Monday, October 28, 2019

Guest Post: Sacrilege: Machen’s Probable Allusion to Josephus in “The Great God Pan” by Dale Nelson

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In an earlier article, I seemed to imply that Christian elements don’t appear in Machen’s “Great God Pan” until the second chapter.  S...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Robert Aickman's Second Novel

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Aickman, Robert. Go Back at Once (unpublished novel, 257 pp.) According to a cataloguing entry of the Robert Aickman Archive at ...
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Friday, October 18, 2019

Guest Post: The Presence in the Wood: Machen’s “Great God Pan” and Ovid’s Festivals by Dale Nelson

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… sheltering under some blackened tree, I would pass the midday hours too dazed to eat or think, and waited for the flailing sun to cross...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Harold Bloom and A Voyage to Arcturus

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The well-known literary critic Harold Bloom passed away yesterday at the age of 89. I will leave it to others to comment on the breadth of h...
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Thursday, October 10, 2019

Guest Post: The High History of the Holy Graal, Arthur Machen, and the Inklings, by Dale Nelson

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In Arthur Machen’s 1915 wonder-tale “The Great Return” we hear of marvelous lights, odors, bell-sounds, Welsh saints, the Rich Fisherman, a...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Philip N. Pullman, The Haunted Storm (1972)

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The 1972 dust-wrapper, from Facsimile Dust Jackets, L.L.C. Pullman, Philip N. The Haunted Storm (London: New English Library, 1972) I...
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Sunday, September 22, 2019

R.I.P. Charles M. Collins (1935-2019)

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I recently learned that my friend Charlie Collins passed away at the end of August. I met him because his company of publisher's represe...
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Monday, September 16, 2019

A Wild Tumultory Library

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A Wild Tumultory Library , just published by Tartarus Press, offers the following: Three essays on figures of the Eighteen Nineties Thr...
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