Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Talking Terror: An M.R. James Festival

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Gladstone's Library, at Hawarden, Cheshire, has announced 'Talking Terror: An M.R. James Festival' on 27-28 November, 2026. Th...
Saturday, September 5, 2026

Insidious Mechanisms: A New Anthology from Egaeus Press

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    Egaeus Press have just announced publication of a new anthology, Insidious Mechanisms, Tales of Cursed Clockwork and Cyclical Anomalies...
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Saturday, August 29, 2026

'Sound Wood': Aldous Huxley's 'Two or Three Graces'

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    On 16 January 1928, Mary Butts recorded in her journal that her mind was full of ‘the worst book ever written on a superb theme, [John] ...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Black Cat in The House of Anubis

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The poet Anthony Etherin is noted for his interest in wordplay, devising pieces that have limitations in the letters used, or particular str...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

A Thirties Grail Thriller: 'Secret Sceptre' by Francis Gerard

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    Francis Gerard   was the author of about twenty-two thrillers in the period 1936-52, many featuring his series detective Sir John Meredi...
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Friday, August 14, 2026

Mary Durham, author of 'Castle Mandragora'

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    In a post in November, 2020, I wrote about  Castle Mandragora , a thriller with uncanny elements by Mary Durham, and I noted that nothin...
Sunday, August 2, 2026

The Centenary of 'The World of William Clissold' by H.G. Wells: A Guest Post by John Howard

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H.G. Wells’ novel The World of William Clissold opens with precision set in time: ‘Yesterday I was fifty-nine, and in a year I shall be s...