Monday, October 22, 2018

Wormwood 31

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Wormwood 31 (Autumn 2018) has just been published. Reggie Oliver on Robert Aickman: “Aickman might be said to be exploring not so much ...
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Thursday, October 18, 2018

Cricket in Babylon - W W Masters' Murder in the Mirror

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In W W Masters’ Murder in the Mirror (Longmans, 1931), a young man finds himself at the wicket in a village cricket match, suffering from ...
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Sunday, October 14, 2018

A Lost Art Deco Author: Geoffrey Moss

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Little Green Apples: the Chronicle of a Fallen Man (1930) by Geoffrey Moss, with art deco illustrations signed ‘Lapthorn’, is the story of...
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Saturday, October 6, 2018

Second-hand Bookshops in Britain, and in Fiction

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Last year, I discussed what I described as The Rise in Second-hand Bookshops in Britain. I offered factual, indeed statistical evidence, th...
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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Incurable - The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson

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Strange Attractor Press have just announced Incurable - The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era’s Dark Angel , edited by N...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

A Ghost Story Newly Attributed to Mary Shelley

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We have covered in the past Withnail Books’ well-designed booklets of rare pieces by Saki and T E Lawrence. Their latest announcement is, h...
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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Leanthropy

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Most of us are aware of lycanthropy, the mythological ability of a human to transform into a wolf.  Such shape-shifters are usually called w...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

ReInvention - Gryphon

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For a few years in the Seventies I was a member of a would-be progressive rock band called Ruins, named after the crumbling, mist-wreathed ...
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