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 …
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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, …
The Road to Hill House (1/3): The Anguish of Influences.
Although its cellars are full of old ghosts, the cornerstone of Shirley Jackson‘s The Haunting of Hill House, with its …
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.]
Illustration to “Lord Dufferin’s Ghost.”
[Tychy's essay about the "Lord Dufferin's Ghost" story is here. Ed.]
Some Quotes for Halloween.
It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Body of Water.
Stuart Pursell and Made from Scratch‘s first full-length play “Body of Water,” which has just finished a run at the …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Time for the Good Looking Boy.
[The following contains mild spoilers.] Michael Wicherek’s “Time for the Good Looking Boy,” which is currently playing in the Pleasance …
Book Review: Mapp and Lucia.
Aficionados of English Literature will esteem E.F. Benson for writing a handful of cracking ghost stories. They may be dimly …
Book Review: E. F. Benson’s Spook Stories.
Two comfortable middle-aged bachelors retreat to a sweet and sleepy corner of England, say Cornwall or Norfolk, for a month’s …
Heebie Jeebies.
Let me take you back several summers to when Marcin was fixated with the pygmies. He had read about the …
The Enchanted Forest.
Over a hundred miles of forest waited for us, every leaf and twig ready to be picked up and inspected. …
Premonitory Tales: From Dickens’ Signalman to the Radio Broadcasts of A. J. Alan (6/6).
#1: Dickens’ “The Signalman.” #2: “Lord Dufferin’s Ghost” and “The Bus-Conductor.” #3: Algernon Blackwood. #4. E. F. Benson. #5. W. …
Dining with Death and Dicing with “The King’s Messenger.”
[This essay on F. Marion Crawford’s “The King’s Messenger” was originally written for Tychy’s series on premonitory fiction, but it …
Premonitory Tales: From Dickens’ Signalman to the Radio Broadcasts of A. J. Alan (5/6).
#1: Dickens’ “The Signalman.” #2: “Lord Dufferin’s Ghost” and “The Bus-Conductor.” #3: Algernon Blackwood. #4. E. F. Benson. AUGUST HEAT. …
