Poetry 101: Subject Driven Poetry (The Dragon)
Poetry 101: Subject Driven Poetry (The Dragon) By James Matthew Byers Greetings from the Darque Bard! Today’s poetry blog takes a break from instruction and method and instead centers on the dragon, a…
Poetry 101: Subject Driven Poetry (The Dragon) By James Matthew Byers Greetings from the Darque Bard! Today’s poetry blog takes a break from instruction and method and instead centers on the dragon, a…
The Reddening by Adam Nevill Reviewed by Morgan K. Tanner I do enjoy a nice little folk horror tale, and this offering from Adam Nevill certainly raises the creep-factor in this frightening horror sub-genre….
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kz8et-e17e3d Bo Chappell is the South Carolina-based author of Year 47 and Once You Get to Know Me, as well as the editor of By Year’s End and Aphotic Realm’s Appalachian Horror anthology. We…
Green Fingers by Dan Coxon Review by S.J. Budd “A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Dan Coxon comes Green…
Poetry 101: Narrative Poetry Continued (The Ballad) By James Matthew Byers Greetings from the Darque Bard! Narrative poetry continues this week with the ballad. Most of us associate the term “ballad” with a…
The Drive-Thru Crematorium by Jon Bassoff Reviewed by Morgan K. Tanner (Originally Published in Issue #9 Interstellar) Well this was one weird-ass story. Although the narrative flows effortlessly, it’s a story that takes some…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jns4z-e0b06d Marshall Riley is a Seattle-based musician who made, among many other brilliant tracks, Losing the Plot’s intro tune!! Their last release, “Emerald Shitty”, is now available on cassette tape through Captain Crook Records:https://captaincrookrecords.bandcamp.com/album/emerald-shitty?fbclid=IwAR2blAk5uUjpXv5wYTdth0ogc6V06VJwbClQJPzS09ERVAwOwVXR_n1WTJ4…
The Balance by Kev Harrison Review by S.J. Budd “When myth becomes nightmare…The price of blood is always blood. Natalia’s in trouble. She only looked away for a second, and now her brother’s hurt….
Poetry 101: Narrative Poetry (The Idyll) by James Matthew Byers Greetings from the Darque Bard! Heroic couplets make great structures for epic and narrative poems. Last week we took a look into Chaucer’s world,…
The Lamppost Huggers and Other Wretched Tales by Christopher Stanley Reviewed by Morgan K. Tanner In my opinion there are two ways of reading flash fiction collections. You either race through them bam bam…