Cabaret of Dread; a Horror Compendium

By Lily Childs

2012

First Published

4.78

Average Rating

110

Number of Pages

3H21M

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Product DescriptionA terrifying collection of short horror stories by dark fiction author Lily Childs. These forty-three offerings comprise eleven long tales, including the previously SMILING CYRUS - dancing dolls of death in your attic- IN ADORATION - demonic rebirth, revenge and new skin- STARING AT THE PINK - when the dead don't let goStudded and stitched together by shorter pieces and tiny 100-word drabbles this first volume of Cabaret of Dread ends THE INFANTA TRIPTYCH - living, dying art - breathing, pulsing... ancient. "Extreme vampire horror."Words spill from the babbling mouths of demons and murderers throughout Cabaret of Dread, combining fear and even humour as the reader encounters serial killers and ghosts, historical entities and psychopaths, not to mention a scuttling vampire or two.Cabaret of Dread is extreme horror FOR ADULTS ONLY. Ethereal and spiritual elements battle with the visceral and the insane; lustful adoration dallies with laboured, lingering death. The Cabaret will shock, it may well offend. But it is beautiful – at least in the author’s mind - and that’s where the darkness lies._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Praise for Cabaret of Dread"Having read almost every story written by Lily Childs, I can confidently say that Britain has a new Queen of Dark Fiction. The prose crawl off the pages, down your spine, then drag you into the darkness." - Col Bury, Crime Editor at Thrillers Killers 'n' Chillers ezine

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Author

Lily Childs

Author · 4 books

Lily Childs... writes dark fiction, horror and chilling mysteries. She is currently completing her first novel, a supernatural asylum thriller set in the south of England. Her gothic horrors, ghost stories and crime tales have been published in anthologies, most recently: The House of Three: a Short Story (Ganglion Press), The Twistweaver’s Son in The Demonologia Biblica (Western Legends Publishing), The Ossillatrice Shift in Bones (James Ward Kirk Fiction), Strange Tastes in Fresh Fear (James Ward Kirk Fiction), Girl Don’t Come in Thirteen (Soul Bay Press), Rapture in The Bestiarum Vocabulum (Western Legends Publishing) and Bad Exposure in Phobophobias 2 (Western Legends Publishing) Cabaret of Dread: a Horror Compendium (2012) is a gathering of Lily’s terrifying tales, and a selection of her poems was published in Courting Demons - A Collection Of Dark Verse in 2011. Lily is also author of the Magenta Shaman dark urban fantasy, short story series. Her psychological crime thriller Carpaccio was nominated for a Spinetingler Award in 2011. She is a member of The British Fantasy Society and former Horror Editor at Thrillers Killers 'n' Chillers e-zine. Blog: The Feardom http://lilychildsfeardom.blogspot.com Twitter @LilyChilds and Facebook.com/LilyChildsFeardom