Amber sat on the mattress just outside her tent and, for the fifteenth dawn, watched the death of the sky…
The fiction of the Romantic Era.
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“[Romanticism] emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe—especially that experienced in confronting the new aesthetic categories of the sublimity and beauty of nature. It elevated folk art and ancient custom to something noble, but also spontaneity as a desirable characteristic…Romanticism revived medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived as authentically medieval in an attempt to escape population growth, early urban sprawl, and industrialism.” (Wikipedia).
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The Gothic Romance is the fountainhead of supernatural horror.
Amber sat on the mattress just outside her tent and, for the fifteenth dawn, watched the death of the sky…
Amber finds the ruins of Samarkand, passing between diorite sphynges, down to the underworld. Things are going to get much worse.
She was younger than he and not a beauty. Too much care had tarnished her features. Under the long coat, he knew, was a slender attractive figure. It was that, he could now confess that had first drawn his attention. But it was her spirit that had ensnared him. She compelled in a way a mere beauty could never have.
A thumbnail bio of Dævara
The Dreamlands is a universe where H. P. Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle series take place. It is an alternate reality that can only be entered via dreams. The Dreamlands are divided into several regions: The West, the most well-known and safe region of Dreamlands, a place where many dreamers enter the universe through the Steps of […]
The Middle Marches, also known as the Mittelmarch, are a fictional land found in the Von Bek series of novels written by Michael Moorcock. They are described as “the world in between heaven and ours”. In my fiction, the Mittelmarche is an etheric world that stitches together the ‘normal’ parts of inhabited space. The technology […]