My craft article - - writing on the haunted house theme - - was just published in Writer's Digest. Naturally, I had timed my article for National Haunted House Day.
Thanks for doing this, Jessica! There are various horror postings in progress for Halloween. Club Plum will post its annual Literary Horror issue sometime this month--and one of my stories will be in it!
Wow, this one is a doozy. Thank you for sharing. I feel lucky to have read it--this story is a masterclass in how to supply backstory while keeping the story moving forward. I'm amazed it's flash, under one thousand words!
Bloodletter is a relatively new lit mag of feminist horror. I am utterly haunted by their third issue, themed "Hysteria": https://bloodlettermag.com/. In my experience, they're also generous with their personalized rejections. ;) I'll offer a shoutout to Lia Mulcahy's "Keep Your Hunger Close" https://bloodlettermag.com/keep-your-hunger-close/ and recommend the entire issue as well.
AHHHH! I just read "Keep Your Hunger Close." I love it so much I am obsessed! It's just such a smart story, with all the feels, and the descriptions are so incredibly vivid. I had to print it out so I could underline my favorite sentences. Now I have to read the whole issue! E. Ce Miller, thank you so much for recommending this story--I really wouldn't have wanted to miss it.
Interesting image with the hands grabbing. It is a scene taken from the 1965 film "Repulsion" starring Catherine Deneuve as the neurotic woman. Directed by Roman Polanski. Watch the trailer. They'll probably show that riveting scene, a masterpiece of psychological horror.
Question: Is anyone reading my award-winning book "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" (Wild Ink, Oct. 1, 2024) with full-page illustrations by Erin Campbell?
Whoa--I just watched the trailer and the hands grabbing scene is definitely there. So well done, especially for being made in 1965! Now I have to watch the whole movie!
Jessica, when I saw "Repulsion" in a movie-house, after that scene, I could not go into the Ladies Room alone. I made my date promise to wait right by the outside door. I was still so shaky!
There are movies made between nineteen forty and nineteen seventy that are far better than anything made today. Kurosawa's Seven Samaurai, Ikuru, The Bad Sleep Welll ; the great Polish filmmaker Andrezie Wada's WWII trilogy- Generation, Kanal, and Ashes and Diamond, along with his Masterpiece Man of Marble, Vittorio De Sica's masterpiece Bicycle Thief, and the American classics- Casablanca, Sullvans Travel, The Blue Dahlia, They Drive By Night, Nothing But A Man, Stand and Deliver,
Farewell My Lovely, Laura, Modern Time, The Great Dicta
I've been avid reader for over fifty years as well as being the author of five novels, two short story collectiions, and. poetry collection published this past January - Journeys of Voices and Choices, a memoir in poetry with sections of Family: Brooklyn, Jews and the Holocaust, hospital workers in the trenches, exploring the Vietnam War, The Middle East morass. I have a big section called The Black Lives Matter Hybrid Haikus,miseducation , and finally healing love poems .
Two months ago, I read one of the most astonishing books I have ever read- Swimming With Dead Stars by Vi Khi Nao, a prolific very nonbinary Vietnamese writer of ,um, fiction, poetry, and a daring merging of the two ( similar to the briliant novel Cane by Jean Toomer, and Etel Adnan in her sizzzling short novel of Midddle East horror - Sitt Marie Rose. Some of Vi Khao''s startling titles include Umbilical Hospital, The Private History of Torture, and,God.
Another wonderful writer is Wang Pang who gift and skill glow tthrough her prose and poetry includin such gems as
A wonderful experimtal novel by a Nobel Prize winning author is My Name Is Red by Oran Pamuk in his complex entertwining love/mystery story MY NAME IS RED, about rivalries and intrigue among Persianc
Thanks for the shoutout!! (Jemc's story is so great. Have you read her novel, THE GRIP OF IT?)
Ouuu-- The Grip of It looks so good--a haunted house story! I can't wait to read it.
My craft article - - writing on the haunted house theme - - was just published in Writer's Digest. Naturally, I had timed my article for National Haunted House Day.
. . . > https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/6-steps-to-writing-a-hauntingly-memorable-haunted-house-poem
Thanks for doing this, Jessica! There are various horror postings in progress for Halloween. Club Plum will post its annual Literary Horror issue sometime this month--and one of my stories will be in it!
Flash Fiction Online’s “weird horror month” has started with this story, which I found both chilling and moving—in a horrible way: https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/within-the-dead-whale/
Wow, this one is a doozy. Thank you for sharing. I feel lucky to have read it--this story is a masterclass in how to supply backstory while keeping the story moving forward. I'm amazed it's flash, under one thousand words!
Bloodletter is a relatively new lit mag of feminist horror. I am utterly haunted by their third issue, themed "Hysteria": https://bloodlettermag.com/. In my experience, they're also generous with their personalized rejections. ;) I'll offer a shoutout to Lia Mulcahy's "Keep Your Hunger Close" https://bloodlettermag.com/keep-your-hunger-close/ and recommend the entire issue as well.
AHHHH! I just read "Keep Your Hunger Close." I love it so much I am obsessed! It's just such a smart story, with all the feels, and the descriptions are so incredibly vivid. I had to print it out so I could underline my favorite sentences. Now I have to read the whole issue! E. Ce Miller, thank you so much for recommending this story--I really wouldn't have wanted to miss it.
RIGHT?!?! I'm so glad you had the same reaction I did. I really love what they're doing over there!
Interesting image with the hands grabbing. It is a scene taken from the 1965 film "Repulsion" starring Catherine Deneuve as the neurotic woman. Directed by Roman Polanski. Watch the trailer. They'll probably show that riveting scene, a masterpiece of psychological horror.
Question: Is anyone reading my award-winning book "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" (Wild Ink, Oct. 1, 2024) with full-page illustrations by Erin Campbell?
It's still on NetGalley for 2 more weeks.
Whoa--I just watched the trailer and the hands grabbing scene is definitely there. So well done, especially for being made in 1965! Now I have to watch the whole movie!
Jessica, when I saw "Repulsion" in a movie-house, after that scene, I could not go into the Ladies Room alone. I made my date promise to wait right by the outside door. I was still so shaky!
There are movies made between nineteen forty and nineteen seventy that are far better than anything made today. Kurosawa's Seven Samaurai, Ikuru, The Bad Sleep Welll ; the great Polish filmmaker Andrezie Wada's WWII trilogy- Generation, Kanal, and Ashes and Diamond, along with his Masterpiece Man of Marble, Vittorio De Sica's masterpiece Bicycle Thief, and the American classics- Casablanca, Sullvans Travel, The Blue Dahlia, They Drive By Night, Nothing But A Man, Stand and Deliver,
Farewell My Lovely, Laura, Modern Time, The Great Dicta
Had one with spiritual dimensions in Vita Poetical:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/episodes/Standing-Water-by-James-Roderick-Burns-e2isjqc
I've been avid reader for over fifty years as well as being the author of five novels, two short story collectiions, and. poetry collection published this past January - Journeys of Voices and Choices, a memoir in poetry with sections of Family: Brooklyn, Jews and the Holocaust, hospital workers in the trenches, exploring the Vietnam War, The Middle East morass. I have a big section called The Black Lives Matter Hybrid Haikus,miseducation , and finally healing love poems .
Two months ago, I read one of the most astonishing books I have ever read- Swimming With Dead Stars by Vi Khi Nao, a prolific very nonbinary Vietnamese writer of ,um, fiction, poetry, and a daring merging of the two ( similar to the briliant novel Cane by Jean Toomer, and Etel Adnan in her sizzzling short novel of Midddle East horror - Sitt Marie Rose. Some of Vi Khao''s startling titles include Umbilical Hospital, The Private History of Torture, and,God.
Another wonderful writer is Wang Pang who gift and skill glow tthrough her prose and poetry includin such gems as
A wonderful experimtal novel by a Nobel Prize winning author is My Name Is Red by Oran Pamuk in his complex entertwining love/mystery story MY NAME IS RED, about rivalries and intrigue among Persianc