The Pale Horse
Pale Horse\ud83e\ude78Writer, illustrator and collector of old clothes. I weave folklore, horror and the uncanny into short fiction, personal essays and art.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 53 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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Everything I've learned about Substack
If you don’t know me, I write short fiction and essays about archetypes, folklore and horror films. Here is what Ive learned since joining Substack, I’ll show you what my stats look like. I’m not a coach. I’m not a growth expert. I am someo...
Everything is terrible
Things are feeling pretty rubbish right now.
It’s hard to avoid the news, it’s harder still to avoid the horrors that are just outside your window. I’ve made lists of films before (here and here), but this one is a collection that I think...
A Beautiful Death
**Trigger warning, this essay speaks about suicide, suicidal ideation, death and violence.
When I was a young girl, I saw a photograph of a dead woman in a magazine. The red words printed beside the image said: “A beautiful death.”
The im...
Sirens, Lamia, Black Widows: The Lure Archetype in Modern Horror
To Hear her whisper women’s lore so well,
And every note she spake entic’d him on
Keats, Lamia, 325-326
Lamia by John Waterhouse
If I say a woman is a black widow, I have no doubt that an image will be conjured up in your mind...
Anatomy of a Trend- Deathcore
Skeleton Dress by Iris Van Herpen worn by Karen Ellison
Fashion, despite its reputation, is rarely about “clothes.” The persistent dismissal of it as trivial says less about the industry and more about the discomfort people feel toward sys...
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Irish writer that goes heavy on the horror. I explore archetypes through tarot, film and folklore.
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