Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (British Library Tales of the Weird)
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Between them Clara Reeve and Ann Radcliffe had laid down a simple ground rule which helped establish the weird tale. Do not over embellish. Keep it simple. Heighten the atmosphere by all means, but in a subtle and believable way, and
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“It’s plain to see that the romance has slightly slipped from the Bohemian lifestyle. But we’re literary Gypsies, all of us, and it’s only recently that we’re starting to realise we’re not alone. The Internet is connecting all the healers and storytellers, the wild people and mystics, the writers and painters, and the ones who are slightly cracked.
I’ve always loved wild people.”
― Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
I’ve always loved wild people.”
― Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“You’re the only one who understands, so you’re the only one who doesn’t ask me about it. That’s a great gift.”
― The Convenience Store by the Sea
― The Convenience Store by the Sea
“Estele used to call these the restless days, when the warmer-blooded gods began to stir, and the cold ones began to settle. When dreamers were most prone to bad ideas, and wanderers were likely to get lost.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“This was when you started being a witch. It wasn’t when you did headology on daft old men, or mixed up medicines, or stuck up for yourself, or knew one herb from another. It was when you opened your mind to the world and carefully examined everything it picked up.”
― Maskerade
― Maskerade
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