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Tag Archives: horror
Sins, New and Old
The fourth volume of Chastity Nicole and Debbie Manber Kupfer’s Sins Of Time series of themed Horror/Dark Fantasy anthologies is out now. I’ve kept my streak going, I have a story in all four volumes. It’s a series that has a … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, horror, publishing, science fiction, short story anthology, writing
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Hard Weird
I think I’ve come up with a new way to describe what genre it is that I work in. Hard Weird. I think that’s an evocative phrase, and I hope it’s fairly self-explanatory. SF/F fans are familiar with the phrase … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, fiction, horror, realism, science fiction, weird fiction, writing
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A Dragon Among Dragons: The Decay Of Fantasy
“The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal. But in the modern psychological novel the hero is abnormal; the centre is not central. … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, fantasy, horror, realism, work in progress, writing
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Going Native & Other Stories
DimensionBucket Media is one of the new crop of indie publishers. A quick glance at their catalog shows a preponderance of horror titles, but their submission guidelines state they are open to all flavors of speculative fiction–science fiction, fantasy, adventure, … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, fiction, horror, promotion, publishing, short story anthology, writing
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Superscience, the Uncanny, and the Miraculous
This post has grown out of a discussion regarding my earlier post on the subject of magic in fiction and a comment that was made regarding Clarke’s Law. Clarke’s Law states that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, drama, fantasy, fiction, horror, realism, science fiction, writing
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Leaving the town in the keeping of the man who is sweeping up the ghosts of Saturday night
This is in reply, more or less, to posts made by some writers I know. First Alexander Hellene talks about the Mythic in fiction, then Xavier Lastra discusses magic use as a plot element in genre fiction, and then Rawle … Continue reading
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Tagged challange, creativity, drama, entertainment, fantasy, fiction, horror, realism, science fiction, work in progress, writing
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Joe’s Sandwich II: When Mayo Holds
A while back I wrote a post in which I first introduced the concept of Joe’s Sandwich. I’ve been working a lot in the short story format and I find myself returning to the idea, and also to some ideas … Continue reading
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