Category: The Art of Writing

I would like to ask a small favor of my readers:  if you have read one of my works (and I hope everyone does), please review it on Amazon and/or Goodreads.   Reviews not only help promote my works, but they also help me know what my readers do and do not like and therefore help me improve artistically.

The works I have published so far are mostly short, generally being collections of short stories, which are almost tailor-made for our fast-paced world, enabling someone to read a whole story while waiting for a plane, another while waiting for a bus, another in a doctor’s waiting room, and so on.  Only A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror is novel length (297 pages) while Nocturne:  Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night is about standard size for a poetry collection (110 pages).

You can find all my works by going to amazon.com/author/philslattery.

I would like to ask a small favor of my readers:  if you have read one of my works (and I hope everyone does), please review it on Amazon and/or Goodreads.   Reviews not only help promote my works, but they also help me know what my readers do and do not like and therefore help me improve artistically.

The works I have published so far are mostly short, generally being collections of short stories, which are almost tailor-made for our fast-paced world, enabling someone to read a whole story while waiting for a plane, another while waiting for a bus, another in a doctor’s waiting room, and so on.  Only A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror is novel length (297 pages) while Nocturne:  Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night is about standard size for a poetry collection (110 pages).

You can find all my works by going to amazon.com/author/philslattery.

Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and brother. He has an intriguing position in the universe at a focal point of life, the afterlife, logic and reason, anger and hatred, the ancient and the modern worlds, grief and his attempts to escape grief through self-destruction. Though he wants to have the peace he once found with his wife, Agatha, he is pulled in many directions by circumstance and by his powerful negative emotions.

I am a fan of the old school horror practiced by such authors as H.P. Lovecraft, Poe, Edward Lucas White, and Arthur Machen.  I endeavor to make a story as terrifying and suspenseful for the reader as possible without resorting to gratuitous blood and gore for a simple shock or quick feeling of disgust.

This collection of three short tales is perfect for those who have only a few short breaks to escape into the hidden world of horror, black magic, sorcery, and anger-fueled revenge.

You can find this and other works at my Amazon author’s page:  www.amazon.com/author/philslattery.

Currently, Jack has a Twitter account (@jthurston666), where he has attracted a small following and where it has only recently been revealed that he is fictional. Jack has his own blog at jackthurstonblog.wordpress.com (a work in progress) and his own e-mail at jackthurston666@gmail.com.

Information on more social media accounts and other characters (as they are developed) can be found at: philslattery.wordpress.com. Please interact with him at any of his social media accounts as you would with a real person.

I would like to ask a small favor of my readers:  if you have read one of my works (and I hope everyone does), please review it on Amazon and/or Goodreads.   Reviews not only help promote my works, but they also help me know what my readers do and do not like and therefore help me improve artistically.

The works I have published so far are mostly short, generally being collections of short stories, which are almost tailor-made for our fast-paced world, enabling someone to read a whole story while waiting for a plane, another while waiting for a bus, another in a doctor’s waiting room, and so on.  Only A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror is novel length (297 pages) while Nocturne:  Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night is about standard size for a poetry collection (110 pages).

You can find all my works by going to amazon.com/author/philslattery.

Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and brother. He has an intriguing position in the universe at a focal point of life, the afterlife, logic and reason, anger and hatred, the ancient and the modern worlds, grief and his attempts to escape grief through self-destruction. Though he wants to have the peace he once found with his wife, Agatha, he is pulled in many directions by circumstance and by his powerful negative emotions.

I am a fan of the old school horror practiced by such authors as H.P. Lovecraft, Poe, Edward Lucas White, and Arthur Machen.  I endeavor to make a story as terrifying and suspenseful for the reader as possible without resorting to gratuitous blood and gore for a simple shock or quick feeling of disgust.

This collection of three short tales is perfect for those who have only a few short breaks to escape into the hidden world of horror, black magic, sorcery, and anger-fueled revenge.

You can find this and other works at my Amazon author’s page:  www.amazon.com/author/philslattery.

Currently, Jack has a Twitter account (@jthurston666), where he has attracted a small following and where it has only recently been revealed that he is fictional. Jack has his own blog at jackthurstonblog.wordpress.com (a work in progress) and his own e-mail at jackthurston666@gmail.com.

Information on more social media accounts and other characters (as they are developed) can be found at: philslattery.wordpress.com. Please interact with him at any of his social media accounts as you would with a real person.

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I would like to ask a small favor of my readers:  if you have read one of my works (and I hope everyone does), please review it on Amazon and/or Goodreads.   Reviews not only help promote my works, but they also help me know what my readers do and do not like and therefore help me improve artistically.

The works I have published so far are mostly short, generally being collections of short stories, which are almost tailor-made for our fast-paced world, enabling someone to read a whole story while waiting for a plane, another while waiting for a bus, another in a doctor’s waiting room, and so on.  Only A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror is novel length (297 pages) while Nocturne:  Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night is about standard size for a poetry collection (110 pages).

You can find all my works by going to amazon.com/author/philslattery.

Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and brother. He has an intriguing position in the universe at a focal point of life, the afterlife, logic and reason, anger and hatred, the ancient and the modern worlds, grief and his attempts to escape grief through self-destruction. Though he wants to have the peace he once found with his wife, Agatha, he is pulled in many directions by circumstance and by his powerful negative emotions.

I am a fan of the old school horror practiced by such authors as H.P. Lovecraft, Poe, Edward Lucas White, and Arthur Machen.  I endeavor to make a story as terrifying and suspenseful for the reader as possible without resorting to gratuitous blood and gore for a simple shock or quick feeling of disgust.

This collection of three short tales is perfect for those who have only a few short breaks to escape into the hidden world of horror, black magic, sorcery, and anger-fueled revenge.

You can find this and other works at my Amazon author’s page:  www.amazon.com/author/philslattery.

Currently, Jack has a Twitter account (@jthurston666), where he has attracted a small following and where it has only recently been revealed that he is fictional. Jack has his own blog at jackthurstonblog.wordpress.com (a work in progress) and his own e-mail at jackthurston666@gmail.com.

Information on more social media accounts and other characters (as they are developed) can be found at: philslattery.wordpress.com. Please interact with him at any of his social media accounts as you would with a real person.

I would like to ask a small favor of my readers:  if you have read one of my works (and I hope everyone does), please review it on Amazon and/or Goodreads.   Reviews not only help promote my works, but they also help me know what my readers do and do not like and therefore help me improve artistically.

The works I have published so far are mostly short, generally being collections of short stories, which are almost tailor-made for our fast-paced world, enabling someone to read a whole story while waiting for a plane, another while waiting for a bus, another in a doctor’s waiting room, and so on.  Only A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror is novel length (297 pages) while Nocturne:  Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night is about standard size for a poetry collection (110 pages).

You can find all my works by going to amazon.com/author/philslattery.

I would like to ask a small favor of my readers:  if you have read one of my works (and I hope everyone does), please review it on Amazon and/or Goodreads.   Reviews not only help promote my works, but they also help me know what my readers do and do not like and therefore help me improve artistically.

The works I have published so far are mostly short, generally being collections of short stories, which are almost tailor-made for our fast-paced world, enabling someone to read a whole story while waiting for a plane, another while waiting for a bus, another in a doctor’s waiting room, and so on.  Only A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror is novel length (297 pages) while Nocturne:  Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night is about standard size for a poetry collection (110 pages).

You can find all my works by going to amazon.com/author/philslattery.

Above it all, that peevish tone, Sinuous, adroit, Whispering what we forget: “Come rain, come shine I am here Come bud, come bone I am here Come dearth, come foison I am here too O learn my harmonies, my Ruthlessness, my Change” (Sue Harper)

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By J.R. Night The late hour had come and all were released from their graves. The first thing she always did was head home. Only one window burned yellow. It went out, the window opened, and two legs edged out. Her son landed not two feet away from her. “No sweater? In this cold?” she […]

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An Alfred Hitchcock Primer by Kristin Battestella Fans of old school thrillers young or old can earn their suspense credentials with these early Alfred Hitchcock nail biters. The Lady Vanishes – Only one lovely train passenger has seen the titular dame, causing rail car mayhem for Margaret Lockwood (The Wicked Lady) and Michael Redgrave […]

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I would like to ask a small favor of my readers:  if you have read one of my works (and I hope everyone does), please review it on Amazon and/or Goodreads.   Reviews not only help promote my works, but they also help me know what my readers do and do not like and therefore help me improve artistically.

The works I have published so far are mostly short, generally being collections of short stories, which are almost tailor-made for our fast-paced world, enabling someone to read a whole story while waiting for a plane, another while waiting for a bus, another in a doctor’s waiting room, and so on.  Only A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror is novel length (297 pages) while Nocturne:  Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night is about standard size for a poetry collection (110 pages).

You can find all my works by going to amazon.com/author/philslattery.