Friday, December 27, 2024

'The Dancing Druids' by Gladys Mitchell

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In The Dancing Druids (1948) by Gladys Mitchell, the first two chapters depict a group of varsity young men on a cross-country run of the...
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Monday, December 23, 2024

A Lilliput Magazine Anthology 1937-46

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**updated 29 December 2024, see at bottom** Lilliput magazine ran from 1937 to 1960, publishing some 277 issues. Earlier this year Chris Har...
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Friday, December 20, 2024

William Lindsay Gresham Reviews A Charles Williams Novel: A Guest Post by G. Connor Salter

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Joy Davidman’s first husband is sometimes disregarded as just the off-camera cad in Shadowlands , but he was a successful writer in his own ...
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Monday, December 16, 2024

Remembering Scott Connors

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Scott at the 2015 Lovecraft Film Festival The Clark Ashton Smith and weird fiction scholar Scott Connors passed away near the end of Octob...
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Friday, December 13, 2024

Greece Untrodden

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The final story in Strange Relics: Stories of Archaeology and the Supernatural, 1895-1954 (2022), edited by Amara Thornton and Katy Soar, w...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

The Bicentennial of George MacDonald

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Photographed by Lewis Carroll, 1852 Two hundred years ago today, 10 December 1824, George MacDonald was born in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scot...
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Friday, December 6, 2024

One Thousand Posts (a co-post by Mark Valentine and Douglas A. Anderson)

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It was on 19 June, 2009 that Doug approached me with the idea of a blog to augment Wormwood , a journal of the fantastic I had started editi...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

The Centenary of "Ghosts and Marvels" edited by V.H. Collins

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Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood , published in December 1924, is a small pocket-siz...