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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.…
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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…
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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
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The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels Book Review
If Sir Terry Pratchett and Jane Austen had a baby, India Holton is it.
If that isn’t enough to make you want to go pick up this book allow me to gush about this wonderfully fresh and side-splittingly hilarious work of art. #bookreview #bookblog #bookstagram
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The Leviathan Book Review
Synopsis She is awake… Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Treadwater is summoned home by his sister, who accuses a new servant of improper conduct with their widowed father. By the time Thomas returns home, his father is insensible, felled by a stroke, and their…
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Her Majesty’s Royal Coven Book Review
A Discovery of Witches meets The Craft in this the first installment of this epic fantasy trilogy about a group of childhood friends who are also witches.
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A Monster of Science: A look at Gothic Tropes in The Bacillus and Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde
The gothic is notorious for exciting the fascination with all things darker and uncanny within its audience. Two texts utilising the gothic tropes of strange science, and the monster, which shall be compared are Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and H. G. Wells’ The…
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Tales from the Cafe Book Review
Kawaguchi reminds us that despite our hardships and our flaws and our griefs, there is still hope and happiness to be had in our lives.
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The Guest Cat Book Review
Hiraide perfectly captures the gentle way cats (and pets in general) can have such a deep impact on people’s happiness and lives through modest everday examples.
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Piranesi Book Review
Synopsis Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant.…
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STARSIGHT Book Review
Synopsis All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she’s a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. Spensa is sure there’s more to the story. And she’s sure that whatever happened to…
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The New Weird: Subverting the Traditional
The New Weird is a hybrid genre of science fiction, horror and fantasy estranged from traditional conventions by creating indefinable, unexplainable, and inexplicable events and creatures. Investigated within this paper will be the New Weird monster, New Weird’s subversion of genre, and the effectiveness of the unknowable.
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Author Highlight REBECCA CAMM
Rebecca Camm is an Australian indie author, mother of two, and fantasy-romance enthusiast. Now, she’s released her first novel, Liars and Light, AVAILABLE NOW!
Check out 21 questions with Rebecca Camm here!
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Alice’s Red
An ambiguous re-imagining of ‘Red Riding Hood’ and the female body, inspired by Angela Carter’s ‘Wolf Alice’.
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