Category Archives: Reference Material

Throw the Bones…

Posted on May 28, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Our final entry into Dark Divinations is “Of Blood and Bones” by Jeremy Megargee. In this haunting tale, a visionary is throwing the bones to try and solve her sister’s murder. It leads her to a terrifying encounter which must … Continue reading →

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What a Tangled Web…

Posted on May 27, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

We are heading into the final two stories in Dark Divinations. I hope you have been enjoying this series as much as I have enjoyed putting it together. Today’s story, by Alan Fisher, is “The Moat House Cob,” and it … Continue reading →

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Is Anybody There…?

Posted on May 26, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Today’s Dark Divination is an eerie story about a séance. “Ghost of St. John Lane” by Daphne Strasert tells of a widow who has reluctantly agreed to host a séance. She is intrigued by the thought of meeting the medium, … Continue reading →

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My Turn…

Posted on May 22, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Today’s Dark Divination is my story “Broken Crystal.” It concerns a young Irish girl with a gift of The Sight trying to use it the best way she can with a crystal ball, and still appease her mother.  I had a … Continue reading →

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Today Our Dark Divination Bakes Bread

Posted on May 21, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

  Today’s Dark Divinations post is about Alphitomancy  This intriguing technique goes back to Ancient Greece and involves testing a person’s innocence by feeding them barley cakes or slices of barley bread. In “Breaking Bread,” R.L. Merrill pens the tale … Continue reading →

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More on Stichomancy

Posted on May 20, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

As mentioned earlier, the story “Miss Mae’s Prayers” by H.R.R. Gorman in Dark Divinations also deals with stichomancy. In this case, it is specifically Biblical. A preacher who is consulted about a passage in the Bible by one of his … Continue reading →

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What Does Your Future Hold?

Posted on May 19, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

(photo by Vicki MacLeod: used under CC Attribution license.)   In today’s Dark Divinations feature, we discuss Stephanie Ellis’s “Romany Rose.” This haunting story is a tale of a man who runs a penny gaff. One night, he hears odd … Continue reading →

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Ask Quick for Whom the Bell…Tinkles?

Posted on May 18, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Today’s Dark Divinations story from Jon O’Bergh tells the tale of a physical medium who wakes up in a coffin. Luckily, it’s a safety coffin. But there has to be more to the story than that, right? Of course, there … Continue reading →

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Dark Divinations Scries Again!

Posted on May 18, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

At the root, scrying covers a great many methods of divination, covering many of the others we have and will look at. It is less a defined form than some of the others we’ve studied, but a fascinating discipline. Today’s … Continue reading →

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Dark Divinations and the Reading of Entrails

Posted on May 16, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Today’s story from Naching T. Kassa–who also edited this anthology for Horror Addicts.net–“They Wound Like Worms,” is in epistolary form (though, obviously, not a novel as discussed on that link.) It deals with the reading of entrails. This form of … Continue reading →

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