Eight harrowing tales of dark urban fantasy, exciting pulp fiction, gritty crime noir, and delicious vampire horror. A menagerie of thrills and chills to sink your teeth into—but be warned, they bite back! Wise guys and private eyes. Black magic and bleak futures. Your deepest desires and the road to damnation.
Come be bitten before the sunrise spoils your fun.
This new volume combines stories previously published in Waking in the Dark and Kiss of the Maiden.
If taking a college fencing class, eating from the trash can, and smelling like an animal were qualifications for becoming a sword-swinging barbarian, J. D. Brink might be Conan’s protégé. Instead, he joined the Navy… twice. He’s served aboard a warship in the Pacific, collected intel from foreign submarines, trained corpsmen to save Marines, and cared for patients at hospitals in Kuwait and Japan. Today (New Years, 2023), he’s a civilian, a freelance writer, nurse, and educator. They ask that he not wear the Viking helmet in front of actual people… Sign up for his newsletter at https://www.subscribepage.com/jdbrink...