Tag: genre

Awooo! A haunting howl, frenzied paws and a full moon – that’s werewolf stories for you. But there is a lot more to the legend and mythology behind lycanthropes, and in this article, we’ll be covering the first iterations of werewolf literature and modern interpretations of the myth. Classic tales featuring the furry shapeshifter are…

Literature’s origins came as an auditory form, through verbal storytelling – and even today, it can look very different then simply words on a page. Live readings, audiobooks, screen readers and forms that may not even exist at this moment in time mean that literature can become sonic – though there are still many ways…

If you are a glutton for punishment/die hard Impish Fan, you will have already consumed the first and second of the pre-existing informative articles detailing the strange writing habits of authors…  I don’t want to keep milking this topic dry but there were a few additional methods which could come in useful to know about…

Literature describes merpeople as water-dwelling, humanoid beings – widely grouped as ‘Mer’, they can take the form of mermaids, sirens, selkies and many more classifications. One thing for sure is that merfolk and all their offshoots can be found abundantly in literature. In this article, we’ll be diving deep (sorry) into the beginnings, usual presentations…

Storytellers of the fabulist genre create and share fables – which are short stories with a moral message at the end of them. Usually, fabulist authors employ the use of allegory, and may even resort to prose or verse to get their point across. In this article, we’ll be covering the history of the fable…