The Nights Of Old London
Spitalfields Life shares a collection of photos of old London. Take a look to see if these inspire any characters, setting, or situation for...
Never Mess with a Fairy Thorn
A post on Strange Company offers good advice: Never, ever mess with a tree inhabited by fairies. The Little Folk have ways of making you...
The Oldest Song In the World
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be the oldest known piece of music. Found in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit and dated back...
You Gotta Have Friends
This week's Write the Book prompt was inspired by the podcast's interview with writer, editor and photographer Kimberly Garrett Brown. This time, write about an...
Do You Need to Find Satan? Here are 5 Ways.
Do you know all the ways to summon Satan? A post on Strange Ago shares a few tips:
Finger Snapping. One superstition says that...
Do Good Deeds Outweigh Any Bad?
As writers, we want to ensure that our characters are not one-sided. Even fantasy villains and horror monsters have some redeeming quality tucked away...
A Real-Life Magicians’ Duel and MMA Fight
Like Dumbledore and Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic, WB Yeats and Aleister Crowley engaged in a magical duel that ended less than magically...
19th Century River Trolls
The Victorian Book of the Dead shares an old newspaper article about River Resurrectionists, men who trolled rivers searching for items that fell from...
The Cutest Meet-Cute Ever!
A staple of the rom-com genre is the meet-cute: two nauseatingly adorable characters who are fated to fall in love first meet each other...
These Book Collectors Have Skin in the Game
Haunted Palace has a long essay examining the art of Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, the craft of making books out of human skin. A few examples...
