Short Story Review: Robert Spalding’s Ghost Stories.
[The following contains spoilers.] In the dying days of 2019, Robert Spalding got going a new WordPress blog called “A …
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Book Review: The False River.
Nick Holdstock predominantly writes nonfiction about China, a society that he has explored as an English teacher, though his debut …
Christmas with Washington Irving.
Today the Christmas material in Washington Irving’s The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-20) encompasses a jovial and expansive midsection …
Short Story Review: The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion.
Count Dracula was the brainchild of the Irish writer Bram Stoker, who might seem to us today to be more …
Short Story Review: Fly Away Home.
Marina Warner is a feminist historian and novelist; her latest book Fly Away Home was published last September. Twenty short …
Short Story Review: Three Moments of an Explosion.
After my rare expeditions out of the Edwardian period and into modern “weird” fiction, I have usually returned disappointed. Thomas …
Short Story Review: Not Exactly Ghosts.
There are two volumes of Sir Andrew Caldecott’s short stories, Not Exactly Ghosts and Fires Burn Blue, which were published …
Short Story Review: Young Skins.
It’s very hard to write about Colin Barrett’s debut collection of short fiction, Young Skins, without resorting to gender as …
Short Story Review: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.
There are ten short stories in Hilary Mantel’s latest collection, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, all of them published, mostly …
Short Story Review: Dear Life.
[The following contains spoilers.] Dear Life (2012) is Alice Munro’s latest and possibly last collection of short stories. If, like …
Short Story Review: The Rajah’s Diamond.
Each of the short stories within Robert Louis Stevenson’s New Arabian Nights (1878) adopts a needy young man as their …
Short Story Review: Tales from the Mall.
Let us begin with the etymology, since every time that I read the word “mall” I want to howl, “IT’S …
Short Story Review: The Suicide Club.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s three tales about the Suicide Club emerge from a heartfelt appreciation of romance, which is at once …
Book Review: William Maginn and the British Press.
Is judgement finally nigh for the doctor? Until now nobody has written a complete biography of Doctor William Maginn (1794 …
Short Story Review: Stories Toto Told Me.
[Tychy is nothing if not a writer and reviewer of short stories: this website to date features about eighty short …
