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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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"These occult things can't always be told of, even when they are known." 97886010565Stark House Press, 2023245 pppaperbackNot too long ago the very good people at Stark House Press sent me an ARC of a forthcoming collection of stories by Robert Hichens (1864-1959) entitled The Folly of Eustace...
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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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9781783807482Swan River Press, 2021 (originally published 2012)197 pppaperbackI've been more than a bit depressed lately, coping with the recent death of one of my friends, and figured I needed to get off my can and do something other than simply sit and stare into space. My go-to therapy is...
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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,...