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THE WEREWOLF TRIALS

The Werewolf Trials: When Medieval Courts Hunted Human Wolves

Posted on October 29, 2024October 29, 2024 by Richard

In the shadows of Europe’s infamous witch trials lurked an equally chilling phenomenon: the werewolf trials.

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20 Forgotten Gothic Stories Every Writer Needs to Rediscover In the vast library of gothic literature, some brilliant gems have been overshadowed by their more famous counterparts.

20 Forgotten Gothic Stories Every Writer Needs to Rediscover

Posted on October 13, 2024October 13, 2024 by Richard

20 Forgotten Gothic Stories Every Writer Needs to Rediscover In the vast library of gothic literature, some brilliant gems

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11 Horror Movies with Unique Twists to Inspire Your Writing

11 Horror Movies with Unique Twists to Inspire Your Writing

Posted on October 4, 2024October 4, 2024 by Richard

11 Horror Movies with Unique Twists to Inspire Your Writing: As a writer, finding fresh inspiration can sometimes be a challenge.

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Warning: What you are about to encounter is not for the faint of heart. The websites listed below are gateways to the darkest corners of the human psyche

11 Scary Websites Every Horror Writer Should Dare to Read

Posted on October 2, 2024October 2, 2024 by Richard

Warning: What you are about to encounter is not for the faint of heart. The websites listed below are gateways to the darkest corners of the human psyche

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30 Underused Monsters for Your Halloween Stories: Fresh Frights from Global Folklore

30 Underused Monsters for Your Halloween Stories: Fresh Frights from Global Folklore

Posted on August 13, 2024April 18, 2025 by Richard

30 Underused Monsters for Your Halloween Stories: Fresh Frights from Global Folklore: When the crisp autumn air settles in and jack-o’-lanterns begin to flicker

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Top 10 Classic Horror Stories

Top 10 Classic Horror Stories

Posted on March 17, 2024March 17, 2024 by Richard

Here is a countdown of the Top 10 Classic Horror Stories listed on our Short Story site. All of these stories are chilling

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110 websites every writer should know

110 websites every writer should know

Posted on March 16, 2024March 19, 2025 by Richard

10 websites every writer should know, covering everything from writing tools and blogs to news and community forums.

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The slasher kids

The Slasher Kids Born of Pure 1980s VHS horror! 

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Richard

Are you a slasher kid? Before masked psychos stalked babysitters and slashers eviscerated horny camp counselors, an earlier generation

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The Evolution of the Short-Story by W. J. Dawson

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Richard

The Evolution of the Short-Story to 1910 by W. J. Dawson I The short-story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with “the first men who told their stories round the savage camp-fire.” It bears the mark of its origin, for even to-day it is true that the…

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Top 10 Early Vampire Poems

Posted on October 25, 2023October 25, 2023 by Richard

If you love vampires, and who doesn’t, then you’ll love these top 10 early vampire poems.

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Top 11 Science Fiction Short Stories Everyone Should Read

Posted on April 27, 2023April 29, 2023 by Richard

Below are the top 11 science fiction short stories everyone should read, but here are a few things to remember about this list before I get hate mail. First,

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10 Best Haunted House Movies

Posted on April 6, 2023April 7, 2023 by Richard

I used 4 basic criteria to pick these movies. First it had to be about a haunted house, and the other 3 were on are: atmosphere, creepiness, and suspense.

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10 Best Organizations for Writers

10 Best Organizations for Writers

Posted on April 5, 2023April 7, 2023 by Richard

Here is our list of 10 organizations we believe are invaluable to writers. Join these organizations if you can, they have a great deal to offer writers. These are not in any

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top 10 science fiction books i love

Top 10 Science Fiction Books I Love

Posted on April 1, 2023April 11, 2023 by Richard

Top 10 Science Fiction books I love. I’m not making anything other than a personal top 10 list here. I like sci-fi, but I’m not well versed

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10 ways to support national poetry month

10 Ways to Support National Poetry Month  

Posted on March 16, 2023April 4, 2023 by Richard

If I could have voted, I would have put national poetry month in July, this way cocktails and beach chairs would have been part of this list, but I digress. I want to focus on 10 ways to support National Poetry Month.

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