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First off, a huge thank you to everyone who emailed to check if I was still alive and okay—I can’t tell you how much that meant! This past year has been…well, weird, and not the kind of year I’ll be looking back on fondly. After my sweet spouse's major health scare (all good now, thankfully), my...
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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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9781939063702Wakefield Press, 2021originally published 1943translated by Iain White246 pppaperbackSometimes you just find that book that you know is not only unlike anything you've ever read but also makes you wonder just how in the hell you're going to find aything that ever tops it. This past...
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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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"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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9781956321953Valancourt, 2023translated by James D. Jenkins illustrations by Luis Perez Ochando198 pphardcoverI initally came across the work of Bernardo Esquinca in the first installment of this publisher's Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories. His story "Señor Ligotti" was a standout in...
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9781739733940Broodcomb, 2023281 pphardcoverFirst things first: a mega thank you to Jamie Walsh -- you know why. I had actually started this post Tuesday of this past week, and I had meant to finish it long before today, but I've had a weird week of waking up at 4:30 in the morning and have...
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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,...