#John Linwood Grant

[artikgato]

Another book I finished reading this year, and this one is SO good. I picked it up at Concarolinas directly from the small press publisher that was vending at the convention. It's set in the 1920s primarily in North Carolina, and is a bunch of interconnected short stories that tell the tale of Mamma Lucy who is, indeed, not a witch. She solves mysteries, fixes problems, saves lives, drives away evil spirits, dunks on a bunch of evil men, and is overall a certified badass magic woman. But not a witch. She's also an old black woman wandering the fucking South in the 1920s.

If you can track down a copy of this book I REALLY recommend reading it, it is so good. I blazed through it because I was so invested. There isn't an overarching plot necessarily, but each chapter (and they very wildly in length) is the tale of a different escapade of Mamma Lucy's as she travels around the American South. If you have something you need to do, read to the end of a chapter and then STOP. Don't read the first paragraph of the next chapter or you WILL get sucked in.

[witchyfashion]

A celebration of the gothic for during the holiday season, a delightful gift, and a real treat to curl up and read in the long Winter nights. The Christmas Gothic (with thanks to author Marina Favila for the suggestion) is a seasonal celebration of the dark and moody, the ghastly, the ghostly and the magical Christmas short story. New stories from open submissions join the classic tales of Algernon Blackwood, James Joyce, E.F. Benson, Elizabeth Gaskell and more. The new, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Ramsey Campbell, Donna Cuttress, James Dodds, JG Faherty, Marina Favila, Kevin M. Folliard, John Linwood Grant, K.M. Hazel, Larry Hodges, E.E. King, Jonathan Robbins Leon, Clare Marsh, Marshall J. Moore, Templeton Moss, Jane Nightshade, Marie O’Regan, Katherine Quevedo, M.C. St. John, Lamont A. Turner, Suzanne J. Willis, and Cassondra Windwalker. Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories, the books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.

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[dzgrizzle]

Congratulations to Amanda DeWees and John Linwood Grant for making Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year 16 Recommendations List for their stories featured in LONELY HOLLOWS, edited by Cliff Biggers and Charles R. Rutledge. I’m very proud to have a story in this anthology.

[kelcipher]

Reading "Where All is Night, and Starless" by John Linwood Grant.

Start reading it for free: https://a.co/5hO29eo

[occultdetective]

Last Writes Link Tree

William Meikle Alethea Kontis Josh Reynolds Greg Mitchell Mary SanGiovanni Michael M. Hughes Kelli Owen Maurice Broaddus Bob Freeman Brian Keene Gamerstable Tim Prasil John Linwood Grant Shanna Germain Cullen Bunn Charles R. Rutledge Tracy DeVore Steven Shrewsbury Jim McLeod Michael West Amanda DeWees Sèphera Girón Julian Vayne Stephen…

[lboogie1906]

The McComas Institute, known as Mountain School was founded September 10, 1867. Located in Joppa, Maryland, the school was one of three Freedmen’s Bureau schools in Harford County.

It was named in honor of local abolitionist, George March McComas, he was an abolitionist, a prominent landowner, and a tobacco merchant who worked out of the port of Baltimore. He appealed to the Freedmen’s Bureau for funds to build a school and a church for African Americans not far from his home in Linwood, Maryland.

It was built on one acre of land purchased for $30. A “colored” couple, George and Mary Ann Johnson, sold one acre of land to Abraham Waters, Charles Waters, Peter Bishop, Joseph Henry, and John H. Butler “for the purposes of erecting or allowing to be erected thereon a schoolhouse for the use, benefit and education of the Colored People of Harford County.”

The Freedmen’s Bureau provided financial assistance for construction and it continued to provide financial support until the Bureau was abolished in 1872. The Harford County Board of School Commissioners assumed operations and partnered with the nearby congregation Mount Zion Methodist Church, which had provided the labor for the construction and held the title to the facility. Church members made up a significant portion of the Institute’s board of directors until the school closed in 1939. Afterwards, the building was used by Mount Zion to hold Sunday school classes and church and community events.

It was home to several pioneering Black educators in the state of Maryland, including Mrs. Alma Mae Dorsey Nelms. She served as the sole teacher at McComas Institute, instructing grades one through seven. Local civil rights activist and Harford County educator, Janice East Morehead Grant, a former student of Mrs. Nelms, noted that her teacher educated “78 students comprising 7 grades [after walking] miles in the cold, making fires in a potbellied stove, and carrying water for us to drink.”

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Building restoration projects began in 1983 and 1995, the building was finally restored. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[yogajude108]

AD JUJU & J BONE PRESENTS... writers: Jiba Molei Anderson creator of "The Horsemen" graphic novels, John Linwood Grant the bloke from abroad who writes tales of murder, mystery, and mayhem, and Tom J Frye the writer of weird, true stories. Ep10 brings you a new short from Well Strung Films where you'll see Nosferatu like never before, a story read to you by Bad JuJu by Tom Frye, a new music video by Bridgette Brenmark the macabre composer herself, and much, much morgue!

Tune in for more stories by Jiba, Tom, & John in the next few weeks on Fridays upon the 13th minute of the 13th hour. (1:13 PM PST)

[raiyine]

SHORT STORY: A Different Kind of Soldier by John Linwood Grant

SHORT STORY: A Different Kind of Soldier by John Linwood Grant

I learned of the amazing John Linwood Grant when I read the book A Study in Grey. I instantly fell in love with Major Redvers Blake and have been wishing and hoping I could read more about him. Well, Virginia, dreams really do come true… A Different Kind of Soldier Autumn bleeds in tawny shades, a suspicion of winter hiding under sodden foliage. And if I have an ‘autumnal’ character in my…

[thebibliothecar]

Strange Perfumes of a Polar Sun, by John Linwood Grant

Strange Perfumes of a Polar Sun, by John Linwood Grant

“As I grew older, they brought me night-fevers of vast, deserted plateaus and winds which scoured flesh from bone; visions of drowned cities and forbidden peaks. They gave me hints that they themselves were real, material, and they fed me concepts of stone, in all its conceivable forms, starting my first poor attempts with chisel and file. They fed my isolation from other humans, strengthened it,…

[suevincent]

Hell’s Empire: Tales of the Incursion ~ Nina D'Arcangela

Hell’s Empire: Tales of the Incursion ~ Nina D’Arcangela

Reblogged from Spreading the Writer’s Word :

Hell would have its Empire….

A unique anthology of two thrones at war as the forces of Hell assault an unsuspecting Victorian Britain.

The cry went out to theologians and engineers, to artificers and antiquarians, to every name which could be named. By telegraph where lines were still intact, and by volunteer riders where they were not; smuggled along…

[karavansara]

Sherlock Holmes, Thomas Carnacki and friends

Sherlock Holmes, Thomas Carnacki and friends

Just a quick post to share the news that two stories of mine are out in two volumes edited by John Linwood Grant for Belanger Books. The haunting of Fox Lanes is one of the 18 stories in The Book of Carnacki the Ghost Finder, a collection of Carnacki apocrypha. And in the third volume of the (at the moment) four-volume series Sherlock Holmes & the Occult Detectives, I bring back occult…

[weirdletter]

A Winter’s Tale: Horror Stories for the Yuletide, edited by Cliff Biggers, Charles R. Rutledge and James R. Tuck, Pavane Press, 2020. Cover art by Lynne Hansen, info: Amazon.

The Yuletide. The time of the longest, darkest evenings of the year, and once, a time for stories of ghosts, demons, and other night creatures, by authors like M.R. James, E.F. Benson, Jane Gaskell, and Amelia B. Edwards. A Winter’s Tale seeks to revive those days with all new stories by some of the best horror writers of today. These stories run the gamut in setting and time, from traditional Victorian ghost stories to all too contemporary tales of terror. This is an anthology to be read by the fireside on cold nights with the wind howling at the windows. Or just in your favorite spot.

Contents: Introduction Snowfall – James A. Moore Harbor – Amanda DeWees-Haunted The Headless Horror – Charles R. Rutledge Not More Lovely than Full of Glee – Leanna Renee Hieber Who Wouldn’t Go? – Cliff Biggers The Fortingall Yew – William Meikle Hold Your Breath – Jeff Strand The Campo – Joshua M. Reynolds I Used to Live Here – Kealan Patrick Burke By Chance or Providence – James R. Tuck The Heron in Winter – John Linwood Grant The Wreck of the Charlie Sol – Jim Beard The Dollmaker – James A. Moore and Charles R. Rutledge Contributors

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HUGE book clear out - over 150 books. Most names/authors below! They're in various conditions - some are pristine, others are a bit worn, but I will provide you with pictures of any specific book you want so that you can decide. Prices vary - I’ll tell you if you message/reply (in your currency) Some books are ex-library stock bought at sales, so they contain stamps and such.

Postage costs will be calculated for it to be sent via mail, this will be included in total cost.

PLEASE NOTE, IN UK PRICES, THESE BOOKS AVERAGE 50P FOR PAPERBACK, £1 FOR HARDBACK. WE ARE SELLING REALLY CHEAP TO RAISE FUNDS TO REPAIR OUR COOKER, AND UPDATE OTHER FURNITURE PIECES BEFORE WE MOVE. Some books will be priced separately.

Books below:

Alex Connor - Memory of Bones Alice Sebold - Lucky Anchee Min - Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid #1) Andy Lane - Fire Storm (Young Sherlock Holmes #4) Angie Sage - MAGYK (Septimus Heap) Anthony Ryan - Blood Song (Raven's Shadow #1) Ann Cleeves - Hidden Depths Anne Pellowski - Winding Valley Farm Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha Beverly Barton - The Murder Game (Griffin Powell #8) Bob Servant - Delete This At Your Peril: The Bob Servant Emails Brandon Sanderson - The Alloy of Law (Mistborn #4) Brian Freeman - Immoral Carol Smith - Without Warning Chris Carter - The Crucifix Killer (Robert Hunter #1) Elizabeth Chadwick - Shadows and Strongholds Eoin Colfer - The Supernaturalist G.M. Berrow - Twilight Sparkle & the Crystal Heart Spell George R.R. Martin. - A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast (A Song of Ice & Fire #5.2) Jack London - The Call of the Wild & White Fang J.K. Rowling - The Casual Vacancy James Joyce - Dubliners Juliet Marillier - Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1) Jo Nesbø - The Devil's Star (Harrry Hole #5) Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper John Lutz - Serial Jonas Jonasson - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man #1) Jordan Belfort - The Wolf of Wall Street Jonathon Nasaw - The Girls He Adored Julia Golding - The Gorgon's Gaze Kathryn Stockett - The Help Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go Kenneth Oppel - Dusk Keri Arthur - Tempting Evil Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner L.J, Smith - The Forbidden Game (The Forbidden Game 1-3) - £2 Laurell K. Hamilton - Mistral's Kiss (Meredith Gentry #5) Lindsey Davis - The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery #1) Linwood Barclay - Too Close to Home Lisa Gardner - Say Goodbye Louise Welsh - A Lovely Way To Burn Lynda La Plante - Cold Shoulder Mark Billingham - Scaredy Cat (Tom Thorne #2) Mercedes Lackey - The Wizard of Karres Michael Cordy - The Colour of Death Nick Stone - King of Swords Peter David - Fantastic Four Philip K. Dick - Paycheck Philip Pullman - The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart #3) R.J. Palacio - Wonder Rebecca Chance - Killer Queens Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde & Other Stories. Robyn Young - Brethren (Brethren Trilogy #1) Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories (Wordsworth Collection) Scott Frost - Never Fear (Alex Delilo #2) Simon Kernick - Relentless (Tina Boyd #2) Steve Voake - The Dreamwalker's Child Susan Abulhawa - Mornings in Jenin Ted Eliott; Terry Rossio - Pirates of the Carribean - The Adventure So Far Tony DiTerlizzi - The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles #1) Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway Vittoria Bowles - Get Started In Italian William Jefferies - Bloody River Blues (John Bellam #2)

ALISON WEIR Innocent Traitor The Captive Queen The Lady Elizabeth

ANTHONY HOROWITZ - Nightrise (The Power of Five #3) Point Blanc (Alex Rider #2)

CECILIA AHERN If You Could See Me Now P.S, I Love You The Time of My Life

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1) The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #2)

DAN BROWN Angels and Demons (Robert Langdon #1) The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon #2) The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon #3) Inferno (Robert Langdon #4) Deception Point Digital Fortress

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Eragon (Inheritance #1) Eldest (Inheritance #2) Brisingr (Inheritance #3)

HARLAN COBEN Tell No One (Standalone) / Back Spin (Myron Bolitar #4) (2-in-1) One False Move (Myron Bolitar #5) The Final Detail (Myron Bolitar #6) Gone For Good

JOE ABERCROMBIE The First Law Trilogy Box Set (Current eBay price £14, selling for £10)

JEFFERY DEAVER Shallow Graves (A Location Scout Series) The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme #1) The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme #2) The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme #7) Twisted (The Collective Stories of Jefferey Deaver)

KARIN SLAUGHTER A Faint Cold Fear Fallen (Will Trent #5) Indelible (Grant County #4) Skin Privilege (Grant County #6)

KATE MOSSE Labyrinth (Languedoc Trilogy #1) Sepulchre (Languedoc Trilogy #2)

LAUREN KATE Torment (Fallen #2) Passion (Fallen #3)

MICHAEL WHITE Michael White Michael White

NANCY HADDOCK La Vida Vampire (Oldest City Vampire #1) Last Vampire Standing (Oldest City Vampire #2)

P.J. TRACY Play to Kill (Twin Cities #5) Want To Play? (Monkeewrench #1)

ROBERT MUCHAMORE Black Friday (Cherub 2, #3) Man vs. Beast (Cherub #6) The Sleepwalker (Cherub #9)

SHERRILYN KENYON Kiss of the Night (Dark-Hunter #5) Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter #11)

SIMON BECKETT Written in Bone (David Hunter #2) Whispers of the Dead (David Hunter #3)

STIEG LARSSON The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium Trilogy #2) - £1 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest (Millennium Trilogy #3) - £1

SUSANNA GREGORY A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew #1) Murder on High Holborn (Thomas Chaloner #9)

VICTORIA HOLT The King of the Castle The Secret Woman

[kelcipher]

Currently reading – "Lonely Hollows: 15 Tales of Folk Horror" by Cliff Biggers, Charles R. Rutledge, James A. Moore, Amanda DeWees, James R. Tuck, Darrell Z. Grizzle, John Linwood Grant, Raven Hart, Jeff Strand, Leanna Renee Hieber.

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