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The second post in the series is here: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...The topic is M.R. James' Short Stories
Well, no one has asked me to relocate this series of posts (yet), so here's number three in the series: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...The subject is the contemporary horror short story collection, Shadows and Teeth.
Randolph wrote: "This is fine where it is."Thanking you!
Day Four in the series: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...The subject of this post is Kingsley Amis's humorous/angst ridden ghost story of a novel, "The Green Man".
Day Five and I'm suggesting something a little bit different: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...Here's highlighting the poetic, magic realism of "The Calligrapher's Night" - a tale told by a ghost.
Day Six and it's short stories again (including, I'll be honest, one of my own): https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...Contemporary dark fiction in the form of Ink Stains: A Dark Fiction Literary Anthology (Volume 1).
Day Seven and it's lucky dip day with a newly published short story collection: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...Hot off the press dark fiction in the form of Ink Stains: A Dark Fiction Literary Anthology (Volume 2).
A classic short story collection for Day Eight: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...The beautiful, haunting book of short stories that is Ray Bradbury's "The October Country".
Another classic for Day Nine: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...Tales of Mystery and Imagination, iconic gothic horror, it's the short stories of Edgar Allen Poe.
Day Ten: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...Another contemporary, dark fiction, short story collection - The Spectral Book of Horror Stories.
Day Eleven (only four more days/books to go): https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...It's novels and novellas from here on in. Today's book is "Dead Until Dark", the first paranormal novel in the Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood series.
Day Twelve (only three more days/books to go): https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...It's the turn of one of my novels, "Witchlight", a paranormal tale of witches, witchcraft and old magic.
Day Thirteen (only two more books to go this year):https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Today we're rocking paranormal, steamy and feline with "Werecat: The Trilogy" by Andrew Peters
Day Fourteen (the penultimate day): https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...The atmospheric and award winning novella by Stephen Volk, "Whitstable". Horror in the day to day and on the silver screen.
Day Fifteen (the final post): https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...Where else are you going to read about a world that is populated with wizards (who think they know it all) and witches (who may well do so, but have the courtesy and the head-knowing to keep it to themselves), vampires who have taken the abstinence pledge (and a few who haven't), werewolves who are also police officers, politically active zombies and a whole race of Igors who can knock you up a new body in less than a day? It's got to be the Discworld series as created by the late and sorely missed Terry Pratchett.
And on that note, it's a wrap! It's Halloween tomorrow, as I'm typing this, so here's to a darkly festive festivity.
On both my writer's FB page and here on my Goodreads blog, I've just started a series of posts recommending books for Halloween.
Yes, I admit, a number will be mine or have work of mine in them, but not all. I therefore thought it might be of interest to this group. Apologies, though, I wasn't sure whether this counts as a News item, or author promotion or what, but hopefully our Mod will put me right if I've strayed in my posting remit.
The first post of the series is here: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
The subject is my novel, A Darker Moon