Tourist Review (16): Dirleton Castle.
With the arrival of spring, it has occurred to me once again that there are miles of unexplored countryside behind …
Tag Archives: The Devil
Narrative Concerning Authentic Sightings of the Krampus.
We were midway through the Wigilia dinner and all that was left of the carp were its whiskers. It was …
The House Across the Street (A Story for Halloween).
This morning the breakfast buffet which awaited Ted Worthington included fresh cherries, and he piled his bowl with them. Ana, …
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 …
While You’re Asleep.
Waking after three, Damien knew that he was deeply cold before he could recollect who or 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.]
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 …
Noctes Ambrosianae (17).
[SCENE: Finnegan’s Wake.] Tychy:… you take your life into your hands. Renata once visited a retreat on the Isle of …
The Face of Lothian Buses.
If a citizen of, say, North Korea visited Edinburgh, they might feasibly mistake Grant Stott for our head of state. …
Tourist Review (6): John Knox House.
“A tense, musty, unignorable silence/ Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take off/ My cycle-clips in awkward reverence.” 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. …
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 …
Book Review: Emma Donoghue’s Room.
[The following contains plot spoilers.] If Toni Morrison’s Sethe cut her infant daughter’s throat with a handsaw to spare her …
The Devil On Your Back (7/7). The Concert.
[“The Devil On Your Back,” a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …
The Devil On Your Back (6/7): The Church.
[“The Devil On Your Back,” a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …
