So, Twitter is having a rough time as a platform right now, and lots of people are leaving following Elon Musk's takeover. I'm still there at the moment, but diversifying and looking at places to build a platform away from it. It's my biggest platform out of all my social media presences at the moment… Continue reading Lessons from the whole Twitter Thing…
We're still in the researching and exploration writing stage of the historical fiction slasher REDSTONE, or, the 'Bloody Beach' Murders, by Two Persons Intimately Acquainted With The Case, and I'm still finding lots of snippets that I don't know if we can use or not. Little details like the poor missing lad who was found… Continue reading Murder Will Out! Death of the Landlord (1730)
I went looking for something less depressing than the horrific murders in the last two posts, so I hoped I'd find something that would at least make me laugh. I searched for 'naked highwayman' to see what I'd get. I didn't get an actual naked highwayman (boo), but I did get this pair of disaster-bastards… Continue reading Highwaymen Beset by Naked Victims! (1721)
Having discovered the case due to a throwaway line at the end of a report on the murderous mitten-knitter, Sarah Metyard, and her daughter Sarah Morgan Metyard, I decided to look for the case of Mrs and Miss Branch. It's not in any of the newspapers, but there is a whole pamphlet on the case… Continue reading Inhumanity and Barbarity! Monstrous Mrs and Miss Branch of Hemmington, Somerset (1740)
This case is fairly horrendous, and involves a great deal of torture and stone cold callousness. I was looking for character inspiration and potential Awful Secrets for backstories for our awful characters in the 18thC Slasher WIP. We weren't sure how dark we wanted to go, and ideas are being tossed around still, but I… Continue reading Sarah Metyard the Murderous Mitten-Knitter (1762)
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