World of Weird magazine 05-05-2019

hours – ArchivesThe Fate of English Witches: From Water Torture to Divine Retributionwww.ancient-origins.net – Shared by The Divine Prince™During the Early Modern period of European history – from the Renaissance (1500) to the French Revolution (1800), hundreds of thousands of witches suffered the terrible fate of being burned at the st…

» 42 Literary Journals that Publish Genre Writingwww.authorspublish.com – Shared by JenniferRuthJacksonMost literary journals are interested in literary work, by which they mean, not genre work. The definition of genre is a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by …

Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction Into High Artwww.theringer.com – Shared by Hierodula 🐺🐺🐺In Belhaven, North Carolina, there’s a girl who has trouble eating. Her name is Mary Ayers. Mary has a gastric ulcer, and Mary can only get a few bites down before it starts to hurt, so Mary stays th…

A New Genealogy of French Science Fiction: Le Merveilleux Scientifique in Third Republic Literaturewww.academia.edu – Shared by Lia Swope Mitchell89.3 Article 7-10:Layout 1 10/15/15 10:53 PM Page 107 THE FRENCH REVIEW, Vol. 89, No. 3, March 2016 Printed in U.S.A. A New Genealogy of French Science Fiction: Le Merveilleux Scientifique in Third R…

Fixing Split Ends: How to End a Story Perfectly – Re:Fictionrefiction.com – Shared by Francine GarsonSome writers know what their ending will be right from the start. Others discover it in the course of writing the story, because even if you have an outline, things change. You get a better idea, or …

Episode #70 — “The Girl With All The Ghosts” by Alex Yuschikwww.glittership.com – Shared by A.C. WiseAnd here’s the RSS feed: http://glittership.podbean.com/feed/ Episode 70 is a GLITTERSHIP ORIGINAL and part of the Summer 2018 issue! Support GlitterShip by picking up your copy here: http://www.glit…

5 On: Jonathan Westbrook | Jane Friedmanwww.janefriedman.com – Shared by Tracy RuckmanWriter and graphic designer Jonathan Westbrook discusses what it’s like to win an extraordinary screenwriting contest, what it’s like to have that win fall through, screenwriting vs. novel writing, a…

Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates by Tim J. Myers – Multicultural Children’s Book Daymulticulturalchildrensbookday.com – Shared by ReadYourWorldMay is Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States. The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, a…

Hugo Finalists for 2019 Hugo Awards and 1944 Retro Hugos – Dublin 2019dublin2019.com – Shared by Simon & Schuster CAThe Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager) Revenant Gun, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) Space Opera, by Catheryn…

Utter Fabrication: Historical Accounts of Unusual Buildings and Structureswww.defconone.com – Shared by MadSci Journal“It takes time for a space to become a place. I’d never quite pinned down at what point during the gradual accretion of events and memories that houses became more than the sum of their parts, but I’…

CLOCK’S WATCH II: DAUGHTERS OF THE BLACK MOONpromotehorror.com – Shared by PromoteHorror“This isn’t your typical Modern-day Urban Fantasy; it’s infested with non-corporeal demons and multi-dimensional machine entities. A great read.” “Reyes writes excellent action scenes and if you are …

27 Hobbies For Men To Reach Their Potentialwww.thecoolist.com – Shared by Ron Feir Fine LivingBeing a man is a tough job. You have to remember to contribute to the patriarchy, be tough but tender, strong and silent yet able to talk about your feelings, gentle and firm at the right times, and …

HP LOVECRAFTchadschimke.blogspot.com – Shared by Author Chad SchimkeHP LOVECRAFT – HP (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft was born to a lunatic father and fragile mother in Providence RI where many of his tales are set. His grandfather, a successful businessman, died. Result…

LOVECRAFT BLOCH COMICS TRIOchadschimke.blogspot.com – Shared by Author Chad SchimkeLOVECRAFT BLOCH COMICS TRIO – This post reviews weird short stories interpreted by Marvel Comic’s Journey Into Mystery series. HP Lovecraft was published in Weird Tales but never really made it as a …

FANTASY FICTIONchadschimke.blogspot.com – Shared by Author Chad SchimkeFantasy fiction – Fantasy can often be separated from other speculative fiction genres by the lack of scientific or macabre themes, but not always. It is set in a fictional universe, often without an…

The WD Podcast: Jeff & Ann VanderMeer on Anthologies, Genres and Deep Readingwww.writersdigest.com – Shared by Audiobook NarratorWelcome, welcome, writers! From fiction to nonfiction, whatever your genre persuasion—be it speculative stories with an ecological twist or weird tales that bend the laws of time and space—the Writer…

Police Sketches of Literary Characters Based on Their Book Descriptionsmentalfloss.com – Shared by Anne Hagan 🌈✍🏻📚Emily Dickinson lived nearly her entire life in Amherst, Massachusetts. She wrote hundreds of poems and letters exploring themes of death, faith, emotions, and truth. As she got older, she became rec…

Pimp My Airship – Apex Publicationswww.apexbookcompany.com – Shared by Apex PublicationsPreorder today and receive 20% off your book and Maurice Broaddus will sign your copy! Be sure to use checkout code PIMPSHIP when you place your order. And exclusive to our preorder period, grab the …

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