cmrosens
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C. M. Rosens is a genre-bending hybrid author of Gothic Horror, New Weird, and dark SFF, based in the UK. Find her travelling by rail, wandering among lonely ruins and ancient megaliths, and lost in worlds of fiction, music and folklore.
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#AScareADay – Day 4 – The Buried Alive by John Galt
#AScareADay – Day 4 Today’s short story is “The Buried Alive” by John Galt (1821). My response to it is an extract from an early novel featuring Katy Porter, which no longer makes canonical sense. But here’s an extract!
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#AScareADay 2025 – Day 3 – The Sand-Man by E.T.A. Hoffman
Today’s creative response is a poem, for the sandman. The day’s story is linked in the post to read.
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#AScareADay 2025 – Day 2 – The Elopement by Johan Karl August Musaus
The second day of the challenge is a very short story, originally in German and translated into English, in which a plucky girl decides to run away with her lover using the night that ghosts haunt her troubled castle as the perfect cover. Horror-comedy! All’s well that ends well. This is set in Castle Lauenstein,…
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#AScareADay 2025 – Day 1 – The Hag by Robert Herrick
Romancing the Gothic is back with the #AScareADay challenge, where each day we read the selected poem or story listed in the RtG challenge list, and post our thoughts on it. This year, I thought I’d do a blog series of inspired pieces on this challenge, and then collate them, edit them, and put them…