Supernatural romance is a vast category, and within it, vampire romance and paranormal romance are the two biggest subgenres. While every vampire romance is technically paranormal, not every paranormal romance features vampires — and the reading experiences they offer are distinct. Vampire Romance: The Eternal Lover Vampire romance centres on love stories involving vampires — … Read more
2 min readThe keening began at midnight, as it always did, and Dr. Declan O’Sullivan, who had been listening to it for three weeks from his rented cottage on the Dingle Peninsula, put down his whiskey and went outside to find the source. He was an ethnomusicologist, specialising in the traditional lament traditions of Ireland, and the … Read more
9 min readThe cauldron was found in a bog in County Roscommon by a farmer named Paddy Coyle, who was digging drainage ditches and expecting to find nothing more interesting than the usual complement of waterlogged timber and Bronze Age butter. What he found instead was a vessel of hammered bronze, three feet across, decorated with figures … Read more
9 min readThe music came from underground. Orla Kavanagh heard it first on Midsummer’s Eve, walking home from the pub in Knocknarea at an hour when the sensible people of County Sligo were in bed and only the foxes and the fools were abroad. She was neither fox nor fool — she was a traditional musician, a … Read more
9 min readThe seal skin was hidden in the chimney of the old croft house on the headland above Achiltibuie, wrapped in oilcloth that had been there so long it had become part of the stonework. Caitriona MacLeod found it on the afternoon she moved in, when the removal of a bird’s nest dislodged a stone that … Read more
11 min readNiamh Brennan did not believe in the old gods. This was ironic, given that one of them had been following her for the better part of a year. She first noticed the crow in January, perched on the railing of her balcony in Galway, watching her through the glass door with an intelligence that no … Read more
9 min readThe concert hall was empty when Ailsa Drummond arrived for the evening rehearsal, which was unusual. The Lyceum Chamber Orchestra did not typically abandon its Tuesday rehearsals, even when the weather turned foul, even when the heating failed, even when the second violins contracted a collective stomach ailment from the sushi restaurant they insisted on … Read more
9 min readMaren Solvik had not set foot on Heksholmen in fourteen years, and she had planned to extend that record indefinitely. The island — a spur of black rock jutting from the Norwegian Sea like a clenched fist — held nothing for her but memories she had spent her adult life learning to outrun. The lighthouse. … Read more
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