Wednesday, December 30, 2020

The Esoteric in Britain, 1921

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Aldous Leonard Huxley, 27, Surrey-born author, issued his satire Crome Yellow about a country house party with various eccentric characte...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

King Pharaoh

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M R James and The Folk-Song Collector In a bound volume of the London Mercury I have, its binding faded to madder red, there is an essay i...
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Monday, December 21, 2020

A Christmas Eve Ghost Story

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There will be a festive reading of the lesser-known M R James ghost story 'There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard' at 5pm GMT on 24...
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Saturday, December 19, 2020

The Winter Thorns

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The Glastonbury Thorn is a hawthorn tree that blossoms in midwinter. Legends and customs have grown up around it, and its renown is such t...
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Sunday, December 13, 2020

Castle Bigod and other ghost titles

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‘Ghost titles’ is the pleasing term given in book collecting and bibliographical circles to books that were announced but never in fact appe...
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Saturday, December 12, 2020

This Wounded Island - Collected Edition

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Probability Distribution Group have announced a Collected Edition of the three books in the series This Wounded Island by the enigmatic top...
Monday, December 7, 2020

The Strange World of Colossive Press

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Ad Astra Per Croydon: The Lost History of London’s Forgotten Spaceport compiled by Tom Murphy celebrates this strangely little-known but ...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Robert Herring and The Return of Merlin

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Robert Herring (1903-75) was the 23 year old author of The President’s Hat (1926), a novel presented in the form of a travel book, with ...