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Carmilla: Week 14

XIV. The Meeting โ€œMy beloved child,โ€ he resumed, โ€œwas now growing rapidly worse. The physician who attended her had failed to produce the slightest impression on her disease, for such I then supposed it to be. He saw my alarm, and suggested a consultation. I called in an abler physician, from Gratz. Several days elapsed… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 14

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Carmilla: Week 13

XIII. The Woodman โ€œThere soon, however, appeared some drawbacks. In the first place, Millarca complained of extreme languorโ€”the weakness that remained after her late illnessโ€”and she never emerged from her room till the afternoon was pretty far advanced. In the next place, it was accidentally discovered, although she always locked her door on the inside,… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 13

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Carmilla: Week 12

XII. A Petition โ€œโ€˜Then we are to lose Madame la Comtesse, but I hope only for a few hours,โ€™ I said, with a low bow. โ€œโ€˜It may be that only, or it may be a few weeks. It was very unlucky his speaking to me just now as he did. Do you now know me?โ€™… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 12

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First Nations Month Reads

November is First Nations Month, so Iโ€™m reading and recommending quite a few amazing indigenous authors in genres spanning from epic fantasy, dystopian Grimdark fantasy to horror and weird fiction. Rebecca Roanhorse Iโ€™m currently reading Mirrored Heavens in the final in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy by Rebecca Roanhorse. This is an amazing epic… Continue reading First Nations Month Reads

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Carmilla: Week 11

XI. The Story โ€œWith all my heart,โ€ said the General, with an effort; and after a short pause in which to arrange his subject, he commenced one of the strangest narratives I ever heard. โ€œMy dear child was looking forward with great pleasure to the visit you had been so good as to arrange for… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 11

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Priest of Lies

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description When Tomas Piety and his Pious Men returned from the war, he just wanted to rebuild his crime empire and look after his people. But the sinister Queen's Men had different ideas and whether he likes it or not, he's now a spy as well. Now, half the city of Ellinburg lies in… Continue reading Priest of Lies

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What Moves the Dead

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks… Continue reading What Moves the Dead

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Carmilla: Week 8

VIII. Search At sight of the room, perfectly undisturbed except for our violent entrance, we began to cool a little, and soon recovered our senses sufficiently to dismiss the men. It had struck Mademoiselle that possibly Carmilla had been wakened by the uproar at her door, and in her first panic had jumped from her… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 8

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Carmilla: Week 7

VII. Descending It would be vain my attempting to tell you the horror with which, even now, I recall the occurrence of that night. It was no such transitory terror as a dream leaves behind it. It seemed to deepen by time, and communicated itself to the room and the very furniture that had encompassed… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 7

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Carmilla: Week 6

VI. A Very Strange Agony When we got into the drawing room, and had sat down to our coffee and chocolate, although Carmilla did not take any, she seemed quite herself again, and Madame, and Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, joined us, and made a little card party, in the course of which papa came in for… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 6