Monday, June 29, 2009

Karl Hanns Strobl, a dark prince of German horror

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Due to all kinds of causes, the German language supernatural tradition is somewhat underrepresented. In the case of Austrian writer Karl Han...
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Poe's Rival

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Writes the Encylopedia Brittanica on Algernon Blackwood: "...operating a hotel, mining in the Alaskan goldfields, and working as a new...

Book Collectors

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Book collectors are all too often forgotten, aren't they. A few have made a name for themselves through their bibliographic work - Mich...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

John Silence

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I was looking up something else in a magazine from January 1909, and was pleasantly surprised to discover a snippet about Algernon Blackwood...

The Golden Snake - a Dr Fu Man-Chu pastiche

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In my anthology of occult detective stories for Wordsworth, The Black Veil , I included a story, ‘The Necromancer’, by Donald Campbell, whic...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Phantom Clutch Pt 2

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George Foster, writing of Barry Ono's famed collection of Bloods in Collector's Digest , #16, says, "I remember seeing copies o...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Spurious Titles

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There is a tradition of spurious bibliography that includes many imaginary books mentioned in works of fiction, like Lovecraft and his Necro...
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The Skeleton Clutch; or, The Goblet of Gore

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The story goes that Melbourne bookseller, John P. Quaine, issued a sale catalogue in 1931 that included two phantom titles, The Skeleton Clu...