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Post by weirdmonger on Oct 31, 2022 8:21:20 GMT
My new book… “My name is Deadlocker and I’m about to tell you some things about a private dick called Dogf**ker Lean.”  The cover is by D.M. Mitchell and I feel it wonderfully depicts the novella LADIES, and a particular scene in SHUMBLE HALL, and “…pulled out, like long-eared rabbits from hats, every year…” from GRANDFATHER CLOCK. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Dec 24, 2022 12:54:26 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Aug 15, 2023 13:41:48 GMT
I hope it is OK to link, on this thread, to some brief ghost stories just written by myself in last few days, in case anyone might enjoy them. I mainly review books these days, after some success in the 1990s with some of my own fiction work in several Best of Horror anthologies, and the Weirdmonger book etc. etc. Please delete this post if not OK. The one written today is a sequel to my ‘Digory Smalls’ story in 1989. etepsed.wordpress.com/new-dfl-ghost-stories-commenced-in-later-2023/ Pic by Aye Eye |
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Post by weirdmonger on Aug 25, 2023 10:20:49 GMT
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Aug 25, 2023 19:13:01 GMT
There seems to be a healthy market for flash fiction, which many of these could be classed as. I wonder if there are any magazines that deal in horror/ghost flash fiction.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Aug 25, 2023 20:37:42 GMT
There seems to be a healthy market for flash fiction, which many of these could be classed as. I wonder if there are any magazines that deal in horror/ghost flash fiction. There are a few, both online and on paper. Also some publishers put out submission calls for books of flash fiction with horror/ghost themes from time to time - the second person, present tense anthologies from Bag of Bones Press that I mentioned in the "Writing Techniques" thread are an example. In both cases you can be alerted to them either by trawling Facetwit or regularly checking out websites that collate submission calls. A good one is HorrorTree (though it's demand that you resubmit your cookie choices every single time you load a new page to force you to give in and agree to accept them all is a right royal asspain...). |
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Post by weirdmonger on Aug 25, 2023 23:58:51 GMT
There seems to be a healthy market for flash fiction, which many of these could be classed as. I wonder if there are any magazines that deal in horror/ghost flash fiction. There are a few, both online and on paper. Also some publishers put out submission calls for books of flash fiction with horror/ghost themes from time to time - the second person, present tense anthologies from Bag of Bones Press that I mentioned in the "Writing Techniques" thread are an example. In both cases you can be alerted to them either by trawling Facetwit or regularly checking out websites that collate submission calls. A good one is HorrorTree (though it's demand that you resubmit your cookie choices every single time you load a new page to force you to give in and agree to accept them all is a right royal asspain...). My recent spate of ghost stories can be read separately as flash fiction, but also connected as an evolving novella or novel. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Aug 26, 2023 13:37:10 GMT
There are a few, both online and on paper. Also some publishers put out submission calls for books of flash fiction with horror/ghost themes from time to time - the second person, present tense anthologies from Bag of Bones Press that I mentioned in the "Writing Techniques" thread are an example. In both cases you can be alerted to them either by trawling Facetwit or regularly checking out websites that collate submission calls. A good one is HorrorTree (though it's demand that you resubmit your cookie choices every single time you load a new page to force you to give in and agree to accept them all is a right royal asspain...). My recent spate of ghost stories can be read separately as flash fiction, but also connected as an evolving novella or novel. True. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Oct 10, 2023 16:13:03 GMT
If anyone is interested in reading for free a helluva lot of new D.F. Lewis fiction miniatures that I was suddenly inspired to write after a long fallow period, you can pick from the links here! - dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/mansions-as-miniatures/Loosely connected in order. But can be read separately at random. Please forgive this unforgivable self-advertisement. Please delete this post if it cannot be forgiven.  |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Oct 10, 2023 16:28:07 GMT
I shall look soon.
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Post by weirdmonger on Oct 19, 2023 17:01:43 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Dec 24, 2023 16:59:12 GMT
A piece for Christmas Eve
The Last Straw in the Stable
Christmas even and crisp, the light of evenings barely beginning to draw out again, curtains pulled together before they should. I left the sitting-room so that a proper guest could occupy it, each room that I occupied being in my rôle of pre-sitter, along the similar lines of some guests needing pre-tasters for their meals. What did they fear about the rooms — be it lounge, parlour, front-room or, of course, this very room for sitting in that gave it its own name? Fearless ghosts like me have been regularly sent into each room to neutralise any fearful ones! A drawing-room, meanwhile, needed specialist ghosts to act as decoys of exorcism for cruder ghosts that would otherwise have haunted it. A dining-room had pre-tasters, too, often in competition for the best armchair. I could hardly be expected to cope with all such duties in the mansion’s various living spaces. Which brings me to counteracting any poltergeist sociability in the drawing-room with all the hoi polloi of Bohemia eager to occupy the seats and easels. Not to speak of the potential interactions in bedrooms and bathrooms. No pre-sitting duties, understandably, were required in the smallest rooms of all. And attics could look after themselves, except, naturally, for pre-squatting duties, upon each Christmas Eve, within the flues that were chimney conduits. This year, I have sadly pulled the shortest sootiest straw of all. I would, of course, have preferred the salle à manger.
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 1, 2024 16:13:06 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Jan 1, 2024 17:28:31 GMT
Happy New Year. Oh yes, you too and all the other denizens of the Vault! |
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 21, 2024 15:22:01 GMT
A haunted wall I spotted today… I don’t think there is proper ghost story called “The Haunted Wall” —so, who is going to write one to fill in that gap?  |
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