Wednesday, June 16, 2010

R.I.P. E. F. Bleiler

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A true titan in the field of supernatural literature has passed away.  Everett Franklin Bleiler, born 30 April 1920, died Sunday evening, 13...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

A New Journal: Fastitocalon

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I understand the first issue of the new academic journal Fastitocalon is just out (though I haven't got my contributor copy yet).  Arti...
Sunday, May 2, 2010

The Ghost That I Like Best: Famous Authors on Their Favourite Spooks Pt. 1

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In the December 8, 1923 issue of T.P.’s & Cassell’s Weekly , there appeared a symposium of responses to a question along the lines of “W...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Lucius Shepard The Taborin Scale

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The Dragon Griaule, the vast immobile creature, sleeping or presumed dead, around whose bulk has grown cities, has been familiar to readers ...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

ERNEST BRAMAH - New Kai Lung stories

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Ernest Bramah's immortal Chinese storyteller Kai Lung has been a great favourite of the literary cognoscenti for over a century. The bea...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

Australian Ghost Stories

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A shameless plug for an anthology I've edited collecting rare Australian weird tales from the 1860s to the 1930s. The book forms part o...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Nikola at the Theatre

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A couple of early dramatisations of Guy Boothby's Dr Nikola should be recorded: From the Otago Witness , 25 June 1902 "A dramatisa...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

New R.R. Ryan website

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R.R. Ryan R.R. Ryan , author of such ominously sounding titles as Death of a Sadist , Freak Museum and The Subjugated Beast , has attained a...
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