There's a lot of people making food stuffs in the shape of skulls nowadays. I've seen (actual) sugar skulls and chocolate skulls and jelly sweet skulls and cake skulls and skulls made out of bread...I could go on. People are getting all the more inventive with ways in which they can bring the macabre into… Continue reading Ice Skulls
Stop everything and look at how god damn awesome this snake X-ray plate set from West Elm is. There's people out there who would buy these plates to use on only one day of the year - yeah, you know which. Me on the other hand - and if you're reading this blog I suspect… Continue reading X-Ray Crockery
If you're like me, you'll want to somehow have all of these wedding cake toppers by Plastic Smith on your big day. They're amazingly effective in their simplicity and wonderfully unique.
I rarely wear lipstick...but I couldn't resist parting with some money the other day in Tesco when my eye happened to catch sight of a deep, deep purple one called 'Poison.' What really won me over was the price - £1. Now, I wasn't expecting a glorious effect when I put it on due to… Continue reading Fashion Witch/Poison
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I first stumbled upon The Order Of The Good Death when I was creating the first issue of Wyrd Words & Effigies Magazine earlier on in the year, and I've been popping back ever since. To discover that its founder the wonderful and beautiful and funny Caitlin Doughty had published a book was extremely exciting,… Continue reading Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
I have a new artist obsession - Kevin Francis Gray. These figures on display aren't royalty, neither are they gods...the sculptures are actually depictions of people Gray encounters in London, mostly people in the holds of addiction or facing other real-world problems.
I've recently established a publishing company with some good friends of mine in Norway - NordLand Publishing. We are currently putting together the first book in a series of anthologies entitled The Affinity Series. The first book in this series focuses on Scandinavian Folklore, and we are looking for poetry and prose submissions on this… Continue reading Do You Write Dark Short Stories Or Poetry?
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Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 