The Darker Realms
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.
Tag Archives: ghosts
The Old School-House
The old school house They closed it down When children went missing All over town When people gossiped Said in its walls The monsters crept We heard their calls Hysteria rising Each passing day The old school principal Passed away … Continue reading
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Tagged evil, ghosts, gossip, horror poetry, missing children, rumours, school house
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Truly Gothic Literature
Daniel Keats was a little known writer when he was alive. Like many aspiring authors he banged away endlessly at his keyboard each day, hoping to write that one novel that would make him famous. But as the rejection slips … Continue reading
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Tagged bestsellers, ghosts, gothic, horror flash fiction, influence, writing
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Special Room
My uncle Wilson lived in a very old house that he’d inherited from his grandfather. Sometimes we’d visit around Christmas time because mother said he was lonely. “He always was, even as a boy” she said with mix of fondness … Continue reading
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Tagged family, ghosts, horror flash fiction, hunger
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Do Not Call Them
Listen children as I tell you a story. The one story you must be told and must believe, and with the one moral you must always follow. And the moral is so important I will say it at the beginning … Continue reading
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Tagged cults, death, drowning, ghosts, haunting, Horror, horror flash fiction, power
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They Come Back
If they come back They cannot be denied You be the bridegroom She’ll be the bride You make your vows They’ll never go Tell you such things You’d never know If they come back They take you in their arms … Continue reading
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Tagged death, fear, ghosts, Horror, horror poerty, zombie
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Train
When I was young my father once took me to see an old train which was kept as a kind of historic relic at the train yard. In those days that sort of trip was exciting, because my father was … Continue reading
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Tagged father, ghosts, loss, other dimensions, son, time travel, train
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Televised
The revolution was televised in the end, so the song was wrong about that. Songs are often wrong, if you think about it. Probably only so much wisdom you can shoe-horn into three or four verses and a chorus. Anyway … Continue reading
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Tagged cult of personality, ghosts, narcissistic, revolution, television, TV
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Scream
I hear you scream still In my fevered dream Cloth cannot dull the tones So harsh that claw within A guilty mind For this is what I find I hear the guttural cry You uttered as you died The shroud … Continue reading
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Tagged death, ghosts, guilt, horror poetry, murder, revenge
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Apres Le Deluge
How history lies! How many times did they say “the war to end all wars”, only to have another war arise later, and worse, worse still? But wars are funny things. They can leave some places largely inviolate, as though … Continue reading
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Tagged après le deluge, conspiracy theory, death, ghosts, protection, war
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The Other Half
She always said she had another half. ‘The other half’ she called it. I thought it was an excuse or a conceit. Anything she did as a child that she shouldn’t do, she’d blame on the other half. As her … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, demons, ghosts, haunting, Horror, horror flash fiction
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