Tourist Review (12): St Peter’s Seminary.
If the Puritan imagination soars in its revulsion of Catholicism – the mystery and superstition, the dark history and arcane …
Tag Archives: Death
Life and Death.
Every party has a distinguishing characteristic, and somebody had brought a telescope to this one. News of the telescope would …
A Critical Assessment of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.
Perhaps literary connoisseurs such as we should remain wary of Mario Puzo‘s The Godfather. It is admittedly an expertly plotted …
Book Review: Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
[The following contains spoilers.] Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938) is often presumed to be a retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane …
Museum Review: Interview with Ankhhor.
This morning I went to the opening of the new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland – “Fascinating Mummies” …
While You’re Asleep.
Waking after three, Damien knew that he was deeply cold before he could recollect who and where he was. He …
Illustrations to “Lord Dufferin’s Ghost” (and a Blue Devil).
["Once more into the elevator, dear friends..." Tychy's article on the story "Lord Dufferin's Ghost" is here. Ed.]
Invincible.
1. Scott had been blank with excitement for three days now. The most difficult or perhaps the most exquisite thing …
Apocalypse of the Fringe.
It had been a long day and we were half way through another, rather undistinguished production of Hamlet, when I …
Tychy@ the Fringe: My Best Friend Drowned in a Swimming Pool.
It is the first Friday night of the Fringe and the streets are sweltering in a high fever. There is …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Lethal Injection.
Off to C Eca this afternoon to see “Lethal Injection,” the latest from Five One Productions and the pen of …
Illustration to “August Heat.”
“It’s a rum go!” he said. William Fryer Harvey, “August Heat” (1910). [Tychy has been preparing a number of illustrations …
Rolling on with the Bull.
For the first two weeks of the summer, Sighthill Academy puts aside its daily troubles and the whole school embarks …
The MANSIZE Companion to R.C. Sherriff’s Journey’s End.
[MANSIZE is Tychy’s student support resource, which provides an alternative to the English Literature study aids on the BBC’s “Bitesize” …
An Epilogue to “Musophobia.”
[“Musophobia” is one of the finest short stories on Tychy - “A hit, a palpable hit!” - and it can …
