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My Favorite Horror and Dark Fiction that I’ve read this year
I find that sometimes I can’t stomach reading horror and dark fiction, but sometimes, when things are troubling, it is strangely comfortable to immerse myself in the dark. Read more
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My first reader
You will probably hear me say a bit about my mom as I prepare to put this novella out. She was the first person to read it, and it was one of her favorite pieces of mine. When I would have another story in the works or out for submission, she would say “I want Read more
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Mood Board for Novella
I have been collection images for the forthcoming novella [TITLE NOT YET ANNOUNCED]. The cover is already 95% finished, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do a mood board. Most of these images come from Unsplash which is an excellent resource for professional photography. Credits below. I would love to know what these images evoke Read more
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Time to try something new
Speculation Publications has concluded it’s first year, fifth release, and fifth anniversary of the collection of utter speculation. It came with some exciting announcement about what is to come for our small press (Like our first novella series and our last book of the year, YULE). We also did our first convention at Creatures Crimes Read more
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The Fifth Collection of Utter Speculation is Live today
Happy Anniversary Collections of Utter Spec! Five years ago Susan, River and I were in a small workshop with two other authors and we had an idea to put out an anthology together. We had so much fun (and a few fights) doing that first book and when it was all over we knew we Read more
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The sad strange tales of Cry Baby Bridges
I first heard of Cry Baby Bridge in middle school. The area I live in has a long strange history since its colonization and therefore many haunted places. Cry Baby Bridge was lumped in with Gravity Hill and Midnight Mary and the old school where you challenged the ghost of a deceased quarterback to a Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Jean Jentilet
I grew up very close to an infamous cry baby bridge. Nearly every urban legend we had where I grew up involved the bridge somehow. A lot of the feelings that I had about that bridge as a child made it into my story, especially the way it seemed to have two distinct natures. Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Dori Lumpkin
It isn’t really a surprise to me that this legend is so especially pervasive. I think that it makes a lot of sense that we want to explain something tragic or traumatic with the supernatural. Grief is handled in so many different and interesting ways, and the creation of urban legends like the cry baby… Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Jeff Provine
In my folklore research, I’ve come across some twenty different bridges in Oklahoma all claiming to be “the real” Cry Baby Bridge. One of them, which inspired my story, is the “Ghost Boy Bridge” Read more
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