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Edmund Crispin - Best Tales of Terror 2

demonik wrote 2 months ago: Edmund Crispin [Robert Bruce Montgomery] – Best Tales of Terror 2 (Faber and Faber, 1965) Help … more →

Tags: Faber, Edmund Crispen, Fiction, Horror, Terror, John Keir Cross, Vault of Evil, W. F. Harvey, L. P. Hartley

Cynthia Asquith - Shudders

demonik wrote 2 months ago: Cynthia Asquith (ed.) – Shudders: A Collection Of New Nightmare Tales (Hutchinson, 1929) L.P H … more →

Tags: Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, Horror Fiction, Fiction, Vault of Evil, ghost, L. P. Hartley, E. F. Benson, M R James

Robert Phillips - Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories

demonik wrote 2 months ago: Robert Phillips (ed.) – The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (Robinson 1989, 1992, 1996) … more →

Tags: *Constable/Robinson*, Robert Phillips, Vault of Evil, Ghost Stories, Muriel Spark, Ghosts, robinson, Edith Wharton, Graham Greene

Novel geographies of the Great North Road in C. E. Montague's 'Right Off the Map' (1927) and Elizabeth Bowen's 'To the North' (1932)3 comments

amycutler wrote 3 months ago: mental map of the Great North Road, included by Peter Gould and Rodney White in 'Mental Maps … more →

Tags: Conference papers, tourism in British landscape, Maps, landscape, Wilderness, topography, Travel, british countryside, c. e. montague

On Festivals II2 comments

BookRambler wrote 3 months ago: The sun shone so warmly on Tuesday that it made a welcome addition to our small party headed to Edin … more →

Tags: writerly musings, Little Stranger, Sarah Waters, victoria glendinning, WOOLF, Love's Civil War

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make." ~ Truman Capote7 comments

poietes wrote 5 months ago: Trail of Blue Ice (Portage Valley, AK) by Janson Jones   “Often when I write I am trying to ma … more →

Tags: Our Writing Selves, Just keep Breathing, POIETES, And there was music . . ., Mixed media, The Evening of the Day, Tasting Emptiness, Would You Want Me to Tell You?, Alaska

The commonplaces of shared lives3 comments

wordtapestry wrote 7 months ago: It’s hard to pull off writing dialogue for people who have a shared history prior to the story … more →

Tags: Books, Writing Poetry, little girls, Fiction

The Second Arrow Book of Horror Stories

demonik wrote 7 months ago: Anonymous (ed.) – The Second Arrow Book of Horror Stories (1965) 2nd Arrow Book Of Horror Stor … more →

Tags: Anonymous, arrow, Horror Stories, Vault of Evil, Edgar Allan Poe, L. P. Hartley, H. Russell Wakefield, E. F. Benson, Robert Bloch

Richard Dalby - Virago Book Of Ghost Stories 2006

demonik wrote 8 months ago: Richard Dalby (ed.) – The Virago Book Of Ghost Stories (Virago, 2006) Cover illustration: Tina … more →

Tags: Richard Dalby, Virago, A. L. Barker, A S Byatt, Amelia B. Edwards, angela carter, Ann Bridge, Antonia Fraser, Books

wishes and such

Sarah wrote 8 months ago: I finished the book that followed me home and though it instructed me to continue in the pursuit of … more →

Tags: jumbles, Emily Carr, CS Lewis, J.R. Tolkien, lawren harris, famous friends, Wishes

Elizabeth Bowen on Jane Austen

peedeel wrote 9 months ago: In 1936 Elizabeth Bowen had this to say about Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy: “Returning again a … more →

Tags: Books, Haunting things, Jane Austen, Mr. Darcy

Writing as smacking on a handful of clay

Beryl wrote 10 months ago: Elizabeth Bowen is one of my research interests.  I (shamefully) have not gotten a hold of the new b … more →

Tags: writing, Books

how to learn how to write: Mr Silliman lays it out5 comments

msbaroque wrote 11 months ago: How do you know why you write as you do? Ron Silliman lays it all out on his blog. Interesting that … more →

Tags: Living With Words, Poetry, america, writing, ron silliman, Learning to Write, Reading, Advice for Writers, School of Quietude

Tidbits of the week... All Things Austen

Janeite Deb wrote 1 year ago: The Central New Jersey JASNA Chapter posts about the Christmas celebration: “A Jane Austen Christmas … more →

Tags: Books, News, Jane Austen, Persuasions, Regency England, Georgette Heyer

Anon - The Man in Black

demonik wrote 1 year ago: Anon – The Man in Black: Macabre Stories from Fear on Four (BBC, 1990) Foreword – The Ma … more →

Tags: Anonymous, BBC, Roald Dahl, E. F. Benson, Stephen Gallagher, Robert Westall, Bram Stoker, Fear On Four, Man in black

Hello from Isidora

isidora11 wrote 1 year ago: Short intro to this blog: I choose my reading material haphazardly – I hear about a book; or it catc … more →

Tags: Fiction, Lesbian Themes, Bisexual Themes, Literature, film, gay themes, the little girls, Edeet Ravel, Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth

Peter Haining - Mammoth Modern Ghost Stories

demonik wrote 1 year ago: Peter Haining (ed) – The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (Robinson, 2007) Cover: Joe Robe … more →

Tags: Constable-Robinson, Peter Haining, Mammoth, H. R. Wakefield, robinson, M R James, Dennis Wheatley, A.N.L. Munby, Algernon Blackwood

one woman's reading: books of the Baroque year both future and past

msbaroque wrote 1 year ago: What a difference a year and a day makes! I’ve just discovered this among my files, as it were … more →

Tags: the Line on Beauty, Books, Living With Words, Poetry, charles lamb, James Joyce, Martin Amis, macneice, Keats

Cynthia Asquith - The Third Ghost Book

demonik wrote 2 years ago: Lady Cynthia Asquith (ed) – The Third Ghost Book (James Barrie, 1955: Pan, 1957) Cover of the … more →

Tags: Cynthia Asquith, The Ghost Book, Rosemary Timperley, L. P. Hartley, Mary Treagold, Vault of Evil, Ghost Stories, Fiction, Evelyn Fabyon


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