This is a blog that concentrates on the influences and writing of two aspiring author friends called Thadeus Morticaine and Dan Coghlan. They have been friends for many years and found that they have a common interest in what they write, even though they write different things.

Thadeus Morticaine is working on a series of Folk horror stories, fantasy stories, some ghost stories and some sci-fi. He likes HP Lovecraft, Gareth L Powell, Robert Rankin and Kim Newman. He is also very much into his folktales and Celtic and Norse myths and legends.

Dan Coghlan is currently working on a Sword and Sorcery series about a Wood Elf Barbarian, and also a pulp fiction style series of Post-Apocalyptic stories. He likes Robert E Howard and Steve Dilks, as well as Lin Carter and Clarke Ashton Smith.

The Dark Garret twitter account can be found here at @GarretDark.

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Hello everyone,

Phew, that's the Christmas period over, and sorry that it's been such a while since I last was in touch.

A few things have been in the pipeline over Christmas. I have a short story coming out soon that will be incorporated inside a heavy metal album. There will be more about that later on, nearer the album's release date, then I can give you lots more details.

I will be adding a few more pages and a bit more content on here. I would like to re-upload parts of Thomas of Newburgh's History of English Affairs from my old blog. These will be the juice parts that involve curious phenomena and the supernatural, which include zombie revenant sightings, twin suns in the sky and the Green Children of Woolpit. I hope you will enjoy those.

The other thing that will be seen on my blog will be a sporadic series of curious folkloric, supernatural and historical things that tickle my imagination. I would like to upload them when I can in the hope that they will put some fire in the imagination of others as well.

Also, I have been working with Northworthy Sagas and Stories. I was impressed by their ethos of wanting to record and archive tellings of Dark Age folklore. Alongside that, they aim to share as much as they can about Dark Age history, myth, legend and culture. So I will soon be on YouTube as either a Viking or an Anglo Saxon. I am also working on their blog, which I hope will be ready soon, so watch their space, I applaud their effort.

One thing that's related is that I am planning a fictionalised short story that will be part of a saga for a persona that I'm developing for Northworthy Sagas and Stories. It will be based at Repton, and old capital of Mercia and involve Vikings, Saxons and a Lovecraftian god. It is based on a short story that I wrote many a year ago that I was unhappy with and didn't do anything with.

One thing that I will be doing with this story is that I will be using tarot readings to help me better develop the story. After a bit of interest, I will be converting some of my methods and planning involving the tarot readings into blog articles that I shall put up on here! So watch out for those.

Well, that is all that I've been up to recently and I hope the New Year is treating you all well. I wish you all good health and a good bye.
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