Status Updates From Shards of Shattered Darkness

Short Story -Broom Grove
First in second section: Dark Days

“What she really noticed though – in fact… were his eyes. They shone with an intelligence and depth and knowingness that she had never seen before, least of all in the blank stupidity of her normal Broom Grove clientele. But beyond that, deep down in those intense brown orbs, their kindled devilment, arrogance and – she was sure of it – contempt.

Short Story- The King’s Call
-100 words
Shortest story in book

Story 1- The Grey Berserker
“The Grey Berserker itself: This story feeds into the distant backstory for my own fictional creation, Darkisle (the Hidden Isle described by Osred)…draw on the Cthulhu Mythos, the rationale for the creation of the Grey Berserker is Lovecraftian-type magic. The ‘Goddess of the Woodlands’ is intended to be the Cthulhu Mythos deity Shubb-Niggurath.”

“The Kingdom of the Southern Isles: The Viking raids of the late 8th century on the Western Isles of Scotland eventually became an occupation in the 840’s – this was the war of conquest that Gunnar’s father fought in his youth. The Inner Hebrides became the Norse kingdom of Suðreyjar (literally, ‘Southern Isles’), which after later expansions came to be called Sodor.”

UK Horror
Ebook arc
Short story collection
“Some are set on Darkisle – the place at the heart of my Jack Glennison novels – most are not. Some are quite long, others are very tiny.”
Span writers entire writing career-some very old some new”

Darkness is theme of all
Only one historical fiction story- Viking one

Got ebook arc copy from Mark himself.
Short story collection covering a variety of different Subgenres of horror
Displays his writing skills and styles over broad range of topics
Broken down into 5 sections
Dark legends
-2 stories
Dark days
3
Dark seasons
-5
Dark futures
-3
Dark isle
-4

British horror