🪦 The Cemetery VIII 🪦
gather round the fire for tales most terrifying
Welcome back The Cemetery, a once monthly promotional event for macabre writers one and all. If you write or read dark fiction, look no further than our comment section.
For those who are joining us for the first time, the rules are below.
Writers: post (link) your work below in the comments, but please share no more than 2 pieces. It does not need to be strictly horror in order to share, as long as it remains within the realm of speculative dark fiction feel free to share your work here!
Readers: visit the comment section to browse the work of many talented writers. The cemetery has a mind of its own, and probably won’t allow you to leave, so you may as well be entertained for your prolonged stay! Feel free to leave feedback, many writers are looking for some kind of critique.
In an effort to keep it organized and easy to spot what you are looking for, follow the below guidelines to help everyone out!
🦇- If you are a reader, or a writer, and have a question for anyone, begin your comment with a bat and then follow it with your question.
💀- If you are sharing work(s) that are short stories, begin the comment with a skull and follow it with your favorite paragraph from the story.
🪦- If you are sharing work(s) that are serialized stories, begin the comment with a tombstone and follow it with a pitch of your stories plot, characters, etcetera.
🥀- If you are sharing work(s) of poetry, begin the comment with a wilted rose and follow it with your favorite line or two from your poem.
👻- If you are sharing work(s) that include essays, reviews or anything else that is not mentioned above, begin the comment with a ghost and follow it with a description of what you are promoting.
Good luck, everyone!
-The Macabre Team
Good morning and happy Macabre Monday to all. I have been a blogger about horror fiction for a number of years now. Recently, I have been reading and writing about the short fiction of Charles L Grant, a one well-known US writer, as well as an exemplary anthologist.
Here is a link to my latest piece, on his novella collection The Black Carousel.
https://jayrothermel.substack.com/p/approaching-charles-l-grant-1942-1a7?r=1vg2di
💀 I have a tradition where I only write dark speculative through October for the Halloween season, so I'll share "Pandora's Lament" from this past year.
"My legs held firm, weighted down by a fear I could not explain, that whatever we were experiencing, although real, did not fit into the laws of our universe. I wanted to cross over, to prove myself, to share in our discovery, but nothing could propel me forward. Instead, I took a step back, and when I did..."
https://futurethief.substack.com/p/pandoras-lament