Monday, December 23, 2019

Gordon Casserly, Tiger Girl

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Casserly, Gordon. Tiger Girl (London: Philip Allan, 1934) Tiger Girl is one of the rarest of the eight novels by Gordon Casserly (1869-194...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Thomas Malyn, The Romance of a Demon

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Malyn, Thomas. The Romance of a Demon: A Story of the Occult and Superhuman (London: Digby, Long and Company, [September] 1892).   This sh...
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Monday, December 9, 2019

Guest Post: The Balm of Consecration in Machen’s “The Terror” by Dale Nelson

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“The Terror” (1917) stands out as Arthur Machen’s longest horror story, but its plot is simple.  During the cataclysm that was the Great Wa...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Guest Post: Machen and the Dark Specter by Dale Nelson

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In three recent articles, I’ve argued that Arthur Machen probably drew upon the writings of Ovid, the historian Josephus, and the Bible to ...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Horace B. Samuel, The Quisto Box

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Samuel, Horace B. The Quisto-Box (London: A.M. Philpot, [February 1925]). This is the only novel by Horace Barnett Samuel (1883-1950), a L...
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Friday, November 22, 2019

Guest Post: Uncle Silas (1968) Location, by Gavin Selerie

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I recently watched the version of Uncle Silas directed by Alan Cooke for TV (Mystery & Imagination series, 1968). I thought I hadn...
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Monday, November 18, 2019

Guest Post: The Abomination of Desolation in Machen’s “Great God Pan” and “The Inmost Light” by Dale Nelson

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In an earlier article, I proposed that part of Clarke’s dream in the first chapter of Machen’s “Great God Pan” recalled the eve of the Jeru...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Guest Post: Phyllis Paul: A Few Glimpses of Her Meaning by Dale Nelson

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Miss Paul maintains a pervasive sense of mystery, even though much in her books may be mysterious only in the conventional sense, that is, m...
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