Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense

Chapter 20, If I Can't have You..., in which Guy makes a choice and things get worse, is Carrie's last day to live. Season finale is the next episode! Disclaimer: I'm not doing the Sussex accent that Ricky's parents have, hope that doesn't spoil things for you! Reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! CWs: threatened lobotomy (by parasites), zombies/zombie abuse, implied incestuous sibl...

More gruesome murder-by-vengeful-ghost and an alcoholic character's POV in this chapter - and we're two more episodes from the end! Chapter 20 next week, followed by Chapter 21 + Epilogue as the season finale. This time, here's Chapter 19, Let The Past Burn, in which things unravel and Ricky says goodbye, Reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! Theme Tune: Gemma Cartmell

I chatted about queerness, transness and monstrosity with Johannes T. Evans (he/him), a gay transmasc author and stand-up comedian originally from South Wales. He reads an extract from his serial Powder and Feathers , and we talk about power dynamics in relationships (and the abuse of them), the three themes of liberty and freedom, duty and responsibility, trauma and recovery, and how they interse...

Early hours through to early morning of 12 May - Carrie now has 1 day left to live in Chapter 18, Death and the Maiden, in which Ricky tells the truth. Reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! CWs: strong language, drunkenness, possession/telepathic boundary violations, sexual arousal, brain invasion (pseudo-injection via ear), amnesia. Theme tune: Gemma Cartmell

A really short chapter, Chapter 17 Revenge Served Cold, in which Ricky finds a tongue and all hell breaks loose, has the audio of my Dec 2020 Q&A at the end. You can find the video versions of me answering Qs1-10 on my YouTube channel and the blog post for the written form on my website (videos embedded). Reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! CWs include gore, bird death, physica...

The author interview this month is with Lyndall Clipstone, who is debuting in the autumn of 2021 with her novel LAKESEDGE, a lush Gothic fantasy published by Henry Holt (US) and Pan Macmillan (Aus) Sept 2021 and Titan (UK) Oct 2021. It is the first of a duology, with the second book, FORESTFALL, slated for 2022. We chatted about intertextual influences, Australian Gothic, Gothic YA/Adult fiction,...

11 May - Evening - two days left. Come and listen to some Sinister Local History, a chapter in which Carrie has a night out and Wes tells a dark tale. This chapter introduces Wes Porter on-page (he's been mentioned before) who is a main character in THIRTEENTH, and his girlfriend Charlie. Their tragic meeting is told in a short story OVEREXPOSURE which is available via Amazon, Smashwords etc, and...

Part 3: 09-13 May Carrie's fate creeps ever closer, and we're now in the final five days of her life. Chapter 15: Deal With The Devil, in which Carrie gets off the hook and Ricky is useful, kicks off the final countdown. CWs for boundary crossing and personal space violation, male erection, female sexual arousal (in a dream) and nudity. THE CROWS has been reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR...

This month I've been participating in the Monstrous May Challenge on Twitter, hosted by author and consummate LEGO enthusiast, Johannes T. Evans . Each day there's a new prompt, and creators of all kinds post their response to it using the tag #MonstrousMayChallenge. We have Zoom meet-ups through the month in association with @/ RomGothSam , who runs the Romancing the Gothic project. Here are 2 po...

The last chapter in part 2 of The Crows - Victory is Mine, in which Part One of Ricky's prophecy is fulfilled. CWs for mutation and eldritch body horror. THE CROWS has been reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! Theme tune: Gemma Cartmell

Welcome to the first Undead Hour, where C. M. Rosens, representing Pagham-on-Sea's History Society, interviews medium Penelope Holdfast. Ms Holdfast is the owner of ESP - Entities living Sympathetically with People - a therapeutic service offering counselling for those who need to learn to co-exist with their hauntings. ESP is based in the old White Horse Bed and Breakfast, which is now Ms Holdfas...

Chapter 13: Beast With a Human Face in which Fairwood finds a clue and Ricky has a confession THE CROWS has been reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! CWs for gore, violence, cannibalism ~ "the mild Rob Zombie chapter".

The Crows continues with Chapter 12: Haunted by the Past, in which Carrie gets a visitor. CWs for accidental amputation, harassment by abusive ex, cannibalism, animal cruelty, gore. Apologies for the length -this one is longer as I didn't manage to find a place to cut it properly! THE CROWS has been reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! Theme tune by Gemma Cartmell.

Interview with author, professor and bruja Maria DeBlassie, with an author-read extract from her short story HUNGRY BUSINESS. We discussed writing the 'ordinary Gothic' and 'hopeful Gothic' not only as a vehicle for social anxieties and a process for exposing generational trauma, but also as a mode for moving on from trauma and creating a sense of hope going forward, particularly in relation to te...

The second part of Ch 11 has the return of an abusive ex, a creepy séance, and the appearance of a murdered child (as a ghost!) THE CROWS has been reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! Theme Tune by Gemma Cartmell.

Part 1 of Chapter 11 ~ Damsel in Distress ...in which several days pass eventfully... This one is another longer chapter so I'm dividing it up! It's a three part chapter, so you get 2 parts this week and then a longer section next week (brace for return of abusive ex, plus child ghost with implications of child cruelty and murder). THE CROWS has been reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY...

This month's bonus episode is with the elusive Guillaume Velde, who researches the wrecking coasts of England and joins the show to chat about Pagham-on-Sea's museum collections, its smuggling and wrecking history, fairy lights and folklore, and the real trouble with fossils (among other things!) Fully formatted transcript: cmrosens.com Intro/Outro music - Netherworld Shanty by Kevin MacLeod

Chapter 10 of The Crows , 'Brain Fever' ... in which Carrie is unwell and Ricky starts a fire. THE CROWS has been reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! CW for fire, physical health deterioration

Chapter 9 of The Crows , 'Bad Omens' ... in which Guy Bishop brings Carrie flowers. THE CROWS has been reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! CW for bird death, and relapsing alcoholic point of view.

Ezra Arndt (they/them), [at the time of this interview writing as Nita Pan (she/they)] is a nonbinary, demisexual/biromantic polyamorous and neurodivergent YA/Adult Own Voices writer of the soft, bloody and monstrous. Their work has more recently turned to exploring the slasher-romance/goremance genre, although has always flirted with horrormance in various forms, especially with gothic themes and...

Chapter 8 of THE CROWS, 'Inbred and Evil', in which Ricky Porter comes to tea. THE CROWS has been reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! Theme by Gemma Cartmell CWs: Ricky Porter is a cannibal who eats raw mince out of the packet... so... content warning for Ricky Porter .

Chapter 7 of THE CROWS, 'Real After All', and the last chapter of Part 1! THE CROWS has been reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! Theme by Gemma Cartmell CWs: graphic reference to historic animal abuse , bereavement

The Sound of Darkness is a short story published in F is for Fear , a horror anthology in the A-Z of Horror series, published by Red Cape Publishing. You can add it to Goodreads or get your copy now ! The story is available on its own: https://books2read.com/u/bQVxne You can also grab it direct from me: https://ko-fi.com/s/d275f06e53 And from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09B5G9MNM...

(Part 2 of 2) - Chapter 6 continued. THE CROWS has been reissued by Canelo Horror, 2024. GET YOUR COPY NOW! The Crows Theme by Gemma Cartmell CWs: strong language, mild body horror, decapitation of/desecrating a corpse

(Part 1 of 2) - Chapter 6 of The Crows by C. M. Rosens, 'Be Careful What You Wish For', in which Ricky Porter introduces himself and Carrie finds the priest hole. Theme tune by Gemma Cartmell This is part 1 of 2 so that the podcast episodes are all roughly an equal length. It's one of the longest chapters in the book otherwise! I'll be splitting all the long chapters up like this. I experimented w...