Monday, January 30, 2023

S.T. Joshi's The Horror Fiction Index

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It's a good idea: an index to the contents of all single-author horror collections since the early 1800s. But then one encounters S.T. J...
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Monday, January 23, 2023

The Centenary of "The Other End" by R. Ellis Roberts

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January 1923 saw the publication of the only volume of fiction by the noted literary critic R. Ellis Roberts (1879-1953). It came from the L...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Peak Machen, 1923

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At The Endless Bookshelf , Henry Wessells explains why, a hundred years ago, 1923 was the year of 'Peak Machen', when he was 'at...
Monday, January 9, 2023

Mah Jong in Britain, 1923

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Among the books and booklets I find it hard to resist when I am foraging in second-hand bookshops (admittedly quite a large category) are th...
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Saturday, January 7, 2023

Mental Travailers, or, The Battle of the Books

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At Face Press , Mental Travailers: Or, The Battle of the Books: Blake & Latham in Subtle Congress on Peckham Rye (2022) by Iain Sincl...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

A New Look at a New Year's Eve Ghost Story

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  At the Cambridge University Library Special Collections website, Clarck Drieshen discusses the authentic medieval magical document, held b...

The Oldest Pub in Britain

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At History Extra , archaeologist and architectural historian Dr James Wright investigates the various claims to be "the oldest pub in B...
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Friday, December 30, 2022

English Almanacs

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Once printing became a recognised trade in England it was of course monopolised by the state and censored by the church. But the monopoly ...
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