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    Bites Eyes: 13 Macabre Morsels
    Bites Eyes: 13 Macabre Morsels
    Bites Eyes: 13 Macabre Morsels
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    Bites Eyes: 13 Macabre Morsels

    By Matthew R. Davis

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    Art and ambition meet sublime moments of dread in Matthew R. Davis' Bites Eyes, a collection of sinister and terrifying vignettes from the award-winning author and rising star of Australian horror.

    Within, you'll find ghosts celebrating heartbreaking holidays, deadly music that spells death for any who hear it, unsettling children who take extraordinary steps, lethal butchers lurking in plain sight, ancient evils, and much more.

    Collected together for the first time, these thirteen macabre morsels offer a taste of the terrifying, the sinister, the dangerous, and the disturbed.

    Every bite's a pleasure, yet comes with a delectable thrill of fear.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrain Jar Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2023
    ISBN9781922479815
    Bites Eyes: 13 Macabre Morsels

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      Bites Eyes - Matthew R. Davis

      Bites Eyes

      ALSO BY MATTHEW R. DAVIS

      Supermassive Black Mass

      If Only Tonight We Could Sleep

      Midnight in the Chapel of Love

      The Dark Matter of Natasha

      BITES EYES

      13 MACABRE MORSELS

      MATTHEW R. DAVIS

      Brain Jar Press

      CONTENTS

      You’ve Seen The Butcher

      Christmas Presence

      Colours That Flicker In Water

      Confectious

      Misericordia

      Tornado Girl

      Catching Flies

      Hackles

      What I Did On The Weekend By Taylor Cassidy, Class 2A

      Of Coldest Coal

      Softly Through The Shadows

      Introspectre

      Please Stay

      About the Author

      Credits

      Thank You For Buying This Brain Jar Press Ebook

      YOU’VE SEEN THE BUTCHER

      The scariest person you know? The last person you’d want to find standing over your bed?

      Libby Butcher.

      She works with you in the supermarket deli department, and you don’t know if the name’s a coincidence or an inspiration. She’s creepy, man. Pale blue eyes, arms like a stevedore, laugh like a bone saw. First time you heard that laugh, one of the deli girls found a lump of jelly on her shoulder with a pupil in it and screamed. Just keeping an eye on you, Butcher said. Cue bone saw.

      This stockboy, Marko, he’ll sleep with anything. Said he chatted her up once on a dare, went home with her. Said her place was chilly as a coldroom and all the fixtures were brushed steel. Said there’s not a single hair on her entire body and her pussy smelled like freshly sliced fritz. Said he doesn’t know if she bit him because she came or the other way around. He’s avoided the deli ever since.

      When she watches you work, she smiles like she’s sizing you up for prime cuts. She was born for the abattoir — looks like she’d be right at home with a captive bolt pistol and rib shears. You can imagine her a thousand years ago dressed in furs and raw guts, tearing the skins off deer with her bare hands.

      You’ve never seen her eat a vegetable. Just cold collations, all meat all the time. You’d believe it if you heard she licked the benches and gutters clean after every shift. This week, she’s been bringing in her own German sausages for lunch.

      Thing is, Hans from the bakery section went missing last week. Big boy he was, lots of meat on those bones. Everyone’s wondering where he’s gone.

      You can’t help thinking the wurst.

      CHRISTMAS PRESENCE

      What’s that smell?

      Erin turned from the stove and beamed over at the table, where Kym sat

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