The Eschatologist (now known as The Followers) being nominated in 2016, and my short story “The Bone Maiden” in 2015. So this latest makes four in four separate categories!

The winners of the 2022 Australian Shadows Awards will be announced at Asylum Fest in October.

Midnight Echo Issue 17 is a publication of the Australasian Horror Writers Association and is available in digital and print formats.

My creepy piece of flash fiction, “Dura Mater” has been published at Nightmare Fuel Magazine. Inspired by the MK Ultra mind control experiments and trephination. Check it out via the link below.

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Hey friends in horror!

I know it’s been a while but I wanted to give you all a sneak peek at my sixth fiction collection, Midnight Masquerade, which will be published this September by IFWG Publishing! 

Midnight Masquerade will be my sixth fiction collection when it’s released and will contain my novellas “The Last Night of October” and “Vaudeville” and five new short stories on a similar theme – namely Halloween and carvinal-esque horror.

It was a whole lot of fun writing these new stories and I hope readers will like them. 

Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lisa Morton has also penned a very flattering introduction for the book. She knows me and my fiction far too well!

A snippet of the cover.

If you haven’t read any of my short fiction before you can pick up copies of some of my other collections, including “Vaudeville and Other Nightmares“, “This Sublime Darkness and Other Dark Stories“, or “Bleak Precision“

Even though the release is still several months away I have also been hard at work designing the book cover and book trailer. 

These assets are vital for the success of any book release and thankfully I have the right software for the job. 

I’ll be releasing the trailer halfway through the year but I thought I’d share a snippet of what it will look like.

Midnight Masquerade will be a good novel-length-sized book when it’s released and will also include some black-and-white illustrations by yours truly!

Here are the “synopses” for each of the new stories:

Clown-for-hire, Harvey has the worst day of his life

A childhood display of malice is resurrected thirty years later

A priest finds true faith means devotion to blood and pain

Revenge shows Emma what lies beneath her mask of fear

A Halloween expert unleashes her own personal hell

Midnight Masquerade is the first of two collections I’ll have out this year and next, with Black Days and Bloody Nights to follow in late 2024.

I hope you all give it a chance when it’s released – thank you for your continued support!

In a few weeks, the Australasian Horror Writers Association will release the latest issue of its magazine, Midnight Echo – issue 17.

I’ve had stories and artwork in Midnight Echo before, but this is the first time I’ve had the opportunity to guest-edit an issue.

Being a writer and being an editor are two very different beasts. You have your own ideas of what you want, but ultimately you are driven by the authors. I received dozens of submissions for the issue, but I only ended up choosing 13 stories – by 13 authors who genuinely moved me.

In Midnight Echo 17 you’ll find stories of deception, superstition, self-discovery, torment, grief, addiction, and survival. Most of all you’ll read works that show how horror can unveil the many layers of humanity – both good and bad. Included are two exceptional tales which won last year’s AHWA Robert N Stephenson Short and Flash Fiction Competition.

I want to congratulate and thank all the authors for their stories because, in the end, it’s about you and your tales. I also want to thank the AHWA for allowing me to put the issue together.

Midnight Echo 17, which will be published on August 20, is available to pre-order NOW. I hope you’ll give it a whirl.