Tag: The Art of Writing

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 […]

via Some Things Never Change —

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 […]

via FRIGHTENING FLIX BY KBATZ: An Alfred Hitchcock Primer — HorrorAddicts.net

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.

2018 Horror Anthology KILL SWITCH / Edited by Dan Shaurette “The Future is Broken.” – Black Mirror What horrors will our technological hubris bring us in the future? When technology takes over more of our lives, what will it mean to be human, and will we fear what we have created? Artificial intelligence, robotics, bionics […]

via Submission Call: Tech Horror KILL SWITCH — HorrorAddicts.net

100+ Black Women in Horror 100+ Black Women in Horror contains the biographies of over one hundred black women who write horror, 100+ Black Women in Horror is a reference guide, a veritable who’s who of female horror writers from the African Diaspora. This volume is an expansion of the original 2014 book 60 Black […]

via Press Release: 100+ Black Women in Horror — HorrorAddicts.net

family mom, dad, son me, last born they waited nine years for me now they wait again mist hovers floats above their graves hushes sounds muffles grief head bowed, I know they miss me I whisper, not yet A shadorma written for dVerse, the virtual pub for poets. Amaya is our host today and explains […]

via Shadorma in the Grave Yard — lillian the home poet

Review by Stephanie Ellis In Beyond Night, August Arminius, Decurion of the 9TH Legion leads his men under the command of General Malitus, their orders to claim Caledonia in the name of Emperor Hadrian. Expecting to face no more than Picts, savage though they are, the soldiers come across monsters-beastmen–who can rip a man apart […]

via Book Review: Beyond Night — HorrorAddicts.net

By djc84 It was times like these when he wished he’d gone camping more. Hoisting the stone back up, he struck again as hard as he could. After several more attempts, flames finally burst into life. He fell entranced watching them lick the air in greedy consumption. It wasn’t till he heard the thump coming […]

via Burning Issues —

(By Kevin Onuegbu, an avid reader and literary critic) “Francis Is Alive” by Moshood Adebayo is a detective story imbued with intrigue, horror, suspense, betrayals, love and the mystic. Francis Whyte, a professional and most wanted American assassin, showed up to the world after so many years of self-exile. He came to Nigeria to meet […]

via BOOK REVIEW – Francis Is Alive — eBayism School of Thought

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.