Was family lunchtime ever like this? The family gathered, dressed on their fine white clothes, but Patsy bears a frustrated frown… “Can’t you see what’s happening around you?” Patsy yells, inside her head. It is Sunday. While not being a religious family, they do observe a long tradition of polite lunchtime gathering. Patsy’s father, his bloated body dressed in an …
Robert Louis Stevenson: Master of Victorian Gothic
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850–94) was born in a dank and cold Edinburgh, but travelled greatly in search of less brutal weather, finally to pass away in the temperate climes of Samoa. For today’s reader his reputation as a writer of adventure fiction is well established but as a poet, essayist, travel writer and masterful short story writer his range was …
Micro-fiction 027 – Undertow
The dark waters of the storm-racked lake toss the small craft and its terrified occupants. So much for a weekend break! Another tale of dark fantasy from Jake Jackson’s These Fantastic Worlds.
Micro-fiction 026 – Watery Grave
The remnants of an ancient civilization lurk beneath the waves and draw the diver down into the darkest layers of the sea, where the weird and the timeless collide. Another tale from These Fantastic Worlds.