Tag: horror

• Disinter

  Long languid air atrophied the tomb of Aten Traps, tribulations to thwart thievery Boulders which fall and what’s struck flattens Stairs giving to slides, circling to pits of spikes Vipers in corners, genetically antient, striking out Fanglike pillars flanking doorway which only one true sees Inside your vast golden sarcophagus, the patience of trees On…

  alchemisland

  17th Jan 2024

  Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, alchemy, ancient egypt, ancient history, apocalypse, aten, atmosphere, burial, climate change, creative writing, egypt, horror, horror poetry, imagination, magic, mysteries, nature poetry, neuralchemy, poem, poet, poetry, words, writer, writing

• Hobobituary

  Rotten with Druids cider, ruckling out breathy rebel songs Rum ruddled rounded cheeks, angelsheet a bellthroat throng A house window teases warm light, warmer than any fire without; in there is where I belong. In fact this house is the house I bought. My son and I tossing ball, imploring him “go long” The door…

  alchemisland

  8th Nov 2023

  Filí my pockets

  alchemisland, alchemy, creative writing, horror, imagination, murder ballads, neuralchemy, poem, poet, poetry, rhyming, storytelling, words, writing, wyrd

• The Bullaun

  Final week in July but inside the church a chill winters the air. Father Herlihy’s sermon always runs long on Sundays. Never less than four but sometimes five hours long. He would write all night of a Saturday, crafting righteous tracts of comical dimension, designed to forestall what it was that his congregation got up…

  alchemisland

  29th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

  alchemisland, bullaun stone, corn king, curse stone, edgelands, folk horror, folklore, fortean, forteana, hauntology, history, horror, invocations, ireland, irish folklore, irish history, isis, magic, megaliths, mythology, myths and legends, neuralchemy, occult, old religion, pagan, paganism, religion, short story, shorts, sorcery, spell, spilled ink, standing stone, supernatural, waning year, writers, writing

• The Liffey Thing

  From April 23 1983 Irish Independent article by Peter Cowan Archaeologists have described the largest Viking graveyard ever to be excavated in Europe outside Scandinavia as a “significant find”. Pottery, stirrups, and locks were found during preliminary trenching at Dublin’s Phoenix Tunnel. ACI were notified when workmen found high numbers of topsoil artifacts. Foreman K…

  alchemisland

  28th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

  23, alchemisland, alchemy, am writing, crabs, creative writing, giant crab, giant enemy crab, history, horror, imagination, ireland, irish, irish history, irish mythology, magic, megaliths, monster, myth, myth and legend, mythology, neuralchemy, occult, pagan, paganism, phoenix park, Short Stories, short story, shorts, writing, writing community

• Woodwose Transmission #9

  Something nice coming for number 10.

  alchemisland

  17th Oct 2022

  alchemisland of Ireland

  art, crafts, diy, horror, magic, megaliths, mythology, occult, pagan, short film, skull, spell