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Rosalie & Edward SyntonBritish LibraryJohn Travers has been hanged for the murder of his mother-in-law Helga, but to those who knew him something is amiss. Driven by justice and a sense of uncanny forces at work, John’s friend Doctor Toogood recounts a haunting tale of love and jealousy under...
ian holloway
The British Library“Come tonight,” I heard the old man say, “come to me tonight into the Wood of the Dead.” Join Weird Walk for a new journey into the ghostly and bizarre, striking out from the shelter of the inn for the places where the path begins to fade, from the sublime wilderness of...
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" ... an empty house is an admirable field for the operations of the imagination ..."-- from "The Haunted Vicarage," by Emeric Hulme-Beaman9780712355933British Library, 2025244 pphardcoverEver since Valancourt Books put out its first book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, reading ghostly tales...
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9780712354271British Library, 2022305 pppaperbackIt's been a while since I've been here -- vacation and then a subsequent case of covid have sucked up my time pretty much since Thanksgiving and I'm just now feeling up to posting again. I couldn't let the year go by without reading at least one...
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9780712354424British Library, 2022340 pppaperbackIt's time for another book in the British Library Tales of the Weird series. This time we're off to the remoteness of the Arctic and the Antarctic with Polar Horrors: Strange Tales From the World's Ends. My geek self has a particular fascination...
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"The past seems so close here..."9780712354134British Library, 2023279 pppaperbackI have a serious addiction to the British Library Tales of the Weird series, so much so that I tend to preorder the books often months ahead of their scheduled release. I actually just got one in yesterday's mail,...