Tag: macabre
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April 02, 2009 12:13 AM EDT --
This is the Newberry Award winner for 2008. It's a charming story about a baby boy who toddles out of his house while his parents and sister are being murdered, and wanders into the local graveyard. . . .
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November 19, 2007 02:11 AM EST --
Lullabies cooed in your ear
Cannot soften your stricken eyes;
What did you see on that dark night?
I thought you were safe in your own mind,
Always peaceful and taciturn as the sun hangs. . . .
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August 27, 2008 11:13 PM EDT --
I figured most of you would get a nice bit of enjoyment from this. I'm currently taking an upper level psychology course called Death & Dying. It's actually quite facinating, . . .
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October 29, 2008 03:40 AM EDT --
Welcome to Wednesday Writing Essentials . Today, we celebrate Halloween, Horror, the Macabre, Death and Darkness and Poe.
I encourage you all to post articles on any of the above . . .
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October 11, 2009 06:59 PM EDT --
Gather Writing Essentials, October 7, 2009 Use the following prompts: Refer to a secret but, keep it secret. Use a famous quote and identify it as such Use a word that denotes color but, use it as a verb . . .
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March 04, 2007 03:10 AM EST --
I come upon her lying there
With graveyard roses in her hair
For others she is deadly still
A captive held against her will
But it is for me she calls
Her whisper crawling across . . .
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October 27, 2007 09:40 PM EDT --
My Pennsylvania friend Wilma sent this series of photos to me the other day. A hawk landed in her yard and started trying to romance (or carry off?) a concrete bunny! (Even the . . .
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October 09, 2008 01:17 PM EDT --
Hi Gatherers...
Horror fan, blogger and commentator Iloz Zoc is the founder of Zombos Closet of Horror Blog and League of Tana Drinkers. He's also a regular contributor to Blogcritics. In this . . .
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November 05, 2008 05:26 PM EST --
Hooray for Gorey and his twisted, macabre brain. For those of us who delight in his ghastly wit, this is an alphabetical list of tragic ends.
"N is for Neville, who died of ennui."
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October 26, 2007 09:28 AM EDT --
Dr. S---- had found
a strange sample
in the ground
It was large and mottled
with decay
a startling specimen
in its own way
Over nine feet long
sinewy, boney and . . .
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December 22, 2007 06:18 PM EST --
Tim Burton's excellent retelling of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is dark and macabre - as it should be.
Thetale of Sweeney Todd is an old one, . . .
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October 31, 2006 01:10 PM EST --
Feelings and thoughts as sinister as the night.
Dark clouds masking the moonlight.
I am here to have my despair released.
The only place where I will find some peace
The graveyard is calm; justifying . . .
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October 10, 2007 07:42 PM EDT --
I came across the manuscript of this story a few months ago in a cupboard. At one time, I used to date all my manuscripts: the date on this one was November 1987 and I only vaguely recall writing it...! . . .
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May 07, 2007 03:23 AM EDT --
In my jewel-encrusted cage, two songbirds sing, but not in harmony.
Solemn dirges and shrieking accusations
keep me from sleep or silent contemplation.
Why not let them fly free?
They will not leave. . . .
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March 01, 2009 01:35 PM EST --
Mordebahn was a magician, before the fall. The execution of his greatest magic feat had changed all that, but at least it had been a success. When his wife had disappeared, he was the prime suspect. It . . .
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October 31, 2006 01:15 PM EST --
'Twas but a year ago, the moon shining bright,
(etched in my mind, so well);
strolled with my loved one in the orange light,
our voices intermingling like twinkling bells
Suddenly the moon grew dull. . . .
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October 06, 2006 09:59 AM EDT --
Falling and falling through the tumultuous air
Battered and bloody on the ground with stinging flesh laid bare.
Lost in the swells of agonizing pain
As waves of anguish wash over my brain.
Sputtering, . . .
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July 01, 2009 02:30 AM EDT --
[photo by Robert B]
A SHATTERED MIND
©2009 R C Burnham
( my apologies to the great bard, the first line of each stanza belongs to him, 'cept the last . . .
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October 05, 2008 09:22 PM EDT --
(D.R.A.I.N.E.D. =
Democrats* / Republicans**:
America Is Now Electile-Dysfunctional).
The Dimowits* are dull as dirt
That populates your loam
While Repos** promise precious perks
Then repossess . . .
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October 21, 2008 04:08 PM EDT --
Latest interviews:
*Publisher Karen L. Syed, Owner of Echelon Press, talks about her company and horror books.
*Author Brian Porter talks about Jack the Ripper.
*Author C. Sanchez-Garcia talks . . .
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