Dear (Non-WordPress) Subscribers, We at Atherton’s Magic Vapour are very sorry, but we have somehow messed up our Subscription list. We actually know exactly what we did, but we do not wish to be tedious, and the subject bores us intensely. We suspect it would be even more tedious for… Continue reading
I have found (and by “found,” I mean “laboriously constructed”) a fascinating, disturbing document. It is a tragic tale, really, though, of course, if one is feeling callous, one might merely laugh. “What have this young man’s troubles to do with me?” I hear you saying in your unfeeling way. … Continue reading
I have found (and by “found,” I mean “laboriously constructed”) a fascinating, disturbing document. It is a tragic tale, really, though, of course, if one is feeling callous, one might merely laugh. “What have this young man’s troubles to do with me?” I hear you saying in your unfeeling way. … Continue reading
I have found (and by “found,” I mean “laboriously constructed”) a fascinating, disturbing document. It is a tragic tale, really, though, of course, if one is feeling callous, one might merely laugh. “What have this young man’s troubles to do with me?” I hear you saying in your unfeeling way. … Continue reading
A Thrilling Announcement My story “The Cowherd,” starring Occult Investigator Simon Wake, and set in Edwardian England, is in the excellent magazine Occult Detective Quarterly (issue 3). Buy it here from Amazon. Above, you can see my own concept of what Simon Wake looks like (and, as usual, that’s me… Continue reading
The NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Contest is my favorite writing contest. In fact, it is the only writing contest I consistently enter. You are given a genre, a location, and an object for your story, and 48 hours in which to write your piece. My 48 hours happened to coincide… Continue reading
A Thrilling Announcement! A story of mine is available now in the July 2017 issue of Mystery Weekly Magazine! And the kind editors of this excellent publication decided to give my story top billing, too. I didn’t know they were going to do that until I saw the cover. As… Continue reading
May 8th, 2018-A Slightly Updated Version of the Game!!! Huzzah! Click on the Link at the bottom of this Post to Play! NOTE: landscape mode is best on tablets and phones. To access the Very Important Side Bar Thing, if your device decides that it should be closed by default,… Continue reading
I used many illustrations from The Strand Magazine in my 2017 April A to Z Blogging Challenge. However, I collected many illustrations that I did not end up using, and some of them are wonderful. Therefore, I have assembled a gallery of the best of my unused images. There are… Continue reading
As I mentioned in my Theme Reveal, my A to Zs have in the past consumed all of my time and energy for all of April. In fact, for the past 3 years, I have spent most of May in a sort of creative dead zone, utterly unable to think… Continue reading
