#MorbidMarch

Today's #MorbidMarch chat questions are up!

The next two chat question will be posted tomorrow, March 12th, at noon Eastern Time

Question Six The stories aren’t of ghostly sightings but of strange, low sounds that each visitor to the building explains differently. Which tale do you believe is true? Tag #MorbidMarch no A.I.

Today's prompt is "low," so...

Question Six

The stories aren’t of ghostly sightings but of strange, low sounds that each visitor to the building explains differently. Which tale do you believe is true?

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(7/12)

Question Five What is one of your favorite stories featuring the ruins of a building? Tag #MorbidMarch no A.I.

Question Five

What is one of your favorite stories featuring the ruins of a building?

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(6/12)

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I descended the marble staircase one step at a time, just as anyone would. It felt like I'd been walking for hours and hours. Maybe it was only minutes. All I knew is that time disappeared. Sheesh, how low beneath the earth did these stairs go?

How about another snippet from Lemon Balm?

(If you've been liking the snippets, it's on sale for $0.99 until the 12th!)

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This week's chat theme is Haunted Buildings. Here's the thread of the week's chat questions 🧵👇

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#MorbidMarch Prompts 1. casket 2. veiled 3. dig 4. gore 5. sweet 6. strychnine 7. mystery 8. break 9. gilt 10. marble 11. low 12. revel 13. elder 14. iron 15. zeal 16. narrow 17. debris 18. urn 19. blanched 20. rasping 21. lost 22. caul 23. hatred 24. teeth 25. obituary 26. will 27. fantastic 28. anchor 29. jet 30. waters Illustration of four skeletons playing instruments and dancing from The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle

Day 11 of #MorbidMarch!

Prompt: LOW

Use #MorbidMarch to share and boost art, writing, reading recs, music, folklore, history, science, etc. Whatever the prompt inspires, whether it's creative work or something to stoke morbid imaginings.

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Cheating a bit by riffing on this answer to today's #MorbidMarch question but I love the story 'They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek' by Sarah Perry in this collection and it has absolutely stayed with me.

For the OG Kenilworth haunting tale, it's gotta be Radcliffe's Gaston de Blondeville

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There's a story in this collection called 'Foreboding' by Kamila Shamsie, and it's about the experiences of a security guard at Kenilworth Castle. The haunting is quite different from what you might expect, but it's very much stayed with me. #MorbidMarch

The Pennine Tower Restaurant by Simon Kurt Unsworth
The Upper Berth by Francis Marion Crawford
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#MorbidMarch The meaning has long since been lost to time, but the few words that are left are ominous. "_____ until the dark finds us, weep _______."

#MorbidMarch The Mansion In The Mist, by John Bellairs. The title makes it sound like a house story, but the haunted, evil world is through a portal they found in the house, so technically it fits?

Beautifully eerie 🖤

Today's #MorbidMarch chat questions are up!

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Prompt: MARBLE
The word "marble" appears in my dark speculative poem "Gothic Window" (in the line "The white marble monuments"), originally published in the Dec 2007 issue of Aoife's Kiss and also published Aug 2023 in my poetry collection Cosmic Journeys and Gothic Visions.

Question Four Time has not been kind to the marble mausoleum. Only the family name and a few words of the inscription beneath it are still legible. What do they say? Tag #MorbidMarch no A.I.

Today's prompt is "marble," so...

Question Four

Time has not been kind to the marble mausoleum. Only the family name and a few words of the inscription beneath it are still legible. What do they say?

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(5/12)

Question Three What s one of your favorite stories about a haunted building that's not a house? Tag #MorbidMarch no A.I.

Question Three

What is one of your favorite stories about a haunted building that’s not a house?

Any kind of story (book, film, etc.) from any time period welcome.

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(4/12)

#MorbidMarch Did you know that Romans frequently used marble for sarcophogi and coffins? They were carved with reliefs and preferred for their long lasting durability.

Cupid on a pile of skulls - because that's what love always comes to in the end. Thank you for that cheering thought, Gustave.
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silver replica of a horse's head with wide open jaws and flattened ears on a blue surface.

Hidden in the British Museum there is a 3d replica of a marble statue of a horse. It is smaller than a wavelength of light, the size of a speck of dust; created and released by Oxford’s Institute of Digital Archaeology to provoke dialogue around museum acquisitions... #MorbidMarch
📷IDA/AD Karenowska

"A face full of eyes, focused on you." 😬

Feeling nostalgic for the days when I took Latin classes...

This week's chat theme is Haunted Buildings. Here's the thread of the week's chat questions 🧵👇

Text reading "MARBLE #MorbidMarch" against a backdrop of a dark smoky/cloudy graphic

#MorbidMarch Prompts 1. casket 2. veiled 3. dig 4. gore 5. sweet 6. strychnine 7. mystery 8. break 9. gilt 10. marble 11. low 12. revel 13. elder 14. iron 15. zeal 16. narrow 17. debris 18. urn 19. blanched 20. rasping 21. lost 22. caul 23. hatred 24. teeth 25. obituary 26. will 27. fantastic 28. anchor 29. jet 30. waters Illustration of four skeletons playing instruments and dancing from The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle

Day 10 of #MorbidMarch!

Prompt: MARBLE

Use #MorbidMarch to share and boost art, writing, reading recs, music, folklore, history, science, etc. Whatever the prompt inspires, whether it's creative work or something to stoke morbid imaginings.

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She wavers as she walks, perhaps drunk. A flickering streetlight catches on her face as it swings side to side, on glitter, or tears, or—the points blink, out of sequence. A face full of eyes, focused on you. Spiralling as she comes closer. You can’t look away. You can’t even scream…
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