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9781912586608Tartarus Press, 2024240 pphardcoverIt is not only a true pleasure to have a book published by Tartarus in my hands once again, but added to that is the joy of it being a book of collected stories by Reggie Oliver. Long may they continue to be published -- I love his work. In This...
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"There would be tokens and talismans of the true country ..." --- from "The House of Flame"9781783800476Swan River Press, 2024198 pphardcoverIt's no secret that Mark Valentine is one of my favorite writers and now, with Swan River's publication of Lost Estates, I've added another gem of a book to...
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9781905784356Tartarus Press, 2024 (first Tartarus edition 2000)originally published 1951289 pphardcoverI hadn't actually planned on reading this book this summer, but I had recently finished reading Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites (ed. Katy Soar) as part of my...
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9798886010787Stark House Press, 2024224 pppaperbackI've finally come to the last of the three volumes of Hichens stories I'd set out to read, and to my very great surprise there isn't one supernatural or even supernatural-ish tale in the bunch. As ST Joshi notes in his introduction, the stories...
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9798886010510Stark House Press, 2023241 pppaperbackBack again with the second entry in my three volumes of tales by Robert Hichens published by Stark House. This time, as S.T. Joshi notes in his introduction, these stories seem to hinge on a "crucial, life-altering decision" made by certain...
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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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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...