Tag Archive | Horror writing
Flavour of Spite – Eight
Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
Image credit: aradaphotography Violet was frightened it seemed, and that was not my intention. I had wanted our first real encounter, in her new home, to be one of explanation, but slowly growing appreciation, even the first brief buds of joy. I had wanted her to understand, but then…
The Hanged Girl Seven
Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
? Image credit: sellingpix The next morning Lisa would only remember fragments of her nightmare. She would think this a blessing, but the shadows of memory and disconnection would tug at her sensibility, suggesting in low whispers that she really should remember. That it was important somehow. And she…
The Flavour of Spite Seven
Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
Image credit: Susan Montgomery She wakes from a dis-orienting dream, and the strange light around her – so unfamiliar, though as she wakes it is hard to fully fathom why – makes her blink rapidly. Her eyelids are butterflies frightened by the wind. She was dreaming, of course, though…
The Hanged Girl Six
Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
? Image credit: Andrey Bayda For a reputedly haunted house, number 6 Mercy Lane as very beguiling indeed. The moment Damien opened the door to them Lisa and Mandy were literally flooded with a warm light from the hallway, seemingly reaching out into the early twilight haze like a…