Author: emileeta
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Strange associates: Weird affect, weird fiction and the weird short story
this paper investigates weird fiction’s relationship with the short story, and argues that the short story is perhaps the most ‘natural’ form for the weird. The article spotlights some of the critical gaps that exist in weird scholarship, while at the same time offering insight into why weird short fiction remains popular with authors, even…
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Weird Fiction for Beginners
This guide is for those who are ready to dip their toes into Weird fiction, but might not be ready for some of the intense themes, graphic depictions, and overall mind-boggling that many Weird stories can contain.
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Certain Dark Things Book Review
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that lovers of vampire fiction, must be in want of more vampire fiction. In futuristic Mexico City, vampires aren’t welcome and neither are their family fueds and rivalries—cue hot vampire girl on the run needing a safe place to lay low…
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What Moves the Dead Book Review
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher is a reimagining of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher… All the elements are technically there, but I feel nothing.
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The Mantodea Monarch
Read the short story that didn’t make into Mother’s Milk for free here! This sci-fi horror is perfect for getting into the Halloween spirit! Iris is Second Mother among the Mantodea, a species recently visited by human explorers. But with humanity came new diseases that threaten her people’s very existance. Now, Iris is tasked with…
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Weird Fiction, What is it?
When someone says they like Weird Fiction it may immediately bring to mind stories containing unfathomably ancient miasmic, tentacled deities or a disc-shaped world balancing atop elephants that stand upon a giant turtle swimming through space. Alternatively, one may be drawn to images of vegan vampires in space or a cat that hates Mondays and…
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The desire to simply not exist
To simply not exist is an unattainable goal. It cannot be achieved, and even if it could, you would have no ability to perceive that it had been.
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The King in Yellow Book Review
“song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa.”
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11 Free Short Stories To Read For Halloween… (or any time of the year)
What is it about spooky tales that we love so much? Here is a list of must-read short stories for Halloween—All available online FREE!
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What is Speculative Fiction?
Sometimes called ‘what-if’ books. Speculative fiction changes the laws of what’s real or possible as we know them and speculates what could be instead. #speculativefiction #whatif #bookblog #writersguide
Emily Morrison 