Stories From the Shadows - Black Magic: Embrace the darkness

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.
But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?

Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twisted revelation that may thrill, may disturb, but will always engage and help us explore the edge of darkness where some of the very best literature patiently lurks …. waiting …. for the likes of me and you.

1 - Stories From the Shadows - Black Magic - An Introduction

2 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot

3 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot

4 - Imprisoned with the Pharaohs - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft and Harry Houdini

5 - Imprisoned with the Pharaohs - Part 2 by H P Lovecraft and Harry Houdini

6 - Lost in a Pyramid (or the Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard

7 - Blood - Part 1 by Hanns Heinz Ewers

8 - Blood - Part 2 by Hanns Heinz Ewers

9 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy

10 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs

11 - The Devil's Horse by Ion Luca Caragiale

12 - The Death Hound by Violet Mary Firth writng as Dion Fortune

13 - Lord of the Jackals by Sax Rohmer

14 - The Screaming Skull by F Marion Crawford

15 - The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin

16 - The Operation by Violet Hunt

17 - The Necromancer by Arthur Gray

18 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson

19 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

20 - The Hill by R Ellis Roberts

21 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster

22 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt