I’ve been a big fan of Emma Newman since I discovered her blog a few years ago, and I was lucky enough to meet her when she did a London book launch for From Dark Places, her collection of short stories. For some time now, she’s been releasing short stories set in her Split Worlds […]
Books
NaNoReMo – Finished!
At the end of January, I announced that I’d be reading Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto for NaNoReMo. I updated on my progress a couple of weeks ago, and I’m pleased to say I’ve finished it. I’m glad about this for two reasons; on one hand, I’m glad I finished within the given month, […]
NaNoReMo update
At the end of January, I announced that I’d be reading Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto for NaNoReMo. I’d chosen it due to its privileged position within the canon of Gothic literature, and because many of its themes and motifs appear in later novels, and by extension, within the gothic mode of filmmaking. It’s […]
National Novel Reading Month
John Wiswell has reminded me that National Novel Reading Month begins on February 1st. It’s quite simple – you choose a classic you’ve never read, read it in February, and then talk about it. As I’m looking at the Gothic as part of my PhD thesis, I think it only right that I choose a […]
#FridayFlash – The Dreamcatcher
Theophilius Hopgood sat at his desk, the quill in his hand poised above a parchment strip. He peered through his glasses at the small glass bottle on the shelf of the desk. Tiny blue particles drifted to and fro, disturbing the pale green mist inside the vial. Hopgood dipped the quill into the ink and […]
[Book Review] Transformation
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting to like this eerie novella by Irish writer, Rab Swannock Fulton. Published by Dark Continents and edited by Nerine Dorman, Transformation tells the tale of a young man named Donnacha, a young dishwasher in Galway who meets an enchanting young woman named Eimir. Much of the first half of the […]
