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Writer's pictureLaurel Rafferty

My Crypt

Updated: Oct 3

Autumn 2024 Newsletter

From My Crypt

   


Greetings dear readers and welcome to my Crypt.


Yes I do actually live in here, in my Crypt, in the middle of a beautiful graveyard. I do occasionally manage to pop out for things like… well, the usual stuff, like shopping, dog walking and other life stuff, but generally, this is where you’ll find me - writing away, or thinking about writing, or thinking about why I’m not writing, or reading about why I’m not writing … you get the picture.


For those that know me well, you’ll know that my favourite season is Autumn, well I love all the seasons, but for me I feel a special affinity with this particular time of year.

I’ve often asked myself why that is. What is it about Autumn that I love so much? Is it the heightened earthy aroma that literally takes your breath away when you open your front door? Or is it the kaleidoscope of burnished coloured leaves that suddenly cover the landscape, like a luxury new carpet; because year after year, I never cease to marvel at the seemingly endless array of golds, reds and russets. With dozens of leaf shapes; heart, oval, starlike, fat and skinny, big and little and I love it when they flitter down and get tossed about in the autumn wind, they remind me of little messages sent from above and who doesn’t love walking through them? especially when they’re crunchy and ankle deep.


When I started writing this newsletter we were on the doorstep of Autumn - I was pulling out my winter jumpers and cosy socks and stocking up on hot chocolate and marshmallows in preparation but today it feels like we have well and truly walked through the big Oak door of Autumn and are standing in the Great Hall and I’m looking forward to having cosy nights in with some good books, scented candles and lots of hot chocolate or mulled wine  (no it’s never too early for mulled wine!) or any wine for that matter.


This Hallowstide season I’ve already started watching some great movies; ‘The House with a clock in its walls’ and ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ both from books that (in my opinion) have made great movies - I’ll definitely watch them again, no they are not classed as horror per se, they are fantasy films, which along with magical realism – I absolutely love.


So back to horror, for this spooky Hallowstide season I thought I’d share with you a flash fiction piece called ‘Bang Bang Knock Knock’ to get you in the mood.  You can read it straight from the link below:


Bang, Bang, Knock, Knock. (laurelrafferty.com) or visit my website and click on The Crypt at www.laurelrafferty.com 


I’m currently working on my next book ‘The Bone Man’ which is coming along nicely and I hope to share a sneak peek in my next newsletter. Don’t forget to check out ‘The Thirteenth Hour’ if you haven’t already. Also I'll be doing an author talk on Halloween Night - Thursday 31st October locally. I've been asked to talk about my self-publishing journey and do a couple of readings from my fiction. Tickets cost £3 - please email me from the website if you’d like more details.

 

All that’s left to say is enjoy your Hallowstide season and remember to keep one eye out for the bogey man, because believe me, he IS just around the corner, particularly on certain nights of the year.


I have to rush off now dear readers as Herbert was sleeping in coffin number 13 beside me and he’s just woken up moaning about something, probably the leak in his coffin, either that or he’s trodden on a rotten pumpkin again, because he looks an absolute fright, not unlike myself at this strange hour - I’ll have to console him.


So long for now and stay spooked.


Laurel x

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