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I - Inky & Ikiryo - Fictional Phantoms #AtoZChallenge 2016

Hello (again) and welcome to my blog this lovely Monday, I hope you all had a great weekend. Today I have two fictional phantoms who are both Japanese, only one is animated and the other is all about people.
Inky (Pac-Man) Inky is the cyan ghost from Pac-man and he's been around since the original arcade game. He's also the tricky one. He has no pattern in how he reacts to Pac-man so it is impossible to predict what he will do.

Blinky (red) chases Pac-man all the time like a one ghost army; Inky...

H - Jennet Humfrye - Fictional Phantoms #AtoZChallenge 2016

It is day eight of the AtoZChallenge and we are on the the letter H. Today I have one of my favourite terrifying ghosts to talk about. This is a lady who can terrify in all her incarnations.

Jennet Humfrye (The Woman in Black)
Jennet Hymfrye was the sister of Alice Drablow, the woman who owned and lived in Eel Marsh house. Having had a child out of wed...

G - Grace Stewart - Fictional Phantoms #AtoZChallenge 2016

Good morning and welcome to Fictional Phantoms on day 7 of the AtoZChallenge and the letter G. Today I only have one ghost for you, but she definitely leads to more.

Grace Stewart (The Others) Grace Stewart lives an isolated life in a big house on Jersey as she waits for her husband to return from the war.

Her two children, Anne and Nicholas have a rare condition which means light causes terrible sores on their skin and could even kill them. Hence they cannot go outside and every room they are i...

F - Robert Fraser & The Flying Dutchman - Fictional Phantoms #AtoZChallenge 2016

Day 6 already - the AtoZChallenge is going fast this year. Hope you have all had a good one so far. Welcome to my blog and my theme of Fictional Phantoms. Today I have two very different ghosts for you, one will follow a criminal to the ends of the earth, the other has to sail all its days to the ends of the earth and back again.

Robert "Bob" Fraser (Due South) Bob Fraser (Gordon Pinsent) was a sergeant in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the father of Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) in the hig...

E - Enola Sciotti - Fictional Phantoms #AtoZChallenge 2016

Welcome to day five of the AtoZChallenge and my theme of Fictional Phantoms. I hope everyone is still raring to go. Today I have a ghost who looks horrifying, but whose nature is kindly.

Enola Sciotti (Crimson Peak) Enola, third wife of Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) is the brilliant Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro).

Enola Sciotti was Italian by birth, from Milan, and fell for Sir Thomas when he visited there seeking funding for his red clay extracting machine.

She, like Thomas' pr...

D - Matilda Dixon & The Dead Men of Dunharrow - Fictional Phantoms #AtoZChallenge 2016

Day four of the AtoZ has arrived and we are on to the letter D (a personal favourite of mine :)). Today I have two very different ghosts for you, although they are joined by the notion of destruction.
Argh! Sorry this is late - I managed to get the time wrong.
Matilda Dixon (Darkness Falls) Matilda Dixon was once an old lady, beloved by the children of the town of Darkness Falls. She was known to them as the Tooth Fairy because she would give them gifts and gold coins when they lost their teeth....

C - Hugh Crain & Sir Simon de Canterville - Fictional Phantoms #AtoZChallenge 2016

Greetings AtoZers, regular readers and anyone who happens to surf by and welcome to day 3 of the AtoZChallenge. We have made it to the lovely letter C and today I have two gentleman ghosts for you. Both are of ageing years and a bit grumpy, but only one of them is homicidal.

Hugh Crain (The Haunting [1999]) In case you are wondering, this is the homicidal one.

Hugh Crain, master of Hill House and all round nasty fellow.

In the film Dr Marrow has organised what he has told the participants is...

B - Thelma Bates & Banquo - Fictional Phantoms #AtoZChallenge 2016

Welcome to the second day of Fictional Phantoms in the 2016 AtoZChallenge, I very much hope you enjoyed yesterday's post. Today I have two much less bloody phantoms for you. These ghosts are out to get the baddies, not the innocent.

Thelma Bates (Hex)
My first choice today is the wonderful Thelma Bates (Jemima Rooper) from the underrated TV show Hex.

Thelma is a kick-arse lesbian ghost who is in love with the main protagonist Cassie. She gives her life to save Cassie, but unfortunately is the ca...

A - Annabelle Higgins & Aka Manto - Fictional Phantoms #AtoZChallenge 2016

Hello and welcome to my blog on the 1st day of the 2016 AtoZChallenge. Today I have two rather nasty spooks for you in my Fictional Phantoms theme. You definitely wouldn't want to meet either of these on a dark night, or any other time for that matter.

Annabelle (Higgins) (The Conjuring/Annabelle)
Annabelle is a haunted doll, or rather a doll which is a gateway for a demon to enter the living world introduced in the film The Conjuring. The demon tricks people to invite it in by pretending...

Guest: Overcoming Second Novel Syndrome by Tiffany Shand #WriterlyWednesdays 27

Please join me today in welcoming Tiffany Shand to my blog for the second time, with her new novel Denai Bound and an insight into the joys of writing a second novel. We all know the feeling: we did it once, can we do it again?

Overcoming Second Novel Syndromeby Tiffany ShandWhen I first started working on my second novel, Denai Bound, I thought this should be easy. I know my characters now, I've already written the first novel and this should be a breeze. Boy, was I wrong!

Shouldn't second nov...