{"id":4621,"date":"2017-10-10T11:25:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2017-10-10T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:25:29","slug":"october-frights-poisonous-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/october-frights-poisonous-places\/","title":{"rendered":"October Frights and Poisonous Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYes, I betrayed my children, destroyed a nation, and forgot to iron the cat, but I had a story to promote \u2013 you must understand…\u201d Today, for October Frights \u2013 explanations, extracts, and an egg, for those who don’t know who we are…<\/p>\n

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It is a sad truth that authors strive mightily to draw attention to their work, to rise above the myriad agonised voices of other writers in a scenario reminiscent of the cries from a Circle of Hell. Embedded in the ice of insignificance, we cry out to any passing Dante or Virgil. Which gets tiring after a while.<\/p>\n

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At greydogtales<\/em> we sort of gave in bothering strangers with excessive promotion about one week after starting the site. We drifted into writing about interesting weird fiction, why the Sherlock Holmes story \u2018The Musgrave Ritual\u2019 doesn\u2019t make any sense if you analyse it, and lurchers.\u00a0 Here we are mostly about exploring curiosities and enjoying yourself. And lurchers. Did we say that enough?<\/p>\n

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Thus, as we join the annual October Frights Blog Hop for the third time, it\u2019s mainly because we get on with some of the people involved. More than thirty writers share their blog links and post something frighty, Octobery or similar. There are competitions, extracts and general celebrations \u2013 it\u2019s like a cross between a yard sale and a vicarage tea party, but where the stall holders may be more worrying than the normal ones.<\/p>\n

Our stall is the usual mess. There\u2019s something nasty at the bottom of the bran-tub; when you thought you\u2019d won a book, you ended up with a bag of out-of-date dog treats, and when you wanted a dog, you got a disturbing collection of strange stories. This is a Good Thing, if you like variety, but possibly not if you prefer your life tidy and well-defined.<\/p>\n

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John Linwood Grant<\/strong>, who runs this disaster, writes strange fiction and gets dragged around by large lurchers. Should you want to know about the dogs and not about the fiction (entirely understandable), you can find a lot of of lurcher fun through this Index link:<\/p>\n

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