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Nobody does historical better than the royals! I am thrilled to have Amy from Passages To The Past walk us through the harrowing after lives of the historical figures with whom she is most familiar. It is such a pleasure to be guest posting for Allie and Nicole’s Harrowing Historicals event! It has been a [...]
This month I read Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury, in order to participate in the Faith and Fiction Saturday Roundtable hosted by Amy, of My Friend Amy. Overall I found that while some parts of the story and ideas presented were compelling, the book was on the inaccessible side, with a style [...]
Writer Vicki Leon penned the book How To Mellify a Corpse, where she explores, among other things, the worlds and practices of the ancient Greeks and Romans, a superstitious lot. Vicki was gracious enough to answer a few questions giving us some advice on Halloween, hysteria, and ends by telling a ghost story! Welcome, Vicki…in [...]
Earlier this year, I read Daughters of the Witching Hill, by Mary Sharratt. It has proven to be one of my favorite books this year, and one of the most harrowing of historicals considering that Sharratt’s tale of the Pendle Witches is firmly based in fact. Here Mary discusses the reality of whether the Pendle [...]
This month Allie (Hist-Fic Chick) and I are featuring Harrowing Historicals in our Month Long Celebration of All Hallows, in other words, books with a scary bent that take place before 1960. In The Turn of the Screw, Henry James has written as much a Rorschach test as a ghost story. Craftily put together, this tale [...]
This month Allie and I are featuring Harrowing Historicals, books with a scary bent that were set before 1960. Frankenstein fit perfectly within that vein, and is also the subject of an upcoming podcast that I am recording with Jen from Devourer of Books. I have read Frankenstein twice now within as many years. I [...]
This month Allie (Hist-Fic Chick) and I are featuring Harrowing Historicals in our Month Long Celebration of All Hallows, in other words, books with a scary bent that were set before 1960. Earlier in the year I read The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters for a discussion that I was having with Rebecca from The [...]
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