I love a good historical detective novel, and always find a Victorian setting adds a gothic darkness that makes the pleasure of reading more intense. Today I'm delighted to welcome author of romantic and historical fiction, Pam Lecky to Unusual Fiction. I loved her last novel, The Bowes Inheritance and greatly look forward to getting…
Mindful Musings
Happiness is a cup of herbal tea on a wooden bench beneath an overhanging rowan branch. It's the slight breeze rippling down the hill that kisses the back of my neck. It's in the quiet country road and the cyclist who passes the gate in his own private world. It's in the stretch of the…
Welcome to Women in Horror Month 2019 – Introducing Author of Extreme Horror and Comedy Horror Fiction, D.J.Doyle
Welcome to another day of gruesome goings on. Today, it's my great pleasure to welcome back fellow Irish horror writer D.J. Doyle. D.J. Doyle writes extreme horror and also comedy horror fiction. D.J. Doyle is the author of multiple horror and thriller novels and short stories from extreme horror to comedy horror. She was raised…
Forcing the Words and Writer’s Anxiety
More and more often these days, writing is like pulling teeth. It starts out as a niggling sensation, a feeling that something is not right, something's amiss, as if by not writing daily (as was my habit), I have opened up this void, like teasing a loose thread until a hole appears in one's sweater.…
Happy Hallowe’en – Pumpkins and Dark Fiction
It's finally arrived. You can't get through a doorway in our house without being brushed by a large felt spider leg or getting skull tinsel in your hair. The skull (cement, not real, I'm ghoulish but not that ghoulish) has been smiling from pride of place on the mantel beneath the black leaf garlands…
Spreading the Horror Love – a humorous tale with a gothic twist
It really is the most creative time of year for me, in regard to fiction writing. Each year I have fashioned a series of gothic and contemporary horror tales from my fevered imagination, thanks to my addiction to horror films and fiction. This year was no different, but rather than a collection, I have been…
Hallowe’en Horror Tales – Time to meet author of darkest fiction – D.J. Doyle
We're more than half-way through October and there are only twelve more days until the main event; Hallowe'en, and so today is given over to writer of celtic mythology and extreme dark fiction - author D.J. Doyle. D.J. Doyle was raised by pot-smoking hippies and spent her days worshipping pagan deities in the…
Hallowe’en Horror Tales – getting into the spirit with Historical Novelist, Pam Lecky
Outside the wind howls around the gables of the house and whistles down the chimney. It's the perfect weather for a good ghost story and my next author really knows how to tell one - I'm delighted to welcome back Historical Novelist and ghost story author Pam Lecky. Pam Lecky is an Irish historical…
