Monday, August 31, 2020

A Forgotten Episode from Heart of Darkness

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      Withnail Books of Penrith Cumbria takes its name from the cult film, with the motto ‘I’ve opened a bookshop—by mistake’. The proprie...

Powers and Presences

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      Sarob Press have recently announced Powers and Presences , a shared volume of new fiction by John Howard and Mark Valentine. The stori...
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Monday, July 27, 2020

John Gawsworth's Anthologies

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John Gawsworth was the pen-name of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (1912-1970). Beginning in the early 1930s, he published a series of eight an...
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Monday, July 13, 2020

RIP Gary William Crawford (1953-2020)

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Critic, poet, fiction writer, and small press publisher Gary William Crawford passed away in his native  Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 9th...
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Friday, July 10, 2020

Rex Ryan/R.R. Ryan

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It's been a few years since I posted some contemporary notices of Rex Ryan's death in 1950.  Earlier I had posted a number of notice...
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

RIP Colin Manlove 1942-2020

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I"m saddened to have learned that fantasy scholar Colin Manlove passed away on June 1st, "peacefully" after a long illness (...
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Thursday, May 21, 2020

Marjorie Bowen Explains Her Pseudonym

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In looking through my Marjorie Bowen files for a friend, I turned up a photocopy of a stray piece by Bowen--that I happened upon many years ...
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Monday, May 4, 2020

Collecting Robert Aickman, by R.B. Russell

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Here's another in Ray Russell's video series about collecting, this time about Robert Aickman.
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