More news from the Nameless Writing Group although rather belated. Piotr Świetlik’s short story, Curiosity Is A First Step, has been published in the anthology, This Twisted Earth, by Six Minutes To Midnight, a division of Great British Horror. The anthology was launched this year at FantasyCon.
Nice one, Piotr!
Two authors have made goosebumps rise on my flesh. The first was King, while reading the hobbling scene in his novel Misery. Now Bradbury, after finishing The Emissary, a beautiful short story in his collection, The October Country.
Is there any fiction that has moved you in a similar way?
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!
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.
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
News that my ghost story, Leave The Living Alone, has been accepted for publication by a British magazine specialising in the Gothic genre has made my weekend. Details to follow.
The latest submission call I’ve responded to is a little different. It consists of stages. Round one of three: sub the final edit of your story’s first two hundred words. … Continue reading The Anatomy of Writing
Another story is brewing with the help of some uninvited guests.
“Plot is what stops narrative being just one thing after another.” Interesting article on the history of ‘plotting’ in the Guardian today.
I have been discussing the mechanics of story-writing with Simon Dewar recently. This guy is a true gent in the publishing world, and happens to know what he’s talking about. … Continue reading Shout Out
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