Saturday, March 5, 2011

The Realm of Redonda--Facts and Legends

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John D. Squires has posted an especially interesting essay on the history of the kingdom of Redonda, from its Sheilian sources on to the var...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber

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There have been a couple of excellent scholarly editions of Sweeney Todd in recent years. Wordsworth Editions recently published its 3rd edi...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Reggie Oliver's first novel

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I just received my copy of Reggie Oliver's new novel, The Dracula Papers Book I: The Scholar's Tale (ISBN 9781907681028, $18.00 tra...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Wormwood indexed, also Avallaunius, Faunus and Tolkien Studies

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If you don't know about the massive magazine index maintained by Bill Contento, you might want to.  It goes by the name of The FictionMa...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Mark Hansom

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I've mentioned the enigmatic Mark Hansom before. In recent times Golden Age thriller publisher, Ramble House, has been reprinting th...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

KATHLEEN SULLY

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In the file of letters from the publisher Peter Davies to Sarban, there’s a brief letter from Nico Davies of 24 November, 1960, where he rec...
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Lost Artists: Henry Keen

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If we think the authors in our field are sometimes neglected, then they are positively feted compared with some of the illustrators. Quite ...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Some Famous Ghosts of Literature

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I'd forgotten all about this ghostly article by legendary Melbourne book dealer and Penny Bloods collector, John P. Quaine. It also app...
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