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This blog is about the darker realms, the places where nightmares and dreams lurk below conscious thought. Join me in a journey into the night.
Category Archives: The Hanged Girl
The Hanged Girl – Ten
Susan found she couldn’t let the mystery go. As a journalist she was successful here, a big fish in a small pond who often yearned for bigger seas and to take her career further. But this battled with her … Continue reading →
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Tagged death, gothic horror, Horror, Horror writing, justice, murder, retribution, revenge, tarot, The Hanged Girl, vigilante
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The Hanged Girl – Nine
‘I can’t remember all the dream,’ Lisa told Susan over a mid-week lunch break, ‘Or nightmare, because I think it was that. So strange. I think it was a nightmare but I also think most of the bad parts I’ve … Continue reading →
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Tagged darkness, evil, foreboding, fortune telling, gothic horror, Horror, Horror writing, nightmares, prediction, serial horror stories, tarot, The Hanged Girl
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The Hanged Girl – Eight
‘We have another artist in our midst!’ The voice was sneering, not complimentary, and Mandy knew the voice. It was a voice she had quickly learned to dread, coming from a person she did her level best to avoid … Continue reading →
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Tagged art, crush, dark, gothic horror, Hanged Girl, Horror, Horror writing, schoolyard bullies, serial horror stories, social order
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The Hanged Girl Seven
The next morning Lisa would only remember fragments of her nightmare. She would think this a blessing, but the shadows of memory and disconnection would tug at her sensibility, suggesting in low whispers that she really should remember. That … Continue reading →
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Tagged darkness, death, fortune telling, future, genocide, gothic horror, Horror, Horror writing, nightmares, occult, ritual sacrifice, tarot
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The Hanged Girl Six
For a reputedly haunted house, number 6 Mercy Lane was very beguiling indeed. The moment Damien opened the door to them Lisa and Mandy were literally flooded with a warm light from the hallway, seemingly reaching out into the … Continue reading →
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Tagged competition, crush, darkness, daughter, Horror, Horror writing, jealousy, modern gothic, mother, The Hanged Girl, threat
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The Hanged Girl – Five
Lisa was concerned. Mandy didn’t seem to want to talk about school. And not wanting to talk about something – anything really – was not like Mandy. She’d had problems at school before, in other locations and at other ages. … Continue reading →
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Tagged dark, death, evil, ghost stories, Horror, Horror writing, Serial stories, strangers, The Hanged Girl, town history
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The Hanged Girl – Four
‘I like your raven hair,’ the blonde girl said to Mandy, her voice very sweet but with the threat of something else beneath it. They were in the school cafeteria, and it was the beginning of Mandy’s second week at … Continue reading →
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Tagged bullies, darkness, death, ghosts, Horror, horror stories, Horror writing, school, Serial stories, The Hanged Girl, witch
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The Hanged Girl – Three
‘Sheesh!’ Susan exclaimed ,almost spilling her coffee, ‘I didn’t realise you’d move into that street, and so close to that house!’ It was Saturday morning, the first weekend after her first week on the new job, and Lisa finally had … Continue reading →
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Tagged bullies, dark, ghosts, haunting, Horror, horror stories, Horror writing, local myths, Serial stories, The Hanged Girl
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The Hanged Girl – Two
It’s good to be thrown in at the deep end, Lisa told herself silently, that way you learn to swim so much more quickly. The cause of her reverie was being left alone to mind the shop … Continue reading →
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The Hanged Girl – One
By late afternoon the muscles along Lisa’s back were starting to ache from the exertion. There were only so many boxes you could unpack before it caught up with you. She’d been working like a machine determined to have unpacked … Continue reading →
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Tagged Horror, horror story, Horror writing, moving in, new home, new neighbour, Serial stories, The Hanged Girl, town legends
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