Sunday, January 27, 2019

This Wounded Island, Volume Two by J W Böhm

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In June 2017, I wrote about the publication of This Wounded Island by J W Böhm, the Berlin topographer and traveller. This was his account...
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Saturday, January 26, 2019

Copsford - New Tartarus Press edition

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Last June, I wrote about Copsford (1948) by Walter J C Murray, the story of a young man's year in a lonely and semi-ruinous house in ...
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Friday, January 25, 2019

The Last, Lost Novel of Phyllis Paul

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Phyllis Paul (1903-73) published two early novels with Secker, We Are Spoiled (1933) and The Children Triumphant (1934). These were follow...
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Monday, January 21, 2019

My New Leonard Cline Blog

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Just a quick note here to call attention to my new blog on Leonard Cline (1893-1929), author of God Head (1925) and The Dark Chamber (1927...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

The Rector of Maliseet - Leslie Reid

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The Rector of Maliseet (1925) by Leslie Reid is an atmospheric mystery in the Machen and Blackwood vein. A young man takes up a post as the...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Set Down in Malice - Gerald Cumberland

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Set Down In Malice by Gerald Cumberland, published one hundred years ago in January 1919, is a book of chatty anecdotes about literary, mu...
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Friday, January 4, 2019

Guest Post: Boyd White on another "R.R. Ryan" Pseudonymous Novel

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While visiting my friend Lloyd Currey this past fall, I noticed a copy of John Galton’s The Stars I Kneel To (Herbert Jenkins, 1939) re...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

A College Mystery - A P Baker

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This month marks the centenary of an unusual but accomplished Jamesian ghost story, A P Baker’s A College Mystery: the story of the apparit...
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