Book Review: If You Could See Me Now.
[The following contains spoilers.] There is no doubt that Miles Teagarden has been distilled from the psychic juices of his …
Tag Archives: Ghost Story
The Lady of the Lake.
The end of the year found me driving to my sister’s house deep in the fens. She had sent me …
Book Review: Susan Hill’s Dolly.
[The following contains spoilers.] If Susan Hill remains nostalgic for the traditional English ghost story, she usually sets the coordinates …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Night Porters.
[The following contains spoilers.] Michael Moreland’s “The Night Porters” is presently established at Paradise in Augustine’s – a basement venue …
Tychy@ the Fringe: As Ye Sow.
[The following contains spoilers.] One always finds a lot of ghosts in Fringe theatre, but they are usually too humanised …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Under the Ladder.
A filling or emptying theatre roars with sheer life. The extremes of human life are made flesh on the stage …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Turn of the Screw.
[The following contains spoilers.] If one wants to bring a good Victorian ghost story to the stage, Susan Hill/ Stephen …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Country Air.
I am back at Paradise in the Vault for the afternoon. Somebody has taken a broom and swept an old …
Short Story Review: Couching at the Door.
[Tychy is nothing if not a writer and reviewer of short stories: this website to date features about eighty short …
Revenge Play.
I was generally fond of Tori’s husband, Ricardo, but it was truly an experience to witness his death and its …
Christian Theology and the Easter Bunny.
The first missionaries to set foot in Anglo-Saxon England attempted to render Christmas and the celebration of Christ’s resurrection satisfactory …
The Only True Ghost: Scepticism and the Enfield Poltergeist.
The word “poltergeist” is taken from the German for “noisy spirit,” and it is characteristically impossible to ignore these troublesome …
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 …
The Road to Hill House (3/3): All the House’s a Stage.
[Previously on Tychy: (1/3) "The Anguish of Influences" and (2/3) "The House of Mirth." Ed.] The reader of Shirley Jackson‘s …
The Road to Hill House (2/3): The House of Mirth.
[Previously on Tychy - "The Road to Hill House (1/3): The Anguish of Influences."] Eleanor Vance’s drive to Hill House, …
