Sunday, July 29, 2018

In That Look the Unicorn Stood & Other Dreamt Books

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"People do tell their dreams," said Arthur Machen, in conversation with Morchard Bishop, "but . . ." and there was a wo...
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Saturday, July 21, 2018

Alison Lurie's Ghost Stories

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Alison Lurie (b. 1926) is best known for her ten novels, which include The War Between the Tates (1974) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fore...
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Saturday, July 14, 2018

Outgoing Tides - Mary Tyrwhitt Drake

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Mary Tyrwhitt Drake’s Outgoing Tides (John Long, 1924) is sensationalist fiction pitched strong. An ex soldier, a VC, is now a starving ar...
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Friday, July 13, 2018

Faunus 37

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The latest issue, number 37, of Faunus , the hardback journal of The Friends of Arthur Machen , has just been published. Edited by James Ma...
Monday, June 4, 2018

The Black Pilgrimage & Other Explorations by Rosemary Pardoe

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The Black Pilgrimage & Other Explorations , essays on supernatural fiction by Rosemary Pardoe is a much-anticipated collection of her n...
Sunday, June 3, 2018

Following the Old Ways: Flush As May by P M Hubbard

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The tone of P M Hubbard’s first novel, Flush As May (1963), is not dissimilar to the donnish detection novels of Edmund Crispin and Michae...
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Saturday, June 2, 2018

Finding books in out of the way places

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It has sometimes chanced that I have found myself in some out-of-the-way place without a book. This is a disconcerting experience for the k...
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Friday, June 1, 2018

Copsford - Walter J C Murray

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In the early Nineteen Twenties, just after the war, a young man tired of living in a back room in the city persuaded a bemused Sussex farme...
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