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Greg Chapman

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Born

in Rockhampton, Australia

Website

http://darkscrybe.com

Twitter

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Genre

Horror, Mystery & Thrillers, Comics & Graphic Novels

Influences

Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King ...more

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Australian Shadows Award-winner***, two-time Bram Stoker Award nominee** and Ditmar Awards nominee*, Greg Chapman is a horror author and artist based in Queensland Australia.

Greg is the author of the novels Hollow House, The Noctuary: Pandemonium and Netherkind and the collections, Vaudeville and Other Nightmares, This Sublime Darkness and Other Dark Stories, Bleak Precision, Midnight Masquerade and Black Days and Bloody Nights. His short fiction has also appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines.

His artistic endeavours include designing book covers for various publishers in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. He has been creating book covers and artwork for IFWG Publishing since 2013. The first graphic novel he illus ...more

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	Hollow House 3.39 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Night Of October 3.94 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vaudeville and Other Nightmares 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Noctuary 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midnight Masquerade 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Torment 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eschatologist 4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Black Days & Bloody Nights by Greg Chapman (Goodreads Author), Steve Stred (Goodreads Author) (Foreword by) 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Netherkind 3.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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ART OF DARKNESS – a graphic novelette

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ART OF DARKNESS – A graphic novelette by Greg Chapman (self-published, 2026)

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An artist grieving the loss of his wife and unborn child, finds his existence falling into despair – until a stone falls from the heavens onto his estate.

What appears to be a chance at salvation becomes a struggle with cosmic forces in which the artist’s very soul teeters between acts of creation a

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Greg Chapman and 8 other people liked Cameron Trost's review of Hell in Her Wake : And Other Twisted Visions: "Greg Chapman delivers with devilish decorum once again in Hell in Her Wake, his latest collection. I enjoyed revisiting a number of stories I'd read before here, including one about a lighthouse that I originally published in a themed anthology. If y" Read more of this review »
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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“Strong belief in the bright future, always hiding fear of the past”.”
― Alexandar Tomov

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“[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
― Clive Barker

tags: chaos, horror, illusion, oblivion, reality, truth

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