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Clara MacGauffin
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🔥 Flames of Retribution is here! 🔥
11 tales of dragons, monsters, and fiery vengeance—where ancient evils rise, knights fall, and humanity faces the fury of fire itself.

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September 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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All of the authors who have stories in this work are donating their creative efforts toward helping Lori and her family through this difficult time.

Every little bit helps.
August 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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New @bcsmagazine.bsky.social issue is here, featuring stories by @jonolfert.bsky.social and Julie Reeser: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
Cover art for BCS issue #440, featuring a bridge over a stream passing through a narrow mountain gap
August 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Today we are halfway done with the campaign, but only one-quarter of the way to our goal. It’s all or nothing. Please share, and any amount you can help is very appreciated. Horror and weird fiction are good for us. kck.st/4mIkEm1
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026
A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.
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August 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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No Wasted Wombs: Lebensborn, Sterilization and the Nazi War Children
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#history #lestweforget
No Wasted Wombs: Lebensborn, Sterilization and the Nazi War Children
The Nazi Lebensborn program, founded in 1935 by Heinrich Himmler, has long stood as one of the most unsettling experiments in social engineering.
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August 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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August 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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August 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Haunted by the Black Dog: Folklore’s Phantom Hounds Across the World
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#internationaldogday
Haunted by the Black Dog: Folklore’s Phantom Hounds Across the World
They say if you see it once, you’re lucky.
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August 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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August 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The She-Wolf
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The She-Wolf
Croatia
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August 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Smørbukk (“Butterball”)
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Smørbukk (“Butterball”)
(A Norwegian folktale, freely retold) Asbjørnsen og Moe's NORSKE FOLKEEVENTYR
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August 22, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Haunted by the Black Dog: Folklore’s Phantom Hounds Across the World
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Haunted by the Black Dog: Folklore’s Phantom Hounds Across the World
They say if you see it once, you’re lucky.
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August 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Fairytale Friday's story retellings prompt #1
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Fairytale Friday's story retellings prompt #1
So this is the first prompt in Fairytale Friday’s story retellings.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Njavisjædne and Atsisjædne
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Njavisjædne and Atsisjædne
a Sami folk tale
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August 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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The Man Who Was to Keep House
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The Man Who Was to Keep House
By: Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Moe
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August 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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August 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The Ghost of Ábær or Nýibær
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The Ghost of Ábær or Nýibær
Folk Legends and Fairy Tales from Iceland From the folklore collection of Jón ÁrnasonBased on stories from Skagafjörður
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August 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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The Legend of King Gråkappan and the “Severance” Connection
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The Legend of King Gråkappan and the “Severance” Connection
The King in the Gray Cloak (Gråkappan)
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August 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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The Kind Maiden and the Spirit Folk
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The Kind Maiden and the Spirit Folk
Folktale from Halland in Sweden
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August 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Beasts in the Wood: The Twisting Legacy of Nordic Animal Ornament
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Beasts in the Wood: The Twisting Legacy of Nordic Animal Ornament
If you look closely at the portal carvings of Norway’s Urnes Stave Church, you’ll see them – long-snouted creatures with almond-shaped eyes, their bodies wound into knots so tight they almost vanish i...
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August 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Taken by the Mountain: Trolls, Changelings, and the Perils of the Wild
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Taken by the Mountain: Trolls, Changelings, and the Perils of the Wild
The fog can come in quickly in the Nordic forest.
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August 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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August 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The Forests of Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Arboreal Imagination
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The Forests of Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Arboreal Imagination
J.R.R.
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August 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I love stories that explain why things are the way they are. This one from Greenland explains why the Raven is black. The Raven and the Goose Do you know why the raven is so black, so dull and black...
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August 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The Green Husband of Lake Dusk
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A fairy-tale retelling of the poem Kytice z pověstí národních by Karel Jaromír Erben
The Green Husband of Lake Dusk
A fairy-tale retelling of the poem Kytice z pověstí národních by Karel Jaromír Erben
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August 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM