Spawn 2 cover art Luke Spooner I am very excited to announce the release of Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies edited by Deborah Sheldon and published by IFWG Publishing is an anthology of Australian and New Zealand authors with themes ranging from body horror, occult, folklore, history, cybernetics and… Continue reading New Release: Weird Horror Anthology
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Black Beacon Book of Ghosts Cover Art Red Wallflower In time for Halloween reading The Black Beacon Book of Ghosts anthology is out now! Featuring an international suite of authors, there are some eerie tales to keep you up late at night! Featuring my haunted house tale of a different kind and the horrors that… Continue reading New Release: Haunting Anthology
Gustave Dorรฉ's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustration "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is one of the great epic poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, written between 1797โ1798 and published in 1798. For me, this endures as a haunting poem about the consequence of actions and respect for an equilibrium, especially… Continue reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
I am thrilled to announce that I'll be in conversation with the delightful Leife Shallcross to launch of my collection Three Curses & Other Dark Tales and edited anthology Cursed Shards from IFWG Publishing of dark tales inspired by fairytales, folklore, magic mirrors, wicked Fae and Curses! Come celebrate noon 28th September at ANU Harry… Continue reading Double Book Launch!!
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description From some of the biggest names in horror comes an Advent calendar of short holiday horror stories perfect for the darkest nights of the year. Edited by award-winning author and anthologist Lindy Ryan and with contributions from masters of horror like Josh Malerman, Eric LaRocca,… Continue reading The Darkest Night
Image compiled of Rรกn from Pinterest In Norse mythology, Rรกn (Old Norse: [หrษหn]) is a goddess and a personification of the sea. Rรกn and her husband รgir who also personifies the sea, have nine daughters, personifications of waves. Rรกn apprars in the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, compiled during the 13th century from earlier… Continue reading Norse Myth: Rรกn
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description The Queen whoโd once swept up the cinders is exiled to a distant wing of the palace, replaced by a younger, prettier girl who can bear her King an heir. Unwilling to accept the rapid deterioration of her power and desperately clinging to fraying strands of sanity, the exiled Queen journals the choices… Continue reading After Midnight
The ancient myths and legends were a source of inspiration for many of the collective literary and artists known as collectively as the Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood. Even after several reiterations of the creative collective, interest in the ancient and medieval legends and myths remained strong. The British poet John Keats published his epic poem 'Lamia' in… Continue reading Ancient Greek Myth: Lamia
Vรถlva Painting by Violeta Colmenares In Norse mythology, the Norse seeress or Vรถlva, is a prominent figure. The pre-13th Century Icelandic texts in Old Norse known as the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda respectively. The Poetic Edda contains fragmentary verse texts, while the Prose Edda is more cohesive prose text but both relate to the… Continue reading Norse Myth: The Seeress
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