Postscript in an Uncertain Hand.
Tomasz Korcz had ducked out of the party to retrieve an envelope of vitamins from his home. The house seemed …
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An Idle Comparison of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Emma Donoghue’s Room.
[The following contains plot spoilers.] When reflecting upon the making of her Booker Prize nominated bestseller Room (2010) for the …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Hildegard of Bingen.
Perhaps the most satisfying variety of solo show is that such as the one written and performed by Linn Maxwell …
The Haunted Ball.
I had coffee with my friend Anna in the Bongo Club today, and she told me an interesting story. The …
Tourist Review (4): St Clement’s Church.
[Last year, Tourist Review weighed up the merits of Rosslyn Chapel, the Tron pub, and Tantallon Castle. This lazy and …
A Portrait of Algernon Blackwood (2/6): Nature and Responsibility.
Mike Ashley’s Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood (2001) offers a treasury of anecdotes about the author and …
Book Review: A Christmas Carol.
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1843) begins with an insistence that Jacob Marley is as dead as Hamlet’s father. Yet …
The Bride of Christ.
Mary Polly had risen before dawn to prepare for the prayer-picnic. Her sleepy brain was not yet laced properly into …
A story of naive horror.
“Cautiously, I put indirect questions [about spiritualism] to my father, who at once – the clumsy questions betraying me – detected …
Environ-Mental Attack: Algernon Blackwood’s “The Man Whom The Trees Loved.”
Ah, what am I reading? At first, it looks like something by D.H. Lawrence, although it was written in 1912, …
Letter from an Atheist.
Dear Tychy. I am writing to inform you of the terrible events which have lately devastated my career. Two years …
The Christians.
Fucking Christianity had attached itself to Louis like a gigantic vampire bat and, slowly, mercilessly, it had drained him of …
