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Category: Free Reads

Autonomous – Free Short Story

26th April 202329th April 2023Leave a comment

Keeping up with my free short stories every month, this time around I went with a different style and dove into an epistolary style, where each part of the story is a short entry from the protagonist – Dr Harvey Bollard – as he details an excavation of something that shouldn’t exist. It may have been inspired by my recent obsession with The X-Files.

You can read the story as a free download from my Ko-fi.

The Faces of the Many – Free Comic

14th April 202329th April 2023Leave a comment

After a wee hiatus, Project Dark House is back in action with another freebie posted on IrishComics.ie. I finally got to work with a bucket-list artist, Lane Lloyd, on a creepy, genre-diving story called The Faces of the Many.

You can read it on IrishComics.ie for free!

The God in the Grove at the End of the World – Free Short Story

29th March 202329th April 2023Leave a comment

Entirely inspired by the fact that Fractured Realms is currently funding on Kickstarter, I wrote a short story about a god – the last god – encountering the last humans on Earth, following a sort of apocalypse scenario.

You can read the story as a free download from my Ko-fi.

Masquerade – Free Short Story

15th February 202329th April 2023Leave a comment

While Project Dark House is between comics at the moment, I decided to delve into the world via prose fiction. Masquerade is a weird story that looks at identity, because apparently existentialism is my brand when I’m writing these days.

You can read the story as a free download from my Ko-fi.

Spare a Thought – Free Short Story

18th January 202329th April 2023Leave a comment

Short stories are always a fun way to force myself back into writing. To get the ball rolling on 2023, I wrote Spare a Thought, a story with a telepathic virus of sorts set in a small Irish town with too much to say.

You can read the story as a free download from my Ko-fi. It’s weird, it’s whacky, and I want to do more like it.

Child’s Play – Free Comic

19th November 202129th April 2023Leave a comment

Project Dark House just keeps on giving. After seeing her work in Turning Roads, I reached out to Mari Rolin to see if she’d be up for a creepy little nightmare called Child’s Play.

The comic can be read for free on IrishComics.ie.

Dead Ringer – Free Comic

22nd October 202129th April 2023Leave a comment

Following on from the publication of The Fiend in the Forest earlier this year, I worked with Gavin Fullerton to produce the second story from Project Dark House. Dead Ringer is an 8-page story about identity and faceless violence. With a monster, for good measure.

The comic can be read for free on IrishComics.ie. Reader beware, it gets graphic!

The Fiend in the Forest – Free Comic

29th July 202129th April 2023Leave a comment

To celebrate the launch of IrishComics.ie, I teamed up with Clare Foley on a new short horror. The Fiend in the Forest is the first completed work in what I’ve taken to calling Project Dark House, a weird little universe of original cryptids.

You can read the whole thing for free over on IrishComics.ie, or download a PDF from Limit Break Comics.

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