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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.
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The Hanged Girl – Eleven
Looking back, Lisa might have cause to consider this night – the ‘Twin Peaks’ night – as a kind of turning point, or even harbinger of the future. She might scavenge in her memory of the night, every word … Continue reading →
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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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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 – Prelude
Little Lottie In love with the devil Baying at the moon Little Lottie Bride of night Sweet Sixteen in June Little Lottie’s Fragile lifespan Ending far too soon With all the bravado of the young they climbed up the … Continue reading →
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