A personal epic poem, the stakes are high in Virtue’s End - Horus must save the land of imagination from the vile beasts that desire to destroy it. Inspired by Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, it’s no surprise that the poet appears within this tome, and several other writers of great fame too, including Mary Shelley… Continue reading Joseph Sale Month: Virtue’s End
Born in 1552, in London, he served as a young man as a secretary to the Bishop of Rochester, the Earl of Leicester, and later Lord Grey de Wilton, Lord Deputy of Ireland. Along the way, he authored several pastoral works. Aged 38, he was brought before Queen Elizabeth I by Sir Walter Raleigh to… Continue reading Joseph Sale Month: The Forefather of British Fantasy
This collection of 22 poems and stories was written between 2004 to 2017 during some of the author’s darkest times with depression. I believe the author is also a song writer, and there is a lovely rhythm to her poetry that would make a lot of her poems great lyrics. There are six short stories… Continue reading Sometime After Midnight by River J Hopkins
As Tolkien sought to write a modern English mythology, so Sale seeks to write a Divine Comedy for our time. Inspired by the author’s real life suffering and near death experience while undergoing treatment for cancer, Sale uses Dante as his guide through the 12 wards of hell. Written in the Italian style of a… Continue reading 31 Days of Horror: Hellward by James Sale
A collection of zombie poems - incredible - and it’s even better than it sounds! This slim volume comprises twenty poems, all themed around zombies. The poems are diverse in their scope. Some are like a complete zombie story in a few words. Poems such as Slippery When Wet, Maybe Not, The Hardest Promise I… Continue reading 31 Days of Horror: White Noise by Rhonda Parrish
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