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Catherine’s 2025 Year in Books
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Catherine McCarthy
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Writing is an incredible way to encourage you to focus your thoughts and demons into something positive.
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Mosaic
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2023
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Immortelle
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2021
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6 editions
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The House at the End of Lacelean Street
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2024
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Mists and Megaliths
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A Moonlit Path of Madness
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Door and Other Twisted Tales
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The Wolf and the Favour
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Death of a Clown
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Hope Cottage
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The Gatekeeper`s Apprentice
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Return to Hades and Other AdventuresQ. Which myths/legends from your childhood do you remember as being significant?
A. Clash of the Titans was a favourite movie from my childhood, and it got me interested in Greek myths, especially the haunting tragedy of Medusa. I loved the animal headed gods of the Egyptians and their depiction of the afterlife. Hans Christian Anderson appealed to me because of Read more of this blog post »
A. Clash of the Titans was a favourite movie from my childhood, and it got me interested in Greek myths, especially the haunting tragedy of Medusa. I loved the animal headed gods of the Egyptians and their depiction of the afterlife. Hans Christian Anderson appealed to me because of Read more of this blog post »
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The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3):
"Don’t mind me busy being a sobbing mess because it’s over! 😭
Nothing ever compares to how these characters make me feel. Even this third time reading has hit me just as hard, perhaps harder than before. Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading my recentl" Read more of this review » |
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| Took me a while to get through this, but it was well worth it. What drew me in orginally was the fact that all 28 tales published herein were formerly printed in the famous Weird Tales Mag, but I was already an admire of her work. Imagine being that ...more | |
"This book is going straight onto my shelf of favourite reads. I think I will put it next to Lincoln in the Bardo because the ghosts inside their pages have so much in common, and because both books just struck a chord in me and made for such great re"
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Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane: Nostalgic Terrors:
"Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane
It is a collection of short stories and essays from and for horror lover. I must say they are quite tame and more of a nostalgic feeling rather than just an assortment of horror stories. But if you wou" Read more of this review » |
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Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane: Nostalgic Terrors:
"I really enjoyed Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved and Insane: Nostalgic Terrors. It’s a thoughtfully put-together anthology that blends short stories with essays from the authors reflecting on their relationship with horror and where their inf"
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| I adore folk horror, especially when set in the UK because it's so easy to make a strong connection to the land and characters. This was no exception, as hailing from a coal mining town myself and also being able to vividly remember the devastating s ...more | |
“suppose my mother taught me a lesson that day; be grateful for what comes your way and don’t expect too much from life. A cynical viewpoint, some might think, especially in one so young.”
― Immortelle
― Immortelle
“During the nineteenth century, graveside memorials, known as immortelles, became popular throughout Western Europe. Arrangements of ceramic or beaded flowers, as well as other motifs and trinkets, were displayed beneath glass domes on the graves of those interred as symbols of resurrection and, of course, immortality. As a rule they were not personalised, though the following story imagines them to be...”
― Immortelle
― Immortelle
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“Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I’m telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.”
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“suppose my mother taught me a lesson that day; be grateful for what comes your way and don’t expect too much from life. A cynical viewpoint, some might think, especially in one so young.”
― Immortelle
― Immortelle
“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.”
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