Tag Archive | horror stories
The Four Elements of a Horror Story
Originally posted on Story Empire:
BOO! Did I scare you? Probably not. It’s pretty hard to take someone by surprise when you tell them in advance (in my case, by this blog’s title) you’re about to discuss horror and fright. Or is it? If that were true, horror legends like H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen…
The Flavour of Spite – Five
Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
? Image credit: Bondarenko The readiness is all. I have a weakness here, I have to admit. My conditioning has had this impact, this effect, where my mind finds it hard to settle for long enough to truly plan and achieve. This has not been a problem in my…
The Hanged Girl – Three
Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
Image credit: Sunny Forest ‘Sheesh!’ Susan exclaimed ,almost spilling her coffee, ‘I didn’t realise you’d move into that street, and so close to that house!’ It was Saturday morning, the first weekend after her first week on the new job, and Lisa finally had a chance to catch up…
The Flavour of Spite – Three
Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
? ? ? Image credit: lassedesignen I had the nightmare again. I woke shaking around 3am, the witching hour, the hour when most people suicide, according to some article I read many years before. It is the hour when the temperature is coldest, and so your body is chilled.…
The Hanged Girl – Two
Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
? ? ? Image credit: Nilo It’s good to be thrown in at the deep end, Lisa told herself silently, that way you learn to swim so much more quickly. The cause of her reverie was being left alone to mind the shop by her far more experienced colleague…
Book review: Tales of the Mantequero
Originally posted on Effrosyni's blog:
Every once in a while, there comes a book that makes me wish that I could rate with 6 stars, just to make that one book stand out triumphantly as it should. This book is definitely one of them! The Mantequero is not your average vampire. This Spanish lad…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 