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via Hallowe’en Special Offer from Manchester University Press — Open Graves, Open Minds
The Public Domain Review has just made available Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn (1904). That’s my bedtime reading sorted for tonight. Sleep well!
Repetition makes the improbable probable.
I’m reworking The Red Spot Murders tonight. It’s a Pourquoi story exploring the haunted house phenomenon, and features a delightful antagonist by the name of Maeve. It was by researching this character that I learned that there are such things as Mother Trees. I had hoped there were. In fact I typed that exact term into my Google search to see what would come up, and was rewarded with this wonderful TED talk with Suzanne Simard, a Canadian ecologist. Damn, the woods have just got a whole load creepier.
I attended a Supernatural Cities conference at Portsmouth University earlier in the year. One of the papers submitted raised the subject of ghost stations on the London’s Underground. Related to that, here is a well-argued article by Amanda Ruggeri debating the possibility of plague pits below the city.
My son bought me Stephen King’s latest short story collection, The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams, for my birthday today.
I have only read the Author’s Note and, of course, the song quote and, by the gods, already it feels like being reunited with an old friend after many years. I guess it has been a long time. Let’s find out what he’s been up to.I have only read the Author’s Note and, of course, the song quote and, by the gods, already it feels like being reunited with an old friend after many years. I guess it has been a long time. Let’s find out what he’s been up to.
Yesterday had been bookmarked for location research. St Austell, Cornwall was the destination and we set off early in the morning before the heavens opened and turned the roads to … Continue reading In the hour we killed
If you have a bit of horror flash fiction or poetry you would like to see published on this blog, go to my submissions page for guidelines. I would … Continue reading Slattery’s Art of Horror Now Takes Submissions and Announcements
Excited to hear that not only is there a third season of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker’s dystopian television series, but that it’s also going to be screened at Toronto International Film Festival. I’ve been a fan of the man ever since I watched Dead Set, and I admire what Brooker has done with these stand-alone tales. I find them to be jaw-droppingly clever, disturbingly hilarious, and – if we don’t watch out – truly prophetic.
… crap. Here’s one to add to the Literary versus Genre fiction debate. And it’s the first time I hear mention of Sturgeon’s Law.
Eric Nash 