Temple Dark Books

06/01/2026

We're sure you noticed in our recent pics from the vivid cover of our favourite recent horror release, THE GOD TIDE, from American author Nick Carlson. We'll be retiring this large paperback format soon, so grab it while you can.

06/01/2026

Lovely to see Tom O'Connell featured in this article in the Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune about a great year for Charlie Byrne's Bookshop. If you haven't grabbed your First Run copy of LICHTENBERG, you should do it now.

Iconic Galway bookstore reflects on busy year – and growing trend towards Irish writers

06/01/2026

The excellent 2024 bestseller KNIGHT OF GAELGARA by Irish author can now be found in - very few copies left of this signed and numbered limited edition with full colour map. GET IT IN ADVANCE OF NEWS ABOUT BOOK 2!

23/12/2025

Looking forward to the release of Dearg.

19/12/2025

Where The Gatekeeper comes from, humans are a delicacy and often rounded up and served at graduation parties (I know, students, right?). During your festive season, we like to watch you all get so fat you won't be able to run from those rambunctious students. It adds a level of hilarity to the traditional human hunt. So, please eat, drink and be unable to escape when the time comes. Oh, and spend time with loved ones while you can.😈

18/12/2025

LICHTENBERG has found its way down to Limerick, and now sits proudly among the books in HMV in the - grab it for your Christmas present 🎁

17/12/2025

Signed copies of LICHTENBERG have travelled far and wide across our fair isle, and now occupy the shelves of so all you rebels down there can now be part of the uprising.

16/12/2025

Signed copies of my Kiranis books in the lovely new in Tuam, Co. Galway. ☺️

16/12/2025

A restock of Lichtenberg in Roe River Books in Dundalk. Very few signed copies remaining from the book tour, so hurry, hurry, hurry! We hope to get Tom back over this side of the country in the New Year, so he'll happily sign any copies you get.

15/12/2025

Wonderful review of SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE (Kiranis Book 3) over on the Barnes & Noble website:

Absolutely Mind-Blowing!
"No one can say risks weren't taken with this series, but boy do they pay off! The density of the first two books is finally starting to unravel and make sense as more linear plots come into play in this third installment. There's a very swift connection with the central character, Philip, who's the captain of the 'Icarus', a ship with a specific purpose that connects with the ending of Book 2 and the overall plot threading through them all. But as the story goes on and you start to identify connections with plots in both previous books that you thought were forgotten about (and probably seemed pointless), you just can't help but smile. There's a meticulous framing of language and events, and Geobey keeps us looking the other way until he wants us to see what he has in store. When you reach the end of this book, with that closing line...BOOM! I just can't say any more, because I don't even want to hint at what it relates to. It's just that good of a surprise." - SCIFILOVER23
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Have you discovered Absolution yet?
https://www.templedarkbooks.com/secrets-of-the-universe

15/12/2025

5 years ago, the wonderfully mysterious Nick Carlson submitted the creepy and quirky HELL'S GULF to us, and we were immediately smitten. He then followed up with THE GOD TIDE and we were like, "This guy is cool!" And now, look at him, all grown up, and we're reading his latest manuscript, and IT'S BRILLIANT!!! We're just so *sniff* so damn proud! Big love to Nick Carlson, our OG horror writer.