What do you think?
Rate this book
Tales for Dark Hours
The debut collection horror from writer, Daniel Eaves. What do—a bell that summons something unspeakable; a phone texting you from the past; rumours of a local monster in the woods; an ashtray with a will of its own; a skeleton doll with a demon attached, and a man who views humans as bugs—all have in common? When a Professor of Mythical Literature sits down with a new colleague to read a compendium of urban legends, he will uncover the truth… and he may just find his evening mutating into the next in the series of gruesome “Tales for Dark Hours.”
149 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2022
1 person is currently reading
5 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
October 8, 2022
Horror Bookworm Reviews
Tales For Dark Hours by Daniel Eaves
https://horrorbookwormreviews.com/
- A sales coordinator for auction houses chances upon a nice little antique. Unfortunately, this particular object happens to be cursed with the ability to summon the disturbing affections from an entity named “Mother Of Death.”
- The glow of the gibbous Moon has been known to energize hidden dimensions of darkness. It is also known to affect a mythical creature called the Cotton Wells Monster. On this particular lunar phase an offering to the beast develops into a deluge of doom, death and wickedness for the locals.
- Join a serial killer and discover a first hand account of life’s hierarchy food chain and the necessity of death equalizing the worth of life. From insect to human…find out where you rank and what you’re worth in the eyes of a distorted mind.
A university professor’s first day of teaching Mythical Literature comes face to face with a mysterious book entitled “Collected Modern Anecdotes Of Unexplained Phenomena.” Here is where author Daniel Eaves has accumulated his collection of short stories that conjure up each and every compelling and gruesome account given by “real people.” A wonderfully creative idea that he has called Tales For Dark Hours.
Eaves leads his readers on a supernatural pilgrimage where there are no instructions, diagrams or illustrations on how to survive his conduit to the unnatural. The sights and smells he provides are overpowering with a diversity of unholy visions and a stench of the bizarre. I strongly recommend you partake in these endless corridors of morbid urban legends and myths of the disturbed. I usually don’t wimp out when it comes to horror, not much spooks me anymore but I can honestly say when reading this book I genuinely got creeped out many times. I’m looking forward to what Daniel Eaves has to offer us readers for the future.
This is not your mother’s Splatterpunk Zine ritualistic leather bound book of scriptures, cosmic horrors and evils. Tales For Dark Hours will make you think twice about ringing that bell for service or resurrecting that doll from the Bowels of Hell. This is a five star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Horror Bookworm Recommendation that stands on pure “gorified” storytelling talent.
Tales For Dark Hours by Daniel Eaves
https://horrorbookwormreviews.com/
- A sales coordinator for auction houses chances upon a nice little antique. Unfortunately, this particular object happens to be cursed with the ability to summon the disturbing affections from an entity named “Mother Of Death.”
- The glow of the gibbous Moon has been known to energize hidden dimensions of darkness. It is also known to affect a mythical creature called the Cotton Wells Monster. On this particular lunar phase an offering to the beast develops into a deluge of doom, death and wickedness for the locals.
- Join a serial killer and discover a first hand account of life’s hierarchy food chain and the necessity of death equalizing the worth of life. From insect to human…find out where you rank and what you’re worth in the eyes of a distorted mind.
A university professor’s first day of teaching Mythical Literature comes face to face with a mysterious book entitled “Collected Modern Anecdotes Of Unexplained Phenomena.” Here is where author Daniel Eaves has accumulated his collection of short stories that conjure up each and every compelling and gruesome account given by “real people.” A wonderfully creative idea that he has called Tales For Dark Hours.
Eaves leads his readers on a supernatural pilgrimage where there are no instructions, diagrams or illustrations on how to survive his conduit to the unnatural. The sights and smells he provides are overpowering with a diversity of unholy visions and a stench of the bizarre. I strongly recommend you partake in these endless corridors of morbid urban legends and myths of the disturbed. I usually don’t wimp out when it comes to horror, not much spooks me anymore but I can honestly say when reading this book I genuinely got creeped out many times. I’m looking forward to what Daniel Eaves has to offer us readers for the future.
This is not your mother’s Splatterpunk Zine ritualistic leather bound book of scriptures, cosmic horrors and evils. Tales For Dark Hours will make you think twice about ringing that bell for service or resurrecting that doll from the Bowels of Hell. This is a five star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Horror Bookworm Recommendation that stands on pure “gorified” storytelling talent.
October 10, 2022
Tales for Dark Hours by Daniel Eaves is more than a collection of short stories. The stories are connected via interludes that are themselves chapters of a larger story. It’s brilliantly done and fantastically entertaining.
Each of these engrossing short stories is a stand-alone horror tale in its own right, and each represents a different subgenre or combination thereof.
“Callback” is a suspenseful and chilling ghost story. “Gibbous Moon” is a riveting combination folk horror/cosmic horror story with a completely unexpected twist. “What Does It Want” is a dark story about panpsychism, specifically a mysterious ash tray and what it wants. “Ring for Me, I’ll Come Mother You” is perhaps the most disturbing of the lot, a folk horror tale about a cursed bell and the gruesome toll it demands. “Skellygog” is a brutal and visceral demonic story that will keep you out of the attic and away from family heirlooms for days … days and days. And “Ill Tendencies” is a peek inside the life and mind of a serial killer.
The larger story collecting these tales is mysterious and intriguing, witty and engaging, full of clever foreshadowing and possessing a fantastic climax and conclusion. The book as a whole is one incredible tale.
But it doesn’t end where you think it does. Read the Afterword.
Tales for Dark Hours truly lives up to its title. This shelf-worthy 5-star book is a must read!
Each of these engrossing short stories is a stand-alone horror tale in its own right, and each represents a different subgenre or combination thereof.
“Callback” is a suspenseful and chilling ghost story. “Gibbous Moon” is a riveting combination folk horror/cosmic horror story with a completely unexpected twist. “What Does It Want” is a dark story about panpsychism, specifically a mysterious ash tray and what it wants. “Ring for Me, I’ll Come Mother You” is perhaps the most disturbing of the lot, a folk horror tale about a cursed bell and the gruesome toll it demands. “Skellygog” is a brutal and visceral demonic story that will keep you out of the attic and away from family heirlooms for days … days and days. And “Ill Tendencies” is a peek inside the life and mind of a serial killer.
The larger story collecting these tales is mysterious and intriguing, witty and engaging, full of clever foreshadowing and possessing a fantastic climax and conclusion. The book as a whole is one incredible tale.
But it doesn’t end where you think it does. Read the Afterword.
Tales for Dark Hours truly lives up to its title. This shelf-worthy 5-star book is a must read!
July 17, 2024
Loved this book. Has a Stephen King/TV anthology vibe. Would make a cool Netflix series.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews