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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Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Salutations all!

Well, I hope you've all had a pleasant enough Christmas. I have. I came to understandings with relatives - which is always pleasant, and I heard several interesting things.

One of which was a tale from my grandfather about racing halfs of giant centipedes during the Korean War.

Another was an Ambrose Bierce story narrated by the legendary Christopher Lee called The Snake and the Man on BBC Radio 4. This was shortly followed by an MR James story called The haunted Dolls House.

This was pleasant, as that same day, I'd received, as a well thought out Christmas present, the complete works of MR James.

I would like to recommend that both MR James and Ambrose Bierce are researched. MR James is an inspiration to authors like HP Lovecraft and Stephen King and was one of the founders of the modern horror story who trained as a priest and wrote essays on the Apocrypha; while Ambrose Bierce was a veteran of some of the most terrifying battles of the American civil war, reporter, Pan-American fraud combater, author of the Devil's Dictionary and a person whose death still is, after 100years, a complete mystery that'll probably never be solved.

On another note, I am currently working on a plan to write a semi fictionalised biography, of which I will tell you more once I get my head around it. I have a stack of research to trawl through, including several apocryphal texts, Carl Jung's university dissertation, some nuclear physics and a lot more. It could see me working on a twenty year path to writing a complete history of everything since forever! But I assure you, it won't get to be such a wretchedly brobdingnagian  point.

And, just before I leave you, I can assure you that I am still chugging forward with film plans and edits of Death Masks and Formaldehyde. All of which I shall be updating you with anon.

So, good health to you all and a god night!

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