Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 August 2022
Mind Blood is a brilliant little book of short stories – some had me thinking… One or two made me giggle and a few were quite impossible not to question if it could happen to you… or has it yet to happen?? So many little twists and lots of blood – my poor brain has had to have a holiday!! Well done to David for a book I can pick up again and again to quench my thirst of little short stories without having to leave the light on but keep me awake thinking… Drip Drip drip… Is anybody there? It’s just a book… Let your imagination run amok with this little gem of a book. Go on. I dare you.
Available at all good online bookstores and via www.davidegates.com
A new anthology of short stories by David E. Gates.
Featuring tales of the macabre such as The Blood, Croc, The Crash, The Ghosts of Gribble and You’re Next along with short, flash-fiction stories including The Devil Needs Payin’ and The Search.
More than 30 original stories, many of which have never been previously published.
Get your copy from the bookstore.
The Deeper Roots of Evil is already attracting some great, FIVE STAR reviews!
“After reading The Roots of Evil, the first in this sequel, I was eager to find out what was going to happen next in the creepy village of Ropely and the wonderful people that reside therein. My favourite being Dotty Dingle, a batty old lady with her shopping trolley who is rather central to the continuing saga. The author initially draws you into this book by concentrating on the characters and the personal relationships that arise between them, very cleverly making you form an emotional attachment to them before one by one they reach a grisly demise. Who will be left? What atrocity will happen next? Throughout the book you’re gripped with the notion that something dreadful is about to occur, so you have to keep reading but you’re scared to turn the page as you don’t know whose grim termination you’ll discover!! Exciting and horrifying in equal measures. Another page-turner from the amazingly gifted David E Gates. I’m already looking forward to the next in the series…” – Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2020
“Second book in the series and third I’ve read from this author. As per previous books, it was captivating and exciting. Well written… I’d thoroughly recommend it.” – Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 March 2020
The Deeper Roots of Evil is available in eBook and Paperback format from all good online bookstores. And Amazon.
The first book in the series, The Roots of Evil, is available in eBook and Paperback at all good online bookstores also.
The artwork for the eBook and Paperback release of The Deeper Roots of Evil is now completed.
On the NEXT Friday the 13th (in March 2020), the astonishing sequel to The Roots of Evil, called The Deeper Roots of Evil, will be released. Details of where to pre-order coming soon.
On the NEXT Friday the 13th (in March 2020), the astonishing sequel to The Roots of Evil, called The Deeper Roots of Evil, will be released. Details of where to pre-order will come soon. Draft cover below…
Youths on the rampage,
Vicious and feral.
Dare to tackle?
At your peril.
Gangs ruling streets,
Squabbling over little,
Reducing communities,
To something brittle.
Bottles thrown,
No care for others.
Mindless vandalism,
By them and their “brothers”.
Kids getting knifed.
Police unable, unwilling,
Citing lack of resources,
To stop their killing.
Where are the parents?
Kids bringing up kids.
No respect for their elders,
Life on the skids.
Society’s broken.
Is there a fix?
Which doesn’t involve,
Faces smashed in with bricks.
No-go ghettos,
And now a dead cop,
Lawless enclaves,
When will it stop?
Don’t give them holidays,
Jail them for their crime.
Repeat offenders?
Treble their time!
Punish them properly.
Stop with the excuse.
That we need to be softer.
For therein lies abuse.
Bring back the stocks.
And make prisons tough.
A six by nine cell.
For enough is enough.
©Copyright – David E. Gates – 2019
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…
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.
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