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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Sunday, 12 April 2015


Salutations all!

After a break from blogging I am back. And yes, after a bit of a health scare, I am still author-ing.

I shall be updating this blog regularly with writing bits and bobs that I’ve been researching and with what I am writing. I have had to rethink my plans as an author a bit.

So, what have I been up to author wise in the year since I last blogged?

There are many things from novel plans and short stories I am writing among many other things.

On this blog, I will be putting up things that inspire me as an author. There’ll be stuff on history, folklore, horror, the supernatural, the paranormal as well as hints that have helped me hone my craft as an author. So keep checking in!


My planned novel

I have been planning a novel. It will be a tour of war torn France during the Franco-Prussian War.

My characters will be chasing a portion of a fragmented demon across Northern Europe. From Derby, they will visit the Queen’s Own Menagerie in Edinburgh, the grave of a werewolf family by the side by Loch Langavat and witness the Siege of Paris.

There’ll also be the dissection of a goblin, the sunken city of Ys, the grave of Merlin on Brittany and final showdown at Mont Saint Michel.

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There’ll even be a cameo with the last of the St Malo corsairs.

I hoping it’ll end up as a full on dark fantasy in the old penny dreadfuls, pulp fiction style.

There are also several other ideas for novels I will get to writing, they need a little more mastication though before I reveal to you what they’re about. The only thing I’ll say is that there’ll be a strange library and a fantastical museum carefully concealed in a pocket dimension!


Short Story plans

                I have several short stories in the pipe line. Many will be available as eBooks over the course of the next year.

                Most of them are based in Derby or Derbyshire, because there’s so much cool horror, supernatural, paranormal things happening there.

                The stories will be about Obadiah Morticaine: Victorian black magician, monster hunter, agent for the Institute of Heretical Management and accidental hero, and his brother Jerry, playwright and chronicler of Obadiah’s adventures.

                They’ll hold séances between bickering ghosts and build their own Frankenstein’s monster – that’ll then take on a dead dragon’s ethereal imprint on our world in a stately home.

                They’ll also take on the Hound Priest, rid the author’s minds of an insidious dream-daemon, raise beings from another dimension on the last train to Derby and witness ancient rituals at a Derbyshire stone circle – modern technology can be wondrous some times.


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The Nine Ladies stone circle on Stanton Moor, Derbyshire


                There’ll also be a mummy on the rampage, an inland mermaid offering immortality and also an encounter with Cerne’s Wild Hunt.

                There’ll be more on this to come. I’ll be sharing some of my research.

Other Writing Plans


                I have a film based on one of my short stories in the pipe line. Funding has been a bit of a problem, so has the location, but it will come together over the course of the next year. It’s from the point of view of a raven. SMK Studios and I hope that it’ll be a really novel piece and offer a really enjoyable piece.

                I am also helping out with an art exhibition during the Wirksworth Festival this year. Organisation has been a bit of an adventure in itself, but it will be a real fun event. There’ll be regular séance most nights lead by a paranormal investigator called Adam Bagley – check him out – and readings of my short stories from myself. There is a paranormal and supernatural theme to the exhibition. Most of the art work will be by Ian Wadsworth – his art is marvellous, another guy to check out. His art work is based around the reinvention of the tarot deck’s Major Arcana.
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An Evening Display, Wirksworth Festival, Wirksworth


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An Evening Display, Wirksworth Festival, Wirksworth

                 So, if you’re in Wirksworth for the festival, drop in. Find out more about it on www.facebook.com/HauntedhouseDerby, tickets will be available soon.



Ian Wadsworth art exhibition tarot seance supernatural paranormal horror Wirksworth Festival
Work by Ian Wadsworth

                Plus, I have started writing articles for a website about juggling and other circus performance acts at www.bunchoftossers.info. All the articles are light hearted. Take a look at the website. There’ll be tutorials and historical articles being put up all the time.
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