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Siria

The Supernatural Muse

About Me

Okay...so here are the most important things to know about me....

I am obsessed with the Red Riding Hood myth. I've rewritten the story countless times. Each time a slightly different viewpoint, a slightly different twist, from fetish to sacrifice to the beauty industry and all things in between.....very, very rarely does the Woodsman get to win in my stories....it's all about the girl and the wolf with me. Freud would probably have a feild day with that...but what the hell! Eventually I will get my arse in gear and produce some sort of Red collection.
I'm also obsessed with eyes. I don't know why...probably that whole window to the soul thing, but I love my own green sparkly peepers and I love everyone elses. I love to look into the eyes of the people i'm talking to. Although if i'm at a gig of a club it can cause a problem becuase I forget to lip read over the fabulous noise.
I'm, a workaholic...honestly. I never stop working...i'm a nightmare to take on holiday :oD
I'm a writer, researcher and general odd ball...i've been described as strange, odd, scary, freaky, bizarre...and my favourite....Bohemian
I'm pretty even tempered...but...if I get riled enough to hold a grudge I will hold it for life!

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Vampires, werewolves, ghost and ghouls, they are all in a days work for me. honestly!
I'm a writer and I write about the supernatural, paranormal, fantastic, weird and strange. Fact and fiction, if its gothic and alternative its for me. In fact I just love to create it doesn't matter what medium, graphic novel, short film, animation, radio, stage or page.....creating something, pulling a story from the nothingness is really what excites me!
I have a couple of regular publications I contribute to, and provide freelance for other publications. My main all consuming project at the moment is a book about Dracula. Can't give anything away as yet, but i'll drop a few hints now and again.
I also love flash fiction...the art of the short story is really under rated. If I can tell a good story in under a page I think that's a major achievement. I like to write modern fairy tales with unpleasant Grimm style twists, Urban decay based stories and once in a while I give into the dark side and produce some serious gore!
I'm also curently working on a huge ghost project. Intended to be the most up to date and comprehensive guide to the ghosts of the UK.
I also work as an adviser and a research for TV, film, radio and other writers...so, don't be shy, if you need to know the difference between a demonic possesion and a summoning, a werewolf and a wulver or which vampire is likely to attack you in the nude...you know who to come to ;oD
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My Interests

Anime, Antique Books, Army Landrovers...I love my LANDY...he's called 'Sarge', Avebury, Avenging Unicorn Playset, Bats, BBQs on the Beach, Big Bad Wolves, Bela Lugosi, Big Boots, The Born Free Foundation, Bustles, Camouflage, Castles, Chalk Carvings, Cat Nip Tea, Clockwork, Coffee, Computer Games - especially Forgotten Realms stuff -, Console Games - The Getaway is my all time favorite -, Corsets, Cosplay, Cryptozoology, Cuddly C'thulhu, Curry, Death Masks, Dracula, Dragons, Driftwood, Dionysus, Edward Gorey, Egypt, Eyes, Fairies, Fairy Stories - especially the dark, twisted, Freudian and sexually ambiguous tales of old -, False Eyelashes, Fetish Wear, Fishnet, Forties Style, Forests, Freak Shows - Sideshows, Carnivals, Gaffs, Geeks, Block Heads and everything in between!, Gargoyles, Glow in the Dark Stuff, Graveyards, The Green Man, Hair Falls, Hair Styles, Halloween, Hammer Horror, Harajuku, Hares, Hat Pins, Haunted Houses, Hello Kitty - who is evil really and just really good at hiding it! -, Hern the Hunter, Hidden Underground Places - sealed off subway tunnels, lost rivers, catacombs, ancient ruins, etc -, Hills, Honest People, Horror Films - Asian, British, Old, Hammer, Independent, and short....NOT MASS MARKET HORROR TRASH!!!! -, Incense, Jack the Ripper, Japan - Anything Japanese, I’m a huge Japanophile and I’m currently learning the language -, Jeremy Brett - apart from being a truly wonderful actor with a stunning voice, he created the finest adaptation of Holmes...EVER! Khaki, Kitsch, Larp, Laying on a sun warmed tor, Legends, Lion Statues, Little Red Riding Hood, Live Music, London, London Fog - A Cocktail of Gin & Absinthe, Lucky Kitties, Make Up - especially mascara! -, Mary Kelly's - a cocktail of Gin & Ginger Beer -, Mausoleums, Men, Misty Albums, Mood Beams, The Moors in Winter, Mourning Jewelry, Museums, Music - I love new, innovative music, electronica, fantastic voices, lyrics that mean something, passion, industrial sound, mash-ups, mixing, oldies, early jazz, throaty blues, just about anything that makes the music part in my brain feel warm and squishy...in a good way obviously -, My Cats, My Dog, Mysteries, Myths, Nail Varnish, New Orleans, Octopuses, squids and anything with tentacles....but not in that way!!!, Old Photos, Old Woodcuts, Oliver Reed - Should I feel that way about Bill Sykes ;oP Opals, Open Fires, Pan, Parties, Photography, Piercings, Pirates, Pirates Garden - A cocktail of Rum & Shrub -, Pop-up Books, Ray Harryhausen, Readers!!!, Reading, Red Hair Dye, Red Riding Hood, Salads, Sci-fi - But only if it features rugged, scruffy space ships and dystopian visions of the future....I don't like lots of shiny surfaces, twinkly lights and aren't we all wonderful human beings stuff -, Shape Shifters, Short Films, Short Stories, Shrunken Heads, Skinny Cow Ice-cream, Skulls, Standing Stones, St Dunstan's Hospital, Stone Circles, Surf(er) Watching, Tat Souvenirs, Tattoos, Things in Jars, Tim Burton, Top hats, Transylvania, Trees, Urban Gothic, Unsolved Murders, Vampires, Velvet Jackets, Victorian Culture, Victorian Porn, Werewolves, When the Tourists Go Home, Whitby, Winged Cats, Wolves, Zombie Flash Mobs. ..

I'd like to meet:

Apart from a big bad wolf?....anyone who wants to colaborate on a project. I love working and I love trying new things and working with new people. I'd really love to work with an artist on a graphic novel and i'd like someone to take on a couple of my stories for short film. I have a particular passion to see a rather nasty urban decay fable come to life on the screen, so if you aren't afraid of some unpleasant graphic violence and uncomfortable social issues of inner city life, then let me know. I'm also interested in collaborating on any more Fairytale collections!....apart from that artists of all types sizes, shapes and creeds. People who tell the truth, people who give a shit, people who aren't afraid to be different, people who see/feel/experience outside the box of 'normal' human existence...its not all about what's on offer at Tesco's and watching astenders you know.....shapeshifters, dreamers, witches, vampires, and oh...did I mention....A big bad wolf?
You scored as Gunshot. Your death will be by gunshot, probably because you are some important person or whatever. Possibly a sniper, nice, quick, clean shot to the head. Just beautiful.

Gunshot


87%

Natural Causes


80%

Cut Throat


73%

Disappear


67%

Suicide


60%

Bomb


53%

Disease


53%

Stabbed


47%

Posion


33%

Suffocated


33%

Accident


20%

Eaten


0%

Drowning


0%
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Music:

I have a really diverse taste in music....mostly it's shouty and stompy and guitar based, or futeristic electronica industrial crunchiness...in between is rock, early jazz, throaty blues, most things that end in 'billy', orchestral music, folk rolk, etc, etc, etc.
Currently on Mr Poddy....
30 Seconds to Mars, 36 Crazyfists, 800 Octane, Action Directe, Adam & The Ants, Aerosmith, Age of Heaven, Agent Orange, Aggro1, Aiden, Alesana, Alice Cooper, All That Remains, America, The Animals, Annie Lennox, Annihilater, Anti Flag, Apocalyptica, Arab Strab, Aretha Franklin, Arkam Asylum, As Cities Burn, As I Lay Dying, Astrud Gilberto, The Atomic Fireballs, Atomic Rooster, Atreyu, Audioslave, Autonomy, The Avalanches, Ayria, The B-52's, B.B. King, Babybird, Bad Company, Bad Religion, Barenaked Ladies, Basement Jaxx, Bauhaus, The Beach Boys, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Ben E King, The Berzerker, Betty Everett, Biffy Clyro, Big Country, Big Maceo, Billy Canino, Billy Talent, Black Bomb A, The Black Crows, Black Flag, Black Label Society, Bleed the Dream, The Blessed Virgin Larry, Blessthefall, Blind Before Dawn, Blind Melon, Blink 182, Blondie, Bloodhound Gang, Blue Oyster Cult, Blur, Blutengel, Bob Marley, Bobby Gentry, Bobby 'Boris' Pickett, Borgo Pass, Bowling For Soup, Brainbombs, The Bravery, Bring Me The Horizon, A Broken Moment, Bruce Channel, Buck Cherry, Bullets And Octane, Burden of a Day, Bury Your Dead, Cab Calloway, Caliban, Cardiacs, Cauda Pavonis, The Champion of Cocks, Charles Bernstein, The Chemical Brothers, The Chordettes, The Clash, Coffin Nails, Corrision, Count Smacula, Counting Crows, The Cramps, Crash Test Dummies, The Crasy World of Arthur Brown, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cud, The Cult, The Cure, Cybercide, The D4, Daddy Yankee, Daft Punk, The Damned, Danny Elfman, Dark Horizons, Dark Tranquilty, David Bowie, Dead City Rejects, Dead Kennedys, Deathboy, Decapitated, December, December Wolves, The Decliners, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Destroy the Runner, Deviant UK, Deveilish Presley, Devo, The Dickies, Diecast, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dinah Washington, The Distillers, Disturbed, Dividing The Line, The Divine Comedy, The Doors, Dorp, Dragonforce, Dream Evil, Dresden Dolls, Drowning Pool, Drunk Injuns, Dry Cell, Dyonisis, Earshot, Earth Loop Recall, Eddie Cochran, Edith G, Edith Piaf, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Electric Boys, Electro Synthetic Rebellion, Ephel Duath, Erma Franklin, Escape the Fate, Eurythmics, Evanescense, The Everly Brothers, Every New Day, Exilanation, Exodus, Exposed Guts, The Faces of Sarah, Faction, The Faint, Faith No More, The Fall, Fall Out Boy, Fatal Bazooka, FFW, Fischerspooner, Fishbone, The Five Satins, Flak, Flesh Eating Foundation, Flowing Tears, Fontella Bass, Frank Black, The Fratellis, Freak of the Day, Freddie Mercury, Freudstein, Fun Lovin Criminals, Gackt, Gang Green, Garbage, Gary Numan, The Gathering, Georgie Fame, Gilbert, Girth Bros, Glassjaw, Glitch Code, Gob, Godhead, Godsmack, Greeley Estates, Green Day, Greenhaus. Grumble Bunny, Guano Apes, Guns N Roses, The Hammerdowns, Hanging Doll, Harry Belafonte, Head Automatica, Hearts Fail, (hed) P.E., Helicopter Girl, Herman's Hermits, Hex, History of Guns, Hoobastank, Horroble, The Horrorpops, Howlin Wolf, I Monster, Iced Earth, Icon of Coil, Iggy Pop, Ignorance, Ill Nino, Illustrate, In Flames, Incubus, Inertia, Infadels, Inhalent, Ivor Biggun, Jailbird, The Jam, James Brown, James D Stark, Janes Addiction, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jimmi Hendrix, John Carpenter, The John E Vistic Experience, John MErricks Remains, John Murphy, Johnny Cash, K. O. Kid, Karmadeva, Karmanaut, Katscan, Kidney Thieves, Killing Miranda, Killswitch Engage, Kings of Leon, Kinks, Knifeladder, Korn, Lacuna Coil, Laika Dog (fabulous!), Lamb of God, Larrikin Love, Lars Frederiksen & The Bastards, Laurie Johnson, Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, Leech Woman, Lemon Jelly, Lesbian Death Bed, Less Than Jake, Letter Kills, Libitina, Lifes Decay, Lifehouse, Linea 77, Linkin Park, Live, The Living End, Living Sacrifice, Louis Armstrong, M.I.A., Machine Head, The Mad Capsule Markets, The Mamas and the Papas, Manfred Mann, Manriki, Marc Gunn, Marillion, Marvin Gaye, Mass Hysteria, Maxdmyz, Maximo Park, MC5, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, Kaji Meiko, Men Without Hats, The Meteors, Michael Staniforth, Microtonner, Midnight Configuration, Mind Confusion, Ministry, Misfits, Mlada Fronta, Monster Magnet, Moon, Morcheba, Morningwood, Mortiis, Mory Kante, The Move, Muddy Waters, Murnau Trance, Muse, My Chemical Romance, The Mysterons, Nena, Neon Zoo, Neuvogue, NFD, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, pretty much everything from Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No FX, Non Exist, Novus, Oingo Boingo, On The Rocks, Open Hand, Opera Noire, Orphaned Land, Otis Redding, Panic! At The Disco, Pantera, Paradise Lost, The Passions, Pathian, Patti Drew, Paul Giovanni (The Wickerman), Pearl Jam, Peatbog Faerie, Peggy Lee, Percy Sledge, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Pink Floyd, Pinkly Smooth, Pixies, Placebo, The Polyphonic Spree, Priestess, Primal Scream, Primus, The Prodigy, Progeria, Psy, Psychophile, Public Enemy, Public Image Itd, Pzychobitch, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Queensryche, Quireboys, Rabies Caste, Rage Against the Machine, Rakoth, Rammstein, Rancid, Razed in Black, Rebuke, Richard Cheese, Rob Zombie, Robert Plant, Rocket from the Crypt, Rocket from the Tombs, THe Rolling Stones, Rome Burns, Rostok Vampires, Rufus G Poindexter, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sam & Dave, Sam Cooke, Sangue Demonio, Satan, Scary Bitches, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, The Screamers, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Screaming Jets, The Seers, Serotonin Sunset, The Sex Pistols, Shandon, Silverstein, Simple Plan, Siouxsie, SisterG, Sisters of Mercy, The Skeletones, Skinny Puppy, Skypark, Slaughter & The Dogs, Small Faces, Smashing Pumpkins, Social Distortion, Soil, Soilwork, Something Corporate, Sophie Lux, Soulfly, Soundgarden, The Spares, The Specials, St Eve, Star Industry, Static X, Steel Prophet, Steppenwolf, Stone Temple Pilots, The Stooges, The Stranglers, Stray Cats, The Stupids, The Suffering, Sum 41, System of a Down, T. Rex, Talking Heads, Tarmac, Tenpole Tudor, Terrorvision, Thelma Houston, Them, Therapy?, They Might Be Giants, Things Outside the Skin, Tiamat, TimG, Timo Mass, Tito & Tarantula, Tom Waits, Tool, Tori Amos, Totom, Transient, Transplants, Tricky, Turn Pale, The Turtles, Twiztid, Tylean, Uninvited Guest, Unleashed, Urban Myth Club, The Used, Usurper, Utah Saints, V2A, Vampire Beach Babes, The Vapors, The Veils, Velvet Hearts, Velvet Revolver, The Vincent Razorbacks, Violent Delight, Violent Femmes, Visage, Voices of Masada, Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Vultures, Wacobeast, Warren Zevon, The Waterboys, White Stripes, White Zombie, The Wildhearts, William Shatner, Without Face, Wolf, The Wonderstuff, Zombiegirl, The Zombies, Zombina & The Skeletones, ..

Movies:

Huge fan of Brit Flicks, Asian Cinema, European Cinema and I love indie films. I don't really watch Horror/Gore porn stuff, because I don't see much point in it. If you have a twist on a girl running around screaming and being tortured, i'll consider it, but if it is just a film on how many ways you can inflict pain and spry blood across the camera, i'm not buying.
I love Hammer Horror, Amicus and the like, which I grew up watching ....and I do have a bit of thing for B Movie Monster Shockers :oD
I am also an absolutely huge fan and supporter of SHORT FILMS! My very favourite (probably my favourite all time film of any length)is The French Doors by Steve Ayson...which you can see here.... .. AtomFilms.com : Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | Comedy CentralFavourite flicks include The Descent
Dog Soldiers (If you are British you ought to be bloody proud of Neil Marshall!)
The French Doors
Event Horizon (Smitty is a God!)
The Fith Element
Taxi (the orginal French version)
The Bunker
Haunted Honeymoon
Rear Window
Rebecca
The Third Man
2001: A Space Odessey
Bad Day at Black Rock
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (the original...god I love the way Gene Wilder played Willy Wonka!)
Blue Velvet
The Shining
Cat People
Poltergeist
A Clockwork Orange
Day of the Triffids
Beetle Juice
Sleepy Hollow
Dracula
Circus of Horrors
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Exorcist
Deliverance
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Amazing Mr Blunden
The Railway Children
Rosemary's Baby
The 39 Steps (Robert Powell)
Kind Hearts & Coronets
The Birds
The Legend of Boggy Creek
Razorback (giant killer piggy)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
African Queen
Bladerunner
Citizen Kane
It Happened One Night
It's a Wonderful Life
North By Northwest
Uzumaki
Ravenous
Funnyman - Tim James and Simon Sprackling...are gods!
Donnie Darko
Escape From New York
Ju-on
Stacie
The Thing (both versions)
The Haunting (black & White version)
Curse of the Werewolf (hey...oliver reed never looked better!)
Ring
Company of Wolves
Freaks
Bram Stokers Dracula (yes...even with those terrible Enlish accents)
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
28 Days Later
American Werewolf In London
Carry on Screaming (frying tonight!)
Alien
Get Carter
Psycho
The History of Mr Polly
Shadow of the Vampire
Lair of the White Worm
The Body Snatchers (I love the original, but I really, really like the uber bleak Donald Sutherland version)
The Faculty
Ghost of Mars (I don't know why either)
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Don't Look Now
Snow Beast (used to scare the crap out of me as a kid)
Night of the Lepus (...killer bunnies how cool!)
Sexy Beast
The Wicker Man
The Vanishing (the original Dutch Version)
Bad Taste
Brain Dead
Audition
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Deathwatch
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
eXistenZ
Dune
Run Lola Run
Dogma
Mad Max (Toe Cutter is legend)
A Matter of Life and Death
Brief Encounter
Isolation a fanatastic indie horror by Billy O'Brien (mutant killer cows in Ireland...but don't let that put you off). It's superbly cast and directed and made me want to see much more of his work
Invaders from Mars
Forbidden Planet
yes...all of the Lord of the Rings films...I am one of those girls who gets it on for smelly adventuring types....damn you D&D, Dragonlance and Choose Your Own Adventureand lots and lots more

Television:

most television bores me senseless.I do like the new Dr Who, but then I grew up watching the orginal. I also like Hex (nice to see a show that has a quality lesbian part), Cold Case, Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett made th finest Holmes ever) QI, Buzzcocks, and the joy that is Most Haunted

Books:

Now I could go on listing forever....I have a huge and ever growing collection of books.......a few favourites are.....The Weirdstone of Brisingamon. Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Secret Garden, Desperation, Lord of the Rings, The Ring series, The Little Book of Bunny Suicides, Cabal, It, Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, all the Sherlock Holmes, Jupiters Travels, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Time without Clocks, Tarzan, Dragonlance, anything by M R James, R Chetwynd Hayes, The Brothers Grimm, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allen Poe, H P Lovecraft. etc, etc, etc

Heroes:

Heroes....Ooooooo Writers - Shirley Jackson, M R James. Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Alan Garner, JRR Tolkien, Bram Stoker. R Chetwynd Hayes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Musicians - Trent Reznor, Kurt Cobain, David Bowie, Tim DeLaughter, Robert Smith, Robert Plant, The Cardiacs as one lovely mass of mad genius, Freddie Mercury.
People - John (Joseph)Merrick aka The Elephant Man, Tank Man - the man who stood in front of the tanks during the Tianamen Square protests.

My Blog

Stan Winston RIP

Just wanted to take time out to mark the passing of a movie legend.  Stan Winston, Oscar-winning special effects expert and innovator died on Sunday aged 62 after battling for seven years with...
Posted by Siria on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:59:00 PST

Sirias Mini Mag - Oddball Vamps, Kelpies, Cemeteries etc

I decided the other day that I have TOO many article lurking about in my hard drive...and after a few COFFEES and a few LATE nights I had a bit of a BRAINWAVE...well sort of!   Why not creat...
Posted by Siria on Fri, 02 May 2008 06:03:00 PST

It’s D (entist) Day!

Today I go and have one of my upper wisdom teeth wrenched out by the dentist. It's got to be done, they've grown out too far and at a strange angle so I'm biting my cheeks, but I am not looking forwar...
Posted by Siria on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:29:00 PST

The Finger of Doom

Hi Guys Sorry I've not been around much. As some of you will already know, it's because of a tiny little mishap I had....the story goes something like this.... Once upon a time this particular red rid...
Posted by Siria on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:49:00 PST

Christmas Ghost Stories Part 2

In addtion to the Christmas Ghost story rhyme int he other post, I have twelve real ghosts of Christmas for you! Have wonderful (and spooky) Christmas! Mwhaaa x   The Twelve Grisly Ghosts of Chri...
Posted by Siria on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:19:00 PST

Christmas Ghost Story...sort of!

As many of you will know, I love the tradition of the Christmas ghost.horror story, and every year I write a new one. This year, due to family illness, time has been very short, so I have opted to cre...
Posted by Siria on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:46:00 PST

Sponsor a Tash!

Hi My Lovlies.As some of you are aware, my father was recently diagnosed with Prostate Cancer, which is why i'm sponsoring the lovely Tony from Laika Dog, to grow a Mo (slang for Moustache).Its a grea...
Posted by Siria on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:27:00 PST

Dracula in the news

DRACULA'S MISSING CAPE DISCOVERED The original cape which was worn by actor Christopher Lee in the 1958 vampire film, Dracula, has been found in a London fancy dress store. The memorabilia, which has...
Posted by Siria on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:53:00 PST

FREE ARTICLE - UK Vampires!

Hi my lovlies!   More articles for your enjoyment. I'm emptying out my files of old articles and they are free...but if you want to publish them on your website or in your magazine you need to re...
Posted by Siria on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:53:00 PST

FREE ARTICLE - Are You A Werewolf? Quiz

I'm releasing a load of my old articles free to anyone that wants them (see the FREEBIES post further down the blog list for details) - if you would like to use this article, you WILL NEED to co...
Posted by Siria on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:18:00 PST