In Claude Moreau's Garden, magic blooms between dewdrops and dreams; a library is housed within an ancient teapot, and every ordinary moment holds its own extraordinary magic.
History of horror, magic, theatre, storytelling, and more. Every Thursday morning, I post a new ‘horror moment’ and a range of other articles will pop up on Monday afternoons. Look out for regular quizzes and writing insights.
I write superheroes in prose. I blog about superheroes in comics. I ramble about wrestling now and then. I'm building a sword and sorcery world. Learn about it all right here.
The Substack home of M Daniel McDowell. Writing, shop talk, productivity, and fathomless horrors from beyond the realms of earthly knowledge, all in one convenient place.
Welcome to Cinema of Swords! This series is a companion and expansion to my Cinema of Swords hardcover, which collects mini-reviews of screen swashbucklers. Every week I’ll present here two to four illustrated reviews on a common theme.
The weekly (3,000+ subscriber) Fantasy newsletter that reconnects you with heroic fantasy worlds of your favorite books, epic games, unearthed magazines, forgotten gamebooks, movies and enchanting art - old school & new. 👑
Nightmare Fuel is the official newsletter for fans of my work. Thank you for subscribing. Please share it with others if you think they might be interested!
Discover Vigilance, an ongoing fiction series set in an alternate World War II featuring hard-boiled detectives, fast-paced adventures, and a shot of spooky science-fiction.
Re-weirding horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Exploring the movies, fiction, comic books and writing techniques that exemplify the fantastic. Welcome readers, writers, role-players, connoisseurs and creators, anyone in love with swords, fangs and lasers.
Samuraipunk, cyberpunk, mecha, weird and general scifi. Bi-monthly. Content reviews, creative (person) interviews, crowdfunding projects, original fiction, culture, pop culture, and more. Nothing high-brow. Also see NOTES for more frequent content.
The weekly newsletter of Mark Finn, who writes about, broadcasts, and navigates popular culture as he patiently waits out the entropic collapse of our beloved societal institutions.
Everybody's got a past. The people who can look back on it with an eye toward the experiences they've accrued and the lessons they've learned... Theirs are the stories that I want to hear.
I am obsessed with discovering and understanding the best ways to share stories on Substack. This is my newsletter where I experiment with doing just that. I share interviews, essays, and original fiction.
