Quick Bites Chapbooks Series

Christmas is a time of darkness and the veil between living and uncanny is thinnest. Yuletide – stretching from December and the pre-Christian Christmas and into New Year – is full of folklore.

Dark Christmas chapbook contains story-specific images to accompany each of the ten tales. From the malevolent Kallikantzaroi, the Yuletide sister witches offering blessings or cures, the child-stealing Krampus and the Icelandic Yule Lads who kidnap badly behaved children for the their troll-witch mother Gryla to eat.

These are are darkest of tales few of us hear at Christmas. Are you ready?

We’ve all read fairy tales as children – swooning princesses cast under spells by evil witches, unwary bargains made the Fae beings, mermaids longing to be human and experience true love, and the evil stepmother who tries to kill her stepdaughter out of jealousy. These were cautionary stories of good and bad social and moral behaviour. But there is a much darker side to many of classically loved fairy tales.
Dark Fairy Tales explores this shadowy landscape of Fae beings granting the desires of humans who later come to regret their bargains. Stories of a girl who is gifted fine new shoes but then she nor other around her can’t stop dancing until her feet are ruined and she stands among the dead. Snow White is a story of royal intrigue, attempted murder and revenge.
Dark Fairy Tales is 10 new tales inspired by fairy tales with accompanying illustrations for each story.
Prepare yourself for the dark and savage world of fairy tales as you’ve never known them!

Ten tales inspired by ghosts, hauntings, psychological horror and the darkest depths of the human mind. Tales of the paranormal and supernatural, the deadly and depraved. Stories that unnerve and make you question what lies beyond in the dark or that flicker in the corner of your eye?
Dark Gothic delves into the shadows, the dark and gothic heart of horror with accompanying illustrations.

Are you ready to take a journey into the dark?

Dark Folklore pulls back the veil on beliefs, customs, and stories of different communities preserved throughout the generations. Come on an exploration of vampire lore, witches and curses, Valkyries and ancient customs of the Incas.

Dark Folklore is ten tales of customs past and present and delves into the darkness of human belief and the stories warning of the dangerous and uncanny waiting in the shadows.

Will you venture into the dark?

Mythology and legends tells tales of heroic deeds, monsters, gods and goddesses, wars and humanity often caught between warring gods. This is a dark world where myths and legends walk among us and are part of our everyday lives and prayers in supplication to these supernatural powers.

Dark Myth is 10 tales with accompanying images that explore the mythologies and legends of Norse, ancient Greek and Roman, British Isles and around the globe.
Step into these tales where gods, heroes and monsters stalk.