<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096698131099471019</id><updated>2012-01-02T15:50:05.763-08:00</updated><category term='angels'/><category term='vampires'/><category term='ghouls'/><category term='Horror'/><category term='dreams'/><category term='Short Story'/><category term='Zombies'/><category term='fiction'/><category term='comedy'/><category term='nightmares'/><category term='demons'/><title type='text'>Bleakest Tomes</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bleakesttomes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9096698131099471019/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bleakesttomes.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Chris Canning</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10815889111838491516</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='17' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kh7GH05d9ak/TrrWBKxSoBI/AAAAAAAAATk/WxeOzw1zYlg/s220/CopyofDSCF1543_wm2150.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096698131099471019.post-2785102241437687572</id><published>2011-12-04T01:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-04T01:11:11.987-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Servants of the Night - Sample Chapters</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;In London Ontario a bipolar misanthrope learns there is more to her life than she could possibly have ever imagined when she is visited one night by a mysterious man with a strange tale to tell.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;A Toronto homicide detective investigates an unusual series of murders in which each victim appears to have spontaneously combusted and nobody knows why. His investigation takes an unexpected turn when he is approached by someone claiming to have the answers he seeks but those answers come with a heavy price.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;Vampires have lived in humanities shadow for thousands of years. They have lived amongst us without our knowledge but now events are unfolding that threaten to expose them to the light of day. An ancient evil thought long destroyed threatens to arise once more to reclaim the vampire race and only a handful of determined vampires brought together by circumstance stands in the way of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Servants of the Night&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/74666178/Servants-of-the-Night-Sample-Chapters" style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto; text-decoration: underline;" title="View Servants of the Night - Sample Chapters on Scribd"&gt;Servants of the Night - Sample Chapters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.772727272727273" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_25094" scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/74666178/content?start_page=1&amp;amp;view_mode=list&amp;amp;access_key=key-t7zvhy8bhhjqimhgmvv" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9096698131099471019-2785102241437687572?l=bleakesttomes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bleakesttomes.blogspot.com/feeds/2785102241437687572/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bleakesttomes.blogspot.com/2011/12/servants-of-night-sample-chapters.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9096698131099471019/posts/default/2785102241437687572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9096698131099471019/posts/default/2785102241437687572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bleakesttomes.blogspot.com/2011/12/servants-of-night-sample-chapters.html' title='Servants of the Night - Sample Chapters'/><author><name>Chris Canning</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10815889111838491516</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='17' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kh7GH05d9ak/TrrWBKxSoBI/AAAAAAAAATk/WxeOzw1zYlg/s220/CopyofDSCF1543_wm2150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096698131099471019.post-5258431457632944163</id><published>2010-02-24T01:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-10T16:24:28.959-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Horror'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zombies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Short Story'/><title type='text'>On the Inside</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;It started out like any other day... until she was attacked by some strange lunatic in a grocery store parking lot. The doctors assured her she would be fine... but they were wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt; Dead wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/27375667?access_key=key-1s0jg18xnrbdvjwffwov" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;On The Inside&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/27375667/On-the-Inside" style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto; text-decoration: underline;" title="View On the Inside  on Scribd"&gt;On the Inside &lt;/a&gt;&lt;iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.772727272727273" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_65989" scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/27375667/content?start_page=1&amp;amp;view_mode=list&amp;amp;access_key=key-1s0jg18xnrbdvjwffwov" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9096698131099471019-5258431457632944163?l=bleakesttomes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bleakesttomes.blogspot.com/feeds/5258431457632944163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bleakesttomes.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-inside.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9096698131099471019/posts/default/5258431457632944163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9096698131099471019/posts/default/5258431457632944163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bleakesttomes.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-inside.html' title='On the Inside'/><author><name>Chris Canning</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10815889111838491516</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='17' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kh7GH05d9ak/TrrWBKxSoBI/AAAAAAAAATk/WxeOzw1zYlg/s220/CopyofDSCF1543_wm2150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096698131099471019.post-3691313503937674004</id><published>2010-01-23T10:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-10T16:58:18.016-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Horror'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dreams'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ghouls'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nightmares'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Short Story'/><title type='text'>Visitors</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;Nightmares can be terrifying, horrible things but at least once you wake up the nightmare is over... Or is it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/72313439?access_key=key-23858kmfxa33huk44hea" style="color: #660000;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Visitors&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/72313439/Visitors-by-Chris-Canning" style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto; text-decoration: underline;" title="View  Visitors by Chris Canning  on Scribd"&gt; Visitors by Chris Canning &lt;/a&gt;&lt;iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.772727272727273" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_17375" scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/72313439/content?start_page=1&amp;amp;view_mode=list&amp;amp;access_key=key-23858kmfxa33huk44hea" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9096698131099471019-3691313503937674004?l=bleakesttomes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bleakesttomes.blogspot.com/feeds/3691313503937674004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://bleakesttomes.blogspot.com/2010/01/visitors.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9096698131099471019/posts/default/3691313503937674004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9096698131099471019/posts/default/3691313503937674004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bleakesttomes.blogspot.com/2010/01/visitors.html' title='Visitors'/><author><name>Chris Canning</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10815889111838491516</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='17' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kh7GH05d9ak/TrrWBKxSoBI/AAAAAAAAATk/WxeOzw1zYlg/s220/CopyofDSCF1543_wm2150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9096698131099471019.post-3004941808302894215</id><published>2009-05-04T15:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-10T19:29:19.556-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Horror'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vampires'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Short Story'/><title type='text'>One Way or the Other</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;Life is full of unexpected events and Eddie had thought that he had lived through them all. He was a survivor, this much was certain... but would he be able to survive an encounter with a vampire?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/72336372?access_key=key-230wjxdyfnwpvqie6oqh" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;One Way or the Other&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/72336372/One-Way-or-the-Other" style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto; text-decoration: underline;" title="View One Way or the Other on Scribd"&gt;One Way or the Other&lt;/a&gt;&lt;iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.772727272727273" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_16149" scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/72336372/content?start_page=1&amp;amp;view_mode=list&amp;amp;access_key=key-230wjxdyfnwpvqie6oqh" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); 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