Author: Jonathan Kieran
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BOO!
Happy Halloween. Don’t let the greedy monsters get too close. Send ‘em on their way. ———————— [ THE WEDNESDAY BOX, a dark fable by Jonathan Kieran, along with titles from his exciting new ShadowPyx Short Story Collection, are available on Amazon.com, HERE.…
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Burn the Minions of Trolldom
With all the wretched, uninformed fools and AI “witch-hunt” trolls out there who cannot conceive of a writer not only writing his/her/their own material but illustrating work professionally, as well, I thought I’d toss out a few more examples of…
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Congrats, Ye Goodreads Winners
Congrats to all the winners of the USA Goodreads Giveaway for my new dark fantasy/eldritch horror novella, THE BAPHOMET GLASS. Nearly 4000 people entered, over 3000 shelved the book, and the books are in the mail for the 25 randomly…
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Low-Hanging Poot
Laugh if you wish, but I once knew these two. ⬆️ They were business acquaintances only. I was invited but did not stay for supper, so my depiction is a mere guess, but my boss (at the time) insisted I…
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Everyone Needs a Dark Sister
The year is winding down (and winding-UP in some corners of the doomed world) but I am just peachy in my quasi-monastic bubble amid the mountains in California. All fictional projects are FINISHED for the year, thank Zeus, and I…
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RSVP for the Feast
And, at long last, the final installment of my long-labored ShadowPyx Short Story Collection of tales (for this year, at least) has been released. DJINN and TONIC represents the fifth shorty born into the world this year—the last of these…
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Goodreads! Giveaway! Get You Some!
Okay, so I have launched a Goodreads Giveaway for US readers and the “prize” is my new novella, THE BAPHOMET GLASS. Twenty-five (25) print copies will be sent to winners. The entry period began just after midnight today (October 14)…
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I Promised and Now I Deliver!
Yesterday, I displayed my latest instance of apophenia mania and promised to show you where it would lead. Behold! I have gone and DONE it. Where, oh WHERE do fantasy-writers-who-also-illustrate get their ideas? From many sources, my friends. Many and…
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Apropos of Nothing
I am one of those strange souls who was cursed (or blessed 🤔) from birth with an extreme case of pareidolia—a type of apophenia wherein the mind (and eye) sees coherent images in otherwise random, mundane, or even chaotic visual…
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Chamber Music for Misanthropes
While on my present sabbatical from writing new material, I decided to take-up one of my usual pastimes, again: voracious reading. The past two weeks have found me perusing The Sixteen Satires by Second Century Roman rhetorician, Juvenal. The translation…
