Poisoned Candy: Bite-sized Horror for Halloween: Bite-sized Horror, #1

By Pippa Bailey and Myk Pilgrim

From the Authors of Devil's Night and the publishers of The Little Book of Harm, comes Poisoned Candy, a collection of 100 Halloween short stories.

Discover the disgusting, depraved, and downright diabolical things people get up to on Halloween.

 

Within Poisoned Candy, you will find a world where the only thing scarier than the monster under your bed, is the person tucking you in. Where pumpkins bite back, and the stench of death is cut with bubblegum and candy corn.

 

Come door to door and enjoy a deadly, delectable offering of short fiction with a vile sense of humour.

 

"I read this book in one evening. I could not put it down. The stories are wonderfully creative, darkly humorous, shocking, horrifying, and wholly entertaining. This collection is full of surprises. It is completely shelf worthy. Creative. Shocking. Entertaining. Highly recommended."
★★★★★

Lisa Lee Tone - Reviewer at Bibliophilia Templum: Reviews and Resources for the daring reader

 

Glimpses at things gone wrong, flashes of darkness and love and loss. I personally loved how some of the stories flowed into others, and how each terrified in its own unique way."

★★★★★
Guy S. Medley - Marketing Agent, Crystal Lake Publishing

 

"This is the work of two authors firing on all on all cylinders. I really hope these two do more work together because the results are really terrifyingly enjoyable."
★★★★★
Nelson W. Pyles - author, Creator and executive producer of The Wicked Library

 

And for reasons that should be BLATANTLY OBVIOUS, this book is very much NOT FOR CHILDREN.

 

Other titles available in the series:

? Devil's Night: Bite-Sized Horror for Halloween
? Rancid Eggs: Bite-sized Horror for Easter
? Bloody Stockings: Bite-sized Horror for Christmas
? The Little Book of Harm Bad Advice for Harmful Living

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pugnacious Press
• Release date: Nov 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9781536514476

Book preview

Poisoned Candy

Bite-sized Horror

A collection of Halloween Horror

By Pippa Bailey and Myk Pilgrim

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s twisted imagination or used in a fictitious manner.

Any resemblance to events or persons, living, dead, undead or reanimated, is purely coincidental.

Poisoned Candy

Bite-sized Horror

Copyright © 2018 by Pippa Bailey and Myk Pilgrim

First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Pugnacious Press.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, contact the publisher, Pugnacious Press, at [e-mail].

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a

fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living, dead, undead, living dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Kindly edited by Linda Nagle

Cover design and book art by Myk Pilgrim, using elements under a Creative Commons 4.0 licence and gin.

Book formatting, admin, marketing, and Pilgrim wrangling by Pippa Bailey.

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Trigger Warning

Pilgrim here. Firstly, we wanted to say a big ‘ol thank you for picking up this book.

Well, that, and give you a heads-up or two.

Pippa and I (being a skeezy, scummy, vulgar pair) have spared no expense in the taste department for Poisoned Candy.

Be warned, folks: the dog dies, the children seldom (if ever) outrun the monster, and mommy and daddy aren’t here to protect you from the thing in the closet - in fact, mommy and daddy make the monsters look like toothless puppies.

All in drabble form --that means 100 words, no more, no less.

This book touches on sensitive issues such as degenerative diseases, murder, bullying, necrophilia, coprophagia, copious quantities of vomit, bodily fluids,

—which, let’s be honest here, shall we, are all pretty much the same thing.

The publishers advise readers to proceed with caution; you have been warned.

Hello, publishers here again, consider this a second warning. There’s some tasteless shit in this book.

If you read on and get upset,

that is very much your fault.

More titles available from

Purveyors of the Weird & Unusual.

Publishers of Peculiar Horror.

Devil’s Night: Bite-Sized Horror for Halloween

Rancid Eggs: Bite-sized Horror for Easter

Bloody Stockings: Bite-sized Horror for Christmas

Poisoned Candy: Bite-sized Horror for Halloween

The Little Book of Harm

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Thank you cider,

we couldn’t have done this without you.

Well, we could