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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 3h

My contributor's copy of NIGHTMARE ABBEY 9 has arrived! The pet gargoyle says it tastes lovely.

Nightmare Abbey magazine issue 9 with gargoyle in foreground

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 4h

Mr. Spreading Stain....

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 7h

Mr. Stinky?

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 9h

I went over to Stirling this morning, parked and happened to notice a little stone building housing St. Ninian's Well. You can read about it via this link. A notice said "Welcome to St. Ninian's Well" but you aren't particularly welcome as it's locked up.
megalithix.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

megalithix.wordpress.com

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 11h

UGH

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 11h

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 11h

Submitted a story. Now on to the next one.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 18h

I know that cover image story! It's Die Schwarze Spinne (The Black Spider).

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone else wants to read Brian J. Showers's SOME THOUGHTS ON HORROR, it's available here:
calquepress.com/products/pre...

Pamphlet Eleven - Some Thoughts on Horror: Consideration of an Effect

Buying from the EU? Please read about shipping from the UK. Limited edition - 100 copies Calque Ideas provides an opportunity for writers to think aloud, using their own experiences and knowledge to a...

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 1d

About 70 pages of MOBY DICK to go, and then I think I'll tackle this new arrival!

Copy of SOME THOUGHTS ON HORROR by Brian J. Showers

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2d

Out now!! NIGHTMARE ABBEY 9, with a host of weird and spine chilling tales, including a new one from yours truly.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVX9414...

Nightmare Abbey 9

Nightmare Abbey 9 [English, Tom, Bestwick, Simon, Duffy, Steve, Grant, Helen, Tem, Steve Rasnic, Probert, John Llewellyn, Gavin, Richard, McMahon, Gary, Hughes, Rhys, Navroth, John M] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Nightmare Abbey 9

www.amazon.com

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2d

Went into Glasgow last night to meet a friend. The train back was full of very very drunk football fans. Luckily they were amiable drunk football fans. Three of them insisted on shaking my hand, and one offered me a packet of crisps.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 2d

I had a bacon and chilli jam sandwich at my desk for breakfast and since then everything is subtly sticky and in spite of the extensive use of two wet wipes I keep finding tiny bits of chilli.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 3d

On my way to Glasgow to meet a friend.
Extrovert OH: it's going to be amazing! Glasgow will be hoaching with people!
Me: 😱

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 3d

That's just horrible. I'm so sorry.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 3d

This was my church when I was growing up (sorry about the tiny pic, it was the only one I could find). I gazed at that mural over the arch for hours. The Passion of Christ, where He is shown with his hands over his face, often recurs to me. Donkey's butt also visible, bottom left.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 4d

The story also appeared in Best Horror of the Year 16, which you can find here!
www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Horror-...

The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen (Best Horror of the Year, 16) : Datlow, Ellen: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 4d

Reading for Hallowe'en or Christmas! Just a wee reminder that you can still buy Supernatural Tales 54, which included my Christmas horror story "Nábrók".
www.lulu.com/shop/sam-daw...

Supernatural Tales 54

New tales of the strange, mysterious, and downright disturbing.

www.lulu.com

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 4d

British folk horror and occult characters to be on Halloween, a thread.

1. Mr Fisher from Robin Redbreast (1970).
Catchphrase: “The study of religions is one of my many interests.”
You’ll need:
- Tweed trilby
- Mutton chops
- Cracked spectacles
- A copy of The Golden Bough

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 4d

Back home from Arran. We had some sunshine and some rain, which is an improvement on this year's visits to Skye, Lewis, Harris, Mull and Iona, on all of which it pissed it down mightily.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 4d

They do say that if you can't decide between option A and option B, you should go for option C. Maybe she needs to walk right out of the novel and into ARMADALE, where she could marry Ozias Midwinter.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 4d

I agree with the other commenter about the white saviour attitudes etc. But I do feel Jane's horrible dilemma over this. And could she trust Rochester again after he's told her a humungous porkie?

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 4d

Oooh, interesting issue. In at least one film adaptation I've seen, St. John has been so unlovely that it would be no contest. In the book... well, I've often mused on how difficult it would be for Jane because St. John is so ludicrously good looking. I'd be tempted.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 5d

Towards evening we also went to see the King's Caves. We didn't have very long there as it was getting very close to nightfall.

Exterior of the King's Cave. There is an opening in the cliff face with a caged entrance over it.

Helen Grant and v small dog in a dark cave

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 5d

Yesterday we went to see the "Giants' Graves", actually the remains of two large chambered Cairns. This was on the Isle of Arran.

Neolithic stones and small dog (long-haired Chihuahua). The stones are parallel.

Neolithic stones. I think this was the entrance to a chambered cairn.

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