Fantasy fiction & folklore!
I'm Icy Sedgwick, a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. I also write fiction - dark fantasy, supernatural mysteries, Gothic horror and Westerns. Subscribers to my email list get a free, exclusive short story in one of these genres every month. I've been fascinated by the occult, the unusual and the bizarre for as long as I can remember. My mum started it all by buying me a simple booklet, Ghosts and Legends of … More about About Icy Sedgwick
If we think of submerged cities, lost beneath the waves, we’re probably most likely to think of Atlantis, that thought-experiment that took on a life of its own. Closer to home, there’s the lost Welsh kingdom of Cantre’r Gwaelod, believed to lie beneath the water between Bae Ceredigion and Ynys Enlli. Yet there are countless […]
I crouch in the bushes at the side of the road with only a dead body at my feet for company. I nudge the corpse with the toe of my stolen boots. It rolls into the ditch behind me, hitting the frost-frozen earth with a hollow thump. Good riddance, if you ask me. The full moon gazes […]
Writing horror is one of the most cathartic things you can attempt. As a Gothic horror writer myself, I’m naturally biased in advising people to have a go! (And I have a class to help you write your own haunted house story if you’re interested) But we don’t always necessarily think of world-building when it […]
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Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!
