Tag Archive | horror
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…
Taking a Camel to Rome
Originally posted on Miriam Drori, Author:
I’m delighted to be joined by Seumas Gallacher today. Seumas is a prolific writer of crime thrillers. He has had phenomenal success as a self-published author and has now partnered with Crooked Cat, who are republishing his novels, starting with Savage Payback. (If you want to know why he…
A Foul Day
Originally posted on Pen of the Damned:
It moved! I swear on my mother’s grave I saw it move! Glancing up, I scan the faces surrounding the table trying to determine if anyone else saw the jerking motion. No one seems to have noticed; they’re all laughing and drinking, chattering away happily while waiting to…
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…