The very kind people at Drunk In A Graveyard decided to deliver a little pumpkin shaped audio gift to their listeners every day in the form of a narrated story.
Day 22’s story, “You’re Next”, was submitted by David E. Gates who, apparently, you should follow on twitter for all your horror fiction needs year round.
You can access the podcast here via YouTube or listen to the audio here.
Now available, an original screenplay, created by David E. Gates.
The Projectionist.
After a freak accident, a man develops a mysterious power which gains the attraction of dark forces who wish to take it from him.
Available in all eBook formats from Smashwords and for Kindle at Amazon, and all good online bookstores.
For a very limited time, you can get the brilliant short story, The Ghost of Clothes by David E. Gates for half-price!
Head over to Smashwords and enter code PU58V to get your exclusive discount.
Available in all eBook formats.
The sequel to The Roots of Evil, my first horror novel, is coming along nicely…
Five chapters completed last week. Six if you count one I’d already written a while back but now placed in the new book.
Looking to release later this year…
Will be bigger, bloodier and bolder, with more deaths and a lot more gore…
Dare you look inside?
A full-colour illustrated collection of short-stories, poems, reviews and other writings from the author of Access Denied, The Roots of Evil, The Wretched and First Words.
Full Colour & Black and White paperback versions available now – See links below to purchase. (Please allow 28 days for delivery.)
Available from all good online bookstores.
Available at Amazon in Kindle (Full Colour – £9.99) and Paperback (£27.99) formats.
Available from Smashwords in multiple e-reader formats.
FULL COLOUR ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK – £17.99 (Within UK)
B&W ILLUSTRATED PAPERBACK – £11.99 (Within UK)
If you wish to purchase from outside of the UK, please contact me directly here.
In anticipation of the release of my anthology of short-stories, poems, reviews and other writings, Outrunning the Rain, my short-story, End Request, is now available at all good online bookstores, including Smashwords and Amazon.
Wracked with depression, a woman decides to enlist help with ending it all from an unlikely source.
Novels and short-stories from David E. Gates to curdle your blood and give you nightmares this Halloween… Available at Amazon, Smashwords and all good online bookstores.
Footballers Faking Injury… It’s Torture…
A World Cup Short Story.
Fed up with the pathetic fakery of people rolling around on the ground as if they’ve been shot, when fouled during a football match, one fan takes matters into his own hands to show one footballer what real pain is.
Available to download as an eBook from Amazon, Smashwords and all good online bookstores.
I recently tried my hand at Flash Fiction. The requirement was to write a short story, under 150 words, that featured the word “Slice”.
I’ll be including it in my upcoming anthology, Outrunning the Rain, along with other short-stories, flash-fiction and poetry.
Hope you like it.
A Flash In The Pan by David E. Gates
Blood ran out of the meat and collected on the glistening white of the plate it was sat upon. A castle of flesh, an inch high, surrounded by a moat of its own juices.
The sound of sizzling fat in a frying pan echoed around the room. The smell, sweet and welcoming, not unlike that which accompanies the cooking of bacon, permeated the air.
“Would you like a piece?” The man holding the pan and leaning towards the slab of meat on the plate said.
Muffled sounds of protest came forth from a figure sat at the table. Their struggle was fruitless, their bonds tight, their mouth sealed.
“More for me then.” The man said, laughing as he pierced the foodstuff with a large knife, lifting and dropping it onto the pan’s surface before turning towards his prisoner.
“Hold still now.” He said, as he began to slice.
The End.
David E. Gates’ first anthology of short stories, scripts, poems and reviews, First Words, is available at Amazon and Smashwords.
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