#JackThurston

Does everyone like @jthurston666?  He’s a nice guy, cultured, intelligent, well-spoken, penetrating insight,  dedicated to his family (the photo at the top of the Twitter page is his, unfortunately, recently deceased daughter). 

He’s also one of the most evil sons of bitches you’ll ever encounter–though not completely without heart or feelings. 

Jack is the protagonist in two stories, “Sorcerer” and “Sorcerer’s Return”. You can find both in A Tale of Hell and Other Stories, available from Amazon in either paperback or on Kindle and KindleUnlimited. 

Update on New PR Campaign: Operation #WholePerson (working title)

This is becoming a more interesting exercise than I had foreseen. I am learning more about my own characters as social media forces me to answer questions about their likes and background as I sign them up.  

So that I have a handy way of referring to it, I have decided to call it Operation Whole Person until I come up with a better name. 

I am going to start making social media accounts for characters in works in progress to help in the creative process. I may or may not announce who these are. 

Guest Blog: Vile Vacations 7 Chilling Museums By Courtney Lynn Mroch

Jaunt to These 7 Chilling Museums…If You Dare If you’re a fan of horror, the supernatural or anything else macabre, here are seven must-see museums you’ll want to check out: International Cryptozoo…

Source: Guest Blog: Vile Vacations 7 Chilling Museums By Courtney Lynn Mroch

Meet #Quinn

I’m Quinn. I am the protagonist in two of Phil Slattery’s short stories: “The Scent” and “The Slightest of Indiscretions”.  Both are in Phil’s collection “The Scent and Other Stories” (available for about 3 lousy bucks from Amazon in hard copy or via Kindle). But both have been previously published at fictionontheweb.co.uk, so you cheap bastards out there can score them free on line.  The collection’s worth reading whether you have to fork over a few bucks or risk spending time in the crossbar hotel for petty theft. 

Anyway, back to me. 

What you see in the stories is just a sketch of me in two minor events in my life, but isn’t that all you can get out of any literary work given the actual depth and breadth of the soul?  Any person is a thousand times more complex than how any book can portray any character. 

So Phil’s going to introduce me and a few others a bit at a time through various social media. I and the others will have our own accounts throughout the Internet and you’ll have to puzzle out who is a character in one of Phil’s works and who is not as he experiments with his grand strategy.  However, the characters will always be introduced and discussed on this blog so you can always come here and find out what’s what to some degree as we grow and are fleshed out.  

This leads me to another point. Since what is important is how a character develops in the reader’s mind, Phil wants to hear your inputs on how you visualize and imagine the characters. Your inputs will also be used to flesh out their details. So this will be something of an interactive experience for us all. Send us your thoughts, musings, your sketches, drawings, paintings, photos of how we and our surroundings appear to you.  Let’s make this as three dimensional as possible. For starters, read the stories and send in some sketches of how you visualize the events. You won’t be paid, but so long as they’re reasonably close to a PG or R rating, they’ll be posted here. Put your more or less abstract thoughts in the comments where everyone can see them. 

By the way, one character from an upcoming horror novel is out there already trying to tear up the web with his political ranting. He’s from Corpus Christi, but that’s all I’ll say for now. 

TTYL 

Art: The Bride of Frankenstein by Flore Maquin

Interesting.

Ryan's avatar

Very few movies have that one defining moment that everyone recognizes, a single frame destined to never be forgotten—Marion Crane screaming in the shower just moments before she’s stabbed to death by psycho Norman Bates, or Jack Torrence peering through a shattered door with a twisted grin stretching across his face are both examples of the kind of power a single frame of film can have. And yet, not all of these moments are so striking or even scary—take James Whale’s brilliant sequel The Bride of Frankenstein for example. It’s a subtle shot in the film that comes and goes in the blink of an eye, yet that one single frame is flooring. It’s here when The Monster realizes that his Bride, played by the stunning Elsa Lanchester, hates him like everyone else. That look, that fear and doubt speaks a thousand words.

View original post 65 more words

Mark Taylor’s ‘A Night at the Dream Theater’ Review

I hadn’t really pinpointed the thing that most frightens me when I started this book. Sure, had you asked, I could rattle off a list of the usual that have been known to make my blood pressure go u…

Source: Mark Taylor’s ‘A Night at the Dream Theater’ Review

Seven of the Best Modernist Short Stories Everyone Should Read

The best modernist stories A number of modernist novels are praised as among the greatest novels of the twentieth century: James Joyce’s Ulysses, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, and Joseph Conrad’s …

Source: Seven of the Best Modernist Short Stories Everyone Should Read

A Summary and Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Oval Portrait’

A reading of Poe’s classic short story ‘The Oval Portrait’ (1842) is one of the shortest tales Edgar Allan Poe ever wrote. In just a few pages, he offers a powerful story about the relationship bet…

Source: A Summary and Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Oval Portrait’