I thought it would be a good idea to make a list of fairy tales as a sort of reference for story ideas. 1. Little Red Ridding Hood 2. Billy Goat Gruff 3. Cinderella 4. Beauty and the Beast 5. Sleeping Beauty 6. Repunzel 7. The Magic Cooking Pot 8. Rumple Stiltskin 9. Goldy Locks […]
Just thinking on what I said last week – the concept of sweet nice wish granting fairies came from the Victorians before that they were spiteful, mischeavious and often deadly. I’m thinking on working on my own set of fea pictures including ones with tails and horns ie taking them back to a more elagent […]
The world of Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes are a rich source of the darkly horrifying. One of the things I would love to do is write a series of dark fairy tales – as in take the traditional stories and turn them into an intense rollercoaster of imagery and the like. Think of Little […]
When writing horror, or dark fantasy I like to listen to people like Tori Amos, Nick Cave, P J Harvey, God Speed You! Black Emperor and Cradle of Filth. This is along with things like the Solaris sound track, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd plus some of the more dramatic classical pieces. I find music […]
The turning of the circle and new beginnings or new endings? As such I need to sort my story out from the GothNoWriMo challenge. I will also be trying to read a few more horror stories and collecting gothic/dark imagery to help in my writing quests.