Brain Matter

By now you should all be familiar with my friend, author Catherine Cavendish. She's been a frequent guest blogger here and is a font of knowledge when it comes to the arcane, especially historical ghosts, witches, and other delightfully dark topics. She's got a new book coming out, Dam ned by the Ancients , the third novel in her Nemesis of the Gods trilogy, and she's stopping by to provide some delightfully creepy facts about a morbid museum in Vienna, which ties in nicely with the happenings in Damned by the Ancients. Crime and Punishment Viennese Style   Vienna. Its name alone conjures up images of the golden statue of Johann Strauss in the Stadtpark, eternally playing his violin; the Blue Danube (which is more a muddy grey colour actually) and Sachertorte accompanied by lashings of whipped cream.  It is, without a doubt, one of the most culturally endowed, beautiful cities in the world. It is also renowned as one of the safest.  Ironic then

Demons - we all love 'em! And with summer currently baking us to a crisp, what better time to think about those crazy denizens of Hell? So, with that in mind, author Catherine Cavendish is popping in to talk about demons, including that sexy goddess of destruction herself, Lilith. As any writer of horror stories knows, nothing beats a good demon. And there are plenty to choose from, drawn from every religious tradition known to mankind. Of course, picking your demon carries with it a responsibility of a similar nature to that held by a writer of historical fiction. While you can bend history, distort it and use a modicum of poetic licence, no historical fiction writer worthy of the name would create a Vlad the Impaler who was a sweet, socially reforming angel, kind to small furry animals. So it is with demons. Readers of the genre don’t want them to be the sort of beings they could take for tea at Claridge’s or even down to their local pub for a pint of Guinness