DarkWinter Press New Release: Dark Thoughts & Other Stories by Hope Thompson!

DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce our latest release, a short story collection full of intriguing noir fiction, Dark Thoughts & Other Stories by Hope Thompson, available now on Amazon in paperback and e-version for Kindle! You can buy it here!

About Dark Thoughts & Other Stories:

Dark Thoughts is a collection of eleven stories linked by a noir aesthetic; characters are cornered, caught, and facing their own demise. An advice columnist receives a letter from a murderer and discovers she is the next intended victim. A drifter obsessed with the exploits of a serial killer falls in love, and into a trap. A painter contemplates her final brush stroke—with death. Set on city streets from the 1930s and 50s, to the present day and beyond, these stories bristle with the grit of noir. While some are lighter, and others darker, all are about people forced by circumstance to escape their situation—or die trying.

Advance Praise for Dark Thoughts & Other Stories:

“With DARK THOUGHTS, Hope Thompson gives us an imaginative array of deliciously nefarious tales.”

—Elyse Friedman, author of The Opportunist

“‘Hitchcockian’ and ‘Highsmithian’, Hope Thompson’s tales are touching—yet oddly self-aware, and charming. They call up our nostalgia for another time, yet are nevertheless unsettlingly contemporary. It’s so nice not always to be ‘nice’. I highly recommend Hope’s imagination.”

—Sky Gilbert, acclaimed playwright, actor and author of I, Gloria Grahame and The Blue House

“Hope Thompson crafts stories that shiver with a sense of foreboding whilst propelling the reader forward. Thompson peoples her world with advice columnists determined to make a real difference, elevator operators unafraid of soaring to great heights and movie extras searching for the truth behind the curtain. Her dark stories zigzag in unexpected directions, leaving the reader satisfied and sometimes a little freaked out.”

—Amy Tector, author of the Dominion Archives Mysteries

About The Author:

Hope Thompson’s plays have been produced in Vancouver and Los Angeles, and in Toronto at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Her one-act play Trapped! was published in the anthology ‘Queer/Play’ (Playwrights Canada Press, 2017). As a script­writer, she has writing credits on several film and television projects, and on multiple true crime podcast episodes. In 2019, she wrote and performed, The Talking Grave—a séance and interview with deceased crime writer, Cornell Woolrich. Dark Thoughts is Hope’s first story collection.