Daniel Kemp

La fruta ha madurado, las hojas se caen… es Otoño. No encuentro palabras que expresen la emoción que me inspira el paisaje. Son los chopos repartiendo sus corazones de oro pulido al sol, cubriendo la tierra a manos llenas. La chopera, siendo pequeña, hoy se agranda ante mis ojos. Las hojas me atraen, me hablan, me sugieren mundos multiformes, páginas en blanco por escribir, mundos multicolores, que un día lloraban con la lluvia y otros reían con los atardeceres. Hojas tan frágiles que volaban como pájaros, iban y venían entre las ramas movidas por el viento, todas antes o después, caen en silencio a la tierra. Son abanicos vivientes y el árbol no da sombra sin las hojas… Y vino el Otoño a pintarlas. Una amiga japonesa, de mis años de estudiante, me decía que la parte frontal de las hojas, es masculina y la opuesta, femenina.  Hoy las miro…

Horror, supernatural and science fiction author, Teri Polen, is hosting her #BadMoonRising series of posts for the month of October. She is featuring the scary, dark or thrilling book of a different author each day. It is a great series and I was delighted to be part of it this year.

Many of you know today’s author from her children’s books (I dream of living in Chocolate Land), poetry, the book she co-authored with her mother, and extraordinary baking creations.  But did you also know she’s the author of a new young adult horror book?  Welcome Roberta (Robbie) Cheadle!

Would you rather walk through a haunted graveyard at midnight or spend the night in a haunted, abandoned house?

I would prefer to walk through a haunted graveyard at midnight. That is the witching hour and there is no telling what interesting ghosts you might meet during your stroll. Graveyards…

After the tremendous success of the stand-alone Stanley and Elsie, Nicola Upson’s tour de force of the artist Stanley Spencer’s complicated marriage and art from the view of his housekeeper, Elsie Munday, the author gives us the the eighth in her series the Sunday Times calls “historical fiction at its very best” featuring Josephine Tey as its main character in Sorry for the Dead.

Upson takes readers in part to Tey’s younger years, alternating with the time period associated with the majority of the previous novels in the 1930s, with a few brief forays a decade later. It is to Upson’s credit that the details for each period ring true and cement each era without confusing the reader. Indeed, the reader becomes immersed in each time frame, in its details and its mores within history.

These periods are needed to tell the story that starts in 1915, when…

Writing to be Read has shared a review of Through the Nethergate, my first supernatural book for young adults. Thank you, Kaye Lynne Booth for sharing your thoughts.

Through the Nethergate, by Roberta Eaton Cheadle, is a captivating journey in the here and now that reaches through the barriers of time to bring legend to life, and it’s a very scary legend. This is a tale of horror, but not all spirits are evil, and many of Cheadle’s ghosts make up the cast of characters. Cheadle brings the characters in this story life masterfully, even the ghostly ones, whose backstories are woven into the legend’s tapestry to become part of the whole while still standing on their own individually.

Continue reading here: https://kayelynnebooth.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/through-the-nethergate-a-supernatural-journey-through-time/

Through the Nethergate is currently available here:

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The South Bridge Vaults in Edinburgh, are hidden beneath one of the city’s busiest street, and can be accessed by the public through guided tours of a few of its subterranean chambers. The vaults comprise of a series of approximately one hundred chambers which were built in the nineteen arches of the bridged in 1788.

The vaults were originally used by local businesses as workshops and for storage but they were abandoned when the chambers began to flood. Subsequent to the businesses moving out, the vaults developed into a slum area, inhabited by people needing a place to stay. Unfortunately, the slums also attracted a number of human predators. Crime quickly became rife and the vaults are purported to have become a hunting ground for the infamous body snatchers, Burke and Hare, who murdered people and sold their bodies to Robert Knox, a Scottish anatomist, zoologist, ethologist, physician and lecturer…