The Western Gate

Toing and Froing, Up 'n' Down in the Earth


The Black Book of Fairy Stories

It began as a collective trio of entities known as the Three Fae, thereupon the hill they would discourse and tell tales to each other. The introduction here;- The Kingdom of The Fae introduces the three story tellers. A selection of the tales, most with a contemporary twist, here;-

Snow White

The King Who Wanted All The Knowledge Ever Known

The Horrid Tale of The Samhain Cat

The Synchronised God Attenuator

The Glue Sniffing Antichrist

Red Riding Hood

The Coveted Teddy Bear

The Man With No Face

The Golden Arm

The Devil and the Crowman

The Ghost of Hare Street

The Perfumed Ponce of Mayfair

The Boardroom of Cain and SIn

The Diary of the Determinist

The Maypole of Bathory

The Haunted House

The Fortune Teller

The Tale of the Jinn

The Book of All Knowledge

Facing The Nemesis

The Beauty or The Beast-The Chimera




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Wot’s this all about then Guv’nor ?;-
The Random musings of a nobody. “Dagenham Dave”, is slang for someone one stop short of Barking (mad), though more contemporarily refers to any wayfaring and carefree person. Dagenham is a town to the eastern side of London (Luds Dominium) that was first recorded in a Barking charter in 666a.d. as the town of Daeccanham. Daecca is an ancient man’s name meaning ‘bright’ or ‘famous’ . Ham is short for Hamlet.
Dave is short for David, Hebrew for ‘Beloved’, My Surname ‘Wenborn’ derives from old English meaning of the Winding Stream.

Contents:-
1/ Book Reviews.

They’re not reviews as such- to recommend or asway, I neither seek to promote nor condemn, more my personal reflections on the books I read. In that respect it’s a subjective thing.
2/ Short Stories and Tales

Short stories borne from imagination, dreams, thoughts and wanderings. Too large to be written in my journal of shadows.
3/ Full Books
Books that were once published elsewhere, I have full copyright on these, and of course given here freely.
4/ Magazines and Articles

Small snippets and articles that may or may not have appeared elsewhere, and information not included in Journal of shadows.
5/ Poetry

A small selection of poetry. Like song, I create as a means to an artistic diary.
6/ WordPress Challenges

Wordpress (where this website is hosted) offer up a daily prompt for people to answer, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.



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