Wednesday, October 14, 2026

The Haunted Quarters of C.E. Ward: A Guest Post by Christopher Tompkins

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C. E. Ward appears as a man who has stepped out of a different time and from another world. And because of that, his ghost stories are alway...
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Sunday, October 11, 2026

The Centenary of 'Crewe Train' by Rose Macaulay: A Guest Post by John Howard

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 Novels can be journeys of discovery for their characters – and sometimes readers. Some describe development and bring revelation, while o...
Friday, October 9, 2026

The House That Vanished

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    It was reading avowedly 'true' ghost stories when young that led me to enjoy their fictional counterpart and then to prefer thes...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2026

The Prospero Machine And Other Stories

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  Over the past twelve years, I have been writing longer stories that form a distinct group, different to my earlier occult detective or ant...
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Sunday, October 4, 2026

The Centenary of 'Dreads and Drolls' by Arthur Machen: A Guest Post by John Howard

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Arthur Machen regularly contributed short stories, vignettes, and articles to literary periodicals from early in his career. Never able to m...
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Thursday, October 1, 2026

The First Modern Ghost Story Anthology: One Hundred Years of 'The Ghost Book' by Cynthia Asquith

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      In my collection Sphinxes and Obelisks (2021), I included an essay (adapted here) on  The Ghost Book, Sixteen New Stories of the Uncan...
Friday, September 25, 2026

The Centenary of 'Fairy Gold' by Compton Mackenzie: Uncanny Landscape on a Cornish Island

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In the opening essay of my collection Tea and Gargoyles (Tartarus Press, 2026), I write about fiction ‘On the Edge of the Uncanny,’ and d...