Thursday, March 20, 2014

Martin Secker, Child of The Yellow Book - Roger Dobson

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that some publishers are almost as interesting as authors (we should emphasize the word almost). Gre...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

The Simmons Papers: A Borgesian Jest? - Roger Dobson

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If your preference in literature is to be pleased, puzzled, perplexed and presented with paradoxes, we recommend the novella The Simmons Pap...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

At the Sign of the Black Pterodactyl - George Hay and Books of 'Some Other Dimension'

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The letters would arrive headed by a drawing of black pterodactyls in flight, and the typed legend FUTURES CONSULTANT, with an address in Al...
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Friday, February 14, 2014

The Original Tower of Moab?

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The Original Tower of Moab? Mark Valentine L A Lewis’ ‘The Tower of Moab’ (from his Tales of the Grotesque , 1934) has in recent years re...
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Joyce Carol Oates: Xavier Kilgarvan’s casebook - Roger Dobson

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There are some novels one does not wish would end. Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984) by Joyce Carol Oates is such a one. This is a glorious, ...
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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Dulcie Deamer, The Devil's Ball

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Dulcie Deamer (1890-1972) is an undeservedly neglected Australian writer of supernatural and fantasy fiction.  The "Queen of Bohemia,...
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Friday, January 31, 2014

A Mystery-Haunted Landscape: The Novels of Mary Webb - Roger Dobson

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Even polymorphous littérateurs have their prejudices and blind spots. Anthony Burgess ungallantly sneers at Mary Webb in Little Wilson and ...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Daphne du Maurier's ‘Monte Verità' - Roger Dobson

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Towering ‘Monte Verità’ by Roger Dobson Saying anything about Daphne du Maurier’s story ‘Monte Verità’, in an attempt to whet readers’ app...