Tag Archives: horror

RieView: The Addams Family

Posted on August 14, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Although this is really a topic for the Home for Wayward Spirits blog, I was having a hard time coming up with something for today and decided to escape with something I really love. Watching the original Addams Family television … 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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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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Whatever Will Be, Will Be…or Will It?

Posted on May 15, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Today’s fortune-telling from Dark Divinations explores echoes of the future seen through a scrying mirror in “The Pocket Watch.” Paired with the watch is a journal that reveals a sinister curse. We are not talking about the Future Echoes from … Continue reading →

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Dark Divinations and Stichomancy

Posted on May 14, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Stichomancy, or Bibliomancy, is our next form of divination to discuss from Dark Divinations. This time, we feature not one but two stories, as both “Damnation in Venice” by Joe L. Murr and “Miss Mae’s Prayers” by H.R.R. Gorman deal … Continue reading →

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Dark Divinations and Dream Interpretation

Posted on May 13, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Continuing with the theme of exploring the divination forms in the Dark Divinations anthology from Horror Addicts.net Press, today’s topic is the interpretation of dreams. I just read the story about dreams in the book, and it is chilling…well done, … Continue reading →

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Dark Divinations and Victorian Spiritualism

Posted on May 12, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

I was so excited to get into the Dark Divinations anthology from Horror Addicts.net Press because I had done a bit of research on the subject of Victorian Spiritualism for The Conn-Mann Chronicles and find it fascinating. Though my story … Continue reading →

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