I am super excited about one of my stories from The Other Side of Despair being featured on the latest podcast episode of Random Transmissions. This podcast is super cool and you should go and check out all the episodes!
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Random Transmissions
- March 1, 2016 – 5:06 pm
- Posted in dark fiction, horror, Horror Genre, insane asylum, sanitarium, scary story, short story, Storytelling, Weird Fiction, Writing
- Tagged creative writing, Dark Fantasy, Dark Fiction, horror, Horror Story, impressionism, insane asylum, sanitarium, short horror, Short Story, stories, storytelling, weird fiction, writing
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The Yellow Booke Vol. 2
- October 22, 2015 – 2:18 pm
- Posted in dark fiction, Fantasy, ghost story, haunted house, Horror Genre, insane asylum, sanitarium, scary story, short story, Storytelling, Weird Fiction, Writing
- Tagged creative writing, creepy house, Dark Fantasy, Dark Fiction, haunted house, haunting, horror, Horror Story, insane asylum, sanitarium, short horror, Short Story, stories, storytelling, weird fiction, writing
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My story “Shockley House” was published in this year’s Halloween anthology The Yellow Booke.
My Author Interview
- October 12, 2015 – 3:53 pm
- Posted in dark fiction, dark poetry, Fantasy, ghost story, horror, Horror Genre, horror poetry, scary story, short story, Storytelling, Weird Fiction, Writing
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Hi! If you’ve read any of my blog and my weird writings, please take the time to post a comment about your thoughts and impressions. I’d love to hear what you think!
Also, here is an interview that I just did that delves a little deeper into my artistic vision.
Impressionism and Symbolism in Weird Fiction
- January 9, 2015 – 3:37 pm
- Posted in dark fiction, Fantasy, horror, Horror Genre, scary story, short story, Storytelling, Writing
- Tagged creative writing, Dark Fantasy, Dark Fiction, horror, Horror Story, impressionism, Lovecraft, short horror, Short Story, stories, storytelling, symbolism, weird fiction, writing, writing ideas, writing tips
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For those writers and bloggers who have steadfastly followed the last two stories I’ve posted, I would like to say thank you for reading them. After I published my collection of short stories in 2010 I decided to take some time away from writing and figure out a new direction. Finally, I decided to write a novella that was a Lovecraftian, Cthulhu Mythos story – The Scourge of Wetumpka. That took some time to write but turned out quite well. Coming off of that I began writing Psychological Horror short stories. When I use the term Psychological, I am using it in the true sense of the term as having to do with Psychology. I have a Master’s in Psychology and I really enjoy Psychological thrillers with horror or dark fantasy overtones. The first couple of stories were “Alone” and “Shockley House”. I was very pleased with “Shockley House” but wound up re-writing “Alone” in order to make it deliver the right effect. After those two stories, I began to get interested in the use of Symbolism and the techniques used in Impressionism. The last two stories, “The Land of Nod” and “The Murklor”, explore using those techniques in writing weird tales. What makes them really work on a blog is that each day (or every couple of days) a new glimpse or vignette is added to the overall impression of the piece. In “The Land of Nod” I tried to do that by adding more bits of symbolism to the canvass of the story. In “The Murklor”, I tried to do that by adding new vantage points – usually in the form of different writing techniques. Overall, I’m really liking this new direction of Impressionistic Weird Fiction. It’s fun and offers so much freedom.
BTW, I can’t take credit for inventing it. Here’s a really good interview about what I’m trying to achieve in my writing:
One final note – the ciphers in the story “The Murklor” are very much real. They aren’t just thrown together to make the story weirder than it already is. Each one was methodically designed and does have a real solution.
Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling
- November 13, 2014 – 4:39 pm
- Posted in dark fiction, Fantasy, horror, Horror Genre, Music, poetry, short story, Storytelling, Writing
- Tagged creative writing, Dark Fantasy, Dark Fiction, dark poetry, horror poetry, Horror Story, how to write horror, poetry, short horror, Short Story, stories, storytelling, writing, writing tips
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The White Lady – a poem
- November 7, 2014 – 5:43 pm
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The cover of the first book I wrote (Intertwined in Limbo) had absolutely nothing to do with any story in the book. The firm that created the cover just used a picture that was “ghostly”. So I decided to write a poem that told her story.
The White Lady
Little Mason Morbid was a melancholy lad
While the other kids were playing, he sat brooding, looking sad
His cloths were black and gray and his heart was a hole
And the only thing ‘twas darker than his mind was his soul
On the thirteenth of the month he would adjourn unto a tomb
In an old forgotten graveyard under darkness of the gloom
He’d commence to crank the handle of a tiny music player
And then the strains of Moonlight Sonata would drift upon the air
Somewhere from the blackness an apparition would appear
A radiant diaphanous figure who was draped in gossamer
She would float about the graves as little Mason Morbid crooned
“White Lady, white lady, tell me of your doom.”
“It was in the dead of winter and the snow was falling down
Like little drops of clouds to form a blanket on the ground.
The people of the village were all huddled with each other
And the young Reverend Smithe had stopped by to pray for Mother.”
“He sat and read his Bible and then he joined us in our meal
Then he told my worried Father how his faith would help her heal.
He was smitten by my beauty and I was taken by his charm
Before I knew what happened, he had lured me to the barn.”
“The passions of the flesh overcame the strictures of the mind
The reverend’s Puritan values gave way to pleasures for a time.
I was left defiled and the guilt would take its toll
Darkness and depression were like weights upon my soul.”
“Consumed by misery and ashamed for being so beguiled
But the real scandal was when I found that I was with child.
And all about the gossip started that descended upon me
The Reverend Smithe could not be charged, it must be sorcery.”
“They drug me through the village with curses that were vile,
Accused me of witchcraft and held a mockery of a trial.
And so it was, betrayed, abused and blighted in the soul,
I was made to pay the reverend’s sin on the rope of the gallows’ pole.”
Little Mason Morbid heaved a heavy sigh of grief
The White Lady’s tragedy was sad beyond belief
He watched her go back to her grave then he mused aloud,
“Life is futile and so unfair, and we are wrapped within her shroud.”
The Horror Website of David Maurice Garrett
- May 27, 2011 – 9:28 pm
- Posted in Horror Genre
- Tagged art, garrett, horror, short, stories, story
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Welcome to my website of horror short stories and horror art.