Sunday, January 30, 2011

Wormwood indexed, also Avallaunius, Faunus and Tolkien Studies

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If you don't know about the massive magazine index maintained by Bill Contento, you might want to.  It goes by the name of The FictionMa...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Mark Hansom

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I've mentioned the enigmatic Mark Hansom before. In recent times Golden Age thriller publisher, Ramble House, has been reprinting th...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

KATHLEEN SULLY

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In the file of letters from the publisher Peter Davies to Sarban, there’s a brief letter from Nico Davies of 24 November, 1960, where he rec...
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Lost Artists: Henry Keen

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If we think the authors in our field are sometimes neglected, then they are positively feted compared with some of the illustrators. Quite ...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Some Famous Ghosts of Literature

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I'd forgotten all about this ghostly article by legendary Melbourne book dealer and Penny Bloods collector, John P. Quaine. It also app...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Christmas and Ghosts

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On a yuletide note, the following article, from the 12 December 1936 issue of the Melbourne newspaper The Argus, may be of interest - a rare...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Temperamental Authors

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I recently acquired an issue of the magazine supplement to the old New York World newspaper of the 1920s.  Specifically, I got this issue, ...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Ghost Stories: stories of ghosts

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In my reply to the good news that a two volume set by John Locke, entitled Ghost Stories , and devoted to the since long gone magazine Gho...