Tag: horror

  • New and revisited horror trends – Happy Halloween

    New and revisited horror trends – Happy Halloween

    The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H.P. Lovecraft The Horror genre is having a moment – or several, if you consider its split personality. Some of it is old, a lot new, but all…

  • Hitchcock: a Master Storyteller

    Hitchcock: a Master Storyteller

    “Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.” Alfred Hitchcock  There’s a large maple tree in the centre of the circle I live on, and from time to time an unusual number of crows will gather on it early in the morning and…

  • Book 3 is under way

    Two years ago I began my tentative adventure in fulfilling a long-held dream: to write a novel. I’ve always loved reading — taught myself to read when I was four — and began writing stories somewhere around the age of eight or nine. Many years later, I’m getting the first…

  • Oh the Horror!

    “If I were you, I would never tell ugly stories about ingenious ways of killing people, for you never can tell but that some one at the table may be tired of his or her nearest and dearest.”The Screaming Skull, F. Marion Crawford Do you love all the Halloween competitions…