In this place marking our eternal return, we take respite to examine across various media the supernatural, myth, folklore, science-fiction, science-fantasy, dark fantasy, the weird tale, and much more.
Darcy Coates was an author with whom I was not familiar, but she seemed to have quite the fan base on Amazon. Her bibliography (and biography) indicates that her passion is haunted house stories. Many of her novels have titles in variants of “The Haunting of (fill-in-the blank),” which might seem discouragingly generic or derivative,… Continue reading The House Next Door
I have been toying recently with a story idea told in the epistolary style—that is, told through correspondence between characters, as well as through a variety of news articles and journal entries. This genre of storytelling traces back as far as the 15th century. However, it is likely most familiar to contemporary readers by way… Continue reading Correspondence as a Method of Storytelling
Though I do have to admit that, in the past, I was entirely guilty of falling back on the very devices I now wish to denounce, it is only in the present that I have come to realize how tired a cliché and a blatant display of lazy storytelling the use of dream sequences within… Continue reading Notes on Dream Use in Storytelling
If you haven't done so already, please click the link below to purchase a digital version of my novella, The Blooding. I also invite you to post a review at the site below or on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any of the other locations where the novella is available. Your (hopefully positive) reviews are… Continue reading Support a Starving Writer
With the first trailer, I was intrigued by what the film, A Quiet Place, could be. It suggested a film with little dialogue and one very sparing in its sound design. After all, it dealt with strange creatures that hunted purely by sound. I wasn’t able to catch the film during its theatrical run, but… Continue reading The Silence and A Quiet Place
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