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Most Memorable Horror Nemesis
I was trying to think of what some of the more memorable creatures/characters were from either horror short stories or novels. They could be memorable due to their eeriness, appearance, dialog, horrific-ness, whatever. Here
Read More »The Haunted Boatman
William Hope Hodgson was born in Blackmore End, Essex in 1877. He ran away from boarding school at the age of thirteen to work at sea, eventually becoming a lieutenant in the merchant marine.
Read More »More Brennan!
After writing my previous article about Joseph Payne Brennan, I decided to try and find some more of his work. This proved to be more difficult than I expected. I checked E-Bay and Amazon
Read More »THE COLLECTIVE OF BLAQUE REACH Cover Art
You can now see what the cover of the chap book that my short story, “The Collective of Blaque Reach” will look like if you follow the link below. It looks very cool and fits
Read More »The Mayor Of Horrortown
Edward Frederic Benson, the son the Archbishop of Canterbury, was born in 1867, in Wokingham, Berkshire. He attended Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge. He spent three years studying archeology abroad in Greece and Egypt.
Read More »I Just Made My First Fiction Sale
For a long time now I have had a dream that I really wasn’t sure I would ever be able to achieve. That dream was to someday be able to publish something that I
Read More »A Master Of Weirdness!
In a previous post I wrote about the large contributions the magazine Weird Tales made to the field of horror fiction. I listed several of the writers that got their start there and went on to
Read More »Ghosts Of Christmas Past
Christmas is filled with traditions, some actually predating the holiday itself, such as decking the halls with greenery, which originally came from the pagan holiday of Yule. There is the tradition of putting up an
Read More »Collaborative Christmas Horror Story
I participated in a collaborative Christmas horror story over at the Justice and Wilbanks Message Boards at Horrorworld. It is titled O Come All Ye Unfaithful, and there will be six of us in total writing on it.
Read More »The Antiquarian Of Horror
What is an antiquary? This question came to mind when I saw the title of M.R. James’ collection of short stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (originally published in 1904). As it turns out, an antiquary is
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