GossamerWight Literary Magazine
@gossamerwight.com
A UK-based online literary magazine dedicated to dark & unconventional storytelling & poetry. Also on LinkedIn | Instagram | Flipboard | Mastodon.
Editor: James P. Priestley.
Member of the International Gothic Association.
https://www.gossamerwight.com
Editor: James P. Priestley.
Member of the International Gothic Association.
https://www.gossamerwight.com
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November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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"Why Jim Henson should be recognised as one of the foremost creators of fairytales on screen" (Jim Henson shown here on the set of his film Labyrinth, an old favourite of mine): theconversation.com/why-jim-hens...
Why Jim Henson should be recognised as one of the foremost creators of fairytales on screen
Fairytales are an important – and often overlooked – part of Henson’s legacy.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
"Why Jim Henson should be recognised as one of the foremost creators of fairytales on screen" (Jim Henson shown here on the set of his film Labyrinth, an old favourite of mine): theconversation.com/why-jim-hens...
@gossamerwight.com is on Chill Subs (@chillsubs.bsky.social) at bit.ly/4qNwBJS. ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSIONS OPEN TILL 30 NOV. #SubmissionCall #Anthology #LiteraryMagazine #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #ShortStories #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Eerie
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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#SUBMISSION BBC Writers Open Call for writers based in Wales, United Kingdom. Details on the poster below. Good luck!
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
#SUBMISSION BBC Writers Open Call for writers based in Wales, United Kingdom. Details on the poster below. Good luck!
#CULTURE #NEWS
First Minister of Wales, Eluned Morgan: “Congratulations to #Aberystwyth for becoming Wales’ first UNESCO Creative City and City of Literature. Wales is a land of creativity, made up of great authors, poets, singers and actors." Aber is also home to @gossamerwight.com!
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First Minister of Wales, Eluned Morgan: “Congratulations to #Aberystwyth for becoming Wales’ first UNESCO Creative City and City of Literature. Wales is a land of creativity, made up of great authors, poets, singers and actors." Aber is also home to @gossamerwight.com!
bit.ly/4nDeCmN
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#CULTURE #NEWS
First Minister of Wales, Eluned Morgan: “Congratulations to #Aberystwyth for becoming Wales’ first UNESCO Creative City and City of Literature. Wales is a land of creativity, made up of great authors, poets, singers and actors." Aber is also home to @gossamerwight.com!
bit.ly/4nDeCmN
First Minister of Wales, Eluned Morgan: “Congratulations to #Aberystwyth for becoming Wales’ first UNESCO Creative City and City of Literature. Wales is a land of creativity, made up of great authors, poets, singers and actors." Aber is also home to @gossamerwight.com!
bit.ly/4nDeCmN
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The Usual Choices is a 150+ page collection of short comics written by Keith Frady, with a killer row of superb artists. From Lovecraftian sci-fi to existential autobiography, this collection spans genres, but returns to themes of love, death, gods, and monsters.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kei...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kei...
The Usual Choices
A collection of short comics, from Lovecraftian sci-fi to existential autobiography, in the vein of Black Mirror or The Twilight Zone.
www.kickstarter.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The Usual Choices is a 150+ page collection of short comics written by Keith Frady, with a killer row of superb artists. From Lovecraftian sci-fi to existential autobiography, this collection spans genres, but returns to themes of love, death, gods, and monsters.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kei...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kei...
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I've written another article for The Conversation, this time about the popularity of séances to contact dead soldiers during and after WWI. It produced a fascinating but sad series of Spiritualist books allegedly written from men who'd died on the Front.
theconversation.com/after-the-fi...
theconversation.com/after-the-fi...
After the first world war, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home
Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.
theconversation.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I've written another article for The Conversation, this time about the popularity of séances to contact dead soldiers during and after WWI. It produced a fascinating but sad series of Spiritualist books allegedly written from men who'd died on the Front.
theconversation.com/after-the-fi...
theconversation.com/after-the-fi...
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My flash science fiction collection, 'Mars & More', is still available!
If you'd like to get YOUR hands on some punchy, bite sized SF, you can find the ebook here: books2read.com/MarsMore
Or order in print (paperback) through your favourite bookstore: the ISBN is 979-8-227-17966-1
If you'd like to get YOUR hands on some punchy, bite sized SF, you can find the ebook here: books2read.com/MarsMore
Or order in print (paperback) through your favourite bookstore: the ISBN is 979-8-227-17966-1
June 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My flash science fiction collection, 'Mars & More', is still available!
If you'd like to get YOUR hands on some punchy, bite sized SF, you can find the ebook here: books2read.com/MarsMore
Or order in print (paperback) through your favourite bookstore: the ISBN is 979-8-227-17966-1
If you'd like to get YOUR hands on some punchy, bite sized SF, you can find the ebook here: books2read.com/MarsMore
Or order in print (paperback) through your favourite bookstore: the ISBN is 979-8-227-17966-1
Literary magazine submission benefits for English Literature and creative writing students: bit.ly/4qrJut4
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October 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Literary magazine submission benefits for English Literature and creative writing students: bit.ly/4qrJut4
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October 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Be sure to play the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark official trailer embedded in this article in The Conversation by Christina Morin, Professor in School of English Irish & Communication, University of Limerick. Watch it in the dark... naturally! theconversation.com/scary-storie... #GossamerWight
Scary stories for kids: these tales of terror made me a hit at sleepovers as a pre-teen
These stories have to be read aloud to scare friends or read under the covers with a flashlight.
theconversation.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Be sure to play the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark official trailer embedded in this article in The Conversation by Christina Morin, Professor in School of English Irish & Communication, University of Limerick. Watch it in the dark... naturally! theconversation.com/scary-storie... #GossamerWight
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A sharply insightful article by Aislinn Clarke in The Conversation about the 1978 animated version of Richard Adams’ Watership Down. "Yes, I am saying that Watership Down is a horror film. [...] Like Lovecraft’s cosmic horror, like The Thing or Alien." (Clarke). theconversation.com/scary-storie...
Scary stories for kids: Watership Down made me aware of my mortality at age four
The fragility of life and the terror of loss is terrifyingly exposed through this tale about rabbits.
theconversation.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A sharply insightful article by Aislinn Clarke in The Conversation about the 1978 animated version of Richard Adams’ Watership Down. "Yes, I am saying that Watership Down is a horror film. [...] Like Lovecraft’s cosmic horror, like The Thing or Alien." (Clarke). theconversation.com/scary-storie...
Guillermo de Toro’s Frankenstein: beguiling adaptation stays true to heart of Mary Shelley’s story. We can't wait to see it! #Horror #Frankenstein. theconversation.com/guillermo-de...
Guillermo de Toro’s Frankenstein: beguiling adaptation stays true to heart of Mary Shelley’s story
Guillermo del Toro’s retelling of the story about a scientist trying to create life is a visual treat and a rousing adaptation.
theconversation.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Guillermo de Toro’s Frankenstein: beguiling adaptation stays true to heart of Mary Shelley’s story. We can't wait to see it! #Horror #Frankenstein. theconversation.com/guillermo-de...
Black hats, cauldrons and broomsticks: the historic origins of witch iconography
theconversation.com/black-hats-c...
theconversation.com/black-hats-c...
Black hats, cauldrons and broomsticks: the historic origins of witch iconography
Women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have inspired stereotypes of the witch?
theconversation.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Black hats, cauldrons and broomsticks: the historic origins of witch iconography
theconversation.com/black-hats-c...
theconversation.com/black-hats-c...
Look, Yule has come early! Delivered earlier this afternoon from www.lovereading.co.uk ... "Witsh" by @mariellisdunning.bsky.social
If you haven't already, we'd highly recommend visiting Mari's website: mariellisdunning.cymru and linktr.ee/maridunning.
#Witchcraft #Novel #HistoricFiction #Wales
If you haven't already, we'd highly recommend visiting Mari's website: mariellisdunning.cymru and linktr.ee/maridunning.
#Witchcraft #Novel #HistoricFiction #Wales
October 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Look, Yule has come early! Delivered earlier this afternoon from www.lovereading.co.uk ... "Witsh" by @mariellisdunning.bsky.social
If you haven't already, we'd highly recommend visiting Mari's website: mariellisdunning.cymru and linktr.ee/maridunning.
#Witchcraft #Novel #HistoricFiction #Wales
If you haven't already, we'd highly recommend visiting Mari's website: mariellisdunning.cymru and linktr.ee/maridunning.
#Witchcraft #Novel #HistoricFiction #Wales
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According to Clarissa Pinkola Estés, a #Crone is the "one who sees far, looks into the spaces between the worlds, can literally see what is coming, what has been, what is now, what underlies, & what stands behind many things." 🪄 🧙♀️ #Fairytales #archetype #Witchsky
March 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
According to Clarissa Pinkola Estés, a #Crone is the "one who sees far, looks into the spaces between the worlds, can literally see what is coming, what has been, what is now, what underlies, & what stands behind many things." 🪄 🧙♀️ #Fairytales #archetype #Witchsky
Woohoo! 💀
The next IGA conference will be at the University of Hull, England on 28-31 July 2026!
You can find the CFP and more information at hullgothic.wordpress.com
You can find the CFP and more information at hullgothic.wordpress.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Woohoo! 💀
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In #Narnia, each child embarks on their own journey, facing fears and embracing destiny. C.S. Lewis beautifully weaves adventure and growth, reminding us that courage can be found in the unlikeliest places. #Booksky
#Essay: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. I compare Lewis’ children’s classic with Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, The Crossing of the First Threshold, and Supernatural Aid. bit.ly/4nFyFSi
#Narnia #CSLewis #Booksky
#Narnia #CSLewis #Booksky
October 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
In #Narnia, each child embarks on their own journey, facing fears and embracing destiny. C.S. Lewis beautifully weaves adventure and growth, reminding us that courage can be found in the unlikeliest places. #Booksky
#Essay: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. I compare Lewis’ children’s classic with Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, The Crossing of the First Threshold, and Supernatural Aid. bit.ly/4nFyFSi
#Narnia #CSLewis #Booksky
#Narnia #CSLewis #Booksky
October 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
#Essay: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. I compare Lewis’ children’s classic with Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, The Crossing of the First Threshold, and Supernatural Aid. bit.ly/4nFyFSi
#Narnia #CSLewis #Booksky
#Narnia #CSLewis #Booksky
#GossamerWight can also be found on #Flipboard. Look for Into the Dark. #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag
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Into the Dark | @GossamerWig4ctp | Flipboard
Exploring dark and unconventional stories that twist the familiar into the uncanny. Tales of horror, both mainstream and folk; visitations to the world of the weird and New Weird; supernatural and hau...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#GossamerWight can also be found on #Flipboard. Look for Into the Dark. #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag
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