Witchy inspiration
Tales of horror and strange fantasy
Halloween has never been one of my favourite seasons and I’m not an avid reader of horror fiction, but for some strange reason the ‘season of the witch’ has inspired me in my writing.
Here is a collection of some published works that the devil made me write, including my most recent story published in https://medium.com/written-tales. Click on each title to read the story or poem.
A story inspired by the genius of Edgar Alan Poe and as interpreted by The Alan Parsons Project and immortal Orson Welles.
“Julie Andrews vs. Alice Cooper”
A legal battle of artistic wits between two unlikely musical legends, originally published in https://medium.com/literally-literary.
A strange fantasy based on the bombing of London’s Holland House in World War II, published in https://medium.com/written-tales.
A flash fiction faux tribute to an “American hero” based on the real horror we’ve been living with for the last four years under Donald J. Trump.
A horror story written in 666 words.
A machinery-gone-wild fictional story inspired by a tech support worker’s typo — the ‘r’ that created the outrage. Originally published in https://curiosityneverkilledthewriter.com.
Not all horror is scary. Sometimes, we can laugh at death’s face, especially when it’s combined with its twin horror of taxes. My poem, originally published in https://medium.com/poets-unlimited.
A poem, published in https://medium.com/poets-unlimited, about a cyclist, the music in his head and the brightly lit “trinity on tracks” rolling toward him.
Claudio D’Andrea has been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and online publications for more than 30 years. You can read his stuff on LinkedIn and Medium.com and follow him on Twitter.
