This is the official blog for Thadeus Morticaine. He is an aspiring author of several genres, currently working on a action packed series of stories set during the English Civil War. There is also a gothic horror series based on someone that might just so happen to be his great-great-great-grandfather. Also in the pipeline are a fantasy series where magicians plumb the depths of the light spectrum to cast their spells, a World War Two period re-telling of folk tales and fairy stories, as well as a fast paced sci-fi series harking back to the old space operas. Oh, and don't forget a detective series where a maniacal villain awaits behind every corner.

With an indepth interest in history, old pulps and black and white movies, this blog will have regular posts about historical events that he finds inspiring and which he hopes will be of a great use to others with their stories, or to those with even the slightest of interests. There'll also be articles on authors and stories that he finds particularly interesting and inspirational. He hopes that you'll find them useful as well.

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Wednesday 28 March 2018

Hello all,

I know I haven't written much up on here recently, despite my intentions to. But here's a little update. After life got in the way a touch, I have written two first drafts for short stories. One, a warning against using a cursed ancient tarot deck that one would sacrifice one's whole life to obtain; and the second, a pulp fiction style, World War Two set story about a commando that gets kidnapped for sport by a group of werewolf led brigands in the English countryside. Both will soon go through the editing stage and will be sent off to magazines with an eye towards them being published.

With that in mind, I have started writing the novel mentioned last post inspired by my love of Celtic myths and the stories of both MR James and Arthur Machen. It's taken quite a bit to research it and there'll be much more work needed on that front, but I'm sure it'll be a wondrous journey through an English county straddling the borders between our material world and the Netherworld, filled with many an eccentric character.

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But, there is another novel in the pipeline as well. This will be a rip roaring sci-fi adventure storming across a frozen industrial planet, eager to repel its deformed alien clone invaders.

I have even in talks with a heavy metal band called Malleus to produce a short story or two to accompany their up and coming new album.

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I am also in talks about doing some editing work for an RPG game as well.

All in all, I'll stay in touch.
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