Tag: Emily Morrison
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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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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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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 Stolen Bacillus.
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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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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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10 Authors You Didn’t Know Self-Published
Self-publishing has taken off in recent decades with more and more writers turning to self-publishing than going to big publishing houses like Orbit Books or Penguin House. You may be interested to know that publishing houses were not the traditional way to go in the early years of writing and publishing. The idea that to…
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Inclusivity in Literary Prose: Writing Diverse Characters
Authors can give voice to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures through the characters they create. Creating realistic diverse characters can be a challenge when these characters are vastly different to the author’s background or anything they have experienced. Cultural appropriation and stereotypes are both harmful ways in which attempts to create diversity in…
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The Tengu Trick
‘If a man has been your teacher for a day, you should treat him as your father for the rest of his life.‘ ― Wu Cheng’en, quote from Monkey: The Journey to the West When was the last time I used my legs? I think, looking at my swaddled feet. Pins and needles run through…
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